Thursday, February 26, 2026

Debbie does Washington

 

Former BBC News CEO Deborah Turness has resurfaced in the USA - in her words, "the land of second chances". 

She told a conference in Washington that she personally he ruled that Nigel Farage be given equal ranking in the 2024 General Election campaign, when the formula previously used by editorial advisers didn't give him that by their calculations. 

She mused "Do I think that the BBC Newsrooms would, in percentage terms, vote the same way as the nation right now in the UK in terms of Reform UK ? Do I think that the newsrooms are in lockstep with that sudden social change ? No, I don't. What that means is that you've got to work even harder to maintain that impartiality".

On the Panorama Trump edit that cost her job ? “It wasn’t up to our editorial standards, but I don’t accept the charge that it was a sign of institutional bias,”

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