platform. people pushed in front of a train, asian beaten at a subway station, and i m just talking about crime on the trains. damn it, you know, every time someone is injured, he wants to talk about perc perception. why don t you deal with the victims and reality. you were this stat, 22 murdered on new york subway since the start of 2020, including eight this year. i don t care what part of the world you re from, if 22 people are murdered on the subway in two years, that s not a perception issue, that is a reality. greg: and you know that s reality when you compare to previous time and see the increase. you come up with statistics. the city is a barrel, we are the fish. there was a promise from the new mayor. i think it has run out.
executive saying it, the bbc, clearly needs to address widespread perceptions about impartiality. owen meredith from the news media association, do you agree with that, that there is a perception issue for the bbc here? yes, it is not really my place to hugely comment on this, but there is definitely a perception problem with the bbc. i wonder if it is, given many of your members are partly responsible for that perception, because many newspapers have plenty to say about what the bbc is and isn t doing. of course, and newspapers are free to take their own editorial line, i represent the publishing businesses
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and see where you can improve. they have said we will work with ofcom on this so i imagine you have further conversations with the bbc. so there are these three areas we are looking at, services, complaints. next let s consider impartiality. we have heard from ofcom s chief executive saying it, the bbc, clearly needs to address widespread perceptions about its impartiality. owen meredith from the news media association, do you agree with that, that there is a perception issue for the bbc here? yes, it is not really my place to hugely comment on this, but there is definitely a perception problem with the bbc. i wonder if it is, given many of your members are partly responsible for that perception, because many newspapers have plenty to say about what the bbc is and isn t doing. of course, and newspapers are free to take their own editorial line, i represent the publishing businesses and industry that publish them, not the editorial line, which individual editors and papers are free to d
so the business in its early years is skewed towards television revenue and radio revenue, and that is something that will morph more into the digital side of things, which is still a meaningful number over time. that is a big challenge for us, though, in that we are still suffering a boycott by the advertising agencies when it comes to particularly our linear television product. and that is a massive challenge for this business. what can you do about that? well, we have to keep doing what we re doing. we have to ensure that we address the perception issue that exists out there. gb news actually is a mainstream channel. it s not an establishment channel, but it is actually a mainstream channel that reaches mass audiences in the united kingdom across all different platforms, and that does have a value back to advertisers. and it s important that we get that message out there.