Katty Kay, the face of the BBC in the USA (the "Anchor for BBC World News America"), has - as so often before - failed to show herself to be the complete paragon of BBC impartiality with her latest BBC website piece: Five reasons Brexit could signal Trump winning the White House.
As proof of that, I think it's enough merely to quote the first paragraph of her closing 'reason':
Populism
And, finally, populism loves simplicity, especially, it seems, when it's dressed up with an impressively wacky hair do. Boris Johnson and Donald Trump appeal to the heart not the head. They offer simple solutions in a time of complex problems. It's an appealing message. Think about the complicated consequences later, the thinking seems to go, for now protesting the status quo feels like a good start.
Could she be any more contemptuous? Or biased?
Is that really the way a senior BBC journalist should be writing about Boris Johnson during a referendum where even stricter BBC editorial guidelines on impartiality are meant to apply to all BBC journalists (including her)?
Is that really the way a senior BBC journalist should be writing about Boris Johnson during a referendum where even stricter BBC editorial guidelines on impartiality are meant to apply to all BBC journalists (including her)?
