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It’s not racist to air concerns about immigration, says BBC review

The BBC has been told that it is not racist to air concerns about immigration in a review that found journalists are anxious about appearing “hostile” to migrants.

The review, commissioned by the BBC board and authored by Madeleine Sumption, the director of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, looked at the impartiality and accuracy of the BBC’s coverage of migration.

It found no consistent bias towards Left or Right but identified “risks to impartiality that point in multiple directions”.

Doh.

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