Ex-boss’s anger at BBC over its Brexit bulletins

As former head of BBC Television News, roger mosey was the most senior executive to admit what most of us have known for a long time: the corporation leans so far Left, it often topples into propaganda.

mosey, who left the national broadcaster in 2013 and is now master of selwyn College, Cambridge, laid bare the Beeb’s bias in his book Getting out Alive. This week he is on the attack again, particularly over Brexit coverage.

He’s argued for years that the BBC has failed to give sufficient prominence to Leave voices and he now seems equally appalled by its obsession with Boris Johnson’s ‘letterbox’ comments on burkas. He writes in the New statesman magazine: ‘Compare and contrast days of headline coverage for Boris Johnson’s view on the burkas with no equivalent scrutiny of his plans for the single market or free trade. The corporation knows it needs to sharpen its act.’

mosey recalled a 1980s bulletin explaining in depth — about half the bulletin — how perestroika and glasnost were helping bring reforms to the soviet Union.

‘shouldn’t there be a similar commitment to examining issues such as what leaving on World Trade organisation terms would mean for this country? And when there is a reckoning about what happened to our politics, the broadcasters cannot and should not be exempt.’