One of Ours

What would you say was the BBC's job in Europe? To provide Britons with accurate stories from Brussels?

Wrong. According to a senior BBC producer, the BBC's role in Europe is to provide counter-balance to what he describes as Britain's Euro-sceptic press...

Here is Jonathan Chapman, BBC, "Senior World News Reporter" (previously "Senior Europe Producer" in Brussels) in a speech to a media seminar at the Malta Press Club in March 2004. :
"The UK media approach is broadly sceptical. We try in Brussels to break that cycle of scepticism. The BBC's job is to reflect the European perspective .. And make news less sceptical. That is why the BBC has such a big bureau in Brussels."

...the purpose of the BBC, as one would normally understand it, is not to provide balance, but to provide accurate coverage.

Non-UK readers might need to be reminded that the Beeb's EU counter-propaganda machine is funded by British taxpayers.