The bbc, again.

[Teddy Eagle]

I wouldn’t classify that as a breach of political impartiality rules, which is what is really being discussed. This was, in someone’s judgment, an error by a programme maker. Very much though also a matter of opinion.

Unfortunately the opinion that counts is the one of the organisation responsible for the decision.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

That’s nothing to do with political impartiality. It was a mistake and therefore a breach of the broadcasting code. An error of judgement by an editor. Not the deliberate slanting of content.

What was that blur that flashed by? Oh, just the goalposts headed somewhere else.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

Unfortunately the opinion that counts is the one of the organisation responsible for the decision.

It obviously is, but it still directed at one incident in one programme, probably involving one person’s judgement. Hardly the same as the predetermined political presentation of the type the underlies GBNews.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

It obviously is, but it still directed at one incident in one programme, probably involving one person’s judgement. Hardly the same as the predetermined political presentation of the type the underlies GBNews.

However you dress it up they were found to have broken broadcast impartiality rules by those responsible for making the decision. One incident in one programme is all it takes. As the Trump case demonstrates: one incident, one programme, one lawsuit.