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Today Editor’s ‘Blackpool Rock’ Propaganda

Climate Change, Today Programme | by David Keighley

Jamie Angus, the young editor of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme appointed to the role a year last May, has risen through the BBC ranks virtually without a trace. Aged 40, he’s already had stints as editor of sister…

European Election Survey – Summer 2014

News-Watch Reports | by Andrew

News-watch monitored nine BBC programmes for a period of six weeks between Monday 21 April and Sunday 1 June 2014. The BBC Radio 4 programmes selected for monitoring and analysis were: Today; the World at One (including the World This…

BBC ‘non denial denial’ about Climate Change

Climate Change, Today Programme | by David Keighley

All the President’s Men, the Woodward-Bernstein book on Watergate, contained the rather neat phrase a ‘non denial denial’ to describe the contortions and distortions of the truth that Nixon’s White House manufactured to deny that the body politic was infested…

Hall’s BBC Executive Board Climate Change Links

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

Rona Fairhead, who David Cameron has parachuted in as new chairman of the BBC, is being grilled about her approach to the role by the Commons Culture and Sport Committee on Tuesday – and already questions of conflict of interest…

BBC Trustees Cement ‘climate change’ Prejudice

BBC Trust, Climate Change | by David Keighley

The just-published BBC Trust Review of impartiality and accuracy of the BBC’s coverage of science: follow up is an extraordinary, document which I think is virtually unprecedented in terms of partisanship in the broadcast arena. The BBC Trustees have reinforced…

BBC media action ‘spends 500k on climate alarmism’.

BBC World, Climate Change | by David Keighley

BBC Media Action has spent an astonishing £500,000 on a cod survey in Asia that is designed to spread alarm about climate change among some of the world’s most vulnerable communities. Its methodology is so laughably inept that it doesn’t…

BBC complaints ruling: ‘Is major threat to free speech’

Climate Change | by David Keighley

To the Guardian and presumably its diminishing band of readers, the issue of climate change alarmism is settled. We are all going to fry and they know it beyond doubt. They have an army of correspondents who tell us so.…

Europhile Quango Queen ‘Backed by Cameron for BBC top job’

BBC Chairman | by David Keighley

With perhaps wearying predictability, another major Europhile is firmly in the frame to become as successor to Lord Patten as BBC chairman. It’s rumoured that she is Diana Coyle, the current deputy chairman, an economist who has written books on…

Paxman ‘Shows BBC decline’

UKIP | by David Keighley

So, it’s good night from him, then. Jeremy Paxman has ended his marathon quarter century stint as presenter of BBC2’s Newsnight. Though he achieved some palpable hits – famously, his devastating interrogation of then home secretary Michael Howard – I think he…

BBC Glastonbury Extravaganza: Why and at what cost?

Climate Change, Licence Fee | by David Keighley

Headline of the week about the BBC is that they are sending 300 staff to cover the Glastonbury festival to deliver around 80 hours of coverage on their main channels on television and radio. Heading the junket are those brilliant…

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