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Where they are in the process, they dont like the tone of language they get in responses from the bbc. when we were discussing this with the bbc, the bbc said well, you know it is a measure of our success that people dont come through to ofcom that much at the end. our research says that people dont come up through ofcom because they give up the ghost going through the bbc complaints process and dont really understand where they are or how to advance it. the bbc has defended its complaints proce...

Interested in this idea that the bbc has a perception problem, that is ofcom saying that. if there is one, whose responsibility is that if the bbc is being impartial, does it still need to respond to the fact that it has a perception problem, whether that is fair or not? yes. i dont think there is a crisis but there is certainly a set of challenges. should just say i have literallyjust written a book about this which is out this week about the whole question about impartiality and how it is and ...

Is a finding that ofcom might have highlighted more today. in that context, if a person doesnt see their opinion . reflected, they view that l as an issue of impartiality. sitting on the fence, - in a funny way, is taking a position. that is what many people believe. i and you see this in commercial radio, which is far more - opinionated when they are dealing with newsl and current affairs. i know, because i am supposed to be the person that they get. to beat up on those media, and i just think ...

And the bbc in many ways it sets the standard, or should set the standards for things like accuracy and impartiality. to come back to your point about the politics and our mid charter review, part of the function of that is to try to help inform the governments mid charter review of the bbc. what i would say is ofcom, is an independent regulator, we are trying to bring the evidence to the discussion. we have looked at the evidence and we are trying to present it. but did you have interactions wi...

Delivers what parliament has set out for the bbc, which is its public purposes, which are across things like delivering things like impartial news, learning content, at its most distinctive and creative it should be. secondly, we have a role, which is probably possibly better known, which is about securing content standards on airfor the bbc. the third one is we need to make sure anything that the bbc does is carefully considered in terms of its impact on competitors, and there is an effective c...

To achieve impartiality. and that leads on to the second point of emphasis from ofcom, which is complaints, because people complain about the bbc for a range of reasons, but one of them could be connected to impartiality. again, help me understand, what is the bbc getting right, but what do you want it to do better? so, the way audiences need to complain to the bbc, which was decided by parliament, is they need to complain to the bbc first before they come to ofcom. the bbc has an opportunity to...

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Ofcom — people dont come up through ofcom because they give up the ghost _ ofcom because they give up the ghost going through the bbc complaints process and dont really— complaints process and dont really understand where they are or — really understand where they are or how to advance it. the bbc has _ are or how to advance it. the bbc has defended _ are or how to advance it. tt2 bbc has defended its complaints process but also says it is willing to work further with you to make improveme...

Lbc, gb news and others have preseters that express opinions but across that output you deemed them to be balanced, why cant the bbc go that way too? i think the bbc has a unique position in british life, a unique funding system and a unique accountability, and actually it uniquely has its own set of editorial guidelines as well, which go beyond the ofcom guidelines, and rightly so. and the bbc in many ways it sets the standard, or should set the standards for things like accuracy and impartiali...

Of complaining, but dont complain, because they dont know how to complain. and that is really striking, because, as kevin will tell 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 pr...