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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

Licence Fee | by David Keighley

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

BBC Bias, Climate Change | by David Keighley

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’

BBC Bias, European Union | by David Keighley

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…

BBC: ‘Has received £20m from the EU’

European Union | by David Keighley

The Spectator, by good journalistic digging – and persevering with a freedom of information request – has found that the BBC has been boosting its coffers by applying on a regular…

Drowned Out: Balanced BBC Reporting of Climate Change

BBC Bias, Climate Change | by David Keighley

With predictions that this winter’s run of gales may finally be coming to an end (February 16), the BBC’s ‘climate change’ propaganda deluge has reached a perfect storm level. High…

Mandelson gets open goal to attack EU Referendum

BBC Bias, European Union, Today Programme | by David Keighley

One interview sequence is rarely definitive proof of BBC bias. But a recent Today feature about the private member’s bill to commit to a referendum about membership of the EU…

Immigration: Anything but the truth.

BBC Bias, Immigration | by David Keighley

BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson has announced that the BBC was once – at an unspecified period in the past – biased in its reporting of immigration issues. He is…

DYKE: ‘BBC should be regulated by OFCOM’

BBC Chairman, BBC Trust, Licence Fee | by David Keighley

Photo by varresa The vultures are circling increasingly around Lord Patten, who has been savaged – and is still under fire – for his handling of a series of problems, including…

BBC Trust ‘Failed a Primary Duty’

BBC Trust | by David Keighley

The Commons public accounts committee has questioned whether the BBC’s governance model is fit for purpose in a damning indictment of its handling of severance payments to 150 senior managers. The…

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