Lord Grade, now a government adviser, says current TV rules are ‘like a relic of a bygone age’
British television news channels should no longer be required to meet strict impartiality standards, according to one of the government’s own broadcasting advisers.
Lord Grade, the former BBC chairman who was this week appointed to a panel advising ministers on the future of public service broadcasting, said it was an “anomaly” that the UK still required news broadcasters to meet impartiality rules given the variety of opinion in other parts of the media.
