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I have found it consistently disappointing that the BBC has been putting out UK government statistics and interpretations uncritically - as we see (for example)

• Zhyl 6y ago
  The More or Less podcast, also from the BBC, does a good job of digging into what the stats actually mean and whether they're correct or misleading. Their main beef over the pandemic has been when ministers and the government have been lying fairly explicitly about testing targets (counting posted tests as completed tests). I find BBC as a whole hasn't been as critical, but they certainly seem to be at least making an effort to explain and contextualise. They aren't parroting government statistics as much as they could be doing.
• secondcoming 6y ago
  They purged all the journalists capable of doing what you want.
• lkramer 6y ago
  My feeling is that the BBC has been quite spooked by the threats the Tories made to them after the last election to basically dismantle them. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/15/boris-johnson-threatens-bbc-with-two-pronged-attack https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/15/boris-johnson-... Straight out of the Trump playbook of course... Every critical question and exposure of wrong doing is actually just biased media.