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How the BBC conspired with open border activists to rig Question Time and ambush Reform

BBC Bias, Question Time | by David Keighley

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…

BBC admits Brexit bias – then attacks the critics who exposed it

BBC Bias, Brexit | by David Keighley

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…

Hamas critic sacked, Hamas fans get a slap on the wrist at two-tier BBC

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

THE BBC insists that its journalism is impartial. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph , former local radio reporter Sean McGinty’s treatment by the Corporation suggests that instead, impartiality has become a crude instrument of institutional discipline, applied most ferociously…

Government picks Net Zero ideologue as chair of Ofcom

Climate Change, Ofcom | by David Keighley

THERE is a huge and troubling paradox in the selection by the Government of Sir Ian Cheshire as preferred candidate to become chair of Ofcom. He has been presented as a safe pair of hands because he is a former chief…

A BBC Director General to take on Netflix but not to root out bias

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

THE post of Director General of the BBC has, over the past two decades, become a poisoned chalice. Greg Dyke was forced out in 2004 by editorial failings in coverage of the war in Iraq; George Entwhistle was disgraced by his mishandling…

Will Lisa Nandy take this golden opportunity to end BBC bias?

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

THE deadline for submissions to the Government’s consultation on the renewal of the BBC Charter has closed. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy must now find ways to purge the massive structural bias which has infected the Corporation for decades. What are the chances…

This ‘independent’ review entrenches BBC bias instead of rooting it out

BBC Bias, Diversity and Inclusion | by David Keighley

BBC thematic reviews were created by the Board of Management in the aftermath of the Serota Review (2021) into the catastrophic handling of the Princess Diana interview scandal. They were an attempt to restore transparency, impartiality and editorial integrity. The fourth thematic review,…

‘Dianarama’ – the conspiracy of deceit exposé that should sign the BBC’s death warrant

BBC Bias, Martin Bashir, Panorama | by David Keighley

THERE are moments when an institution’s mask slips so completely that it can never truly be put back on. Former BBC journalist Andy Webb’s scorching book Dianarama, published last week, is such a moment for the BBC. On top of the…

BBC judges itself over climate change bias. Guess the verdict!

BBC Bias, Climate Change | by David Keighley

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,…

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