Public Service Broadcasters Are Prime to Back Down, Even Apologize

Public service broadcasters must always act as the corrective should always hold governments accountable. That's the whole point of publicly owned broadcasters in a liberal democracy. And panyevsky has a warning for what happens when we avoid rebuffing populis accusations. She believes that journalists become complicit in the debiliation of their own status and authority. Paradoxically, she writes, their attempts to protect their professional objective facade may contribute to the public's belief they are biased.