BBC censures presenters – but not very much
Two rulings have been made in the past ten days by the BBC’s editorial complaints unit (ECU) against Corporation presenters. Both the offending broadcasts, one an attack on Donald Trump,…
Humphrys ‘was biased in handling of EU issues’
Kathy Gyngell clearly highlighted on The Conservative Woman blog yesterday the hypocrisy of John Humphrys revealed in his forthcoming memoirs, being serialised in the Daily Mail. Today she discusses further…
When will Team Boris wake up to BBC bias?
ACCORDING to weekend press reports, Boris Johnson’s director of communications Lee Cain has had a lightbulb moment. He has told Downing Street staff that appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today…
Appeal: Help us stop BBC bias!
Act now! A £30,000 crowd-funding appeal is being launched today in an effort to #stopBBCbias. All donations gratefully received! Details of how to contribute are below. For 20 years –…
BBC Push European Elections Remain ‘Victory’ Claim
How very predictable. The BBC have never treated Nigel Farage or his core message seriously. During the European elections of 1999, when he was spokesman for the fledgling UKIP, they…
BBC stone-walls Mark Mardell EU history bias
On March 29 last year, one year before non-Brexit day, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a day-long series of programmes called Britain at the Crossroads which the Corporation’s PR hype said…
News-watch Survey – The ‘Meaningful Vote’, January 2019
News-watch monitored and logged three complete editions of Today between 14 and 16 January, to coincide with the ‘meaningful vote’ scheduled in the House of Commons on the evening of…
News-watch Survey – Salzburg and Brussels European Councils, Autumn 2018
News-watch monitored and logged every edition of Today between 17 September and 20 October, a period of five weeks or 30 editions. Detailed monitoring was undertaken for the weeks of…
OFCOM BBC BIAS WHITEWASH
In its first major ruling on BBC impartiality, media and telecoms regulator Ofcom – which became BBC complaints watchdog under the new 2017 BBC Charter – has starkly rejected any…
BBC pushes ‘Fake News’ Brexit fears
BBC Director General Lord Hall of Birkenhead has declared that the Corporation is on a mission to counter fake news. He publicly announced this back in the summer at the…