The BBC is back in the news after Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer boldly declared on television and the radio yesterday that there was a “perception among audiences” that the corporation was biased. Downing Street last night backed her; Rishi Sunak said the BBC has “more work to do” — though denied that the Government is pursuing an agenda against the BBC. Yet sadly in our nonsensical political culture wars, the BBC has become a punching bag. How eternally depressing.
When Frazer was asked where the evidence of BBC bias was, as she did the media round, she was unable to give a real example of this supposedly deep-rooted bias she is going to eliminate.
