Michael Prescott tells select committee ‘there was no ideology at play’ when he wrote memo
The committee asks Prescott whether he thinks the BBC is institutionally biased?
“I don’t,” says Prescott. “Let’s be very clear. Tons of stuff the BBC does is world class factual programming… I think the standard of BBC Westminster is exemplary, and that’s why I keep saying these were incipient problems. We were finding the odd problem here and there.”
He says the crucial thing was that when problems were spotted, they appeared to have systemic causes that were not addressed.
He says “the root of his disagreement and slight concern even today” was that the BBC appeared to not be treating the problems as having systemic causes.
