The Harlow Killing: BBC Reporting and the Subsequent Evidence A documented comparison between the BBC’s initial framing of the killing of Arkadiusz Jóźwik as a possible post-Brexit hate crime and its later acknowledgement that the evidence did not support that interpretation.Document typeBroadcast Case StudyPublished2016-17Extent24-page correspondence dossier and broadcast transcripts · PDFAuthorDavid Keighley and Andrew JubbRead the CorrespondenceVIEW Broadcast Comparison ↓[ …
Lying about Farage? At the BBC, it’s par for the course
AS Marvin Burnell adroitly chronicled here on Thursday, when Nigel Farage told the outside world that he had been appallingly ‘debanked’ by Coutts, the BBC did not even report the story for five days. They then carried a report on the affair which amounted to what looks like a huge untruth: that his account had been terminated because he did not have enough money to …
Bias Archive 2014-21
Welcome to a brand new News-watch feature – an archive of more than 200 blogs (running to 200,000 words!) written by News-watch MD David Keighley since 2014. All were first published on The Conservative Woman website, and they appear here with kind permission of Kathy Gyngell, who founded the site. Each of the blogs highlight separate items of BBC …
Talk Radio’s Julia Hartley Brewer slams BBC post-Brexit bias
Transcript of Talk Radio, Julia Hartley-Brewer interview with David Keighley, News-watch, 13 September 2017, 12.03pm JULIA HARTLEY-BREWER: First up, a fascinating story that I wanted to get to, because it was something that did concern me at the time, this is something that went back all the way to the end of August last year, a couple of months, of …
BBC’s Harlow ‘Brexit race hate’ claims debunked
On August 31 last year, the £1billion taxpayer-funded BBC news machine went into what can only be described as incontinent anti-Brexit overdrive in response to the killing of a Polish man in Essex. This, its headlines declared, was being regarded as a race hate killing triggered by the Brexit vote two months earlier. It emerged on Friday at the final …
BBC Trust defends Corporation’s Harlow ‘race hate’ sensationalism
The killing last August of a well-liked Polish man, ‘Arek’ Jóźwik, after a late night fracas in a pizza parlour in Harlow sent the BBC newsgathering operation into overdrive. It was the end of the silly season and only ten weeks after the referendum. The BBC, of course, was then, as now, hell-bent on finding and giving maximum exposure to …
Confirmed: BBC complaints process is unfit for purpose
At the heart of the BBC’s reform under its new Charter – due to come into effect imminently – is that for the first time, an outside body, Ofcom, will become the final court of appeal in complaints about impartiality. The idea is that this will clean the Augean stables and the Corporation will end its rampant bias towards Brexit, …
BBC News Chief James Harding shows anti-Brexit bias
James Harding, the BBC’s Director of News, has fired a broadside against those poor, misguided souls who have dared to think that the BBC’s coverage of the referendum and its aftermath have been out of kilter. His chosen medium for this homily? Why, where else but that neutral newspaper so loved by the BBC – The Guardian? For those not …
BBC continues to push Brexit race hate line
Photo of Gary Younge by boellstiftung So what is it that the BBC is trying to prove about Brexit? It looks increasingly that, as the dust settles on the referendum result, they are mounting an all-out campaign to find evidence to support the Corporation’s long-held belief that the who support ‘out’ are motivated by xenophobia and racism. Last week, on …
BBC push Farage race-hate ‘ blood on hands’ post-Brexit claims
BBC programmes have given a platform for claims that Nigel Farage has ‘blood on his hands’ for Harlow killing – despite local police warning against ‘jumping to conclusions’ about a ‘race hate’ angle. In Harlow, six teenagers have been arrested and bailed on suspicion of killing a 40-year-old Polish man who was mortally injured in attack in the town centre on …