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17 December 2018

BBC pushes ‘Fake News’ Brexit fears

BBC pushes ‘Fake News’ Brexit fears

BBC Bias, Today Programme | by David Keighley

BBC Director General Lord Hall of Birkenhead has declared that the Corporation is on a mission to counter fake news. He publicly announced this back in the summer at the Prospect annual conference – the day before the white-collar trades…

BBC Brexit negativity hits new low with Peter Lilley ‘reality check’ ambush

BBC Brexit negativity hits new low with Peter Lilley ‘reality check’ ambush

BBC Bias, Brexit, Reality Check, Today Programme | by David Keighley

The BBC’s visceral negativity towards Brexit was displayed on Monday in an extraordinary attempted ambush by Today presenter John Humphrys and the BBC’s ‘reality check’ correspondent Chris Morris. The intended victim of this double onslaught was Peter Lilley, now Lord…

BBC Bias: Pantomime villains poisoned the UK-EU relationship

BBC Bias: Pantomime villains poisoned the UK-EU relationship

BBC Bias, World at One | by David Keighley

BBC bias seems to be sinking to new depths each week. It has become an advanced case of infestation by deathwatch beetle. The question is not any more, ‘is it biased?’ but rather, ‘what is not?’ Take Doctor Who on…

News-watch Survey – Radio 4’s ‘Brexit: A Love Story?’

News-Watch Reports | by Andrew

News-watch monitored and analysed all thirteen editions of ‘Brexit: A Love Story?’, broadcast between March and September 2018 as part of Radio 4’s lunchtime news and current affairs programme, The World at One. The series was also made available as…

Can Podcasts Save Radio 4 Today?

Can Podcasts Save Radio 4 Today?

BBC Bias, Today Programme | by David Keighley

The BBC Radio 4 Today programme is in dire trouble. It is haemorrhaging listeners and, according to latest reports, more than one million have deserted over the past year, bringing the weekly audience down to 6.7m. This should, of course,…

BBC climate alarmism: ‘never let the facts get in the way of a good scare story’

BBC climate alarmism: ‘never let the facts get in the way of a good scare story’

BBC Bias, Climate Change | by David Keighley

How idiotic has the advocacy of climate alarmism by the BBC become? Last month, as was reported on TCW, BBC News Director Fran Unsworth issued a formal directive stating, in effect, that alarmism is proven and cannot be challenged on…

John Simpson lambasts BBC licence fee payers for their bias

John Simpson lambasts BBC licence fee payers for their bias

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

John Simpson, the BBC’s veteran and rather pompous world affairs editor – who can forget his claims of liberating Kabul in 2001? – has been sounding off in Radio Times. The full article can be read here. His scatter-gun target?…

Still blustering over Sir Cliff: The BBC’s arrogance knows no bounds

Still blustering over Sir Cliff: The BBC’s arrogance knows no bounds

BBC Bias | by Kathy Gyngell

This is a guest post by Kathy Gyngell, from The Conservative Woman We have chronicled the saga of the BBC’s gross and inept intrusion into Sir Cliff Richard’s privacy from day one on TCW. In July Mr Justice Mann vindicated…

News-watch Survey – Britain at the Crossroads

News-Watch Reports | by Andrew

On March 29, 2018 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a day of programmes about Brexit designed to reflect the issues involved one year before the EU departure date. Eight separate programmes were involved: special editions of Today, The Long View (a…

BBC ‘hardline’ bias brackets Brexiteers with extremism

BBC ‘hardline’ bias brackets Brexiteers with extremism

BBC Bias, Brexit | by David Keighley

Craig Byers, of Is the BBC Biased, has astutely nailed down that the BBC’s use of ‘hardline’ in the EU debate is deeply slanted. The adjective, he spotted, was reserved especially for those who the Corporation perceived are most opposed…