BBC Glastonbury Extravaganza: Why and at what cost?
Headline of the week about the BBC is that they are sending 300 staff to cover the Glastonbury festival to deliver around 80 hours of coverage on their main channels…
Selective Leaking: BBC knocks down its own UKIP Aunt Sally
One of the ways that the BBC defends itself against criticism is to say that viewers have complained in ‘record numbers’ against particular aspects of programming. It’s particularly effective because…
Caught red-handed: BBC anti-withdrawal bias
The BBC swears until it is blue in the face that it is not biased against the case for withdrawal from the EU, and that it reports the campaign fairly.…
BBC Plugs Sham EU ‘Debate’ About EU Presidency
A frequent problem in the BBC’s coverage of EU issues, as John Humphrys has accepted, is a failure to present the full facts: bias by omission. If the BBC collectively…
BBC charter must not be renewed until pro-EU bias ends
Lord Pearson of Rannoch, initiated an hour’s debate in the House of Lords about biased BBC coverage of the EU. His main demand was that the BBC Charter is not…
BBC in new World Service Propaganda Push
Be afraid, be very afraid. James Harding, the director of BBC news and current affairs, has delivered a speech in which he has said the BBC’s ambition is to double…
Back to the future: the BBC’s attacks on EU withdrawal
Another European election and the BBC are in full cry again trying to find ways of showing that those who support withdrawal are racist. They have form, and it has…
Geert Wilders: the ‘maverick’ damned by BBC reporting
The Dutch politician Geert Wilders and his Freedom political party (PVV) stir up strong sentiments. He is renowned for his stance that Islam in his country is responsible for major social divisions…
BBC Prebble report into EU coverage ‘not worth paper it is written on’
News-watch has written a paper for Civitas, the respected think-tank, that shows that the Prebble report into the BBC’s EU coverage ‘is not worth the paper it is written on’ and…
Nick Robinson raises spectre of racism against EU withdrawers
One of the problems of the BBC’s coverage of ‘withdrawal’ from the EU is that mostly, they don’t do it – but when they do deign to do so, it’s…