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There's a lot of this going around but (1) holding power to account is a key function of journalism so they aren't quite equivalent (2) Kuenssberg hasn't been removed from air (3) not clear to me how the status quo would have been better if we hadn't complained about Kuenssberg.
I know I'm a stuck record but what the BBC says matters. It dominates news: first place and seven in the top 20 where no one else has more than one. And that's a HUGE problem given there is zero transparency over how the BBC decides or accountability for what the BBC says.
This, it hardly needs to be said, is extraordinarily unhealthy in a democracy. How we perceive events around us, our political actors, the basic political reality of our lives, is shaped by opaque and unaccountable processes and actors.
Look at it like that, and it's (I think) impossible sensibly to argue we are too sensitive or fearful of what the BBC does. Indeed, the rational conclusion in times of huge political upheaval (I think) is that we ought to be far more worried than we are.
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