Be afraid, be very afraid. James Harding, the director of BBC news and current affairs, has delivered a speech in which he has said the BBC’s ambition is to double the reach of the World Service in the next eight years: He stated: “Internationally, Sir Howard Stringer has been looking at how we can take the BBC’s global audience of …
Today editor Jamie Angus: Voice of Prejudice?
Jamie Angus was appointed editor of Radio 4’s flagship Today programme almost a year ago, in May 2013. Monitoring by Newswatch has shown that a highlight of his tenure to date is that the programme devoted 83 minutes to items on Nelson Mandela on the day of his death – the highest total for any single topic since the introduction …
Bias by Omission…again
John Humphrys, as has been reported here, has pointed out that the BBC has been guilty on a systematic basis of ‘bias by omission’ – that is, ignoring core stories that would ensure audiences are kept in touch with the key facts and developments in controversial areas. This report, by Andrew Montford, of the Bishop Hill site, and published by the Global …
Drowned Out: Balanced BBC Reporting of Climate Change
With predictions that this winter’s run of gales may finally be coming to an end (February 16), the BBC’s ‘climate change’ propaganda deluge has reached a perfect storm level. High prominence on the BBC website is given to Labour leader Ed Miliband’s claim – made in the Observer, part of the corporation’s favourite newspaper stable – that ‘climate change’ is …
BBC ‘Enmeshed in Comic Relief’
A BBC Panorama investigation into Comic Relief has shown that the charity invests in tobacco, arms and alcohol, despite its ‘holier-than-thou’ ethical claims and telling the public that every penny it raises goes to the developing world. The real issue here is not solely Comic Relief’s hypocritical investment policy, but rather the close relationship between the charity and the BBC …