K.J. Yossman The BBC’s chief content officer Charlotte Moore responded to former “Newsnight” host Emily Maitlis’s criticism of the broadcaster.
Moore strongly refuted Maitlis’s suggestion that the broadcaster had apologized with “speed” after press officers for the U.K.
government complained about a “Newsnight” introduction. “Why had the BBC immediately and publicly sought to confirm the Government spokesman’s opinion?” Maitlis asked during her MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Wednesday evening. “Without any kind of due process?
It makes no sense for an organisation that is admirably, famously rigorous about procedure – unless it was perhaps sending a message of reassurance directly to the Government itself?” Moore refuted Maitlis’s suggestion there was any collusion between the BBC and the Government. “In no way was there any influence from the government or from the [BBC] board,” Moore said. “I think due process was followed and there was a breach of editorial standards.” “[Anything] that addresses impartial news right now is incredibly important and obviously impartiality is a massive subject for the BBC,” said Moore.
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