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General Election Report – December 2019

News-watch monitored Radio 4’s Today programme in full from the dissolution of Parliament on Wednesday 6 November until the eve of polling on Wednesday 11 December 2019, an interval of five weeks and one day. This coincided with the period…

BBC: licence fee is sacrosanct

Licence Fee | by David Keighley

The BBC has issued a robust defence of the BBC licence fee as virtually perfect, and argues that it should continue indefinitely, or be replaced by a universal tax on broadband services. The document states that the BBC is massively loved,…

Justice closes its eyes to BBC bias

BBC Bias, News-watch | by Kathy Gyngell

It is very disappointing to have to report that three judges (two in the High Court, one in the Court of Appeal) have thwarted David Keighley’s application for judicial review to challenge the impartiality of the BBC. Very frustratingly, they…

European Election Survey – Summer 2019

News-Watch Reports | by Andrew

News-watch monitored all editions of Today over a seven week interval, starting on the day campaigning for the 2019 European Parliamentary Elections began, Friday 12 April 2019 and culminating on Thursday 30 May 2019, a week after the UK vote.…

Shock news: BBC-dominated Ofcom backs the BBC

BBC Bias, Ofcom | by David Keighley

The 2017 BBC Charter bestowed for the first time supervisory regulatory powers on Ofcom, which had previously been in charge of only the independent sector. Its first review of BBC news and current affairs performance shows that this has achieved…

BBC censures presenters – but not very much

BBC Bias, BBC Complaints Process | by David Keighley

Two rulings have been made in the past ten days by the BBC’s editorial complaints unit (ECU) against Corporation presenters. Both the offending broadcasts, one an attack on Donald Trump, the other the ‘sneering’ handling of an interview with Rod…

Humphrys ‘was biased in handling of EU issues’

BBC Bias, Today Programme | by David Keighley

Kathy Gyngell clearly highlighted on The Conservative Woman blog yesterday the hypocrisy of John Humphrys revealed in his forthcoming memoirs, being serialised in the Daily Mail. Today she discusses further evidence of his double standards, this time over the Iraq…