Paper for Civitas – ‘Impartiality at the BBC?’ April 2014
An investigation into the background and claims of Stuart Prebble’s ‘Independent Assessment for the BBC Trust’
BBC Trustees ‘failed to challenge’ BBC executives over £100m digital disaster
This section is dedicated to the unfolding saga of the BBC’s failed Digital Media Initiative, which the National Audit Office has said cost the licence-fee payer almost £100m as a result of a catalogue of fundamental management failures by both…
Commons Savages ‘Complacent’ BBC Trustees over Digital Project
The Commons Public Accounts committee has published its final verdict on the BBC’s failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI), which wasted almost £100m of licence fee money. The project, which was started in 2008 and abandoned last year, was supposed to create the…
Bias by Omission…again
John Humphrys, as has been reported here, has pointed out that the BBC has been guilty on a systematic basis of ‘bias by omission’ – that is, ignoring core stories that would ensure audiences are kept in touch with the key…
Humphrys: ‘BBC Not Sceptical Enough on EU’
Update: Autonomous Mind has made an invaluable contribution following up John Humphrys’ remarks about EU coverage, reported in full below. The core of his story is that when questioned further on the BBC’s Feedback programme about the problems, Mr Humphrys added to his…
BBC: ‘Has received £20m from the EU’
The Spectator, by good journalistic digging – and persevering with a freedom of information request – has found that the BBC has been boosting its coffers by applying on a regular basis to the EU for grant funds. The article homes…
Drowned Out: Balanced BBC Reporting of Climate Change
With predictions that this winter’s run of gales may finally be coming to an end (February 16), the BBC’s ‘climate change’ propaganda deluge has reached a perfect storm level. High prominence on the BBC website is given to Labour leader…
Mandelson gets open goal to attack EU Referendum
One interview sequence is rarely definitive proof of BBC bias. But a recent Today feature about the private member’s bill to commit to a referendum about membership of the EU comes very close to it – and it has now…
Immigration: Anything but the truth.
BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson has announced that the BBC was once – at an unspecified period in the past – biased in its reporting of immigration issues. He is reported as saying (in connection with pre-publicity for a programme…
DYKE: ‘BBC should be regulated by OFCOM’
Photo by varresa The vultures are circling increasingly around Lord Patten, who has been savaged – and is still under fire – for his handling of a series of problems, including the Savile inquiry and the House of Commons’ prolonged investigation into…