Today Podcasts and Editorial Context A News-watch survey examining how BBC Radio 4’s Today programme selected and repackaged broadcast interviews for its podcast service, and what was lost when items were removed from their original editorial context.Document typeMonitoring SurveyPublished9 December 2005Extent29 pages · PDFAuthorAndrew JubbRead the Full SurveyVIEW KEY FINDINGS ↓[ OVERVIEW ]The BBC began podcasting Today’s principal 8.10am interview …
Five Years of BBC Coverage of the European Union
An Outbreak of Narcolepsy? Published by the Centre for Policy Studies, this paper draws together five years of Minotaur Media Tracking research into the prominence, framing and range of viewpoints in the BBC’s coverage of the European Union.Document typeResearch PaperPublishedMarch 2004Extent29 pages · PDFAuthorKathy Gyngell and David KeighleyRead the Full PAPERRead the METHODOLOGY→[ OVERVIEW ]This paper brought together evidence from …
Continuous Monitoring of BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, 2002–03
BBC Radio 4 Today: Continuous Monitoring, 2002–03 A continuous monitoring project examining BBC Radio 4’s Today programme across 2002 and 2003, with 47 weeks of output recorded and 45 weeks included in the published analysis.Document typeLongitudinal Monitoring ProjectPublished2002–03Extent6 reports · PDFAuthorMinotaur Media TrackingRead part oneVIEW ALL SIX REPORTS ↓[ OVERVIEW ]This project extended News-watch’s monitoring from individual election periods into …
Reporting the 1999 European Parliamentary Elections
The 1999 European Parliamentary Election Survey A detailed survey of more than 600 hours of television and radio coverage, examining how the 1999 European Parliamentary elections were reported and which political perspectives reached the audience.Document typeMonitoring SurveyPublishedJune 1999Extent42 pages · PDFAuthorMinotaur Media TrackingRead the Full SurveyRead the SUMMARY →[ OVERVIEW ]This survey examined how the 1999 European Parliamentary elections were …
Everything Is Fake (and Nobody Cares): The Complaint Record
News-watch’s complaint about episode five of BBC Radio 4’s Everything Is Fake (and Nobody Cares) examined the programme’s treatment of contested claims about Covid vaccination. The resulting correspondence and regulatory submission raise questions of accuracy, due impartiality and the handling of evidence by the BBC complaints system.
The BBC’s Trump Offensive May Backfire
The latest Telegraph report on Donald Trump’s $10 billion dollar defamation action against the BBC presents the Corporation as moving decisively onto the offensive. It is seeking access to Trump’s private communications and to material gathered by Jack Smith, the former US Special Counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump’s actions surrounding the 2020 election and the alleged attack on the Capitol …
News-watch Survey – Radio 4, Politically: Ten Years After Brexit
A detailed impartiality survey of BBC Radio 4’s ten-part series Politically: Ten Years After Brexit. News-watch examined contributor balance, disclosure and labelling, the treatment of competing arguments, and the presenter’s own role in framing the series.
Labour’s sinister Ministry of Truth is a step on the road to dictatorship
THE gauleiters of this deeply inept and sinister Labour government are now pushing for legislation which could become the biggest threat to free speech in this country’s modern history. Their target is the public square. Their weapon is the news feed. Their excuse is ‘trusted news’. Among the final utterances of failed Prime Minster Sir Keir Starmer is that Labour …
How the BBC conspired with open border activists to rig Question Time and ambush Reform
SMALL-boat migrants to the UK who confronted Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf on a BBC1 Question Time immigration special late last year were placed there by pro-immigration campaigners. That is the devastating central finding of a Daily Telegraph investigation: the Corporation’s flagship current affairs programme, which is supposed to reflect public opinion, was rigged. In the audience were two asylum seekers who vociferously challenged Yusuf, then …
BBC admits Brexit bias – then attacks the critics who exposed it
FOR the first time in News-watch’s 27 years of monitoring the BBC, the Corporation has partially upheld a complaint about EU-Brexit coverage. ‘Partially’ is crucial in showing the contortionist nature of its accountability. The BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) accepted that flagship Radio 4 Today programme breached impartiality by presenting the case for closer alignment with the European Union without acknowledging the opposing …