A RULING by the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) about numerous aspects of BBC climate change coverage in response to a complaint submitted by News-watch confirms with chilling detachment and arrogance that the Corporation is locked in biased denialism of the worst, dogmatic kind.
They have determined that because the United Nations, governments round the world and their agencies such as the Met Office and Nasa in the US, along with NGOs, believe in the snake oil of climate alarmism, the BBC will only ever cover the topic through that lens.
As part of last week’s curt one-page dismissal of the complaint, ECU Head Fraser Steel, speaking on behalf of Director General Tim Davie, even ruled that the BBC’s brand of climate change alarmism and support for Net Zero was ‘not a matter of political controversy in the UK’.
Tell that to oilrig employees in the North Sea who fear for their jobs because of Ed Miliband’s eco-fascism. Or pensioners who will freeze to death this winter because of rocketing fuel bills triggered by cruel renewables policies.
Readers of TCW Defending Freedom and News-watch are well aware of the BBC’s outrageous bias in this domain through the work of Paul Homewood and others, as well as blogs over many years from News-watch itself, but this latest reply represents a new level of stonewall totalitarianism.
The comprehensive News-watch complaint was originally submitted to Ofcom in October last year on the ground that the BBC’s climate change was so biased that it was a matter of major national importance. Ofcom, in its usual sloth-like handling of complaints from people and organisations it does not like, decided in February that it was not of urgent national importance and said it could be handled by the BBC.
There is no appeal against this BBC decision, and so News-watch is now appealing to Ofcom to review the ECU decision. Rejection is almost inevitable because in almost six years of being the appeals body Ofcom has ruled against the BBC in only a tiny handful of cases. Until the BBC is no longer its own judge and jury in the handling of impartiality complaints and these are instead handled independently, the saga underlines yet again that the BBC is impervious to criticism and has free rein in pursuing its own political agendas in the left-wing/woke arena.
News-watch is campaigning relentlessly to ensure that the new BBC Charter makes the Corporation genuinely independently accountable, or loses its licence fee funding. What are the chances of change under Labour as the new Charter negotiations begin imminently? The work must go on.