>Colleagues said Goodall, who this year made a long-shot application to be BBC political editor, was frustrated with the way the BBC management was interpreting director general Tim Davie’s drive for impartiality.
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>The journalist was targeted by Sir Robbie Gibb, a former BBC executive who served as Downing Street director of communications under Conservative prime minister Theresa May. In 2020 Gibb publicly asked: “Is there anyone more damaging to the BBC’s reputation for impartiality than Lewis Goodall?”
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>Gibb was subsequently appointed to the board of the BBC by the Tory government and has helped to launch a series of forthcoming impartiality reviews that will examine every aspect of BBC output for potential bias.
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>Tim Davie made enforcing impartiality a core plank of his pitch to run the broadcaster and has partially succeeded in reducing the number of critical news stories about his journalists from right-wing media outlets. But exactly who gets to define impartiality on leading political issues has sometimes been hard for staff to interpret. Many BBC journalists report increased pressure from the government on stories and a general chilling effect, with management second-guessing what objections could be coming from Downing Street on important stories.
Good! The BBCs impartiality is a thing that sounds good in theory but really shit in practice.
Goodall (imho) was a right wing fella in origin, able to provide pretty decent balanced coverage. He’d be a big loss to the beeb
The Government is maneuvering for a snap election and making moves to silence those who might be brave enough to tell the truth.
Impartiality means reporting facts and the truth. Not opinion.
Hopefully they’ll return to reporting rather than showing their bias.
Alarming that there isn’t room for people like Goodall, Maitlis and Marr at the BBC. Yes they are centre right leaning, but Goodall and Maitlis have been competent and thorough enough on Newsnight. Some very thin skinned people in government and in charge of the BBC.
The BBC has not been impartial for years.
Its almost as if the BBC are impartial or something.
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>Colleagues said Goodall, who this year made a long-shot application to be BBC political editor, was frustrated with the way the BBC management was interpreting director general Tim Davie’s drive for impartiality.
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>The journalist was targeted by Sir Robbie Gibb, a former BBC executive who served as Downing Street director of communications under Conservative prime minister Theresa May. In 2020 Gibb publicly asked: “Is there anyone more damaging to the BBC’s reputation for impartiality than Lewis Goodall?”
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>Gibb was subsequently appointed to the board of the BBC by the Tory government and has helped to launch a series of forthcoming impartiality reviews that will examine every aspect of BBC output for potential bias.
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>Tim Davie made enforcing impartiality a core plank of his pitch to run the broadcaster and has partially succeeded in reducing the number of critical news stories about his journalists from right-wing media outlets. But exactly who gets to define impartiality on leading political issues has sometimes been hard for staff to interpret. Many BBC journalists report increased pressure from the government on stories and a general chilling effect, with management second-guessing what objections could be coming from Downing Street on important stories.
Good! The BBCs impartiality is a thing that sounds good in theory but really shit in practice.
Goodall (imho) was a right wing fella in origin, able to provide pretty decent balanced coverage. He’d be a big loss to the beeb
The Government is maneuvering for a snap election and making moves to silence those who might be brave enough to tell the truth.
Impartiality means reporting facts and the truth. Not opinion.
Hopefully they’ll return to reporting rather than showing their bias.
Alarming that there isn’t room for people like Goodall, Maitlis and Marr at the BBC. Yes they are centre right leaning, but Goodall and Maitlis have been competent and thorough enough on Newsnight. Some very thin skinned people in government and in charge of the BBC.
The BBC has not been impartial for years.
Its almost as if the BBC are impartial or something.