News-watch is battling the Information Commissioner and the BBC about the Corporation’s refusal to release basic information about how it collects data about impartiality and the subjects of complaints made by the public about programmes. The long drawn-out fight was the focus this week (2 February) of an appeal before a first-tier tribunal by News-watch against the Information Commissioner. A …
BBC REPORTS ENERGY BILLS CRISIS – WITHOUT MENTIONING NET ZERO
Today’s lead story (February 3) in much of the media is that Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is planning to spend billions of pounds to cushion the impact on householders of a huge rise in domestic heating charges which will take effect from April. According to green policy watchdog Net Zero Watch, the government will make £6 billion of …
Mail on Sunday editorial slams ‘useless’ BBC complaints process
The Mail on Sunday December 26, 2021 The BBC is Silencing the viewers who should be heard THE BBC’s existence is an attempt to answer a series of linked riddles. How can you sustain a national broadcaster to pursue the best in everything, free from commercial pressure? How can the state collect the funds for such a body, without turning …
News-watch finding: GB News more impartial than the BBC on immigration
An in-depth survey by News-watch of the recently-launched television news channel GB News has found that its coverage of sensitive immigration issues was more balanced, detailed and wide-ranging than that of the BBC’s news programmes and BBC News 24. The BBC coverage was weighted very strongly towards those opposed to stricter controls on immigration. By comparison, GB News incorporated that …
Craig Byers: Even Libby Purves is slamming Radio 4
Even former Radio 4 stalwart, ex-Midweek presenter and self-declared ”life-long loyalist and listener” Libby Purves – though in many ways as ‘BBC as can be’ in her outlook – sees that David Blunkett has a point about her favourite channel BBC Radio 4. In her latest Times column she says that the BBC shouldn’t ignore him, and although she thinks it’s ”not …
Craig Byers: “BBC Hit By New Bashir Shame”
“The BBC has a really grim bit of reading in The Mail on Sunday. This is another Martin Bashir-related story. Goes on for pages and pages and it is tough stuff for BBC people to read”, said Andrew Marr this morning. He didn’t elaborate, or mention the story again. This morning’s BBC News Channel paper review also merely mentioned it, …
Jane Kelly: The BBC, where history really is bunk
This post by Jane Kelly originally appeared on The Conservative Woman An eight-part drama about the Nuremberg Trials has started on Radio 4. BBC commissioning editor Rhian Roberts said it was ‘designed to present phenomenal moments of history in a compelling style so we can all continue to understand how our world was shaped by them’. What we got was inexplicable: …
James Townsend: Challenging the BBC’s Covid Project Fear narrative
This post by James Townsend originally appeared on The Conservative Woman YOU may have seen some of my recent threads which have slowly been gaining traction in the Twittersphere. They have covered a range of topics, including defending TV presenter Beverley Turner from unwarranted attacks on Good Morning Britain and the Jeremy Vine Show, to questioning Sage scientist Susan Michie and exposing the …
Daily Mail jumps on the BBC climate zealots’ bandwagon
HOW much further into the mire of hard-line prejudice can the MSM – particularly the BBC – go in its blatant, militant anti-scientific and anti-free-speech perversion of climate science? In Saturday’s Daily Mail, under the headline ‘Green fury as BBC tells kids climate change isn’t all bad’, reporter Jim Norton said the BBC had come under strong attack from climate alarmist zealots. …
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 years later, nothing would stop senior BBC management from flagrantly breaking editorial guidelines if these got in their way. On that occasion it cost them a rumoured £750,000 in civil damages, equivalent …