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Speaker 1: Now I'm trying to work out what the ratio would be.

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Speaker 1: How much squeaky clean beyond doubt, rock solid truth would

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Speaker 1: the BBC need to deliver to offset the one gargantuan

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Speaker 1: cock up that has seen the Director General in the

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Speaker 1: head of News quit Or in this day and age

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Speaker 1: where doubt a mistrust is so high, is it a

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Speaker 1: futile exercise and the damage is basically permanent? Like all stories,

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Speaker 1: you can dilute its seriousness. I mean, the Panorama program

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Speaker 1: wasn't actually made by the BBC, It was a contract company.

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Speaker 1: So was the bias external not internal? Obviously I'm clutching

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Speaker 1: it straws here. Does a resignation mean the organization is

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Speaker 1: no longer biased or perceived as biased? I would have

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Speaker 1: thought not. I mean, how do you prove inherent bias anyway?

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Speaker 1: Which is non going charge not just at the BBC

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Speaker 1: but a number of public broadcasters all over the world.

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Speaker 1: I mean I cited the Radio New Zealand example yesterday

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Speaker 1: out of the boot Camp report. Their headline read the

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Speaker 1: conclusion was of a rushed exercise. That wasn't the conclusion.

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Speaker 1: It was an observation, not a conclusion. But even if

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Speaker 1: you argue the observation was a conclusion. That would mean

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Speaker 1: there were many conclusions. Why I pick that one when

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Speaker 1: there were positive ones to choose from as well? Is

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Speaker 1: that inherent bias or just a busy journalist looking to

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Speaker 1: publish a story? Are we the punter, inherently biased and

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Speaker 1: therefore whatever we see we don't like well must be biased.

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Speaker 1: The BBC bit is, of course indisputable. It's not about

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Speaker 1: inference or emphasis. It's about making something seem real, which

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Speaker 1: factorally wasn't. I mean, they made it up. Why would

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Speaker 1: you do that unless you had an agenda? Why would

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Speaker 1: the BBC not spot it? Too busy or too biased?

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Speaker 1: The Culture Secretary said, now more than ever, the need

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Speaker 1: for trusted news is essential to our cultural and democratic life,

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Speaker 1: which is what they say when they have carnage to

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Speaker 1: deal with using taxpayers money. The BBC were already booked

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Speaker 1: in this week, ironically, for a parliamentary inquiry into their

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Speaker 1: coverage of trans Writes and Gaza, cementing in many people's

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Speaker 1: minds what they already suspected. My summation is basically, it's

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Speaker 1: over the juries and the verdict is guilty and the

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Speaker 1: people are always right. Whatever the media might once have

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Speaker 1: had by way of respect and trust, is largely, if

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Speaker 1: not completely gone, and too resign cemented any remaining doubt.

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