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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…

Ofcom: Europhile content board head Bill Emmott ‘will not rule on EU issues’

EU Referendum, Ofcom | by Craig Byers

This is a guest posting from Craig Byers of the Is the BBC Biased? website. Further to an earlier post… Newswatch‘s David Keighley has received a statement from Ofcom in response to his post about the appointment of Bill…

BBC anti-Brexit rhetoric continues with alleged lies over ‘Norway option’

BBC Bias, EU Referendum | by David Keighley

Anti-Brexit group Britain Stronger in Europe has started its propaganda push with a £1.5m leaflet drop. It focuses – with hackneyed predictability – on threats that outside the Single Market, three million UK jobs will be at risk. News-watch research…

Ofcom appointment ‘threatens fair coverage of EU referendum debate’

BBC Bias, EU Referendum | by David Keighley

Opinion polls at the weekend gave the EU ‘out’ camp the edge. But it has now emerged that supporters of Brexit will be fighting the battle to win hearts and minds as the EU referendum approaches with their arms tied…

News-watch submission to the BBC’s EU Consultation on EU Referendum Editorial Guidelines 15.1.2016

BBC Bias, EU Referendum | by David Keighley

The BBC Trust recently embarked on an eight-week consultation on draft Editorial Guidelines for its coverage of the EU in/out referendum. This is News-watch’s submission. The proposed guidelines are here. Preamble News-watch has been monitoring the BBC’s EU-related output…

BBC Brexit programme shows strong pro-EU bias

BBC Bias, Withdrawalists | by David Keighley

With the campaigns to secure exit the EU now launched, the BBC knows its EU coverage is under unprecedented scrutiny. Before Christmas, Rona Fairhead, the BBC Trust chairman, appeared before the Commons European Scrutiny Committee and swore blind that systems…

BBC lays down the law on climate alarm coverage

BBC Bias, BBC Chairman, Climate Change | by David Keighley

Outrageous. That is the only way to describe respectably the latest impartiality ruling by the BBC Trust. This band of climate change crusaders – led by the Trust’s Richard Ayre, chair of the Editorial Standards Committee (ESC) – have ruled…

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