The Ombud's Inbox - June 2024

The vast majority of the complaints that I receive are, in one way or another, driven by a sense that media coverage is biased. Sometimes people perceive bias because of the way a story is worded. Other times it’s because of the choices reporters and editors make about which aspect of the issue receives the most emphasis. In many cases, what upsets people is even more rudimentary: the decisions about which issues do and don’t get to?air.

This month, I was struck by some of the impassioned complaints people filed about interviews on radio and television.? More often than not, they suggested that interviewers did not do enough to hold their subjects to account ... continue