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Speak about impartiality being one of the corporations cheap qualities but the perception has grown recently that it is not fulfilling its remit in this regard. when he took up his post in 2020, the director—general spoke of the need to restore trust in the bbc�*s impartiality. last month, the culture secretary launched a review into the subject and last week, the regulator, ofcom published its own review that found audiences write the bbc less favourably for impartiality and truth and accur...

Here by the watchdog at canary wharf, and it followed what is called a super complaint, which had been brought by the campaigning womens charity, the centre for womens justice. they had become concerned about the number of stories they were hearing from women who had made allegations of domestic abuse against police officers or police staff and the treatment they had received. for example, one woman said that her statement had been read by the suspect, who was her husband. now, the report says t...

By the campaigning womens charity the centre for womens justice. they have gathered a lot of evidence from women who spoke about the problems they faced when they made complaints against police officers regarding domestic abuse, for example in one case woman said her statement was passed to the suspect who was her husband stop now, the watchdogs are saying that there are a number of failings in areas like that around impartiality. they say is also there needs to be a much greater focus on the vi...

The impartiality of the supreme court, should americans have confidence in the court as an institution? and your views on abortion have evolved in your public life, are you the best messenger to carry this forward when democrats, many of them, many progressives, want you to do? >> yeah, i am. im the president of the united states of america. that makes me the best messenger. and i really think that it is a serious, serious problem that the court has thrust upon the united states. not just in ter...

Where the suspect is a serving officer, but denied perpetrators within the force were "getting away with it". the report identified "systemic weaknesses" in police response to these cases, and found that victims lacked confidence in the impartiality of the police. are home affairs correspondent, gene kelly, has been looking at this report. kelly, has been looking at this re ort. , kelly, has been looking at this reort. , . , kelly, has been looking at this re ort, , ., , ., kelly, has been looki...

And we have just heard more from the reuters news agency on russia, which is that the russian authorities are saying they have summoned the british ambassador in moscow to voice what they call a strong protest against what they describe as offensive british statements, including statements about alleged russian threats to use nuclear weapons. so the british ambassador summoned by the russians for allegedly offensive british statements. a report into how police forces in england and wales deal wi...

If you believe public service really matters, as i do, you have to make it better, and the bbc are supposed to be notjust where the market is, it is supposed to be better than the market, and more analysis. well, what does a better look like, roger? lets get into the detail here. what does bbcjournalism and content need to do to demonstrate its impartiality that it is not doing at the moment? there is a whole multiple set of reasons. one at times is that there is too much robotic balance — som...

And industry that publish them, not the editorial line, which individual editors and papers are free to do. but do you think more broadly, though, that the way the bbc positions itself within uk media, which is relevant to your industry, is impacted negatively by perceptions it is not as impartial as it ought to be? yes, i think this partly goes back to our wider argument, which is if the bbc focused on the core service of delivering news and not overstretching its ambitions into analysis, comme...

You, ofcom has only dealt with two complaints since 2019, and they didnt concern impartiality, media bias and so on. so i think the issue is lack of knowledge in the complaints process. kevin you are the one making the request, so if i google now bbc complaints, i am quite easily going to end up on a page that says what would you like to say to us? the problem is presumably not that that, but what happens afterwards ? thats entirely right. our research shows audiences can google it and find thei...

Executive saying it, the bbc, clearly needs to address widespread perceptions about impartiality. owen meredith from the news media association, do you agree with that, that there is a perception issue for the bbc here? yes, it is not really my place to hugely comment on this, but there is definitely a perception problem with the bbc. i wonder if it is, given many of your members are partly responsible for that perception, because many newspapers have plenty to say about what the bbc is and isnt...