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Today we're going to be talking about bias in the media with Graham Majen, a TV journalist and longtime BBC veteran who now serves as senior lecturer in documentary journalism at Bermith University in the UK.

And Quillette readers will know him as the author of the recently published article, A Journalism of Deception.

A former BBC journalist explains how the corporation discarded impartial journalism

and why we need a news revolution.

In that article, Graham discussed a media scandal that consumed the UK in November,

when the Daily Telegraph began reporting on the contents of an internal BBC memo produced by a consultant named Michael Prescott under the auspices of the BBC's editorial guidelines and standards committee.

In that leaked document, Prescott expressed his, quote, profound and unresolved concerns about bias at the BBC."

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Especially in relation to the corporation's coverage of the 2020 U.S. presidential election,

issues of race and gender, and the Israel-Ghazaw War.

Most damning of all, Prescott highlighted in October 24 edition of the BBC program Panorama, in which an editor had spliced

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