The BBC seems to have appointed Radio 4 Today presenter Nick Robinson as its defender-in-chief. Back in April, he told those who thought the Corporation was biased against Brexit that they were wrong. The referendum was over, so there was no longer a need to strike a balance between the two sides. He has been in action again, this time …
New BBC drive for onscreen ‘diversity’ swamps need for Brexit impartiality
Last week, the key people responsible for making UK television programmes gathered for the biennial Royal Television Society Cambridge convention, aimed at tackling the main issues facing the industry. What emerged from the gathering rammed home that as long as public subsidy drives and feeds the industry, those managing it seem less concerned with entertaining and informing audiences than with …
Talk Radio’s Julia Hartley Brewer slams BBC post-Brexit bias
Transcript of Talk Radio, Julia Hartley-Brewer interview with David Keighley, News-watch, 13 September 2017, 12.03pm JULIA HARTLEY-BREWER: First up, a fascinating story that I wanted to get to, because it was something that did concern me at the time, this is something that went back all the way to the end of August last year, a couple of months, of …
Farage demands BBC apology for ‘blood on hands’ race hate claims
Nigel Farage has responded to the latest developments in the Harlow killing of last August. He has demanded an apology for a BBC2 Newsnight package which included claims that he now had ‘blood his hands’ The full story is here. https://twitter.com/LBC/status/907326671803609088
BBC’s Harlow ‘Brexit race hate’ claims debunked
On August 31 last year, the £1billion taxpayer-funded BBC news machine went into what can only be described as incontinent anti-Brexit overdrive in response to the killing of a Polish man in Essex. This, its headlines declared, was being regarded as a race hate killing triggered by the Brexit vote two months earlier. It emerged on Friday at the final …
BBC Chiefs defend anti-Brexit ‘balance’
Two very senior voices from within the BBC bubble – David Jordan, the BBC’s director of editorial policy and standards, and Ric Bailey, the BBC’s chief political adviser – have penned a rare and important joint piece for a somewhat out-of-the-way pro-public-broadcasting media site called journalism.co.uk headlined Impartiality and the BBC – ‘broad balance’ in a two-horse race. It concerns the BBC’s …
There is plenty of good Brexit news, we’re just ignoring it
Guest post by Kathy Gyngell. This Article first appeared on the i. It is difficult to believe something is good or going well when everyone around you tells you it’s not; when you are confronted with an unmitigated diet of negative stories whenever you turn on the TV or open a newspaper. I am talking about Brexit. From the current …
Evan Davis cranks up BBC anti-Brexit rhetoric
Scenting Tory blood, the BBC cranks up its anti-Brexit propaganda. That was the conclusion I reached at the end of the BBC’s shameless last week of anti—Brexit coverage a year on from the referendum victory. The Tories’ election debacle appeared to have given them carte blanche to revolt. Now they have declared all-out war. Last night on Newsnight Evan Davis used that time-honoured tactic …
BBC SPINS FRUIT FARMS MIGRANT LABOUR ’SHORTAGE’
This is a guest post from Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? A couple of mornings ago Today sent a reporter to a fruit farm in Godalming and brought back a large punnet of Brexit-related gloom. Nick Robinson introduced the report with these words: Zoe Conway’s report included various hard-working, efficient migrant workers (as she portrayed them) worried about …
BBC ‘leaders’ debate was programme car-crash
The so-called ‘leaders’ debate on BBC1 last night was a car crash of a programme that should never have been broadcast. ‘Balance’ was never going to be possible in a set-up involving five strident left-wing parties ranged against two from the ‘right’. Those at the Corporation paid substantial salaries to achieve ‘impartiality’, including the Director of News, James Harding, should …