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

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…

BBC Digest 22 July 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

LABOUR PARTY PAYS ‘SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES’ TO BBC PRESENTER’: A report in the UK Press Gazette (22/7) said that the Labour party had paid substantial defamation damages to John Ware, the veteran BBC Panorama presenter’, over an edition of the programme…

BBC Digest 21 July 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

BBC PRESENTER ‘SAVAGED’ OVER LICENCE FEE CLAIMS: The BBC’s Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty – paid £190,000 a year by the Corporation – had been savaged by viewers after saying that the BBC licence fee was ‘worth it’ to ensure that…

BBC Bias Digest 20 July 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

NEWSWATCH COMPLAINT: ‘BBC HAS FAILED BRITAIN’: David Maddox (Express 19/7) said that the media monitoring organisation News-watch had accused – in a complaint to Ofcom – the BBC of ‘systematic failure’ to comply with its charter obligations of impartiality over…

BBC Bias Digest 19 July 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

TORY MPs: ‘AXING OVER-75 FREE LICENCE FEES IS KICK IN THE TEETH’: The Blue Collar Conservative group of 66 MPs had written to BBC Director General Tony Hall to demand a re-think on the decision to charge over-75s for their…

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