keav0.bsky.social
Investigations Editor @uk.theconversation.com. Former BBC, Press Association and national newspaper journalist.
👤 Joined on 11 November 2024
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@keav0.bsky.socialYou Don’t Know What You’re Missing comes out tomorrow! In it I discuss detection biases like the incidental cancer diagnosis that Kevin Keegan received. Here’s my piece about it in The Conversation theconversation.com/... 1/2
Show PostOrwell diagnosed this problem generations ago
Show PostTrump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
Show PostA single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy. Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common. My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Show PostThe impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
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