News-watch Survey of BBC Ideas – April 2021
In October 2020 News–watch began reviewing, cataloguing and fully transcribing all content published online by BBC Ideas. By the survey’s end, on the third anniversary of the service’s launch, 11…
Bashir wasn’t the first BBC royal interview scandal
DIGGING into the Martin Bashir affair for TCW has reminded me of another huge scandal about BBC integrity in 1985 in which I was centrally involved. It showed that then, as ten…
Hall and Birt deny responsibility for Bashir fiasco
THE Lord Dyson report established that the BBC acted appallingly in its handling in 1995 of the interview of Princess Diana. Prince William reacted by stating that it showed his…
An end to BBC bias? Don’t count on it
The Bashir affair has brought into sharp focus again that BBC journalism is not fair and impartial, as its Charter requires. But after decades of bias in BBC reporting of…
BBC Ideas: an extravaganza of bias
News-watch has completed its biggest-ever survey into BBC output. It is utterly damning. The focus is BBC Ideas, a group of 600 or so short factual videos for ‘curious minds’ aimed at 18-45 year…
Window-dresser Davie’s bogus BBC revolution
Tim Davie, the BBC director general, has been in his post for six months, and on Thursday he delivered to staff his second raft of big ideas for reform. His…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 3 JANUARY, 2021
BBC ‘LAUNCHES BITTER LAST-MINUTE ANTI-BREXIT ONSLAUGHT’: Chris Hastings (Mail 3/1) said that BBC broadcasters and presenters had launched ‘ a bitter last-ditch onslaught against Brexit in the New Year schedules.…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 2 JANUARY, 2020
‘ALMOST HALF OF BRITONS DON’T TRUST BBC’: A report in the Times (£ 2/1) said that, according to a YouGov poll, almost half of Britons thought the BBC no longer…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 20 DECEMBER 2020
“MAJORITY OBJECT TO BBC LICENCE FEE’: Glen Owen (Mail 20/12) reported that 40% of those questioned in a poll commissioned by the Defund the BBC Campaign wanted the abolition of…
BBC BIAS DIGEST 13 DECEMBER 2020
SURVEY FINDS 74 PERCENT OF BBC COMEDY IS BIASED TO LEFT: Christopher Hope (£ Telegraph 13/12) said that the BBC had been accused of ‘flagrant bias’, after a survey of…