Guest post from Kathy Gyngell – this first appeared on The Conservative Woman LITERALLY, how dare they? BBC arrogance and entitlement knows no bounds. Yesterday, because it has to, the corporation published its very own Rich List of its on-air and front-of-house staff paid more than £150,000 per annum in its annual report for 2019-2020. All compulsorily paid for by you and me, including …
Tim Davie: Reformist or PR Hype?
Is Tim Davie genuinely a reformer? His regime as new BBC director general took off at an apparent breakneck speed from September 1. In his first three days in office, he reversed the decision not to include the sung version of Rule Britannia in the last night of the proms; said he was going to ensure BBC output was scrupulously …
Nicholas Burnett: Can Tim Davie Turn the Tide of Bias?
This is a Guest Post from Nicholas Burnett from The Conservative Woman: THE paradox of the Western World is encapsulated by the angst the BBC so willingly brings upon itself. Once a central plank of British culture, it is now part of a pro-globalising bourgeois media-set who will report ‘largely peaceful protests’ straight-faced against a backdrop of burning cities. It’s …
The BBC’s LOVE AFFAIR WITH BANKSY
Guest post by Arthur T from Is the BBC Biased? A comment on Is the BBC Biased? a couple of days ago said: The BBC are displaying their hero worship of Banksy again today. Banksy, African migrants and his rescue boat adrift in the Med. It’s a story made in heaven for the BBC metro-liberals. Just what is it …
Craig Byers: Supporters of BBC becoming campaigning organisation ‘are winning’
This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? If you subscribe to it, you may well have read former Head of BBC Television News Roger Mosey’s interesting piece in The Sunday Times last week where he claimed that there’s a “battle” going on at the BBC between older hands who want to stay true to the Corporation’s long commitment …
Tom Mangold: BBC’s embrace of woke culture is ‘fatal act of self-harm’
This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? Tom Mangold’s Mail on Sunday piece headlined “I fear that my beloved BBC’s bizarre obsession with a toxic culture of wokeness will end as a fatal act of self-harm” ought to matter to the BBC because Mr Mangold isn’t just any old BBC veteran. He was Panorama‘s lead investigative reporter for …
News-watch Launches BBC Bias Digest
BBC Bias Digest is now a key, regularly updated feature of the News-watch website, and a central focus of our efforts. To try and hold the BBC to account in the public interest To facilitate reform in its governance. Each day, we are combing newspapers and the web for stories about the BBC relevant to its Charter obligation to deliver …
Deluded BBC’s mission to mislead
New BBC director general Tim Davie, who cut his professional teeth marketing Pepsi-Cola, was appointed last week to head a £5billion-a-year media empire with a guaranteed income and a news operation which is the largest of its kind in the world. Here is an early item for his in-tray. The BBC’s annual plan for 2020/21 – required by Ofcom as part …
BBC: licence fee is sacrosanct
The BBC has issued a robust defence of the BBC licence fee as virtually perfect, and argues that it should continue indefinitely, or be replaced by a universal tax on broadband services. The document states that the BBC is massively loved, that its output is exactly what people want and completely impartial, that change would cripple the media economy, and that …
Justice closes its eyes to BBC bias
It is very disappointing to have to report that three judges (two in the High Court, one in the Court of Appeal) have thwarted David Keighley’s application for judicial review to challenge the impartiality of the BBC. Very frustratingly, they have acted without calling a full oral hearing to consider evidence put forward by David and his legal team, relying …