The Newsnight presenter defends the organisation against accusations of bias in the recent general election
Emily Maitlis has defended the
BBC against accusations of bias, saying that people often think something is a conspiracy when it is a actually a “confluence of cock-ups”.
The debate about whose side the BBC is on, both politically and otherwise, gained traction during a particularly fractious general
election campaign that saw ministers repeatedly grilled by presenters on Radio 4’s’ Today and other programmes.