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30 March 2026

BBC Bias Digest 12 July 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley
BBC LICENCE FEE PAYMENT ’TO BE DECRIMINALISED’: David Maddox (Sunday Express 12/7) said that, following a public consultation announced earlier this year, government sources – said to include ‘a minister’ –  were suggesting that payment of the BBC licence fee…

BBC Bias Digest 10 July 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley
BBC ‘FORCES OVER-75s TO PAY LICENCE FEE’:  According to Breitbart London, the BBC had announced it would scrap fee licence fees for the over-75s from August 1, thus boosting its income by £472.5 million a year. The article noted that…

BBC Bias Digest 9 July 2020

BBC Digest | by David Keighley
BBC ‘SOWS HATE: Academic David Sedgwick, whose latest book about the BBC is called ‘The Fake News Factory’,   claims that the Corporation , which sees itself as a ‘national unifier’, is actually more concerned with sowing dissension and hatred in…
Deluded BBC’s mission to mislead

Deluded BBC’s mission to mislead

BBC Bias | by David Keighley
New BBC director general Tim Davie, who cut his professional teeth marketing Pepsi-Cola, was appointed last week to head a £5billion-a-year media empire with a guaranteed income and a news operation which is the largest of its kind in the…
BBC: licence fee is sacrosanct

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,…