BBC BIAS DIGEST 16 SEPTEMBER 2020
BBC ANNUAL REPORT REVEALS FALL IN AUDIENCES AND REVENUE: Daniel Martin (Mail 16/9), said that figures in the BBC’s annual report showed that the number of people paying the BBC…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 15 SEPTEMBER 2020
BBC SENIOR MANAGEMENT ‘FACES CULL’: Anita Singh (£ Telegraph 15/9) said that in revealing the contents of the BBC annual report (on 15/9), new director general Tim Davie would –…
BBC Bias Digest – 14 September 2020
CONSERVATIVE MP: ‘BBC SHOULD BE DEFUNDED’: Simon Osborne (Express 14/9) said the Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns had called for the BBC licence fee to be scrapped, and had urged prime minister…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 13 SEPTEMBER 2020
BBC ‘PUT WOKE TO BED’: Faith Ridler (Mail on Sunday 13/9) reported that Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia had been sung last night at the last…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 12 SEPTEMBER 2020
MAITLIS ‘CHUCKS ROTTEN EGGS’ AT FORMER BREXIT MEP: Craig Byers (Is The BBC Biased? 12/9), noting that Emily Maitlis was back presenting BBC2 Newsnight after a fortnight’s break – during…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 10 SEPTEMBER 2020
ANDREW NEIL ‘CONSIDERING HIGHER PROFILE BBC ROLE’: Robert Mendick (£ Telegraph 10/9) claimed that former Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil had been offered a ‘higher profile than he had before…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 9 SEPTEMBER 2020
BBC ‘WOMEN’S HOUR HAS MADE ITSELF REDUNDANT’: Allison Pearson (£ Telegraph 9/9), noting that ‘talented’ presenter Emma Barnett had been appointed as the new main presenter of BBC Radio 4…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 8 SEPTEMBER 2020
DAVIE ‘HAS FIGHT ON HIS HANDS’: Former BBC producer and news executive Robin Aitken (£ Telegraph 8/9), in a wide -ranging assessment of the scale of the challenge facing new…
Tim Davie: Reformist or PR Hype?
Is Tim Davie genuinely a reformer? His regime as new BBC director general took off at an apparent breakneck speed from September 1. In his first three days in office,…
BBC Bias Digest – 7 SEPTEMBER 2020
NEW DG ‘CONSIDERS TWO-TIER’ BBC LICENCE FEE: James Robinson (Daily Mail 6/9) reported that new BBC director general Tim Davie was considering the introduction before the end of the current…