The BBC assesses its coverage of the dismal science
It is not biased, but it is not impartial
“Debt costs help push government borrowing to 30-year high,” the website of the British Broadcasting Corporation (bbc) told users on January 24th. That headline exemplifies what an independent report by Michael Blastland, a former BBC radio producer, and Sir Andrew Dilnot, an economist, labels a breach of the Beeb’s commitment to impartiality, not through deliberate bias but “uninformed groupthink and lack of confidence to challenge arguments”.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Boxed in”
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