This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Joseph Sternberg in London about the BBC

Bruhaha, the scandal.

Revelations to come.

Job is very succinct in presenting the dilemma.

The BBC distorted the news right before the presidential election of 2024.

Explanations are ready to forthcome. We wait for who did it, why, when,

what is to be done about quality control at the BBC News. Here's Joe to describe the scale

of it and what happened exactly. More of this tonight.

Programmer, thinking about the BBC in terms of American public broadcasting, you are

underestimating the BBC's cultural and social and political impact by a couple orders of magnitude.

BBC is huge.

On your TV, there are four entertainment channels, BBC 1, BBC 2, 3 and 4.

There's a 24-hour news channel domestically.

There's also a global news channel.

There's all of the radio.

There are four or five BBC radio stations that encompass everything from pop music to news talk on a daily basis. There's the World Service, which is a form of voice of America-style broadcasting, but much, much bigger in terms of its reach.

There are different language services that they offer.

So BBC Arabic has been in the crosshairs lately for some of its allegedly tendentious reporting about the Israel-Gaza war.

So when you have a scandal, the BBC is really convulsive in British culture and also because

British households are required to pay for it. Anyone who watches any live TV, even if you

never watch the BBC, is required to pay a television tax.

They euphemistically call it the license fee, just about north of $200 a year that your

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