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THE BBC has yet again been accused of bias after it removed sounds of the audience laughing at Prime Minister Boris Johnson during the Question Time leaders’ debate.
Mr Johnson took to the stage on Friday with opposition leaders Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Swinson and Nicola Sturgeon, who were each given 30 minutes to take questions from the live audience in Sheffield.
One audience member asked Mr Johnson: “How important is it for someone in your position of power to always tell the truth?”
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
Claims that digital media has rendered press power obsolete are a dangerous myth, argues DES FREEDMAN
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
JAMES NALTON takes a look at the German league’s move to grow its audience in Britain, and around the future of football on TV in general