Speaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Richard Tait, who is a professor of journalism at Cardiff University as well as a former governor on the BBC board, an editor of BBC Newsnight, Channel 4 News and editor in chief at ITN said “if you work for the BBC, people are going to look at where you previously worked”.
“I think sometimes it’s quite oppressive, but the reality is that if you work for BBC, you do have to be able to look the audience in the eye and say, ‘I’m I’m neutral in these areas’.
“It’s not so much what you have done privately or what you think privately that matters, it’s what you do professionally.”
The former chair of the editorial standards committee said: “The BBC is currently under so much fire that they can’t really get on the front foot. What they have to do is persuade the audience, who in the main is still sympathetic to them, that they genuinely take impartiality as seriously as I know they do.”
