In the wake of the claims of political bias at BBC News, former UK government minister Rory Stewart has argued that the body overseeing BBC governance should be selected by sortition. Stewart’s interest in sortition dates back to the time of his London mayoralty candidature, and his recent argument is on The Rest is Politics podcast (@ 31:46).
The case for the use of sortition in media oversight has been made in Journal of Sortition papers by Oliver Milne et al. and Oliver Dowlen.
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