Half the country seem to think the BBC is a tory mouthpiece. The other half think it's a commie plot. Like all organisations, BBC editors have to decide where

Half the country seem to think the BBC is a tory mouthpiece. The other half think it's a commie plot. Like all organisations, BBC editors have to decide where to focus their limited resources. They have covered Assange, lots. Yesterday they put a hell of a lot of coverage into the HSBC etc leaks, this morning the lead story on the website was the 'Tory donor Lubov Chernukhin linked to $8m Putin ally funding' story [0] The BBC has been criticised for left wing bias in newsnight (indepth news program on about 2240), in the editor really digging into the current government [1], in the presenter really digging into the PM's chief advisor. The BBC's new chief used to be a local Tory Party deputy chairman [3], and the head of Radio used to be an elected Labour party minister, and was set for the top job at one point [4] 15 years ago the BBC DG resigned after the whole David Kelly affair put the corporation at loggerheads with the government [5] Saying the BBC is biassed, one way or another, is a simplistic and wrong view. Saying it's not biassed is equally simplistic and wrong. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54228079 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54228079 [1] https://www.theweek.co.uk/107867/bbc-newsnight-editor-lewis-goodall-accused-bias-new-statesman-article https://www.theweek.co.uk/107867/bbc-newsnight-editor-lewis-... [2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/emily-maitlis-newsnight-dominic-cummings-lockdown-coronavirus-durham-a9533956.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/emily-maitlis... [3] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/05/bbc-appoints-insider-tim-davie-as-director-general https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/05/bbc-appoints-i... [4] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-plot-to-stop-james-purnell-becoming-director-general-of-the-bbc https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-plot-to-stop-james-p... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)