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BBC News’ journalists failure to understand “basic economics” is bringing a “high risk to impartiality,” according to a BBC-commissioned report.
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Today’s Review of the impartiality of BBC coverage of taxation, public spending, government borrowing and debt judged BBC News innocent of displaying deliberate political bias but highlighted several pitfalls.
Responding, the BBC Board said Davie and his team will address the issues presented in the review with a proposed action plan.
Too many journalists “lack an understanding of basic economics or lack confidence reporting it,” which brings a “high risk to impartiality,” the report found.
Furthermore, Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot, who penned the 50-page review, said they were “disturbed by how many [viewers] said they didn’t understand [the BBC’s] coverage,” especially those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
“Should broad impartiality concern itself with the extent to which different groups find the coverage accessible?,” wrote the pair. “We think it should.”
The report said journalists struggle to communicate that “fiscal policy decisions are political choices and are not inevitable.” Examples were raised of BBC journalists saying the government “will have to” carry out a specific economic manoeuvre when there were in fact several choices on offer.
“Politically-led news is vulnerable to groupthink,” added the report. “The language of
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