BBC Chair Richard Sharp Says MacTaggart Lecturer Emily Maitlis “Completely Wrong” On ‘Newsnight’ Dominic Cummings Rant Claims
Maitlis, who has now left the BBC and is fronting a Global podcast, made the comments during last month’saddress, stating that the BBC had “sought to pacify the complaint” immediately, which she disagreed with.
The now-infamous opening segment led with Maitlis stating “Dominic Cummings broke the rules” after Boris Johnson’s former adviser was accused of breaking lockdown rules and travelling to Barnard Castle in the midst of the first lockdown.Sitting alongside Sharp during a lengthy and wide-ranging DCMSC hearing, Director General“I can categorically tell you that taking a call from a politician doesn’t make us say ‘we need to change something,'” he added. “I’ve looked in detail at this.
“You can’t characterize our most recent appointments as one type,” Sharp added when pressed on the political backgrounds of other recent board members.Davie dismissed criticism of the BBC’s decision to book comedian and Conservative Party critic Joe Lycett on Sunday morning political formatover the weekend, a move that was slammed by the right-wing press on the day that Liz Truss became Prime Minister.
The corporation recently published its financial plan to deal with the loss of funds, which will amount to around £250M per year for the next five years, with Davie stating the BBC keeps asking “how do you get costs down as far as you can without affecting the audience?”
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