RT @ruskin147: Interesting letter in @FT by former colleague @MartShankleman about the dangers of excessive impartiality
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/karmel80/status/1637197986928181249
@karmel80 Alt text: “Lord Reith's Diaries provide a chilling example of the consequences of the BBC putting excessive emphasis on impartiality:
The then director-general records that in March 1938 he attended a reception at the German embassy in London, where he made himself “very agreeable” to lots of people and told Ambassador Ribbentrop ”to tell Hitler that the BBC was not anti-Nazi”
The next day he records “Germany seems to have annexed Austria!”
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@karmel80 Alt-text, cont.
…As a former BBC correspondent, I suggest there are occasions where reporters have to stop giving equal weight to both sides and tell it like it is.
Martin Shankleman
London NI, UK
@karmel80 There is no such thing as "excessive impartiality".
Pretending to be impartial in the face of genuine evil is effectively indistinguishable from taking the evil's side.