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Monday 19 November 2007

Hmm, why do I doubt this will be an an impartial review into the BBC's impartiality

Apparently "The BBC is to review the impartiality of its network news coverage across the UK. The BBC Trust commissioned the probe amid complaints of bias. The move comes just five months after another internal BBC report claimed that the organisation was Left-leaning, out of touch with large swathes of the public and guilty of "unconscious self-censorship" on issues it found unpalatable. A survey by the media regulator Ofcom revealed that almost half of viewers - 46 per cent - consider BBC1's news coverage to be biased. Researchers from the Cardiff University School of Journalism will look at network coverage during the English local elections and polls in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales next year.
Four weeks of programming over the recent autumn period will also be analysed and TV audiences will be polled."

Somehow I can foresee the result being some mild criticism of some minor unconscious bias but a generally clean bill of health.

As Richard Tait, the chairman of the Trust's editorial standards committee, said "The BBC is committed to providing impartial news and factual coverage across the UK,". Perhaps the funniest remark by a BBC person this weekend, certainly funnier than most of Children in Need's output, the show even managed to make QI unfunny.

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