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, …
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 …
BBC Bias Digest 1 August 2020
BBC SLAMMED FROM WITHIN FOR USE OF ‘N-WORD’: The Daily Telegraph (£ 31/7) reported that the use by BBC social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin of the n-word an item broadcast on the BBC News Channel had come under fire from the BBC’s gender and identity correspondent, Megha Mohan, who had stated: “By not saying the N-word, you send a clear …
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 …
BBC Bias Digest 24 July
PANORAMA PPE PROGRAMME ‘BREACHED EDITORIAL STANDARDS’: A report in the Daily Mail (24/7), said that the BBC,, having initially defended an edition of BBC One’s Panorama programme about the provision of personal protection equipment (PPE) by the NHS, had now admitted that it had breached editorial guidelines. The ruling, by the Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU), was that the programme, called …
Radio 4 Feedback programme mocks Brexit supporters
This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? Whatever reservations some of us might have about Samira Ahmed’s Newswatch and its usefulness (though I’m glad it exists and that it’s to the credit that the BBC broadcasts it), I really don’t think it can be credibly denied that its teeth are a heck of lot sharper …
BBC Chiefs defend anti-Brexit ‘balance’
Two very senior voices from within the BBC bubble – David Jordan, the BBC’s director of editorial policy and standards, and Ric Bailey, the BBC’s chief political adviser – have penned a rare and important joint piece for a somewhat out-of-the-way pro-public-broadcasting media site called journalism.co.uk headlined Impartiality and the BBC – ‘broad balance’ in a two-horse race. It concerns the BBC’s …
BBC SPINS FRUIT FARMS MIGRANT LABOUR ’SHORTAGE’
This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? A couple of mornings ago Today sent a reporter to a fruit farm in Godalming and brought back a large punnet of Brexit-related gloom. Nick Robinson introduced the report with these words: Zoe Conway’s report included various hard-working, efficient migrant workers (as she portrayed them) worried about …