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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…

When will Team Boris wake up to BBC bias?

2019 European Election, BBC Bias, Today Programme | by David Keighley

ACCORDING to weekend press reports, Boris Johnson’s director of communications Lee Cain has had a lightbulb moment. He has told Downing Street staff that appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme is a ‘waste of time’. Well, golly gosh. An…

Appeal: Help us stop BBC bias!

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

Act now! A £30,000 crowd-funding appeal is being launched today in an effort to #stopBBCbias. All donations gratefully received! Details of how to contribute are below. For 20 years – since the European elections of 1999 – News-watch has been…

BBC Push European Elections Remain ‘Victory’ Claim

2019 European Election, BBC Bias, UKIP | by David Keighley

How very predictable. The BBC have never treated Nigel Farage or his core message seriously. During the European elections of 1999, when he was spokesman for the fledgling UKIP, they virtually ignored the party’s plans for withdrawal and gave far…

BBC stone-walls Mark Mardell EU history bias

BBC Bias, Brexit | by David Keighley

On March 29 last year, one year before non-Brexit day, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a day-long series of programmes called Britain at the Crossroads which the Corporation’s PR hype said was designed to examine the steps towards Brexit. At its…

News-watch Survey – The ‘Meaningful Vote’, January 2019

News-Watch Reports | by Andrew

News-watch monitored and logged three complete editions of Today between 14 and 16 January, to coincide with the ‘meaningful vote’ scheduled in the House of Commons on the evening of 15 January. All reports pertaining to Brexit, the European Union…

News-watch Survey – Salzburg and Brussels European Councils, Autumn 2018

News-Watch Reports | by Andrew

News-watch monitored and logged every edition of Today between 17 September and 20 October, a period of five weeks or 30 editions. Detailed monitoring was undertaken for the weeks of the European Council meeting in Salzburg (17-22 September) and the…

OFCOM BBC BIAS WHITEWASH

BBC Bias, Ofcom | by David Keighley

In its first major ruling on BBC impartiality, media and telecoms regulator Ofcom – which became BBC complaints watchdog under the new 2017 BBC Charter – has starkly rejected any suggestion of bias in the Corporation’s news and current affairs…

BBC pushes ‘Fake News’ Brexit fears

BBC Bias, Today Programme | by David Keighley

BBC Director General Lord Hall of Birkenhead has declared that the Corporation is on a mission to counter fake news. He publicly announced this back in the summer at the Prospect annual conference – the day before the white-collar trades…

BBC Brexit negativity hits new low with Peter Lilley ‘reality check’ ambush

BBC Bias, Brexit, Reality Check, Today Programme | by David Keighley

The BBC’s visceral negativity towards Brexit was displayed on Monday in an extraordinary attempted ambush by Today presenter John Humphrys and the BBC’s ‘reality check’ correspondent Chris Morris. The intended victim of this double onslaught was Peter Lilley, now Lord…

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