Director general calls accusations of bias ‘conspiracy theories’
The BBC’s director general has expressed his exasperation with “conspiracy theories” about the broadcaster’s
election news coverage, although some of its journalists privately fear that errors during the campaign may have hit public trust in the corporation.
Tony Hall emailed staff on Friday to thank them for their work on the BBC’s coverage, which has led to the corporation’s political news output coming under intense online scrutiny. This followed criticism of the editing out laughter aimed at
Boris Johnson in a news bulletin, reporters uncritically repeating Conservative sources, such as when a
Labour activist was erroneously accused of punching a Tory aide, and the prime minister escaping scrutiny after dodging a one-on-one interview with Andrew Neil.