This post by James Townsend originally appeared on The Conservative Woman YOU may have seen some of my recent threads which have slowly been gaining traction in the Twittersphere. They have covered a range of topics, including defending TV presenter Beverley Turner from unwarranted attacks on Good Morning Britain and the Jeremy Vine Show, to questioning Sage scientist Susan Michie and exposing the …
We’re right about climate change, say the BBC – and let the facts go hang 16/10/2018
A milestone in the BBC’s descent into becoming an overt political campaigning group – on a par with Greenpeace or Extinction Rebellion – came in October, 2018 when director of news Fran Unsworth issued a formal directive which decreed in effect that climate alarmism was based on proven facts and could no longer be challenged on BBC airwaves. One of …
David Keighley: So who did pay for the BBC’s latest blast of pro-EU propaganda? 04/03/2015
As steps towards an EU referendum progressed in 2015, the BBC showed a film called the The Great European Disaster Movie, which depicted in ‘ludicrous, extremist terms, that if the EU did not exist, there would be a collapse of civil society across the continent. In this blog, News-watch established that the makers of the film had a huge axe …
David Keighley: A star line-up for the new BBC theme park. Russell Brand despatches figures of hate 15/12/2014
In this satirical piece hinged on plans announced in 2014 by BBC Worldwide to build a BBC theme park on the Thames estuary, it was imagined that a BBC ‘hero’ – the comedian Russell Brand – should act as Lord High Executioner in despatching BBC ‘figures of hate’ such as Nigel Farage and other supporters of Brexit. December 15, …
David Keighley’s BBC Watch: Radio 4 still fights the last propaganda war against Brexit 17/08/2016
This item showed that in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 EU referendum, the BBC went flat out to project that the ‘yes’ vote had been a huge mistake. Their reports from what they dubbed ‘Brexit Street’ on Teesside were fake news of the worst kind and were designed to misrepresent and malign the views of those who voted to …
Daily Mail jumps on the BBC climate zealots’ bandwagon
HOW much further into the mire of hard-line prejudice can the MSM – particularly the BBC – go in its blatant, militant anti-scientific and anti-free-speech perversion of climate science? In Saturday’s Daily Mail, under the headline ‘Green fury as BBC tells kids climate change isn’t all bad’, reporter Jim Norton said the BBC had come under strong attack from climate alarmist zealots. …
The Buck Stops with you, Lord Hall 20/08/2018
In 2014, the BBC seriously breached the privacy of Sir Cliff Richard by filming a police raid on his home, and eventually (in summer 2018) were ordered by the High Court to pay the singer £1.9m in damages and court costs. This article argued that, despite the judgment, the BBC were still disgracefully arguing against it and that because of …
News-watch Survey of BBC Ideas – April 2021
In October 2020 News–watch began reviewing, cataloguing and fully transcribing all content published online by BBC Ideas. By the survey’s end, on the third anniversary of the service’s launch, 11 January 2021, this amounted to 599 individual films with a combined running time of 37 hours 13minutes, generating over 371,000 words of transcription.
Bashir wasn’t the first BBC royal interview scandal
DIGGING into the Martin Bashir affair for TCW has reminded me of another huge scandal about BBC integrity in 1985 in which I was centrally involved. It showed that then, as ten years later, nothing would stop senior BBC management from flagrantly breaking editorial guidelines if these got in their way. On that occasion it cost them a rumoured £750,000 in civil damages, equivalent …
Hall and Birt deny responsibility for Bashir fiasco
THE Lord Dyson report established that the BBC acted appallingly in its handling in 1995 of the interview of Princess Diana. Prince William reacted by stating that it showed his mother had been ‘deceived’ and asserted that ‘the ripple effect of (the BBC’s) culture of exploitation and unethical practices ultimately took her life’. He also said: ‘She was failed not …