Is the BBC biased?
...and any other matters that take our fancy
Friday, 18 October 2019
Kirsty v Paul
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Though Emily Maitlis continues to regularly retweet her ex- Newsnight colleague Paul Mason (as if they are still besties), there doesn...
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Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee Jest and Legal Jollity
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Jolyon Maugham QC may be a figure best known to those of us who spend far too much time on Twitter, but his various high-profile legal att...
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Radio 4 listeners II
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...And talking of 'just your average Radio 4 listener', Feedback is running a feature at the moment which aims to 'take Rad...
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Radio 4 listeners I
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The main story on tonight's Feedback was the BBC''s coverage of Extinction Rebellion. If the range of voices chosen by F...
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No mea culpa from Katya
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3/10 Katya Adler : "The chances of getting a deal now, between now and the EU leader's summit is zero , let's be honest....
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In other news...
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Of course there was big Brexit news yesterday, but Dame Louise Ellman's resignation from the Labour Party that she's been a member...
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Map
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This is quite interesting. The Turkish one seems apt: Map shows the first word of each European anthem. Source: https://t.co/nVJeHFGRfN...
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Thursday, 17 October 2019
Impartial, free and fair?
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Language Evan!
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Here's Evan Davis introducing his first guests tonight : Let us talk to a couple of MPs: Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen - a Brexitee...
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But...
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That said, Evan is being overly free tonight with the word "confirmatory" in connection with a second vote/referendum. He's...
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"Us"
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Evan Davis, on tonight's PM , has done the decent thing and admitted that he (and, presumably, his BBC colleagues) got it wrong: Bo...
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Tonight...
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I can't wait for the mea culpas from Katya & Co: Meanwhile…. BBC announces Brexitcast — the hit explainer Brexit podcast turne...
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Mystic Katya
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Fans of useless BBC punditry may especially relish this exchange from last week's Brexitcast on BBC One: Chris Mason : Katya, ...
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News about the BBC
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As per The Times : The BBC could be made to scrap the TV licence and charge a Netflix -style fee, the culture secretary has suggeste...
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Usual business
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Toby Young is disappointed : I tuned into Newsnight to see how close we are to the deal and am none the wiser. The usual adversarial for...
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Wednesday, 16 October 2019
No, they haven't
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One of the top three headlines on the BBC News website this morning is Have UK voters changed their minds on Brexit? It's a pi...
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Jon Sopel reports
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It is striking just how far Jon Sopel goes these days in turning his reports for BBC News into out-and-out anti-Trump editorials. He ...
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Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Rigging their reports?
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The Government's plans to tackle voter fraud by introducing a legal requirement for voters to show photographic identification before ...
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XR very much alive on the BBC
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XR's Zion Lights ( whose date with Andrew Neil didn't go too well . Maybe she should have tried Andrew Marr?) Though compla...
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All in an afternoon's work
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The fox that set the #FBPEs flapping and squawking today The BBC's Editor of Live Political Programmes, one Rob Burley (have I m...
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A devoted sister
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Is it important to know that Cordelia Rowlatt, the sister of the BBC's new Chief Environment Correspondent Justin Rowlatt, is an activ...
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I have a little list
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Fans of lists might be interested in reading the following - a list of those appearing on BBC One's State Opening of Parliament specia...
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Why indeed
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A headline in the Telegraph : Why should Boris kowtow to biased BBC presenters who say that he's a 'dictator'? That, of c...
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Numbers
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Talking of the BBC's Middle East editor, this is interesting from BBC Watch. They cite a Media Masters interview with Jeremy B...
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Twitter bantz
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Nick Bryant, BBC : If you were wondering what’s on the mind of the President of the United States this morning.... Donald Trump : Vote ...
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A chain of events
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Jeremy Bowen's latest column for the BBC News website is a dramatic read. It begins: It has taken a week to reshape the map of the...
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Monday, 14 October 2019
Nick Robinson speaks
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Nick Robinson, speaking at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literary Festival , has expressed his disapproval of LBC for giving ...
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Sunday, 13 October 2019
Connect 4
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Ah now, this is what you've all been wating for. Me, banging on about Mark Mardell again. So enjoy!... With my bias-focused glasse...
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'I can't see why you're laughing'-gate
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Is Andrew laughing now? I see that ' I can't see why you're laughing ' - gate has gathered momentum throughout the da...
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Blurring the boundaries
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The boundaries between reporting and campaigning at the BBC are getting ever more blurred. Earlier today I cited the BBC's Quent...
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