It is ‘NOT racist to raise concerns’ about migration! BBC slams impartiality risk as review casts tears on broadcaster for dodging important votes

It also revealed that its own journalists were “concerned” about tackling topics that could “appear hostile to migrants”.

Policy specialist Madeleine Sumption conducted the research and spoke to more than 100 people inside and outside the company.

The report concluded that while the company provides “much excellent content on migration”, there are “risks to impartiality that point in multiple directions”, despite there being “no consistent bias towards one view”.

The common problem identified was that the BBC “often tells migration stories through a narrow political lens, reporting what high-profile people say without really getting under the skin of the issue”.

It added that “the perspectives and voices of migrants themselves are often completely missing from BBC reporting”.

Sumption wrote that migrant voices would not make reporting biased and said that “BBC reporting must have as much empathy for migrants as it does for UK residents concerned about the impact of migration”.

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