BBC Bias Digest 4 August 2020
MEDIA COVERAGE OF PANDEMIC ‘IS RETRIBUTION FOR BREXIT’: Tim Black (Spiked! 4/8) argued that the media establishment, including the BBC, had generated ‘a barrage of fearmongering’ about the dangers of Covid-19…
BBC Bias Digest 3 August 2020
DEFUND THE BBC GROUP ‘LAUNCHES AGGRESSIVE AD CAMPAIGN’: Guido Fawkes (3/8) reported that the Defund the BBC group had launched a ‘provocative’ mobile billboard campaign across the North-west of England …
BBC Bias Digest 2 August 2020
TONY PARSONS: BBC ‘DOESN”T LIKE OUR COUNTRY’: Author and commentator Tony Parsons (The Sun on Sunday 2/8) claimed that the BBC’s decision to scrap the free TV licence for the over-75s…
BBC Bias Digest 1 August 2020
BBC SLAMMED FROM WITHIN FOR USE OF ‘N-WORD’: The Daily Telegraph (£ 31/7) reported that the use by BBC social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin of the n-word an item broadcast…
BBC Bias Digest 31 July 2020
BBC STAFF HEADCOUNT ‘FALLS BY JUST 2 PER CENT’: Freddy Mayhew (Press Gazette 30/7) reported that despite the BBC spending £500m in severance pay and restructuring costs in the past…
BBC Bias Digest 30 July 2020
OFCOM SURVEY FINDS “MORAL DISLIKE” OF THE BBC AMONGST YOUNG: Craig Simpson, Daily Telegraph (£ 30/7), said that a report from Ofcom had found that younger audiences ‘are flocking to…
BBC Bias Digest 29 July 2020
BBC AXES AFTERNOON NEWSROUND AFTER 48 YEARS: Joe Kasper (Sun 29/7) said the BBC was axing its afternoon live television edition of the children’s news service Newsround – shown currently…
BBC Bias Digest 28 July 2020
SKY ARTS ‘TO FILL GAP LEFT BY BBC CUTS’: Luke May (Daily Mail 28/7) reported that satellite broadcaster Sky had decided make its dedicated arts channel available from September on…
BBC Bias Digest 27 July 2020
BBC ‘FINALLY ADMITS’ PANORAMA BREACH: Guido Fawkes (27/7) said that the BBC had finally admitted – after receiving 800 complaints – that its April Panorama programme ‘Has the Government Failed…
Craig Byers: Supporters of BBC becoming campaigning organisation ‘are winning’
This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? If you subscribe to it, you may well have read former Head of BBC Television News Roger Mosey’s…