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An end to BBC bias? Don’t count on it

The Bashir affair has brought into sharp focus again that BBC journalism is not fair and impartial, as its Charter requires. But after decades of bias in BBC reporting of the EU, what are the chances of genuine change? Much…

BBC Ideas: an extravaganza of bias

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

News-watch has completed its biggest-ever survey into BBC output. It is utterly damning. The focus is BBC Ideas, a group of 600 or so short factual videos for ‘curious minds’ aimed at 18-45 year olds. The project – launched in 2018 – is the brainchild…

Window-dresser Davie’s bogus BBC revolution

BBC Bias, BBC Director General | by David Keighley

Tim Davie, the BBC director general, has been in his post for six months, and on Thursday he delivered to staff his second raft of big ideas for reform. His first proposal, in his first week of office in September,…

BBC BIAS DIGEST 3 JANUARY, 2021

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

BBC ‘LAUNCHES BITTER LAST-MINUTE ANTI-BREXIT ONSLAUGHT’: Chris Hastings (Mail 3/1) said that BBC broadcasters and presenters had launched ‘ a bitter last-ditch onslaught against Brexit in the New Year schedules. He added that the UK’s departure from the EU on…

BBC BIAS DIGEST 2 JANUARY, 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

‘ALMOST HALF OF BRITONS DON’T TRUST BBC’: A report in the Times (£ 2/1) said that, according to a YouGov poll, almost half of Britons thought the BBC no longer represented their values amid declining levels of trust in the…

BBC BIAS DIGEST 20 DECEMBER 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

“MAJORITY OBJECT TO BBC LICENCE FEE’: Glen Owen (Mail 20/12) reported that 40% of those questioned in a poll commissioned by the Defund the BBC Campaign wanted the abolition of the BBC licence fee, compares to 37% who supported the…

BBC BIAS DIGEST 13 DECEMBER 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

SURVEY FINDS 74 PERCENT OF BBC COMEDY IS BIASED TO LEFT: Christopher Hope (£ Telegraph 13/12) said that the BBC had been accused of ‘flagrant bias’, after a survey of comedy output during November (available here) had found that 74…

BBC BIAS DIGEST 9 DECEMBER 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

BBC INSERT ‘FINGER-WAGGING PREJUDICE’ INTO VICAR OF DIBLEY: Allison Pearson (£ Telegraph 9/12), noting that the eponymous character played by actress Dawn French in BBC1’s comedy series The Vicar of Dibley would ‘take the knee’ – in line with Black…

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

BASHIR ACCUSED OF ‘DESPICABLE’ CONDUCT: Sam Greenhill (Mail 2/12) reported that the BBC’s journalist Martin Bashir – who had conducted the corporation’s 1995 Panorama interview of Princess Diana – had been accused of being ‘despicable’ in the way he behaved…

BBC BIAS DIGEST 1 DECEMBER 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

BBC ‘PRE-JUDGES DIANA INQUIRY’: Robert Mendick (£ Telegraph 1/12) reported that the BBC had been accused of pre-judging the outcome of its inquiry by retired judge Lord Dyson into the circumstances surrounding the 1995 interview of Princess Diana by Martin…

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