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BBC anti-Brexit rhetoric continues with alleged lies over ‘Norway option’

BBC Bias, EU Referendum | 24th January 2016 | 1

Anti-Brexit group Britain Stronger in Europe has started its propaganda push with a £1.5m leaflet drop. It focuses – with hackneyed predictability – on threats that outside the Single Market,…

Ofcom appointment ‘threatens fair coverage of EU referendum debate’

BBC Bias, EU Referendum | 17th January 2016 | 0

Opinion polls at the weekend gave the EU ‘out’ camp the edge. But it has now emerged that supporters of Brexit will be fighting the battle to win hearts and…

News-watch submission to the BBC’s EU Consultation on EU Referendum Editorial Guidelines 15.1.2016

BBC Bias, EU Referendum | 15th January 2016 | 0

The BBC Trust recently embarked on an eight-week consultation on draft Editorial Guidelines for its coverage of the EU in/out referendum. This is News-watch’s submission. The proposed guidelines are here.…

BBC Brexit programme shows strong pro-EU bias

BBC Bias, Withdrawalists | 7th January 2016 | 0

With the campaigns to secure exit the EU now launched, the BBC knows its EU coverage is under unprecedented scrutiny. Before Christmas, Rona Fairhead, the BBC Trust chairman, appeared before…

BBC lays down the law on climate alarm coverage

BBC Bias, BBC Chairman, Climate Change | 11th December 2015 | 0

Outrageous. That is the only way to describe respectably the latest impartiality ruling by the BBC Trust. This band of climate change crusaders – led by the Trust’s Richard Ayre,…

Craig Byers: BBC comedy, the EU and BBC bias

BBC Bias, EU Referendum | 22nd November 2015 | 0

This week’s Feedback featured a clip from the first episode of the 47th series of Radio 4’s eternally somewhat-less-than-side-splitting Now Show – a comedic ‘team rant’ in favour of the EU…

Are BBC procedures for measuring impartiality fit for purpose?

BBC Bias, BBC Trust | 8th November 2015 | 0

David Cameron is gearing up this week for another attempt at telling us that leaving the EU will be disastrous for the UK and to outline more of his ‘renegotiations’.…

BBC NEWS CHIEFS CLAIM THAT MONITORING FOR POLITICAL BIAS ‘IS VERY UNHELPFUL’

BBC Bias, European Scrutiny Committee, News-watch | 25th October 2015 | 0

This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? One of the big BBC-related stories of the past week has been the appearance of Lord Hall,…

BBC apology over Quentin Letts’ climate change programme ‘is the stifling of free speech’

BBC Bias, BBC Complaints Process, Climate Change | 8th October 2015 | 0

Once in a blue moon…? Hold the front page… because the BBC complaints department has actually apologised to someone. Not, of course, to the battalions of folk who have been…

News-watch calls for scrapping of ‘biased’ BBC complaints system

BBC Bias, BBC Trust | 6th October 2015 | 1

News-watch has told culture minister John Whittingdale’s review of the BBC that the current BBC complaints system is not fit for purpose. The 10,000 word submission argues that it should…

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