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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…

Liddle: Patten ‘ordered to give EU coverage evidence’

European Scrutiny Committee | by David Keighley

Former BBC R4 Today editor Rod Liddle has noted that speaker John Bercow has ordered BBC Chairman Lord Patten to give evidence to the Commons European Scrutiny Committee about the corporation’s EU coverage. Liddle picked up in his Sunday Times column…

BBC Chairman ‘disgracefully’ stonewalls EU Scrutiny Committee

BBC Trust, European Scrutiny Committee | by David Keighley

BBC Chairman Lord Patten has refused to give evidence to the Commons European Scrutiny Committee about the BBC’s coverage of EU affairs. His refusal follows an earlier Scrutiny Committee hearing in which Newswatch gave evidence that the BBC was failing in its…

BBC ‘Pays double the rate for their taxis’

Licence Fee | by David Keighley

BBC staff have slammed their bosses for paying double the going rate for taxi journeys made at the licence fee payers’ expense. A story in the Daily Telegraph reveals that the Corporation pays £10m a year for over 350,000 journeys by…

A decision by BBC Trustees to reject a complaint about the BBC’s EU coverage was a ‘farce’

BBC Bias, BBC Trust, News-watch | by David Keighley

A decision by BBC Trustees to reject a complaint about the BBC’s EU coverage was a ‘farce’, leading Eurosceptic MPs Kate Hoey and Philip Hollobone have said. The complaint – based on research by Newswatch – centred on an edition of…

EU ‘Come-out’ Donor Sykes gets Today Roasting

BBC Bias, European Union, News-watch, Today Programme, Withdrawalists | by David Keighley

Newswatch reports show that Today does not give EU ‘come-outers’ the chance to properly air their case. When they do appear they are usually bracketed with ‘Loonies’, or given no chance to explain their support for leaving the EU. Today…

Newswatch figures show fewer than one in 1,000 contributors to Today’s EU coverage were supporters of withdrawal from the Labour party or the British left.

BBC Bias, Reports, Statistics and Surveys | by Andrew

BBC Director General Lord Hall told the House of Commons select media committee in a hearing in October that the Corporation was determined to deliver impartiality by ensuring that a range of voices on key issues was heard. Newswatch’s latest…

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