{"id":124474,"date":"2019-12-23T01:11:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T00:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/23\/bbc-chief-dismisses-accusations-of-bias-in-politics-coverage\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:11:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T00:11:24","slug":"bbc-chief-dismisses-accusations-of-bias-in-politics-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=124474","title":{"rendered":"BBC chief dismisses accusations of bias in politics coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director general Tony Hall\u2019s comments follow threat from Boris Johnson to axe licence fee Tony Hall, the director-general of the BBC, has defended the corporation\u2019s election output against accusations of bias, saying that the national broadcaster had faced criticisms of its output from both leftwing and rightwing commentators in the weeks leading up to voting day.However, Lord Hall has spoken out in praise of the BBC\u2019s polling coverage, claiming the fact that it received complaints from all sides demonstrated it was unbiased. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2019\/dec\/23\/bbc-chief-dismisses-accusations-of-bias-in-politics-coverage\" target=\"_blank\">BBC chief dismisses accusations of bias in politics coverage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director general Tony Hall\u2019s comments follow threat from Boris Johnson to axe licence fee Tony Hall, the director-general of the BBC, has defended the corporation\u2019s election output against accusations of bias, saying that the national broadcaster had faced criticisms of its output from both leftwing and rightwing commentators in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}