Ultimate Bias?
BBC reform, like so many other issues, has been pushed off the agenda by the referendum hullaballoo. But sorting out BBC bias as the Brexit process gets underway is surely an urgent and major priority for the new May government…
Radio 4’s Food Programme unleashes tsunami of anti-Brexit opinion
BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme (July 3) set a new BBC high in the relentless scare-mongering about Brexit. The ringmaster was Dan Saladino. He presented, in effect, a half-hour rant against what he projected as is one of the most…
Newsnight uses poll to push ‘remain’
At the beginning of Newsnight on Friday night was a poll by Ipsos Mori about alleged post-vote attitudes to the EU referendum. Presenter James O’Brien said that 56% of leavers and 76% of remainers thought negotiations would not yield a…
BBC CONTINUES PROJECT FEAR OVER EU SCIENCE
On yesterday’s Today programme, Sarah Montague spoke to BBC science editor Tom Feilden about what Brexit would mean to the scientific community. She said the scientific community was not exactly unified but there was ‘very overwhelming support’ for the EU,…
Craig Byers: Mardell anti-Brexit bias continues
This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? Mark Mardell’s latest website article in the wake of the Brexit vote focuses on “society’s sharp divides”. It’s classic MM, in that it doubtless believes itself to…
The gloves are off in BBC’s fight against Brexit
Many – including the writers of a Daily Mail editorial and the Mail on Sunday’s columnist Peter Hitchens – claimed that the BBC had changed its spots during the EU referendum campaign, and was bringing impartial coverage. Clearly, there was…
Referendum Blog: June 27
BBC CONTINUES ‘PROJECT FEAR’: How is the BBC going to report Brexit? The early signs are not good. News-watch, via its sister BBC Complaints website, has been inundated with submissions – many more than during the referendum campaign itself –…
“Jo Cox (a few days later)”
Guest post from Sue, of Is the BBC Biased? “Many of our young women don’t feel safe on the street.” Who said such a thing? Nigel Farage, projecting a post Remain, Cologne-like future? Nah. It was Jo Cox, in a…
Referendum Blog: June 22
COX BIAS: The lead posting on News-watch about Nigel Farage demonstrates that since the murder of Jo Cox, much BBC coverage has emphasised that those who are opposed to the EU because of related immigration pressures are fired by ‘hatred’. …
BBC attacks on Farage continue as campaign nears end
Last week in BBC Watch, it was noted that as referendum polling day fast approached, that in 17 years of monitoring the BBC’s coverage of the EU, one factor had scarcely changed: the casting of Nigel Farage and the party…