More bad news for the BBC. Following the fall-out from the Corporation’s catastrophic handling of the Huw Edwards affair, a long-running controversy threatens to re-ignite once more. Steerpike understands that next week a major report is set to be published on the Beeb’s coverage of the conflict in Gaza, with a 100-page publication by a team of lawyers prepared to drop on Monday morning. Talk about a way to start the week off right…
It is the first of two reports planned for successive weeks. The one released on Monday will use artificial intelligence to analyse the Corporation’s dispatches on the conflict, which has seen the broadcaster repeatedly accused of being biased against Israel. A media round is planned, as is the launch of a campaign vehicle to look at what one source calls, ‘reporting bias more generally across major media outlets.’ The second report will see a series of recommendations made to BBC, with calls for a thematic review similar to the recent
