The Dutch politician Geert Wilders and his Freedom political party (PVV) stir up strong sentiments. He is renowned for his stance that Islam in his country is responsible for major social divisions and has lead to the radicalisation of young Muslims to…
News-watch has written a paper for Civitas, the respected think-tank, that shows that the Prebble report into the BBC’s EU coverage ‘is not worth the paper it is written on’ and was not independent. The Times says that the Civitas paper demonstrates …
One of the problems of the BBC’s coverage of ‘withdrawal’ from the EU is that mostly, they don’t do it – but when they do deign to do so, it’s through a totally negative lens. The News-watch long-term survey of Today – which…
Jamie Angus was appointed editor of Radio 4’s flagship Today programme almost a year ago, in May 2013. Monitoring by Newswatch has shown that a highlight of his tenure to date is that the programme devoted 83 minutes to items…
An investigation into the background and claims of Stuart Prebble’s ‘Independent Assessment for the BBC Trust’
