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 the EU, what are the chances of genuine change? Much has been written about the Lord Dyson report into the 1995 BBC Panorama interview of Princess Diana. Columnists and politicians …
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 olds. The project – launched in 2018 – is the brainchild of former Labour culture minister James Purnell during his tenure in charge of BBC radio and education. His bequest to …
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 first proposal, in his first week of office in September, was to make BBC impartiality his number one priority, with a crackdown on biased tweeting by staff. How’s that commitment …
BBC bias: An open letter to the new director-general
THE BBC’s bias on Brexit has been proven beyond doubt. That is the Telegraph‘s response to News-watch’s latest report on the BBC’s Brexit coverage this week. In the words of Robin Aitken, former BBC producer and author of The Noble Liar (an excoriating and deeply perceptive book about BBC bias) our report shows an overwhelming pro-EU slant in BBC coverage from the close analysis of one …
BBC reporting of pandemic ‘is alarmist and biased’
This item, by Andrew Isherwood, a structural engineer living and working in the north of England, brings into sharp focus one man’s impressions of the BBC’s mis-reporting of the facts about Covid-19. He wrote in submitting the article: ‘I am not a scientist but the direction and decisions being made within government seem at odds to the information that seems …
Kathy Gyngell: How dare they? BBC robs the poor to feed millions to its fat-cat presenters
Guest post from Kathy Gyngell – this first appeared on The Conservative Woman LITERALLY, how dare they? BBC arrogance and entitlement knows no bounds. Yesterday, because it has to, the corporation published its very own Rich List of its on-air and front-of-house staff paid more than £150,000 per annum in its annual report for 2019-2020. All compulsorily paid for by you and me, including …
Nicholas Burnett: Can Tim Davie Turn the Tide of Bias?
This is a Guest Post from Nicholas Burnett from The Conservative Woman: THE paradox of the Western World is encapsulated by the angst the BBC so willingly brings upon itself. Once a central plank of British culture, it is now part of a pro-globalising bourgeois media-set who will report ‘largely peaceful protests’ straight-faced against a backdrop of burning cities. It’s …
The BBC’s LOVE AFFAIR WITH BANKSY
Guest post by Arthur T from Is the BBC Biased? A comment on Is the BBC Biased? a couple of days ago said: The BBC are displaying their hero worship of Banksy again today. Banksy, African migrants and his rescue boat adrift in the Med. It’s a story made in heaven for the BBC metro-liberals. Just what is it …
Craig Byers: Supporters of BBC becoming campaigning organisation ‘are winning’
This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? If you subscribe to it, you may well have read former Head of BBC Television News Roger Mosey’s interesting piece in The Sunday Times last week where he claimed that there’s a “battle” going on at the BBC between older hands who want to stay true to the Corporation’s long commitment …
Tom Mangold: BBC’s embrace of woke culture is ‘fatal act of self-harm’
This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? Tom Mangold’s Mail on Sunday piece headlined “I fear that my beloved BBC’s bizarre obsession with a toxic culture of wokeness will end as a fatal act of self-harm” ought to matter to the BBC because Mr Mangold isn’t just any old BBC veteran. He was Panorama‘s lead investigative reporter for …