Thread by @steveparks

BBC Westminster unit bang on about ‘balance’ when get a far right figure with an extreme opinion on to oppose someone with evidenced facts - but then happily runs this opinion-led hit job without any balance from opposing views, or corrective editorial
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

There isn’t one single comment from an MP (of which there are many) who sees Bercow as having protected the constitutional sovereignty of parliament against an onslaught from an extremist government. There isn’t one quote from a constitutional expert...

There isn’t any balancing editorial about recent gov tricks to try to bypass Parliament, eg longest suspension poss at critical time, trying to make bills unamendable, which led to Bercow’s retaliation on behalf of parliament. No mention of times he ruled in favour of Brexiters

As I always say, I don’t believe the BBC has any organisational political bias, I think this mainly comes down to incompetence. This is just really bad journalism.

For the record, as the story will probably be updated once there’s been enough criticism, here’s the state of it when I commented

And...

It’s just a quick rewrite of Mail on Sunday story, without any effort at actual journalism to get other sources. They unquestioningly maintain Mail’s angle on story.
This kind of ‘reporting’ is what leads people to accuse BBC of bias, because Mail is biased and BBC just amplifies