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David Keighley’s BBC Watch: Radio 4 still fights the last propaganda war against Brexit 17/08/2016

This item showed that in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 EU referendum, the BBC went flat out to project that the ‘yes’ vote had been a huge mistake. Their reports from what they dubbed ‘Brexit Street’ on Teesside were…

Daily Mail jumps on the BBC climate zealots’ bandwagon

BBC Bias, Climate Change | by David Keighley

HOW much further into the mire of hard-line prejudice can the MSM – particularly the BBC – go in its blatant, militant anti-scientific and anti-free-speech perversion of climate science? In Saturday’s Daily Mail, under the headline ‘Green fury as BBC tells kids…

The Buck Stops with you, Lord Hall 20/08/2018

BBC Bias Archive | by David Keighley

In 2014, the BBC seriously breached the privacy of Sir Cliff Richard by filming a police raid on his home, and eventually (in summer 2018) were ordered by the High Court to pay the singer £1.9m in damages and court…

News-watch Survey of BBC Ideas – April 2021

News-Watch Reports | by Andrew

In October 2020 News–watch began reviewing, cataloguing and fully transcribing all content published online by BBC Ideas. By the survey’s end, on the third anniversary of the service’s launch, 11 January 2021, this amounted to 599 individual films with a…

Bashir wasn’t the first BBC royal interview scandal

BBC Bias, Martin Bashir | by David Keighley

DIGGING into the Martin Bashir affair for TCW has reminded me of another huge scandal about BBC integrity in 1985 in which I was centrally involved. It showed that then, as ten years later, nothing would stop senior BBC management from flagrantly breaking…

Hall and Birt deny responsibility for Bashir fiasco

BBC Director General, Martin Bashir, Panorama | by David Keighley

THE Lord Dyson report established that the BBC acted appallingly in its handling in 1995 of the interview of Princess Diana. Prince William reacted by stating that it showed his mother had been ‘deceived’ and asserted that ‘the ripple effect…

An end to BBC bias? Don’t count on it

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

The Bashir affair has brought into sharp focus again that BBC journalism is not fair and impartial, as its Charter requires. But after decades of bias in BBC reporting of the EU, what are the chances of genuine change? Much…

BBC Ideas: an extravaganza of bias

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

News-watch has completed its biggest-ever survey into BBC output. It is utterly damning. The focus is BBC Ideas, a group of 600 or so short factual videos for ‘curious minds’ aimed at 18-45 year olds. The project – launched in 2018 – is the brainchild…

Window-dresser Davie’s bogus BBC revolution

BBC Bias, BBC Director General | by David Keighley

Tim Davie, the BBC director general, has been in his post for six months, and on Thursday he delivered to staff his second raft of big ideas for reform. His first proposal, in his first week of office in September,…

BBC BIAS DIGEST 3 JANUARY, 2021

BBC Digest | by David Keighley

BBC ‘LAUNCHES BITTER LAST-MINUTE ANTI-BREXIT ONSLAUGHT’: Chris Hastings (Mail 3/1) said that BBC broadcasters and presenters had launched ‘ a bitter last-ditch onslaught against Brexit in the New Year schedules. He added that the UK’s departure from the EU on…

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