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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

BBC Bias, Climate Change | by David Keighley

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’

BBC Bias, European Union | by David Keighley

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’

European Union | by David Keighley

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

BBC Bias, Climate Change | by David Keighley

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

BBC Bias, European Union, Today Programme | by David Keighley

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 Bias, Immigration | by David Keighley

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’

BBC Chairman, BBC Trust, Licence Fee | by David Keighley

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…

BBC Trust ‘Failed a Primary Duty’

BBC Trust | by David Keighley

The Commons public accounts committee has questioned whether the BBC’s governance model is fit for purpose in a damning indictment of its handling of severance payments to 150 senior managers. The committee’s chairman, Margaret Hodge, said its investigations into the pay…

News-watch Survey – Winter 2013

News-Watch Reports | by Andrew

This latest survey covers fourteen weeks between September 16 and December 21, 2013 and encompasses every word spoken about the EU over 84 editions, adding up 251 separate items and a total of 121,000 words. The analysis is based on…

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