Were Laura K. and the BBC responsible for brexit?
what do you think?
No. I don't agree with this:
"He added: "It began with the Leave campaign making lying a central part of its strategy during the Brexit referendum.
"The BBC's response was to 'balance' these lies with information from the other side - rather than using their editorial judgement to call out when something was blatantly and dangerously false."
The BBC didn't only produce balance, they repeatedly confronted the worst of the lies, for example Boris Johnsons insistence on the £350 millions a week was tackled head on and uncompromisingly by more than one of their journalists.
They even repeated a notorious pre Brexit interview of Johnson which exposed his whole long history of lying for personal advantage from schooldays onwards.
There was no problem with the BBC's handling of Bre xit. There certainly was the problem of some 50% of the public having an anti-EU attitude inculcated by decades of government EU blaming lies, resulting in them wanting out, regardless of any truths.
They and the government got what they richly deserved, an extended future of greater poverty and problems.
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