BBC & UK GOV ARE CORRUPT, SAYS VETERAN JOURNALIST

Political journalists are being conned by Number 10 and spreading lies, and many are willingly doing so, says veteran journalist Peter Oborne.

Over the last weeks and months, many people claimed to have noticed a change in how Downing Street was using the media to get its message out.

Former Telegraph journalist Mr Oborne accused some of the UK’s biggest news outlets of effectively becoming clients of Boris Johnson’s government and of spreading false news.

Among those to fall foul were the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, former sidekick of self styled hatchet-man and hater of all things SNP, Andrew Neil.

Kuenssberg was gutted out for failing in the very basics of investigative journalism in not even trying to interrogate the facts. 

She and fellow BBC employees, Sarah Smith and Andrew Marr were all accused of lazily and meekly accepting what they were given by the UK Government and of unquestioningly passing it on to the public, replete with the BBC stamp of approval and all that that entails, confirmation bias being a primary example.

The BBC journalists were thought to be capable enough when interrogating a politician or a story whenever it came from or related to the SNP or Scottish Government, but failed miserably to bring the same level of journalistic competence when asked to cover anything coming out of Downing Street.

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