BBC at ‘crisis point’ as former star breaks silence on GB News
A former BBC star made a surprising admission on GB News.
GB News presenters addressed the (Image: GB News)
The former BBC Home Affairs Correspondent, Danny Shaw, has broken his silence after thedirector general Tim Davie admitted that the broadcaster can seem out of touch. Danny joined presenters Tom Harwood and Dawn Neesom on GB News’ Good Afternoon Britain to discuss whether trust in the BBC is at a “crisis point.” In his admission, the former BBC star said: “I think what Tim Davie said is correct. As someone who worked there for 31 years, we did see the world through a Metropolitan lens at times.”
This comes after Tim’s appearance on Richard Osman’s The Rest is Entertainment podcast, in which he denied that the BBC had an active bias in any direction, but said: “Trust is built by people absolutely believing that someone is acting in their interest and that they listen to them.
“If someone is not seen to listen and act in someone’s interest, then you’ve got a problem. So it may not even be an active bias. It might just be that you just don’t get it.
Tim Davie will leave the BBC in April following his resignation (Image: Getty)
The outgoing director general, who is set to leave the BBC on April 2, added: “And I think there have been too many instances where institutions, and the BBC is definitely not exempt from this, [have] call it what you will, metropolitan, a certain lens on life.”
Speaking on the metropolitan lens on GB News, Danny continued: “We worked in London, and life in London, particularly if you’re from a middle-class background like myself and many of my colleagues, is very different from some areas of the country outside London.
“It’s not about political bias,” he insisted. “This is about the way you see the world, it’s about your hobbies, your interests, what you do at work, what you do when you’re outside work and your background. And those things can influence your story selection.”
Danny addressed Tim Davie’s BBC admission (Image: GB News)
Danny confessed to the presenters: “One area I think we [BBC] did get it wrong, including myself in this, is immigration.
“I think for many years, we kind of thought that immigration wasn’t much of a problem, and we sort of neglected the viewpoint from many areas of the country that rising levels of immigration were a source of concern.
“It wasn’t racist to talk about that and to debate that, but I think at the BBC that sometimes in news we shied away from those stories and I think that was wrong.”
The former BBC employee added: “And I think Tim Davie is absolutely spot on with what he talks about on occasional Metropolitan bias.”
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