BBC Bias Digest 13 July 2020
BBC ‘INTENT ON COMMITTING SUICIDE?’: In an opinion feature, Clare Foges (Times £ 13/7) stating that she was a lover of the BBC as a national ‘unifier’, argued that the…
BBC Bias Digest 12 July 2020
BBC LICENCE FEE PAYMENT ’TO BE DECRIMINALISED’: David Maddox (Sunday Express 12/7) said that, following a public consultation announced earlier this year, government sources – said to include ‘a minister’…
BBC Bias Digest 10 July 2020
BBC ‘FORCES OVER-75s TO PAY LICENCE FEE’: According to Breitbart London, the BBC had announced it would scrap fee licence fees for the over-75s from August 1, thus boosting its…
BBC Bias Digest 9 July 2020
BBC ‘SOWS HATE: Academic David Sedgwick, whose latest book about the BBC is called ‘The Fake News Factory’, claims that the Corporation , which sees itself as a ‘national unifier’,…
Deluded BBC’s mission to mislead
New BBC director general Tim Davie, who cut his professional teeth marketing Pepsi-Cola, was appointed last week to head a £5billion-a-year media empire with a guaranteed income and a news…
General Election Report – December 2019
News-watch monitored Radio 4’s Today programme in full from the dissolution of Parliament on Wednesday 6 November until the eve of polling on Wednesday 11 December 2019, an interval of…
BBC: licence fee is sacrosanct
The BBC has issued a robust defence of the BBC licence fee as virtually perfect, and argues that it should continue indefinitely, or be replaced by a universal tax on…
Justice closes its eyes to BBC bias
It is very disappointing to have to report that three judges (two in the High Court, one in the Court of Appeal) have thwarted David Keighley’s application for judicial review…
European Election Survey – Summer 2019
News-watch monitored all editions of Today over a seven week interval, starting on the day campaigning for the 2019 European Parliamentary Elections began, Friday 12 April 2019 and culminating on…
Shock news: BBC-dominated Ofcom backs the BBC
The 2017 BBC Charter bestowed for the first time supervisory regulatory powers on Ofcom, which had previously been in charge of only the independent sector. Its first review of BBC…