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…
Today editor Jamie Angus: Voice of Prejudice?
Jamie Angus was appointed editor of Radio 4’s flagship Today programme almost a year ago, in May 2013. Monitoring by Newswatch has shown that a highlight of his tenure to…
Paper for Civitas – ‘Impartiality at the BBC?’ April 2014
An investigation into the background and claims of Stuart Prebble’s ‘Independent Assessment for the BBC Trust’
BBC Trustees ‘failed to challenge’ BBC executives over £100m digital disaster
This section is dedicated to the unfolding saga of the BBC’s failed Digital Media Initiative, which the National Audit Office has said cost the licence-fee payer almost £100m as a…
Commons Savages ‘Complacent’ BBC Trustees over Digital Project
The Commons Public Accounts committee has published its final verdict on the BBC’s failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI), which wasted almost £100m of licence fee money. The project, which was started in…
Bias by Omission…again
John Humphrys, as has been reported here, has pointed out that the BBC has been guilty on a systematic basis of ‘bias by omission’ – that is, ignoring core stories that…
Humphrys: ‘BBC Not Sceptical Enough on EU’
Update: Autonomous Mind has made an invaluable contribution following up John Humphrys’ remarks about EU coverage, reported in full below. The core of his story is that when questioned further on the BBC’s…