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News-watch Launches EU Referendum Blog

This new service will track on a regular basis programme items that seem to be biased towards the pro-EU side. The observations are not the result of detailed analysis. Rather, they are pointers based on News-watch’s experience in tracking the…

BBC Environment programme flouts BBC impartiality rules

EU Referendum | by David Keighley

Costing the Earth; The Environment after Exit (BBC Radio 4 March 15 and 16) h/t Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? The programme, presented by Tom Heap, investigated the current impact on the UK of EU-related policies affecting conservation,…

Analysis of Newsnight reveals strong imbalance against Brexit case

BBC Bias, EU Referendum, Newsnight | by David Keighley

News-watch has completed preliminary research on 40 editions of Newsnight between January 13 and March 11 based on the full transcription and analysis of the relevant parts of each programme. Daily news and current affairs programmes such as Newsnight are…

Kate Hoey welcomes new BBC complaints website

2015 General Election, BBC Bias, News-watch | by David Keighley

A new website, BBC Complaints – www.bbccomplaints.com – has been launched by News-watch. Its purpose is to help hold the BBC to account: to ensure that, as is required by law (expressed in its Charter and Public Purposes), it is…

General Election Survey – Summer 2015

News-Watch Reports | by Andrew

News-watch monitored four BBC programmes between March 30 and May 10, 2015. The programmes were: Today and The World at One on BBC Radio 4, BBC1’s News at Ten, and BBC2’s Newsnight.

Charter Renewal Review Fails to Tackle BBC Bias

BBC Bias, BBC Trust, Ofcom | by David Keighley

Former deputy governor of the Bank of England Sir David Clementi’s review of BBC governance as part of BBC Charter renewal looks impressive at first glance – but he has badly misunderstood what is required. What he proposes will leave…

Bridgen putdown underlines rot at heart of BBC complaints process

BBC Bias, BBC Complaints Process, EU Referendum | by David Keighley

As the crucial referendum vote looms, how DO you complain about the BBC? The reality is that the Corporation is its own judge and jury in dealing with complaints and has neatly-honed putdowns for almost every eventuality. The odds are…

BBC referendum coverage flunks early impartiality test

BBC Bias, EU Referendum | by David Keighley

At the heart of David Cameron’s renegotiation claim is something deeply contentious and what many believe to be a bare-faced lie: that he has secured for Britain an unqualified opt-out from the ‘ever closure union’ ratchet clause in the treaties…

Commons media select committee misses the elephant in the room

BBC Bias, BBC Trust, Ofcom | by David Keighley

The Commons Culture, Media and Sport select committee has spent six months considering reform of the BBC in connection with the imminent renewal of its Royal Charter. Its report – published last week with little fanfare – contains some half-decent…

Evan Davis: helping to spread the pro-EU message?

BBC Bias | by Craig Byers

(This article was first published by Is the BBC biased?) If you were wondering where the BBC’s Evan Davis was on Saturday (and why wouldn’t you be?), well he was in Paris at a conference for UK school children (sixth…

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