Bbc News Presenter Taken Off Air For Bias

[lankeela]

who'd have thought it? Why can't they go back to reporting the news instead of trying to intimidate people they are interviewing?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/24/bbc-takes-martine-croxall-off-air-for-potential-breach-of-impartiality-over-johnson

[jno]

it sounds as if a guest made a joke and she laughed? That doesn't sound like intimidation to me. However, I didn't see it, so maybe it's been misreported.

[ToraToraTora]

jno, read the link:
//The programme began at 10.30pm, about 90 minutes after Johnson announced he would not stand in the contest. Croxall said: “Well this is all very exciting, isn’t it?” adding: “Am I allowed to be this gleeful? Well I am.”//

[jno]

it also says

///The host acknowledged she may have breached the public broadcaster’s guidelines when she laughed at guest’s comment mocking the former prime minister.

“I shouldn’t probably [laugh],” she said. “I’m probably breaking some terrible due impartiality rule by giggling.”///

It doesn't say what guest or what comment.

[naomi24]

Jno, did you read the report? It didn’t sound like that at all.

[jno]

I just quoted from the report, naomi.

[perseverer]

Perhaps she was just being gleeful about what she thought TTT and Naomi's response to the news would be.

[naomi24]

Jno, You didn’t in your first post. You made it sound like what happened … didn’t.

[naomi24]

Perseverer, what a stupid comment.

[davebro]

BBC should stick to the facts and keep their opinions to themselves.

[jno]

the report linked to contained two differing descriptions of what happened.

I read the whole link before replying. I wish others would do the same. I am still not clear what she was giggling at.

[Paigntonian]

jno: Yes. Think she referring to forgetting her Mic wasn't on.

[naomi24]

No one else seems to be having a problem.

[sp1814]

"intimdate"

How?

[sp1814]

"BBC should stick to the facts and keep their opinions to themselves."

She's been taken off the air so I assume the BBC is putting out a message that presenters SHOULD keep their opinions themselves.

They don't want to come across like GB News or Talk TV.

[weecalf]

I like the girl and think she is great .She is not allowed to express an opinion of her own .Do we want robots reading the news .Hope she had the football results to announce sometime and says Come on you Spurs a great win .When England mens team were in with a chance of winning something the news casters rightly were enthustic to see the team win .When the girls won the were delighted to bring the news to the people .More expressions of how they feel about news the better.

[naomi24]

^i really think he’s serious.

[davebro]

//They don't want to come across like GB News or Talk TV.//

I'm not forced to pay for those.

[douglas9401]

Silenced for PHSL, I wonder if she comes on here under a screen name. :-)

[NYAD]

Weecalf: No, she should not be allowed to add her own opinion as "news", at least not in her position at BBC. There are plenty of venues where it is not only permissible to express personal opinions, but many venues that depend on people doing so. It's hard enough for the average person to find just the news reported.