15-03-2023, 12:49 PM
(14-03-2023, 07:59 PM)London Lite Wrote: I think that issue with the Chancellor interview would count as a discussion show, so they're not under the rules of due impartiality for that show.
It's not something I'd feel comfortable watching, but that's the way it is.
At best that is a technicality, and even if a discussion show surely it's a "news discussion" show, and hence news programming. I can't see how it is justified at all to have an MP (of any party) interviewing the Chancellor ahead of his budget. It would only really work if you had two opposing MPs and a non-politically affiliated presenter acting as an independent moderator.
There has been much discussion in recent days about the neutrality of BBC News, but that has historically applied to ITN and Sky News too. Indeed I wonder whether staff are permitted to belong to any party political party?