Credit to Prof @jeanseaton1 for finding this quote from BBC Director General Sir Hugh Greene in 1965, about limits of BBC impartiality #Lineker:
"Although, in the day-to-day issues of public life, the BBC does try to attain the highest standards of impartiality...
"Although, in the day-to-day issues of public life, the BBC does try to attain the highest standards of impartiality...
....there are some respects in which it is not neutral, unbiased or impartial. That is, where there are clashes for and against the basic moral values--truth~lness, justice, freedom, compassion, tolerance....
....Nor do I believe that we should be impartial about certain things like racialism or extreme forms of political belief. Being too good "democrats" in these matters could open the way to the destruction of democracy itself" Ends.
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