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Originally Posted by HarryT
Under the terms of the Royal Charter by which it operates, the BBC has to be free from political bias. It has an independent oversight committee to monitor this, and heads roll on those occasions when it is perceived to have displayed such bias (as does occur from time to time).
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But who watches the watchers? (Or as this case may be, chooses the oversight committee members.) They have to be chosen
somehow, after all. An committee selected by the government or by the BBC is hardly "independent"...