The consultation will also look at numerous other issues including how the World Service should be funded, the corporation’s workplace culture, efficiency, transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n
It also wants to tackle how the BBC can survive and thrive in the streaming era.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the government is seeking views on how to ensure the BBC commands the public’s trust, is accountable to audiences and fully represents communities.<\/p>\n
This includes potentially giving the corporation new responsibilities to counter misinformation and disinformation, updating the BBC’s mission to put accuracy on the same footing as impartiality, and strengthening the BBC’s independence, including examining political appointments to the BBC’s board.<\/p>\n
Labour MPs raised concerns around this issue in Parliament after the recent BBC controversy over the misleading edit of a Donald Trump speech on a Panorama prompted the resignations of the BBC director general and the CEO of News.<\/p>\n
Trump is now suing the BBC<\/a> for defamation over the edit.<\/p>\n It’s one of a series of controversies the BBC has faced in recent months for which it has had to apologise. <\/p>\n These include a documentary about children in Gaza<\/a> that had to be taken down from BBC iPlayer after it emerged the child narrator was the son of a Hamas official and the failure immediately to remove the punk duo Bob Vylan’s set from a Glastonbury live stream<\/a> after offensive comments were made on stage.<\/p>\n The consultation will be open for 12 weeks from 16 December 2025 to 10 March 2026.<\/p>\n Next year, following the consultation, the government will publish its own vision for the BBC.<\/p>\n Additional reporting by Steven McIntosh and Emma Saunders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The consultation will also look at numerous other issues including how the World Service should be funded, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-351788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}