What is impartial journalism?

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Robert Peston, a respected UK journalist, has recently criticised BBC coverage of the Brexit debate suggesting that 'impartial journalism does not consist of giving two conflicting side equal airtime.' Nor offering no opinion on the validity of both arguments. He emphasized the point by suggesting you shouldn't give equal time to the opposing sides in a disagreement about the world being flat or round. Is he correct? If so, what is impartial journalism?

Carsten Weerth

Dear all,

impartial journalism is another term for balanced journalism.

I am sharing two links on the issue

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/nov/08/impartial-journalism-is-laudable-but-false-balance-is-dangerous

and

http://ijnet.org/en/blog/impartiality-journalism

Best Carsten

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