Lord Patten may be going native at the BBC - but he's not quite there. In a speech about Ethics and Journalism to the Society of Editors, he's invidiously named names....
"I find the charge of bias difficult to deal with unless there is context. Certainly looking at the whole range of our broadcasting output and the quality of individual reporters and editors – Stephanie Flanders, Nick Robinson, Jeremy Bowen and so on – I would refute the charge of political bias".
So, for those who read the runes, why Flanders and not Pesto ? Why Bowen, who had an uncomfortable stand-off with the Trust in 2009 ? Why now, when the Trust is reviewing the "impartiality" of the BBC's coverage of the Arab Spring ?
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