of the regulator, how the regulator shapes the future of the bbc directly impacts on everyone who consumes its content and also interacts with it as an institution. let s understand first of all more about what ofcom wants. let s hearfrom kevin backhurst, group director of content and media policy. and, kevin, reading your review today, you sound a little underwhelmed by how the bbc explains itself. tell us why. i think we feel that the bbc should absolutely strive all the time to explain itself to audiences and to viewers, and also to be transparent to the audiences who pay the licence fee, and also to the rest of the creative industries around the uk about what it is planning, how it is approaching programming, how it is delivering its mission, its public purposes. ofcom s role essentially is to make sure the bbc 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 conten
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now, the uk s media regulator ofcom has published a major review of what the bbc does, particularly focussed on three areas how the bbc deals with complaints, how the bbc approaches impartiality and how the bbc defines the services that it offers people in the uk. needless to say, how the bbc takes the advice of the regulator, how the regulator shapes the future of the bbc directly impacts on everyone who consumes its content and also interacts with it as an institution. let s understand first of all more about what ofcom wants. let s hearfrom kevin backhurst, group director of content and media policy. and, kevin, reading your review today, you sound a little underwhelmed by how the bbc explains itself. tell us why. i think we feel that the bbc should absolutely strive all the time to explain itself to audiences and to viewers, and also to be transparent to the audiences who pay the licence fee, and also to the rest of the creative industries around the uk about what it is
is a finding that ofcom might have highlighted more today. in that context, if a person doesn t 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 that s just l where we are as a society and notjust of the uk- but more generally. in which case let s ask kevin about that, given that lots of broadcasters, lbc, gb news and others have preseters that express opinions but across that output you deemed them to be balanced, why can t 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