The BBC reports,
Is time running out for BBC chair Samir Shah after latest resignation?
Shumeet Banerji is not a household name.
In the three years, 10 months and 14 days that he spent on the BBC board, Banerji kept his thoughts on BBC matters firmly out of the public domain.
Now he is making headlines. His resignation is the latest blow to the corporation, and it looks timed to add to the pressure.
Mr. Banerji only had a month or so left on his four-year board term. The BBC thinks his quitting the BBC board is a political act,
The resignation, fairly or not, looks like a direct critique of the BBC’s chair Samir Shah.
Banerji, according to an insider, was known to be angry that Shah was – in his view – weak in not challenging a number of other board members and their assertion about systemic bias at BBC News.
From what I can infer, Banerji is in favor of left-wing bias? I confess to be completely confused by the insider politics of the state broadcaster. The BBC reports,
BBC News remains the most trusted source of news in the UK.
If they do say so, themselves.
