BBC BIAS DIGEST 16 AUGUST 2020 BBC Digest | by David Keighley BBC1 ‘LESS POPULAR AS MAIN SOURCE OF NEWS”: Charlotte Tobitt (Press Gazette 15/8) reported that Ofcom’s annual news consumption survey…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 15 AUGUST 2020 BBC Digest | by David Keighley MUNCHETTY ‘WARNED FOR MOONLIGHTING’: Andy Halls (Sun 10/8) reported that BBC1 Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty – whose salary from the…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 14 AUGUST 2020 BBC Digest | by David Keighley BBC ‘NOWHERE NEAR’ ETHNIC MINORITY TARGETS: Katie Weston (Daily Mail 13/8) reported that June Sarpong, the BBC’s director of creative…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 13 AUGUST 2020 BBC Digest | by David Keighley BBC’S N-WORD APOLOGY ‘UNHINGED’: Tom Slater (Spiked! 12/8), commenting on the use of the ‘n’ word in a report about…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 11 AUGUST 2020 BBC Digest | by David Keighley ROBIN AITKEN: ‘BBC WILL PAY THE PRICE FOR FAILING TO TACKLE BIAS’: Author and former BBC journalist Robin Aitken, writing…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 10 AUGUST 2020 BBC Digest | by David Keighley BBC IS ‘PROMOTING DIVISIONS OVER RACE’: Calvin Robinson (Spiked! 10/8) observed that, despite clear evidence which showed that white ‘working-class…
BBC BIAS MEDIA DIGEST 9 AUGUST 2020 BBC Digest | by David Keighley ANDREW NEIL ‘LINED UP’ TO BECOME BBC CHAIRMAN: Steven Brown (Express 9/8) suggested that as part of a bridge building…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 8 AUGUST 2020 BBC Digest | by David Keighley CORRESPONDENT NICK BRYANT ‘BIASED AGAINST TRUMP’, RULES BBC: The BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit (6/8) upheld a complaint against BBC New York…
BBC Bias Digest 7 August 2020 BBC Digest | by David Keighley BBC ‘RECEIVES 18,000 COMPLAINTS OVER N-WORD’: Darren Boyle (Daily Mail 8/7) noted that the BBC had received 18,000 complaints over a…
BBC Bias Digest 6 August 2020 BBC Digest | by David Keighley BBC ‘THREATENS PENSIONERS WITH BAILIFFS’: Continuing coverage of the BBC’s decision to charge 4.5 million over-75s for their licence fees from…