The boss of GB News has insisted that an “interview” of Home Secretary Suella Braverman by her Conservative colleague Lee Anderson will be…
Pressed on why they decided not to get an impartial journalist to interview the minister, he said that they are “filling a gap in the landscape”.“The conversation that happened between people like Suella Braverman and Lee Anderson, they are conversations, they are not interviews in the same sense.”
Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes has said that the interview could comply with its rules as long as the “overall show … preserves due impartiality”. Earlier this month, Ofcom found that an interview with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt carried out by married Tory MPs Esther McVey and Philip Davies broke due impartiality rules.The regulator said it had “failed to represent and give due weight to an appropriately wide range of significant views on a matter of major political controversy”.
The BBC’s veteran journalist Nick Robinson suggested that approach to impartiality could be considered “GB Newspeak”, in the vein of the euphemistic and propagandistic language characterised in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.“What you’re looking at here is just a different way of carrying out discussions and extracting information out of a process that really has been locked up, where it has been journalists speaking along the same lines all the time and extracting the same information.
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