nadine dorries the culture secretary has retweeted what ofcom has had to say early on and says being open, impartial is vital to the bbc maintaining trust. the bbc must significantly improve its handling of complaints. ofcom s report will feed into the bbc mid term review. as our national broadcaster the bbc must deliver for its audiences. alice anders, is it inevitable whether ofcom intended it or not that this review becomes instantly political? tt is instantly political? it is inevitable instantly political? it is inevitable but - instantly political? it is inevitable but i - instantly political? it is inevitable but i would i instantly political? it is i inevitable but i would like instantly political? it is inevitable but i would like to add to inevitable but i would like to add to the inevitable but i would like to add to the comments - inevitable but i would like to add to the comments that i inevitable but i would like to| add to the comments that we inevitable but i woul
partisans are alienated by anything that is public service broadcasting. so the question is how does public service rebuild itself? i should also point out that the idea that the bbc leans to the left is one that is often mentioned, and yet lots of colleagues have left the bbc to go to work for political parties on the right hand side of the political spectrum as well as the left. but you mention politics, roger, let s bring that in, and alice enders you can help me with this. nadine dorries, the culture secretary, has retweeted what ofcom has had to say earlier on and says being open, impartial is vital to the bbc maintaining trust. the bbc must significantly improve its handling of complaints. ofcom s report will feed into the bbc mid term review. as our national broadcaster, the bbc must deliver for its audiences. alice enders, is it inevitable whether ofcom intended it or not, that this review becomes instantly political? it is inevitable, but i would. like to add to the comments
the bbc s digital approach to news and the way it publishes in written format news on the bbc website, and how that interacts with the commercial sector. clearly there has been at many reviews, government commissioned reviews, that have looked at the sustainability of the press and the independent press and the plural press across the country, which is vitally important for all of us, to society and to democracy at the core of it. and clearly having the bbc as a taxpayer funded organisation competing in the digital space with commercial publishers is presenting a serious challenge to the ability of commercial publishers to monetise, commercialise and therefore sustain business models in that environment. what we presented to ofcom as part of this review was a number of issues around that,
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while you were having this review put together? not about the specifics, no, about the mechanism, but not about what we put into the review, which is wholly our own work and no discussion has gone on about it, the output of what we are saying. kevin, yours will be the last word of today, we re out of time. thank you to all of our guests, kevin bakhurst from ofcom, owen meredith from the news media organisation. roger mosley from selwyn college, cambridge university. and alice enders, director of research at enders analysis. we will be back at the usual time but for the moment thanks very much for watching. see you soon. goodbye. it isa it is a blustery day, but we have seen mixed ed fortunes with