As tech barons dial up the spreading of lies, why is the BBC dialling down the reporting of truth? | John Harris

BBC Radio Devon carried a report about the violence in its 6 o’clock news .

But at 7pm and 9pm , Plymouth received no mention at all of the violence.

BBC admits there was little evidence of the BBC having a presence on the scene’.

Between 2009 and 2019 , more than 320 such titles in the UK closed down.

Reach the owner of the Mirror, Express and the scores of local titles grouped online under the “Live” banner announced its third round of job cuts in a year .

The upshot, as one unnamed Reach staffer put it, was obvious: “It’s increasingly likely that many of our major cities will soon have no local newspaper and no recognisable local news website holding local authorities to account.