Well when it comes to the BBC I do think it is a bit more complicated. I think that most of us want it to be impartial when it comes to reporting the news. I prefer hearing the facts rather than a view on the facts. That is when it gets more difficult when we talk about being impartial.

The BBC is public funded and that draws the ire of a lot of people. Governments, of whatever hue,are not happy when their policies are attacked or seen to be attacked by the BBC. Ministers get a harder grilling from TV and radio (not just the BBC) than they tend to get in parliament.

A lot of the public are not happy about the licence fee, especially when they don't watch or listen to BBC content.

Quite a few media outlets are not happy having to compete with the BBC in the commercial world. Print media look on with envy at the BBC's online content which is paid for by the public, while they have to cover their costs from the revenue they raise.

I read The Guardian online. I bought the paper for many years and do still a copy from time to time. I understand their view on certain subjects and read any articles with that in mind. When they express an opinion I can either agree or disagree with it. It is an opinion. When they are reporting news I just want the facts. Of course they, like everyone else, choose what news they want to report and how they want to report it.

The 'missing' Attenborough programme is a case in point. The Guardian reported an episode had been pulled but that seems to be incorrect. Yesterday BBC Radio 4 had an interview with a member of one of the charities behind the Save Our Wild Isles appeal. She said they had made that 'missing' programme as part of their appeal, which they were launching off the back of the BBC Wild Isles series. The BBC had agreed to host it on iplayer.

Not quite as The Guardian reported it. They seem a bit slow in amending their original story, though they have made a start here.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/mar/13/pulled-a-timeline-of-tv-tak


"David Attenborough documentary (BBC iPlayer, 2023)
Another use of this “split screen” approach will see Sir David Attenborough’s five-part series Wild Isles supplemented by a documentary about “re-wilding” that will only be available on iPlayer. Some BBC staff have suggested that a “sixth episode” was censored in case it upset rightwing anti-ecologists in government and elsewhere. But the film would irritate them just as much digitally, and the paper trail seems to show that the documentary was made separately and bought by the BBC as extra content for iPlayer, driving audiences there in line with its digital-first policy."