Is the BBC biased?

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Thursday, 28 May 2020

Look before you leap

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Just over an hour ago I spotted a tweet from someone citing a Telegraph headline saying that Durham Police have ruled that Dominic Cum...

Monologue

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So, Emily Maitlis got angry and was given the night off. "So grateful to my friend and excellent colleague Katie Razzall for...
Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Lewis Goodall stands up for Emily Maitlis

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Lewis Goodall is clearly somewhat emotional tonight. He's just tweeted : So much to say but best to leave it for now given, for obv...

Final Thoughts (from Alex)

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Here's a sound thread from blog favourite Alex Deane: I make no friends saying this (such a change) & no doubt harm my own padd...

Pause for Thought

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Here's an interesting way of looking at the events of the past 24 hours from author of The Northumbrians Dan Jackson:  This Mait...

Developments

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The Guardian 's Jim Waterson reports that Emily Maitlis won't be presenting tonight's Newsnight as planned and that Katie ...

Lewis Goodall liked

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It looks as some Newsnight journalists aren't happy with the BBC's ruling: Lewis Goodall will have to be very careful. He...

The BBC rules that Emily Maitlis and Newsnight did not meet their standards of due impartiality

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The BBC has just released a statement about last night's Newsnight , criticising Emily Maitlis's opening monologue and ruling tha...

The media is running the country

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I’ve been searching online for a piece that most reflects my feelings on Cummingsgate. Somewhere, during this absolute waste of...

Other views

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Stephen Pollard : I'm very uncomfortable with this. Read these words on a page and they are an op-ed column, not a report. I think th...

Fury, contempt and anguish

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I see that Julia Hartley-Brewer, who thinks Dominic Cummings should go, is nonetheless as outraged as I am at Newsnight 's blatant br...

Viewsnight

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This is the year that any pretence of impartiality from certain quarters at the BBC finally ended, especially Newsnight. Emily Mai...
Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Distanced!

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The media has taken on the role of Her Majesty’s official opposition, which is quite understandable, given that the Labour party is sti...
Monday, 25 May 2020

Who's the biggest liar?

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We’re supposed to be talking about the BBC but I think Sky surpassed the BBC (and itself) on today's bias Olympics. After Dominic Cum...
Sunday, 24 May 2020

Balancing act

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“20 years ago today the Israeli army killed my friend and BBC colleague Abed Takkoush in South Lebanon. They fired a tank shell into his c...

What the people want

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I wish Andrew Marr would level with and just say “we’re campaigning to have Dominic Cummings sacked so that we can usher in that nice Sir K...
Saturday, 23 May 2020

Alarming news

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I haven’t watched the BBC for a few days, but the radio alarm (literally) woke me up with the *alarming* news about Dominic Cummings.  ...

What shall we do?

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When artists describe themselves as ‘self-taught’ - which they often used to announce boastfully - one could interpret that as a warning t...
Thursday, 21 May 2020

Political choices. Part 2.

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While I’m aware that this topic represents something of a minority interest and many visitors to sites like this will scroll past as soon a...
Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Political choices

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Antisemitism is just a political choice. Remembe r that! (One has to wonder, though, if the same can be said  of Islamophobia and all other...
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