BBC Trust ‘Failed a Primary Duty’
The Commons public accounts committee has questioned whether the BBC’s governance model is fit for purpose in a damning indictment of its handling of severance payments to 150 senior managers. The…
News-watch Survey – Winter 2013
This latest survey covers fourteen weeks between September 16 and December 21, 2013 and encompasses every word spoken about the EU over 84 editions, adding up 251 separate items and…
Liddle: Patten ‘ordered to give EU coverage evidence’
Former BBC R4 Today editor Rod Liddle has noted that speaker John Bercow has ordered BBC Chairman Lord Patten to give evidence to the Commons European Scrutiny Committee about the corporation’s…
BBC Chairman ‘disgracefully’ stonewalls EU Scrutiny Committee
BBC Chairman Lord Patten has refused to give evidence to the Commons European Scrutiny Committee about the BBC’s coverage of EU affairs. His refusal follows an earlier Scrutiny Committee hearing in…
BBC ‘Pays double the rate for their taxis’
BBC staff have slammed their bosses for paying double the going rate for taxi journeys made at the licence fee payers’ expense. A story in the Daily Telegraph reveals that the…
A decision by BBC Trustees to reject a complaint about the BBC’s EU coverage was a ‘farce’
A decision by BBC Trustees to reject a complaint about the BBC’s EU coverage was a ‘farce’, leading Eurosceptic MPs Kate Hoey and Philip Hollobone have said. The complaint – based…
EU ‘Come-out’ Donor Sykes gets Today Roasting
Newswatch reports show that Today does not give EU ‘come-outers’ the chance to properly air their case. When they do appear they are usually bracketed with ‘Loonies’, or given no…
Newswatch figures show fewer than one in 1,000 contributors to Today’s EU coverage were supporters of withdrawal from the Labour party or the British left.
BBC Director General Lord Hall told the House of Commons select media committee in a hearing in October that the Corporation was determined to deliver impartiality by ensuring that a…
Newswatch surveys: Since 2005, Today has carried only six minutes a year of those who support EU withdrawal talking about the subject
Newswatch has been monitoring the Today programme for approximately 6 months of the year since 2005. It is the longest-ever, and most detailed, research project of its kind. In the…
Latest Newswatch report: Today ignored UK Withdrawal from the EU, but gave multiple airings for those who want stronger EU ties.
The latest News-watch report shows that Today went out of its way to give those who were opposed to change in Britain’s relationship with the EU – including Deputy Prime Minister…