Based on what? Wishful thinking? You might have been right a many years ago, but it is a shadow of its former self. Just look at the website content these days, it is completely dumbed down. Their news arm was decimated a few years ago hence the lack of any serious investigative journalism these days.
I agree, having lived there too, it's awful.
It's a) perpetuating an old myth (or maybe even fact), b) they know the BBC have this reputation of old so they wheel out the same old spin hoping enough people still believe it.
Their last political editor was Nick Robinson, founder of a Young Conservatives organisation at University and now Laura Kuessenberg who's already been found once to have broken the rule on bias against Corbyn. Then there's the seemingly permanent UKIP representative on the Question Time panel and UKIP's invitation to take part in pre election debate, despite having no MPs and almost no council seats (completely ignoring the Green Party who have both).
