The BBC director general, Mark Thompson, has said that “impartiality” is “going up and up the agenda” at the corporation in what he described as a “post-Hutton change”, referring to the report into the death of the weapons scientist Dr David Kelly. But Thompson added that in past decades the BBC had a “massive bias to the left”, “struggled with impartiality” and was “mystified” by Thatcherism.
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