BBC一直否认其在公正性方面存在严重问题。但证据仍在不断浮出水面，讲述着截然不同的故事。
The BBC has continued to deny that it has a serious problem with impartiality. But evidence continues to emerge that tells a very different story.
在《每日电讯报》的调查之后，BBC上周末被迫暂停一项计划，该计划中，挂职的公务员参与新闻报道并被要求核查有争议的政治议题。
Following an investigation by The Telegraph, the BBC was last weekend forced to pause a scheme in which civil servants on secondment were contributing to news reporting and being asked to fact-check contentious political issues.
上周还曝出，BBC的Bitesize服务一直在使用测验，鼓励小学生就有争议的议题表达政治立场。例如，BBC曾制作一款在线游戏，选择“开放边境”并对非法移民实施大赦的答案将获得奖励。
It also emerged last week that the BBC’s Bitesize service had been using quizzes to encourage schoolchildren to take political positions on controversial subjects. In one example, the BBC created an online game which rewarded children for choosing the answer “open borders” and granting an amnesty to illegal migrants.
与此同时，BBC正因《全景》纪录片被误导性剪辑，使其看起来像是美国总统说了他从未说过的话，而与特朗普展开法律斗争。
Meanwhile. the BBC is fighting a legal battle with Donald Trump after a Panorama documentary was misleadingly edited to make it look like the US president had said something he did not.
人们或许会认为，这一系列严重失误本身就足以让BBC的领导层提出艰难的问题，审视公司标准发生了什么变化。就在上周，将这些点连起来并不困难，就能看到一个主要问题——它正在影响BBC的新闻报道、面向儿童的内容以及招聘实践。
You might think that this catalogue of serious failings would be enough on their own for the BBC’s leadership to ask difficult questions about what is happening to the corporation’s standards. Just in the last week, it is not difficult to join the dots and see a major problem that is impacting the BBC’s journalism, its output for children and its recruitment practices.
但当然，还有更多证据表明存在根本性问题。这些证据仍在不断浮现，而BBC的领导层却选择掩耳盗铃。
But there is of course plenty more evidence of fundamental problems. They continue to emerge whilst the BBC’s leadership buries its head in the sand.
前BBC新闻总监弗兰·恩斯沃思描述了一种“进步主义狂热”的文化，这种文化在跨性别议题及其他方面演变成了一种霸凌。“这不仅仅是跨性别议题的问题，”恩斯沃思女士说。“还有大量关于各种议题的霸凌行为：人们不想听到某些观点：他们会‘不提供平台’：所有这些安全空间的废话。”要找更多例子并不困难，无论是BBC纪录片由哈马斯官员之子旁白，还是格拉斯顿伯里现场直播中一名表演者不间断地高呼“以色列国防军该死”，亦或是BBC阿拉伯语频道持续输出的内容，这些都在以反犹太主义和公然偏见毒害BBC的声誉。
Former director of BBC News, Fran Unsworth, has described a culture of “progressive madness” that became a form of bullying on transgender issues and more. “It wasn’t just the trans issue,” said Ms Unsworth. “There was lots and lots of bullying going on about all sorts of things: people didn’t want to hear from certain points of view: they’d ‘no platform’ them: all that safe-spaces s---.”You do not have to look hard to find more examples, whether it be the BBC documentary narrated by the son of a Hamas official, the live broadcast without interruption from Glastonbury of a performer chanting “death to the IDF” or elements of the continuing output of BBC Arabic that poisons the BBC’s reputation with anti-Semitism and overt bias.
当这些例子堆积起来时，它们显然不能仅仅被视为一系列不幸的巧合。更重要的是，所有这些例子都是某一方向偏见的证据：一种进步主义的群体思维，根本未能认识到BBC应承担的公正和平衡职责。
When this number of examples stacks up they cannot simply be dismissed as a series of unfortunate coincidences. What is more, all of these examples are evidence of bias in one particular direction: a progressive group-think that fundamentally fails to recognise the BBC’s duty to impartiality and balance.
我有两个问题要问BBC，一个是针对其记者的，另一个是针对其高层领导的。
I have two questions to ask the BBC, one for its journalists and one for its senior leadership.
对BBC记者，我这样问：如果你们当时并不在公司工作，而面对如此多的证据，这种持续不断的公正失败例子的鼓点，你们会直接否定它吗？还是可能会认为这里存在一个需要调查的问题，哪怕这过程令人不适？
To BBC journalists I ask this: if you were not working for the corporation at this time and were presented with this amount of evidence, this ongoing drumbeat of examples of impartiality failures would you just dismiss it? Or might you think there is a problem here that needs investigating, however uncomfortable that might be?
对BBC的领导层，这里有一个关键的责任问题：如果继续忽视反复出现的公正失败，假装问题不存在而事实上问题如此明显，后果会是什么？
To the BBC’s leadership, there is a critical question of responsibility: what will be the consequences of continuing to ignore repeated failures of impartiality, of pretending there is not a problem when there so patently is one?
与其以力量和透明度直面问题，BBC领导层一直在回避，希望反复出现的公正失败模式会神奇地消失。
Rather than gripping the problem with strength and transparency, BBC leaders have been looking the other way, hoping that a repeated pattern of impartiality failures will magically end.
但它不会。如果没有行动、开放和勇气，BBC的声誉将继续下降。一项历经百年打造的国家资产将被浪费。数千名致力于公正的BBC员工将被其领导层辜负，数以百万计的许可证费用缴纳者也将为此付出代价。丹尼·科恩是前BBC电视台总监。
But it won’t. Not without action, openness and courage. Without this, the BBC’s reputation will continue to diminish. A national asset, 100 years in the making, will be squandered. Thousands of BBC staff members committed to impartiality will have been failed by their leaders and millions of licence-fee payers will pay the price too. Danny Cohen is a former director of BBC Television