Stepping back from the social media platform would strengthen the corporation’s journalismThere was an irony to Huw Edwards’s defence of the
BBC last week. You could argue the very act of him speaking out, feistily claiming the BBC wasn’t biased, proved quite the opposite. Corporation rules on bias expressly forbid its journalists from expressing opinions on controversial political matters. Yet here was the BBC’s leading news presenter doing just that. And yes, I am being pedantic.
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