I worked for the BBC as a Senior Broadcast Journalist for 10 years. No one should trust them. There is an institutional bias in their reporting that I witnessed first hand and has now worsened. Staff are drawn from a very narrow range of backgrounds, politically, and are not even conscious of their bias as the newsroom is an echo chamber. Deceit through omission of context is their stock in trade, and has been spectacularly displayed during the Covid scare, in which they have been chief among those deliberately presenting only one side of a very nuanced scientific and social debate. Appalling bias for a commercial news organisation- criminally unforgivable in a publicly funded one.
