and peter coleman had this suggestion: the ongoing debate about how the bbc should interpret and demonstrate impartiality flared up again last week when emily matliss, who recently left the bbc after 20 years, gave a lecture at the edinburgh television festival. she questioned the bbc s decision to apologise for comments she made on newsnight in 2020 about dominic cummings breaking lockdown rules during the pandemic, which had prompted a complaint from downing street. why had the bbc immediately and publicly sought to confirm the government spokesman s opinion, without any kind of due process? it makes no sense for an organisation that is admirably, famously rigorous about procedure, unless it was perhaps sending a message of reassurance directly to the government itself. put this in the context of the bbc board where another active agent of the conservative party, a former downing street spin doctor and former adviser to bbc rival gb news now sits, acting as the arbiter of b
if you are on a prepayment metre. this figure isn t the maximum you can be charged. and it s predicted that prices will rise even further next year. annual bills could exceed £5,000 from january 2023 and then more than £6,000 from april. worrying figures for many people but some felt the bbc was adding to that worry with the tone and extent of its reporting on what might happen but hasn t happened yet. stuart luck was one of them, writing: while i understand the need to cover rising energy bills, i am becoming very tired of the intensity of the coverage over the crisis. we all know we are in. tired of the intensity of the coverage over the crisis we all know we are in. it is frightening, very frightening and, at the moment, i feel that is all the bbc is achieving, frightening people. the coverage in my perception has reached an unhealthy balance. as we saw in that clip we played, the bbc has been reporting the future average cap on bills but some viewers think that s not th
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