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The BBC has reportedly asked an interviewee how they voted before bringing them on air when an employee “misinterpreted the guidelines” on impartiality.
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Scarlett Maguire, a director at polling company JL Partners, told of her surprise at being asked to divulge the information before appearing on the broadcaster’s radio show.
The question was posed by a BBC journalist working on Adrian Chiles’ Radio 5 Live programme.
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The public broadcaster said that the question was not part of standard BBC policy. A source said that a junior employee had made a genuine error.
They said: “This should not have been asked. It was a member of staff who misinterpreted the guidelines around impartiality on this occasion and we are speaking with them about this.”
The BBC’s editorial guidelines call for impartiality in news programming.
One clause tells staff: “We should not automatically assume that contributors from other organisations (such as academics, journalists, researchers and representatives of charities and think-tanks) are unbiased.
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“Appropriate information about their affiliations, funding and particular viewpoints should be made available to the audience, when relevant to the context.”
Ms Maguire took to Twitter, formerly X, to share her experience earlier this week.
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She said: “Bizarre interaction this morning just before going into an interview at the BBC. Was asked how I voted at the last election as a precondition for coming on air,” she wrote on social media.
“Is this standard practice for guests now??”
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