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The news division of the British Broadcasting Corporation, founded in 1922 and funded by a license fee paid by British households. Its charter obligates it to impartiality, and its international newsgathering is among the largest in the world.
American readers often use it precisely because it sits outside domestic partisan alignment. Critics in Britain attack it from both directions, the left saying it is too deferential to government and the right saying its staff share a metropolitan outlook; that it is criticized from both sides is either its best defense or a sign it satisfies nobody.