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(left to right) Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer and Ukip leader Paul Nuttall during filming for the BBC One current affairs programme The Andrew Marr Show at New Broadcasting House in London. (Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images)

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In response to:

“How the BBC Lost the Plot on Brexit,” July 12, 2018.

To the Editor:

Nick Cohen acknowledges the BBC “follows the highest journalistic standards.” Were he to apply those standards to his own essay, he would find he has ignored a number of inconvenient facts.

Nick says our reporting of scandals surrounding the Brexit referendum “barely exists” and our coverage is “perfunctory.” That will come as a surprise to our audience, as we have reported on every aspect of the story over the past two years.

Take his main example, the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica whistleblower story. When it broke, we covered it on our major news bulletins for eleven days in a row.…  Seguir leyendo »

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 12: Leave.EU backer Arron Banks (L) arrives alongside Andy Wigmore to give evidence to the fake news select committee at Portcullis House on June 12, 2018 in London, England. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee are questioning Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore, of the pro-Brexit Leave.EU, as part of its inquiry into fake news. British Newspapers have revealed a series of meetings with Russia's UK Ambassador in the lead up to the Brexit Referendum. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

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Late last year, BBC executives had the nerve to erect a bronze statue of George Orwell outside its headquarters in central London. The sculptor caught Orwell’s spikiness. He stands one hand on hip, the other pointing forward with a cigarette between his fingers, as if caught in mid-argument. Carved into the wall behind him is the journalistic motto that Orwell and the BBC wanted us to learn: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

The BBC lifted the line from Orwell’s proposed preface to Animal Farm. Despite its being one of the greatest satires in the English language, four publishers turned the manuscript down in 1944.…  Seguir leyendo »