No 10 pressured BBC to avoid Covid ‘lockdown’ term, leak reveals
The IndependentDowning Street pressured top BBC news editors not to use the term “lockdown” at the height of Covid curbs, leaked messages have revealed. BBC editors told journalists to avoid the term and also urged them to turn up “scepticism” about Labour’s call for plan B measures, according to the reported emails and WhatsApp messages. “Selective out of context messages from a colleagues’ WhatsApp group and email do not give an accurate reflection of the BBC’s editorial decision making.” The chief executive of Ofcom said on Tuesday that trust in the BBC is on the line as it reviews its social media guidelines in a bid to resolve the Linker controversy. Melanie Dawes said the impartiality row went “straight to the heart of the BBC’s wider reputation, beyond its news and current affairs coverage”.
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