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Lying about Farage? At the BBC, it’s par for the course

BBC Bias, Newsnight, Nigel Farage | by David Keighley

AS Marvin Burnell adroitly chronicled here on Thursday, when Nigel Farage told the outside world that he had been appallingly ‘debanked’ by Coutts, the BBC did not even report the story for five days. They then carried a report on the affair which amounted…

The BBC witch-finders are coming for YOU

BBC Bias, BBC Verify, Climate Change, Covid-19 | by David Keighley

THE BBC has crashed to new lows of bias. Director-General Tim Davie, who assumed office three years ago in September, set as his priority the restoration of impartiality. But in the past few months he has presided over a huge campaign…

News-watch Survey of BBC ECU Rulings

News-Watch Reports | by Andrew

A new detailed survey conducted by News-watch of the BBC First complaints handling process shows that the procedure is unfit for purpose. It expands on the submission made by News-watch to the DCMS at the invitation of then Secretary of…

Don’t worry, Huw, your £410,000 BBC salary is safe

BBC Expenditure | by David Keighley

A FRONT-PAGE headline in the Mail on Sunday claiming that highly paid BBC presenters including newsreaders Huw Edwards and Sophie Raworth and Today presenter Nick Robinson have received ‘shock’ redundancy letters fleetingly raised hopes that the Corporation – at last! – is being cut down…

BBC shrugs off report from the echo chamber

BBC Bias, Thematic Reviews | by David Keighley

A MUCH-trumpeted BBC-ordered report into the Corporation’s coverage of economics by erstwhile BBC presenters Andrew Dilnot and Michael Blastland – who, it is said, are economic ‘experts’ – has been published after almost a year in gestation. The 50-page document was commissioned as…

News-watch Supplementary Submission to DCMS Mid-term Review, September 2022

News-Watch Reports | by Andrew

News-watch Submission to DCMS Mid-term Review, July 2022

News-Watch Reports | by Andrew

The BBC at 100: Leading the push for totalitarianism

BBC Bias, BBC Centenary | by David Keighley

As the BBC marks its centenary, how is ‘Auntie’? Not the benign figure the Corporation likes to portray, but perhaps more like Peter Sellers’s chilling comic creation Auntie Rotter? As Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries appeared to be preparing the old girl for…

The BBC’s 100 years of glory – by its hired historian

BBC Bias, BBC History | by David Keighley

How sinisterly Orwellian is the BBC at projecting and protecting its own image? The BBC: A People’s History, a Corporation-commissioned book marking its 100th anniversary on October 18, provides abundant clues. Investigations reveal that the Corporation, chillingly echoing Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, has maintained…

The BBC, skewered through its rotten core

BBC Bias, BBC History | by David Keighley

Few readers of News-watch will need convincing that the BBC is biased. The Corporation’s track record of hating Britain and its values in a helter-skelter quest for ‘diversity’, and as a political campaigner against conservative values and in favour of liberal-left causes…

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