Is the BBC biased?

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Friday, 25 November 2016

Letters from America

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Often, of a Friday night, blogs will post 'long reads' for the weekend.  Here's one for ITBB which I hope you'll enj...
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Thursday, 24 November 2016

Wonder why you don't say to those people, "Wouldn't you like to think again about Brexit?"

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As I was driving to work this morning,  the 7:40  Today  paper review made me laugh out loud . It began: Nick Robinson : Time for a...
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Israel fires 'trending'

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It seems like only yesterday I was blogging about the BBC’s lack of interest in the Arabic-speaking media’s outpouring of antisemitic bile....
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Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Biasnight

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The general point behind this tweet is, surely, a perfectly reasonable one: James O'B himself was back on Newsnight last nigh...
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ews...breaking news...breaking news...breaking news...breaki...

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BBC Breaking News  sent out this tweet at around 12.50 today: Shome mishtake, shurely? That echoed this on the BBC News website...
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Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Islamic extremism

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H/T commenter Sisyphus.  I must admit that when I stumbled across the BBC’s ‘ An Extremist in the Family ’ I was immediately struck by ...
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New batteries

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I watched the programme about Christie’s auction house the other day.  It just shows how appalling the art market is. A bunch of people wi...
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Twitter diplomacy

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My mother had a habit of breaking into song prompted by a random word or phrase that happened to pop up in the conversation. Eventually we ...
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Monday, 21 November 2016

Open Thread

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As things will probably be fairly quiet here for a day or two (sorry), here's an Open Thread.... I see Collins Dictionary has ann...
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Sunday, 20 November 2016

Open-mouthed Britain

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We’re all guilty - to a certain extent - of cherry-picking certain sound-bites and using them endlessly when it suits. I‘m thinking of Jere...
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Half an hour in the life of the BBC News Channel (continued)

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Susana Mendonça Continuing to focus on that 5.00-5.30 period on the BBC News Channel this afternoon (as part of my new, random-sampli...
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"It really is most bizarre"

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David Willis Here's more of the same, from the same BBC News Channel discussion between a BBC presenter and a BBC reporter. It ...
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BBCspeak

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Maxine Mawhinney There was an interesting little BBC-on-BBC exchange a few minutes ago on the BBC News Channel (re the latest appoint...
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