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BBC Bias Digest 30 July 2020

OFCOM SURVEY FINDS “MORAL DISLIKE” OF THE BBC AMONGST YOUNG: Craig Simpson, Daily Telegraph (£ 30/7), said that a report from Ofcom had found that younger audiences ‘are flocking to streaming services like Netflix to find shows with a “talkability…

BBC Bias Digest 29 July 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

BBC AXES AFTERNOON NEWSROUND AFTER 48 YEARS: Joe Kasper (Sun 29/7) said the BBC was axing its afternoon live television edition of the children’s news service Newsround – shown currently on kids’ service CBBC , but formerly on BBC One…

BBC Bias Digest 28 July 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

SKY ARTS ‘TO FILL GAP LEFT BY BBC CUTS’: Luke May (Daily Mail 28/7) reported that satellite broadcaster Sky had decided make its dedicated arts channel available from September on the Freeview platform with no extra charge because cuts on…

BBC Bias Digest 27 July 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

BBC ‘FINALLY ADMITS’ PANORAMA BREACH: Guido Fawkes (27/7) said that the BBC had finally admitted – after receiving 800 complaints – that its April Panorama programme ‘Has the Government Failed the NHS’ had breached editorial standards by not labelling one…

Craig Byers: Supporters of BBC becoming campaigning organisation ‘are winning’

BBC Bias | by Craig Byers

This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? If you subscribe to it, you may well have read former Head of BBC Television News Roger Mosey’s interesting piece in The Sunday Times last week where he claimed that there’s…

Tom Mangold: BBC’s embrace of woke culture is ‘fatal act of self-harm’

BBC Bias | by Craig Byers

This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? Tom Mangold’s Mail on Sunday piece headlined “I fear that my beloved BBC’s bizarre obsession with a toxic culture of wokeness will end as a fatal act of self-harm” ought…

BBC Bias Digest 26 July 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

BBC VETERAN ATTACKS ‘SPITEFUL AND VENOMOUS’ REPORT ABOUT CHURCHILL: Writing in the Mail on Sunday (26/7), veteran BBC investigative reporter Tom Mangold – who joined the Corporation in 1964 – expressed ‘sadness’ at the BBC, provoked by watching ‘for the…

BBC Bias Digest 24 July

BBC Digest | by Craig Byers

PANORAMA PPE PROGRAMME ‘BREACHED EDITORIAL STANDARDS’: A report in the Daily Mail (24/7), said that the BBC,, having initially defended an edition of BBC One’s Panorama programme about the provision of personal protection equipment (PPE) by the NHS, had now…

News-watch Launches BBC Bias Digest

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

BBC Bias Digest is now a key, regularly updated feature of the News-watch website, and a central focus of our efforts. To try and hold the BBC to account in the public interest To facilitate reform in its governance. Each…

BBC Bias Digest 23 July 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

BBC ‘WRONGLY BLAMES CHURCHILL FOR INDIA FAMINE’: Writing for The Critic magazine (21/7), Christopher Howarth accused the BBC, ‘the most powerful megaphone in the land today’, of airing ‘a one-sided attack’ on Winston Churchill. He wrote that a feature, by…

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