Is the BBC biased?
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Saturday, 25 January 2020
Miscellaneous: moving on
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Orla Geurin’s gratuitously appended remark about the Palestinians follows the same pattern as Tim Wilcox’s notorious and equally inapp...
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Nish Kumar does a Jo Brand
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As it says on his name-tag (lest he forgets) Just for prosterity, here's a comment from Monkey Brains that needs a post to itse...
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Things in life leave a mark
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Contemporaneous image I offer you a hand-made (not fully proof-read) transcript of the Today Programme featuring Jeremy Bowen’s take on...
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Ee ba gum
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A Yorkshireman Many people were taken aback by the appointment of Chris Mason to replace the younger Dimbleby as host of Any Questions...
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Lost for words
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The Times has an interview today with BBC Radio 4's new controller Mohit Bakaya. The funniest part of it came when Matthew ...
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Two views
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A happy fugue Is that the ghost of Sir Michael Winner I hear saying "Calm down dear!" to Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian...
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Will Mark Mardell get grounded?
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Mark Mardell's home from home Also according to the Daily Mail , programmes like The World at One and Today are facing cuts. ...
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Another petition
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Cancelled The Daily Mail reports that a petition to save Victoria Derbyshire's dreary TV show has now topped the 12,000 mark. O...
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John v Jane
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Hard-done-by Jane Garvey John Humphrys isn't letting go quite yet. Here he is giving Jane Garvey both barrels in his Daily Mail c...
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On Fergal Keane
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Fergal Keane Talking of Orla Guerin ( salary £160,000 to £164,999 ), her name often used to get linked with Fergal Keane ( salary £19...
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On Orla Guerin
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An unusually cheerful-looking Orla Guerin It isn't every day that a senior BBC reporter is condemned for being “unjustifiably of...
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Friday, 24 January 2020
BBC 'reporting'
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And tonight's BBC News at Ten gave just 17 seconds in total, midway through the bulletin, to today's historic events: Boris Joh...
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History in the making, despite the BBC
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History in the making, despite the BBC. The European Withdrawal Bill passed its final Parliamentary stages this week and received...
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Just One More Question
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( Via StewGreen ) Did you know that Newsnight is now carrying out investigations "in conjunction with" Greenpeace ?
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The BBC doesn't assent to reporting Royal Assent for Boris's withdrawal bill
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BBC One's News at Six and News at Ten both failed to report that Boris Johnson's withdrawal bill passed its final stage yesterday...
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Thursday, 23 January 2020
75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
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Holocaust Remembrance; 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The Russia v Poland debacle . Backstage drama. “Polish Pre...
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Coming off worse
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Details, mere details... Here's young Lewis on Twitter earlier today: It’s really fascinating how one 16 year old, powerless girl...
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...(which I first learned about in yesterday’s Times)
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Victoria Derbyshire tweets : Absolutely devastated at the plan to end our programme (which I first learned about in yesterday’s Times )....
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Generous tribute
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Robin Aitken pays a generous tribute to the outgoing D.G. but concludes thusly: "However the main item on the charge-sheet is ...
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Tuesday, 21 January 2020
Razzall Dazzle
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Newsnight 21st January 2020 Katie Razzall's intro looked promising. Things might be looking up! Judging from the build-up, it wou...
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Annual pre-Christmas routine
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In view of the BBC's silence on the persecution of Christians (apart from its yuletide Israel-bashing ritual) I felt like sharing this;...
Stig retreats
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Here's a little Twitter chat to brighten up your breakfast involving TLS editor/ Front Row presenter Stig Abell, the LSE's Charles...
Panorama's John Ware sues the Labour Party for libel
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John Ware's damning 10th July 2019 Panorama on antisemitism in the Labour Party provoked a predictable outcry from furious Corbynis...
"So BBC"
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Guido Fawkes is coming close to copying my 'Very BBC' catchphrase here 😄: James Harding, former Director of BBC News, self-co...
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Matt
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pic.twitter.com/2ztyJtqgxe — Simon McCoy (@BBCSimonMcCoy) January 20, 2020
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Another dramatic intervention by Lewis
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Newsnight 's new policy editor Lewis Goodall may have overruled the Government over the House of Lords but he's sticking up for HS...
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A dramatic intervention by Lewis
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The Government's plans to relocate the House of Lords up north (Morecambe?) took a serious hit yesterday as the BBC's Lewis Goodal...
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Colours
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The wonderful colours of a #MorecambeBay sky 😊 pic.twitter.com/k9DhRRI846 — MorecambeBay UK (@MorecambeBayUK) January 20, 2020
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A Knight in shining armour?
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Fedup2 at Biased BBC notes that the Conservative MP for Solihull, Julian Knight, is campaigning to become the new chair of the Parliament...
Monday, 20 January 2020
'Newsnight' goes Through the Looking-Glass
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Allison Pearson has been watching Newsnight tonight . Most of the programme was taken up discussing the BBC in the light of Lord Hall...
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