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BBC director-general, Tim Davie, has released a new plan to beef up fact checking in the public broadcaster’s news programmes.
Can the BBC continue to hold leaders to account?
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There were some ominous sounds coming out of the election campaign about what the Conservatives might have planned for the UK’s public broadcaster.
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Both the outrage and relief prompted by the BBC White Paper miss the time bomb that will ultimately determine the Corporation’s future.
Everyone’s problem.
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Forthcoming details from Janet Smith report have drawn predictable outrage but there’s also a hidden agenda at play.
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From both left and right come accusations that the BBC is biased. The truth is that the Beeb has links to all sides of politics – as you would expect.
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If you want to see how the market failure model works, look across the Atlantic at PBS and NPR and be afraid.
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Calls for the BBC to be regulated by an external body are part of a plan to shackle the public broadcaster.
Public broadcasting is a lot more than a safety net for commercial market failure.
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Repeated surveys show that people value public broadcasters highly. But the political class isn’t listening.
Culture wars ahead for the Beeb?
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On the face of it, John Whittingdale’s appointment as media and culture secretary spells trouble for the BBC.