Dead Ringers clangs out anti-Brexit bias
On 29 March 2018, the Radio 4 broadcast a day of programming under the title ‘Britain at the Crossroads‘ marking a year to Britain’s scheduled departure from the EU. The…
A figleaf swept away in the torrent of anti-Brexit bias
In BBC Radio 4’s Feedback on Friday, host Roger Bolton introduced a classic edition of Corporation Complaints Stonewalling. The subject? Primarily coverage of Brexit. The message? As always, the BBC…
News-watch Survey of Radio 4’s ‘Brexit: A Guide for the Perplexed’ – February 2018
News-watch monitored the five editions in Series 3 of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Brexit: A Guide for The Perplexed’, broadcast each lunchtime between Monday 19 and Friday 23 February, 2018. Each…
BBC assault on Brexit prospects continues
The third series of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Brexit: A Guide for the Perplexed’ was broadcast on five consecutive days between 19 February and 23 February, 2018. Each programme…
News-watch Survey – Winter 2017
This survey focuses on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme during the period of the fifth round of Brexit negotiations, 4 October – 9 November 2017.
Radio 4 Feedback programme mocks Brexit supporters
This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? Whatever reservations some of us might have about Samira Ahmed’s Newswatch and its usefulness (though I’m glad it…
BBC put Rees-Mogg under fire
The morning after being ‘caught up in a scuffle’ at the University of the West of England (a scene that BBC Somerset’s James Craig described as ‘very aggressive and unexpected’),…
Civitas paper lays bare 18 years of BBC anti Brexit bias
Readers of this site will need little persuading that the BBC’s coverage of Brexit is biased. The Corporation vehemently denies it of course, but since the referendum vote, they have…
Paper for Civitas – ‘The Brussels Broadcasting Corporation?’ January 2018
How pro-Brexit views have been marginalised in the BBC’s news coverage
BBC complaints system and ‘fake news’ attacked
Guest post from BBC Watch, originally published on their website On December 31st the BBC News website published an article titled “How fake news plagued 2017” which provides readers with…