A BBC Director General to take on Netflix but not to root out bias
THE post of Director General of the BBC has, over the past two decades, become a poisoned chalice. Greg Dyke was forced out in 2004 by editorial failings in coverage of the…
Will Lisa Nandy take this golden opportunity to end BBC bias?
THE deadline for submissions to the Government’s consultation on the renewal of the BBC Charter has closed. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy must now find ways to purge the massive structural bias which…
This ‘independent’ review entrenches BBC bias instead of rooting it out
BBC thematic reviews were created by the Board of Management in the aftermath of the Serota Review (2021) into the catastrophic handling of the Princess Diana interview scandal. They were an attempt…
‘Dianarama’ – the conspiracy of deceit exposé that should sign the BBC’s death warrant
THERE are moments when an institution’s mask slips so completely that it can never truly be put back on. Former BBC journalist Andy Webb’s scorching book Dianarama, published last week, is…
BBC judges itself over climate change bias. Guess the verdict!
A RULING by the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) about numerous aspects of BBC climate change coverage in response to a complaint submitted by News-watch confirms with chilling detachment and arrogance that…
Ofcom ‘harmed the public’ in its Covid/Steyn ruling against Mark Steyn
Pictured: Kathy Gyngell, left; Norman Fenton, second left; Mark Steyn, right. Kathy Gyngell, the founder and editor of the TCW (The Conservative Woman) website, has published a powerful blog by…
Ten years on, BBC bias is worse than ever
ASTONISHINGLY, it is almost ten years since I first wrote my first blog for The Conservative Woman website. By that time, I had been friends with and worked with Kathy Gyngell – whose…
Lying about Farage? At the BBC, it’s par for the course
AS Marvin Burnell adroitly chronicled here on Thursday, when Nigel Farage told the outside world that he had been appallingly ‘debanked’ by Coutts, the BBC did not even report the story for five days.…
The BBC witch-finders are coming for YOU
THE BBC has crashed to new lows of bias. Director-General Tim Davie, who assumed office three years ago in September, set as his priority the restoration of impartiality. But in the…
News-watch Survey of BBC ECU Rulings
A new detailed survey conducted by News-watch of the BBC First complaints handling process shows that the procedure is unfit for purpose. It expands on the submission made by News-watch…