Both the right-wing Conservatives and Reform insist they have no desire to destroy the BBC.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a future for the BBC, because it does have a strong global brand, but in order to retain its trust and confidence, it\u2019s got to respect its impartial charter responsibilities and make sure that the news and current affairs programming abides by its own editorial guidelines,\u201d Huddleston said Monday. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Soft power\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the central arguments the BBC\u2019s advocates make in favor of funding the broadcaster is the soft power role it plays through initiatives such as the BBC World Service, which delivers news in over 40 languages. \u00a0However, it has cut jobs this year as the BBC has sought to find savings. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Conservative MP Julian Smith said it was unfortunate that\u00a0BBC leadership teams had been focused on domestic scandals and editorial and corporate issues that should have been addressed with much greater speed, rigour, political confidence, and understanding. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s been at the loss of focus on how to maximise, and also where needed make a case, to government on the global reach of the BBC, and the impact this could have on foreign soft power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Whittingdale insisted \u201cwe need the BBC,\u201d describing it as \u201can extraordinarily fine broadcaster.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIts reputation is one of its greatest assets, and that is why this is so damaging,\u201d he said.
\u201cI want the BBC to be seen, still to be seen as a sort of beacon of truth and reliability, and that is undermined by these kinds of revelations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emilio Casalicchio contributed reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both the right-wing Conservatives and Reform insist they have no desire to destroy the BBC.\u00a0 \u201cThere is a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":370938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[3992,115,392,102000,69,67644,3350,178793,178794,17723,178795,177848,398,2852,50,25930,178796,4154,125,5677,107921,3470,67,132,68,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-370937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-disinformation","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-ed-davey","15":"tag-foreign-policy","16":"tag-john-whittingdale","17":"tag-julian-smith","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-kemi-badenoch","20":"tag-lisa-nandy","21":"tag-media","22":"tag-negotiations","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-nigel-farage","25":"tag-nigel-huddleston","26":"tag-poll","27":"tag-rights","28":"tag-services","29":"tag-tanks","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-unitedstates","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115529656833144214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}