I think they can both be right. One's personal experience can be very different from the experience of the population as a whole. There were undoutedly many people who did not suffer much from the pit closures but they must have been in a minority (that is my subjective opinion having never...
That doesn't necessarily make it any more unbiased. Professors have political opinions too and their research has to be funded. The spectacularly biased C4 programme on global warming was full of academics.
I don't see it that way. The independence means that any one piece can be very slanted depending on what is being presented. A lot of the time that independence also makes the BBC feel like an unofficial opposition party. Balance would involve every item looking at every issue from every angle...
No it isn't. It sees itself as independent and therefore spends a lot of time challenging opinions instead of asking for them. As a result any particular article has the risk of being heavily biased. That is compounded by their continual presentation of the views of their correspondents as...