The Mail on Sunday December 26, 2021 The BBC is Silencing the viewers who should be heard THE BBC’s existence is an attempt to answer a series of linked riddles. How can you sustain a national broadcaster to pursue the best in everything, free from commercial pressure? How can the state collect the funds for such a body, without turning …
News-watch Survey – The Nationality and Borders Bill
News-watch monitored the 18 hours of original programming broadcast by GB News between 6am and midnight on 6 July 2021 and compared its coverage of the government’s Nationality and Borders Bill on eleven of the BBC’s main television and radio programmes, along with the BBC News Channel, amounting to 27 hours and 10 minutes of BBC airtime. The survey set …
News-watch finding: GB News more impartial than the BBC on immigration
An in-depth survey by News-watch of the recently-launched television news channel GB News has found that its coverage of sensitive immigration issues was more balanced, detailed and wide-ranging than that of the BBC’s news programmes and BBC News 24. The BBC coverage was weighted very strongly towards those opposed to stricter controls on immigration. By comparison, GB News incorporated that …
Craig Byers: Even Libby Purves is slamming Radio 4
Even former Radio 4 stalwart, ex-Midweek presenter and self-declared ”life-long loyalist and listener” Libby Purves – though in many ways as ‘BBC as can be’ in her outlook – sees that David Blunkett has a point about her favourite channel BBC Radio 4. In her latest Times column she says that the BBC shouldn’t ignore him, and although she thinks it’s ”not …
Craig Byers: “BBC Hit By New Bashir Shame”
“The BBC has a really grim bit of reading in The Mail on Sunday. This is another Martin Bashir-related story. Goes on for pages and pages and it is tough stuff for BBC people to read”, said Andrew Marr this morning. He didn’t elaborate, or mention the story again. This morning’s BBC News Channel paper review also merely mentioned it, …
Jane Kelly: The BBC, where history really is bunk
This post by Jane Kelly originally appeared on The Conservative Woman An eight-part drama about the Nuremberg Trials has started on Radio 4. BBC commissioning editor Rhian Roberts said it was ‘designed to present phenomenal moments of history in a compelling style so we can all continue to understand how our world was shaped by them’. What we got was inexplicable: …
The Brexit Collection reveals the depth of the Corporation’s pro-EU bias – 13/07/2016
After the EU referendum, the BBC assembled on Radio 4 a barrage of anti-Brexit programmes which predicted that there would be rioting on the streets over food supply, the virtual ruin of the Scotch whisky industry and an uncontrolled explosion of hate crimes against EU citizens. July 13, 2016 BBC reform, like so many other issues, has been pushed off …
BBC Drama revives anti-capitalist Priestley in a not-so-subtle hymn to Corbyn 18/09/2015
This post from 2015 suggested that the BBC’s new version of the J.B Priestley classic play An Inspector Calls – deliberately mangled to big up the core anti-capitalist theme – had been broadcast to celebrate the appointment of Jeremy Corbyn as new Labour party leader. 18th September 2015 J.B Priestley, who in the 1930s and into the Second World War …
Revealed: Humphrys’s own catalogue of Brexit bias 24/09/2019
Almost two years ago, John Humphrys retired from his role as presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and published a new autobiography to mark the occasion. This blog claimed he was being hypocritical in continuing to work for the Corporation over the last decade while secretly disagreeing with its Brexit coverage. 24th September 2019 Kathy Gyngell clearly highlighted on …
Don’t rewrite history – we voted Leave because of Farage and mass immigration 26/07/2016
A few weeks after the Brexit vote in 2016 the official Leave campaign (led by Dominic Cummings) – aided and abetted by the BBC – were hell-bent on claiming they had won because they had ‘neutralised’ the alleged overt racism of Nigel Farage and the alternative Leave axis. 26th July 2016 Referendum history is being re-written. The official ‘out campaign’ …