Tom Mangold: BBC’s embrace of woke culture is ‘fatal act of self-harm’
This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? Tom Mangold’s Mail on Sunday piece headlined “I fear that my beloved BBC’s bizarre obsession with a toxic culture…
BBC Bias Digest 26 July 2020
BBC VETERAN ATTACKS ‘SPITEFUL AND VENOMOUS’ REPORT ABOUT CHURCHILL: Writing in the Mail on Sunday (26/7), veteran BBC investigative reporter Tom Mangold – who joined the Corporation in 1964 –…
BBC Bias Digest 24 July
PANORAMA PPE PROGRAMME ‘BREACHED EDITORIAL STANDARDS’: A report in the Daily Mail (24/7), said that the BBC,, having initially defended an edition of BBC One’s Panorama programme about the provision…
News-watch Launches BBC Bias Digest
BBC Bias Digest is now a key, regularly updated feature of the News-watch website, and a central focus of our efforts. To try and hold the BBC to account in…
BBC Bias Digest 23 July 2020
BBC ‘WRONGLY BLAMES CHURCHILL FOR INDIA FAMINE’: Writing for The Critic magazine (21/7), Christopher Howarth accused the BBC, ‘the most powerful megaphone in the land today’, of airing ‘a one-sided…
BBC Digest 22 July 2020
LABOUR PARTY PAYS ‘SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES’ TO BBC PRESENTER’: A report in the UK Press Gazette (22/7) said that the Labour party had paid substantial defamation damages to John Ware, the…
BBC Digest 21 July 2020
BBC PRESENTER ‘SAVAGED’ OVER LICENCE FEE CLAIMS: The BBC’s Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty – paid £190,000 a year by the Corporation – had been savaged by viewers after saying that…
BBC Bias Digest 20 July 2020
NEWSWATCH COMPLAINT: ‘BBC HAS FAILED BRITAIN’: David Maddox (Express 19/7) said that the media monitoring organisation News-watch had accused – in a complaint to Ofcom – the BBC of ‘systematic…
BBC Bias Digest 19 July 2020
TORY MPs: ‘AXING OVER-75 FREE LICENCE FEES IS KICK IN THE TEETH’: The Blue Collar Conservative group of 66 MPs had written to BBC Director General Tony Hall to demand…
BBC Bias Digest 18 July 2020
BBC “WEAK MANAGEMENT’ FACILITATES ‘WOKERY”: In his regular column for the Telegraph (£ 17/7) Charles Moore compared recent developments at The New York Times with the situation at the BBC,…