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BBC's repeated failures to curb abuse and bias have shattered trust and left many feeling betrayed
Beeb in crisis
HOW many more times will the BBC fail to deal with a powerful star bent on abusing his wealth and position?
And how much more anti-Israel bias must viewers endure?
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Two reports yesterday into very different areas of the corporation revealed an organisation in crisis.
Producers in charge of MasterChef indulged Gregg Wallace's sleazy behaviour for years while ignoring at least six direct complaints.
Weakly, they now admit they should have done more to stop him.
Just as the BBC didn't take its chances to stop Huw Edwards, Jimmy Savile and others.
Despite those scandals, the Wallace report reveals little has been done since to curb the culture of misogyny among its so-called male 'talent'.
Likewise, no one has dealt with the decades-long anti-Israel bias within BBC News.
Far from making any proper checks into its broadcast of a flawed documentary on Gaza, a second report says that BBC execs breached accuracy guidelines over a film featuring a Palestinian child narrator.
Viewers, of course, weren't told he was the son of a Hamas terrorist.
Isn't it likely that there was no proper editorial control of the film by bosses in BBC News because of institutional blindness?
There is a repeating pattern here — from misreporting rocket attacks on Gazan hospitals to broadcasting race hate rants at Glastonbury.
And it will leave many British Jews feeling let down.
Meanwhile, the BBC — the original virtue-signalling empire of left-wing woke ideology — now finds itself serially accused over sexism, racism and antisemitism.
Is anyone in Government willing to tackle these repeated failures at our state-funded national broadcaster?
Trump card
THERE will be immense relief in Kyiv — and across Europe — at Donald Trump's military support for Ukraine.
The President appears to have grown tired — in his words — of Vladimir Putin's 'bull****'.
And there are those in the White House who believe Russia's economy is close to collapse.
Now might be the time to take advantage of any weakening of the tyrant's grip on power.
Arming Ukraine via deals with European countries is a breakthrough after months of US indifference.
Slapping 100 per cent tariffs on Moscow for 50 days until it agrees to a peace deal may also do more to bring Putin to the table than any number of Patriot missiles.