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The BBC needs saving from itself
Britain’s public broadcaster may be biased but there remain strong arguments for keeping it.
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How the BBC handles accusations over its editorial bias will have a bearing on the future of the century-old public broadcaster.
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Adrian Wooldridge
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One of the oddities of BBC News is that it spends so much time talking about itself – like a snake ingesting its own tail. This time the self-ingestion is justified. On Nov 9, the British Broadcasting Company’s director general, Mr Tim Davie, and head of news, Ms Deborah Turness, resigned in a scandal
The most serious charge is that it spliced together two distinct parts of a speech by Mr Donald Trump in 2021 to give the impression that he’d told supporters to go to the Capitol and “fight like hell”.
