Category: impartiality

National Broadcaster to Re-Train Journalists on Impartiality After Pressure Over “Inaccurate” Alice Springs Report

February 28, 2023
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Reporters from Australia’s national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), will undergo impartiality training when covering news about the controversial Indigenous Voice proposal. The move comes after the country’s largest taxpayer-funded media outline faced heavy backlash for its reports on the Alice Springs community meeting in January, which its Ombudsman office has ruled as “impartial”…

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BBC’s Younger Journalists ‘Do Not Understand’ Impartiality, Say Former Editors

December 15, 2021
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Some of the BBC’s younger journalists “do not understand” impartiality, former editors of the British public broadcaster have warned. Giving evidence to the Communications and Digital Committee of the House of Lords on Tuesday, the BBC’s former head of TV news Roger Mosey said, “Some younger journalists don’t understand it in the way it was…

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Schools Must Not Teach Contested Views on ‘White Privilege’ as Fact: UK Government

October 22, 2021
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The British government has instructed schools not to “teach contested theories and opinions as fact,” including contested views about so-called “white privilege.” The government on Thursday published its response to a report from the UK Parliament’s Education Select Committee, which said that the use of terms such as “white privilege” may be one of the…

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The New Rules

February 18, 2021
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Commentary Impartiality, neutrality, objectivity—is there anyone who still believes that those virtues hold steady among judges, reviewers, academics, administrators, and other arbitrators and policy-makers presumed to decide cases, determine hirings and firings, hear appeals and complaints, and otherwise direct policies and practices? Liberalism used to insist upon them, upholding level playing fields and Lady Justice…

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