THERE is a huge and troubling paradox in the selection by the Government of Sir Ian Cheshire as preferred candidate to become chair of Ofcom. He has been presented as a safe pair of hands because he is a former chief executive of Kingfisher, the FTSE 100 retail group behind B&Q; a former chairman of Barclays UK and, until recently, chairman …
Ofcom ‘harmed the public’ in its Covid/Steyn ruling against Mark Steyn
Pictured: Kathy Gyngell, left; Norman Fenton, second left; Mark Steyn, right. Kathy Gyngell, the founder and editor of the TCW (The Conservative Woman) website, has published a powerful blog by an expert risk assessment professor about Ofcom’s and the High Court’s ham-fisted – and arguably dictatorial – role in discrediting Mark Steyn, a courageous campaigning journalist/blogger in highlighting the massive …
Grade’s Herculean task to tackle the biased, woke BBC
MICHAEL Grade – Baron Grade of Yarmouth – becomes chairman of Ofcom today. He takes over days after Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries published Up Next, her White Paper on the future of broadcasting. Main points include that the current BBC licence fee funding regime will eventually come to an end, Channel 4 will be privatised and that ‘TV-like’ content will be subject …
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 …
Shock news: BBC-dominated Ofcom backs the BBC
The 2017 BBC Charter bestowed for the first time supervisory regulatory powers on Ofcom, which had previously been in charge of only the independent sector. Its first review of BBC news and current affairs performance shows that this has achieved nothing except to confirm that the broadcasting ‘establishment’ is deeply biased and complacent, and that there is an urgent need …
OFCOM BBC BIAS WHITEWASH
In its first major ruling on BBC impartiality, media and telecoms regulator Ofcom – which became BBC complaints watchdog under the new 2017 BBC Charter – has starkly rejected any suggestion of bias in the Corporation’s news and current affairs coverage of Brexit. Ofcom claims that requirements of ‘due impartiality’ in the Brexit debate were met in the 50 hours …
Ofcom Ruling: BBC1 Question Time’s alleged pro-Remain bias
A central part of the New BBC Charter is that appeals about complaints are now handled not by the BBC itself, but Ofcom, the independent sector media regulator. This change – recommended in a report to the former culture secretary John Whittingdale by Sir David Clementi, who has since become BBC chairman – was trumpeted as a way of ensuring …
Confirmed: BBC complaints process is unfit for purpose
At the heart of the BBC’s reform under its new Charter – due to come into effect imminently – is that for the first time, an outside body, Ofcom, will become the final court of appeal in complaints about impartiality. The idea is that this will clean the Augean stables and the Corporation will end its rampant bias towards Brexit, …
Ten of 13 ‘independent’ Ofcom Content Board members have close BBC links
At the heart of the BBC’s new Charter – due to be formally adopted within the next fortnight – is that the new ‘independent’ court of appeal for complaints against the BBC will be the Ofcom Content Board. The end of the BBC being totally its own judge and jury on these matters is supposed to herald the dawn of …
Pro-EU zealot quietly dropped from Ofcom content board
Hallelujah! Quietly, a significant positive development in the broadcasting establishment may have occurred. Might it be that the government is at last waking up to that the liberal figures who occupy the key regulatory posts are a menace to Brexit? The current deluge of anti-Brexit propaganda emanating primarily from the BBC, but also from Ofcom-regulated services such as Channel 4, …
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