Thursday, 14 January 2016

Free to campaign?


Talking of the BBC's editorial guidelines on Impartiality...

It looks as if there have been some recent changes to them. 

Last September we posted a piece, via DB, that quoted - and linked to - the BBC editorial guideline on Campaigns and Impartiality: 


That link no longer works, and if you read through the BBC's editorial guidelines now, from 4.4.1 through to 4.4.31, you'll notice a sudden leap from 4.4.19 to 4.4.22

In other words, two sections of the BBC's editorial guidelines - including the one on Campaigns - have gone missing: 


Why has that happened?