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No, because its a private matter. lets talk about impartiality, because the bbc wants it to be front and centre of what it gives to the british public in terms of its information and news. there has been significant questioning of that from inside or at least from insidejournalism. emily maitlis, for example, who you know very well, a former bbcjournalist whos now in the private sector. she has suggested that the bbc in the recent past has been cowed in the way its covered politics. she was part...

Bring the bbc to heel. i mean, i think its part of that syndrome that the bbc can become overcautious. i happen to think the things that emily, and i said it publicly and ive said it to her, said about the covid expedition of cummings to have his eyes tested, that it was clearly false. i thought that was not the right thing for her to say, thats all. but i think on the broader picture, the idea of the bbc�*s impartiality is important to defend. and the bbc has to understand that all prime mini...

Consideration? >> well i think one of the reasons why the doj is concerning the prospect of appointing a special counsel to oversee these prosecutions, or investigations, if they indeed do go forward with them is that merrick garland has been assiduously focused on restoring the sons of impartiality and neutrality to the department. again, restoring it after four years of the trump administration warning that the doj was merely a defense arm of the administration. so, he wants to make clear that...

Hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. questions are asked after a news channel presenter talks of her glee during a paper review on the night borisjohnson pulls out of the tory leadership contest. and... i dont know — i dont think ill be voting again after what happened to borisjohnson. that reporters staple, the vox pop. do we really need to be told so often what random strangers think? demonstrating impartiality on air, as we discussed on last weeks programme, is one of the k...

PETALING JAYA: It is baseless and inaccurate for Malaysian Bar president Karen Cheah to question the impartiality of the special task force (STF) to investigate allegations by Tan Sri Tommy Thomas in his book “My Story: Justice in the Wilderness”, says Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.

Hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. another prime minister forced out of office. did the media have a role to play? and as the bbc reaches its centenary, we discuss one of its key goals and challenges — maintaining impartiality. not for the first time lately, it feels like the political temperature in westminister has been rising every day this week, culminating in thursdays resignation by the prime minister. there had been two more top—level ministerial departures beforeha...

Saved by taking it off the air? we asked bbc news to respond to those points and were told: whenever theres big political news, as there has been this week, there is a particular focus on whether the bbc reported objectively, fairly and impartially and there will always be those who detect bias in one direction or another. impartiality has also proved a hard concept to apply in areas as diverse as gender and sexuality, racism, climate change and the middle east and its regularly the subject of c...

Principles of impartiality that are set in our guidelines so that were seen not to take sides and in issues of controversy and that we challenge all sides equally, that we provide a platform for the greatest possible diversity of views within due context. its a multifaceted thing that we make sure we bring the facts to the fore. so, its made up of a number of elements to it, and sometimes audiences do find it hard to grasp what is it really mean in practice and actually, your illustration of tho...

No reasonable apprehension of bias even if sentencing judge is same judge who denied bail

Meanwhile, allan hailstone wondered: and tracy taylor had this definition: well, a year ago following a critical report into how the bbc handled its 1995 panorama interview with princess diana, the corporations director general tim davie set out a plan to improve impartiality and as a senior bbc executive peterjohnston to head up its delivery. hejoins me now. thank you for coming on newswatch. what is impartiality when it comes to the bbc? its a difficult concept, as youve illustrated through th...