As President Trump prepares to sue the BBC for deceptively editing his words on January 6, 2021, to make it appear like he urged violence, PBS’s Christiane Amanpour said on her Friday podcast, The Ex Files, that the idea that the BBC is biased is “probably wrong” and that her own network is “an absolute must” have for the American people.
On the supposed necessity of public media, Amanpour claimed that there “is such a desperate need for that. You need something that is not left, right, or corporatist, you know, owned by a corporate entity. The truth is that in the U.K., the BBC is one of the most powerful and editorially and culturally significant content providers.”
Amanpour’s ode to the BBC continued, “It does politics from one end of the spectrum to the other. It does sports, entertainment. All of that. David Attenborough, you know, the great naturalist who brought everybody the world and made the world fall in love with wildlife. Thank you to the BBC. So, I do think that one has to be super careful. Why not just, you know, say when you're wrong, make a correction, but the idea of institutional bias at the BBC, I think, is probably wrong.”
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