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The BBC's problem is they make examples of rare displays of true impartiality while being supine to the government who control their funding, while claiming to be impartial when they're not because the government controls the purse strings.
Lived overseas during 2015-2016. The coverage on the BBC presenting both sides (of Brexit) ‘impartially’ seemed very clearly biased towards Remain. The BBC needs increasingly resilient checks and balances, as it’s not going to get easier with increased disinformation, deep fakes, (ed: pressures from government), etc.
Adhiero
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Correct. Impartiality is good, 'balance' is bad.
The problem with balance is that if something is patently wrong, balance requires you to give the same air time to fruityloops nutters as scientists.
It's not even consistently applied, if it was flat earthers would get a lot more air time.
A lot of people confuse the two: impartiality allows you to take the facts and draw a conclusion based on those facts. A genuinely impartial approach is evident in the Reuters reporting of the pandemic and it ain't flattering for the government.
The BBC's problem is they make examples of rare displays of true impartiality while being supine to the government who control their funding, while claiming to be impartial when they're not because the government controls the purse strings.