Britain’s public broadcaster was apparently pressured by Downing Street on coverage, internal messages show, amid scrutiny of the BBC's ties to the Conservative government following the suspension of top sports anchor Gary Lineker.
On March 23, 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was upending life in the United Kingdom , the British government imposed a historic stay-at-home order. “Lockdown Britain,” read the front page of theheadline declared. It wasn’t just the tabloids: Sky News, too, referred to the order as a lockdown. BBC, though, went with different language to describe what was happening to daily life—“curbs” and “restrictions”—a decision that apparently came at the behest of the British Conservative government.
Can we turn up the scepticism a bit on this?” the message reads, referring to the tougher COVID restrictions that, Labour’s shadow health secretary, initially introduced.
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