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  • Ofcom ‘harmed the public’ in its Covid/Steyn ruling against Mark Steyn 21st August 2024
  • Ten years on, BBC bias is worse than ever 18th March 2024
  • Lying about Farage? At the BBC, it’s par for the course 25th July 2023
  • The BBC witch-finders are coming for YOU 4th July 2023
  • Don’t worry, Huw, your £410,000 BBC salary is safe 18th April 2023
  • BBC shrugs off report from the echo chamber 2nd February 2023
  • The BBC at 100: Leading the push for totalitarianism 20th October 2022
  • The BBC’s 100 years of glory – by its hired historian 30th August 2022
  • The BBC, skewered through its rotten core 16th August 2022
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Selective Leaking: BBC knocks down its own UKIP Aunt Sally

Selective Leaking: BBC knocks down its own UKIP Aunt Sally

UKIP | by David Keighley
One of the ways that the BBC defends itself against criticism is to say that viewers have complained in ‘record numbers’ against particular aspects of programming. It’s particularly effective because it creates a smokescreen of the Corporation’s own making and…
Caught red-handed: BBC anti-withdrawal bias

Caught red-handed: BBC anti-withdrawal bias

BBC Bias, UKIP | by David Keighley
The BBC swears until it is blue in the face that it is not biased against the case for withdrawal from the EU, and that it reports the campaign fairly. It engaged at vast expense Stuart Prebble, a former BBC…
BBC Plugs Sham EU ‘Debate’ About EU Presidency

BBC Plugs Sham EU ‘Debate’ About EU Presidency

European Union | by David Keighley
A frequent problem in the BBC’s coverage of EU issues, as John Humphrys has accepted, is a failure to present the full facts:  bias by omission. If the BBC collectively doesn’t like an aspect of UK policy – such as…
BBC charter must not be renewed until pro-EU bias ends

BBC charter must not be renewed until pro-EU bias ends

BBC Bias, News-watch, Withdrawalists | by David Keighley
Lord Pearson of Rannoch, initiated an hour’s debate in the House of Lords about biased BBC coverage of the EU. His main demand was that the BBC Charter is not renewed until the bias is rectified, and his key point…
BBC  in new World Service Propaganda Push

BBC in new World Service Propaganda Push

Climate Change | by David Keighley
Be afraid, be very afraid. James Harding, the director of BBC news and current affairs, has delivered a speech in which he has said the BBC’s ambition is to double the reach of the World Service in the next eight…
Back to the future: the BBC’s attacks on EU withdrawal

Back to the future: the BBC’s attacks on EU withdrawal

Today Programme, Withdrawalists | by David Keighley
Another European election and the BBC are in full cry again trying to find ways of showing that those who support withdrawal are racist. They have form, and it has been tracked in detail by News-watch. Their justification, of course,…
Geert Wilders: the ‘maverick’ damned by BBC reporting

Geert Wilders: the ‘maverick’ damned by BBC reporting

Today Programme | by David Keighley
The Dutch politician Geert Wilders and his Freedom political party (PVV) stir up strong sentiments. He is renowned for his stance that Islam in his country is responsible for major social divisions and has lead to the radicalisation of young Muslims to…

BBC Prebble report into EU coverage ‘not worth paper it is written on’

BBC Bias, BBC Trust, News-watch | by David Keighley
News-watch has written a paper for Civitas, the respected think-tank,  that shows that the Prebble report into the BBC’s EU coverage ‘is not worth the paper it is written on’ and was not independent. The Times says that the Civitas paper demonstrates …
Nick Robinson raises spectre of racism against EU withdrawers

Nick Robinson raises spectre of racism against EU withdrawers

BBC Bias, Withdrawalists | by David Keighley
One of the problems of the BBC’s coverage of ‘withdrawal’ from the EU is that mostly, they don’t do it – but when they do deign to do so, it’s through a totally negative lens. The News-watch long-term survey of Today – which…

Today editor Jamie Angus: Voice of Prejudice?

BBC Bias, Climate Change, Today Programme | by David Keighley
Jamie Angus was appointed editor of  Radio 4’s flagship Today programme almost a year ago, in May 2013. Monitoring by Newswatch has shown that a highlight of his tenure to date is that the programme devoted 83 minutes to items…
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