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2 Feb, 4 tweets, 3 min read
New research analysing #r4today, raises questions about clarity, accuracy & impartiality in @BBCNews' senior broadcast journalists’ choice of language, where their choice of words & identifiers can be seen as undermining the @BBC's impartiality.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Several senior @BBCNews journalists adopt the first-person plural “we” when reporting on matters of public policy.

The evidence suggests that more fine-grained guidelines on permissible circumstances for @BBC journalists’ usage of “we” & “our” need revising & disseminating.
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Link to full article:

orca.cf.ac.uk/84687/1/WHO%20…

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