Richard Sharp told a DCMS hearing he disagreed with the ex-Newsnight host about impartiality.
BBC Chairman Richard Sharp has said ex-Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis was "completely wrong" to suggest the rebuke she received for on-air remarks about Dominic Cummings made "no sense".
when she opened an episode of Newsnight by saying that Dominic Cummings, then former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser, had "broken the rules" with a lockdown trip to Durham and "the country can see that, and it's shocked the Government cannot". "And as a great journalist it wasn't that her instincts were wrong, the issue is how the BBC does what it does, which is we have to provide the facts in an impartial way to the audience and allow them to draw their own opinions."
He said Sir Robbie, who had 'liked' an apparently anti-SNP post on Twitter, was entitled to his view, though he'd "prefer that non-execs refrain from tweeting around controversial or partisan issues". They should, he said, "seek to avoid getting involved in matters of controversy", adding they are not required to, however.
While some praised the satire on social media, others were not so impressed and a frontpage headline in the Daily Mail the next day accused the BBC of anti-Conservative bias. The BBC bosses were answering questions on the same morning Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announced she was to leave her role, after just less than a year, in order to focus on her writing career.
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