BBC demands protection for its journalists after criticism from Labour supporters over bias claims

‘Politicians must do more to defend journalists who are abused “on almost a daily basis,” BBC Chairman Sir David Clementi has said, after political editor Laura Kuenssberg was booed and criticised online by Corbyn supporters accusing her of bias.
Clementi says female journalists suffer “increasingly explicit and aggressive” abuse on Twitter and Facebook amid an “assault” on truth and accuracy from news outlets, according to the Telegraph.
Speaking at the Royal Television Society convention in Cambridge, he said: “I have become increasingly aware of the abuse that some of them – particularly female journalists – are subject to, on an almost daily basis.
“We must support our journalists and call out the abuse they are receiving. These days, there is much more abuse.”
Clementi says the trend is partly a result of some people living in online “echo chambers” where they rarely hear opposing views.’
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