It resulted in a particularly awkward exchange with Sky News anchor Kay Burley going viral.
So lets unpack some of her rhetoric and offer a little more context.
But the reason Frazer is making this intervention at this time is because of the mid-term charter review.
UK culture secretary Lucy Frazer interviewed about the BBC on Sky News.Sky News
In this longview context, the BBCs impartiality record has not gone backwards.
In 2018, 52% of complaints to Ofcom concerned bias.
Lets take another step back.
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Are complaints to Ofcom the most scientific measure of impartiality?
The 39% figure quoted by Frazer equates to 918 complaints.
Is this enough to say that there is a perception among the public that the BBC is biased?
Of the 918 complaints, 671 were either dismissed or sent back to the BBC for investigation by Ofcom.
Frazer could have used this as an example of the BBC lacking neutrality, but she did not.
The BBCs Executive Complaints Unit concluded last week that this was enough for the accuracy issue to be resolved.
Ofcoms 2023 news report revealed that 60% of regular BBC television viewers considered its output to be impartial.
This was down from 62% in 2022, but an improvement on the 55% recorded in 2021.
Overall, it was above the BBCs average score of 59% since Ofcom launched the study.
To repeat, this is not supported by the evidence relied upon by the government.
There were two other things Frazer did not mention on her media round on Monday.
As the government says in its policy document, the concept of impartiality is complex.
Ministers tend to forget this when making claims about BBC bias that serve their own political agendas.
