Only 33% of adults questioned by Ofcom described the BBC as impartial. They’re catching up…
Ofcom released its Media Nations report overnight which showed continued dominance of Netflix on TV screens. It also released results from the regulator’s Public Service Media tracker, which asked British adults to pick the media brands which corresponded to certain criteria. Between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, NOW, and Disney+…
For “Is impartial (not favouring one side over another),” only 33% of respondents selected the BBC. The state broadcaster ranked the highest and was followed close behind by Netflix and ITV on 27%. It looks like trust in the L
Last year 41% of people ranked the BBC highly for impartiality. That’s a sharp drop-off – is declining trust in the broadcaster responsible for the number of licence fee payers dropping by a whopping 500,000 last year?
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”