Does Impartiality Impede Good Journalism? Radio 4 9am 21/10/2020

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Is the BBC having a laugh? Or like the comedian WC Fields who said when a friend expressed surprise to see him reading the bible in his hospital bed, ' I'm looking for a loophole.'?
www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7j/2020/10/21

Debated by that O'Brien chap formerly of Newsnight and the former head of television news at the BBC, Roger Mosey who if I remember right, recently did a report for them on impartiality.

Chaired by Anne McElvoy.

BBC's "impartiality" is a post-modern joke, and an insult against reason.
Evidence based arguments are not equivalent to fantasy based opinions, and yet they are typically presented as both worth hearing, in order to understand "both sides of the debate".
This isn't balance, it's nonsense.
Truth finding isn't a democratic exercise.

Impartiality doesn’t impede good journalism, it’s pretty much essential to it. Even if you’re reporting on an issue you care passionately about, you should report facts, not your own opinions.

In reporting opinions on both sides of an issue, you need to do proper research. Otherwise you risk giving the same prominence to flat-Earth fantasists as to genuine experts.

As Kaiserin says Evidence based arguments are not equivalent to fantasy based opinions, and yet they are typically presented as both worth hearing, in order to understand "both sides of the debate". This isn't balance, it's nonsense.

It’s also very lazy journalism.