Is the BBC biased?

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Friday, 20 November 2020

Just 60 or so words

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It's impossible to keep up with the BBC at the moment.  Their reports and articles, like infinite numbers, seem far too many in number f...

“This is my aniconism” says Auntie

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  A guest post by Arthur T BBC News -  St Albans Cathedral's black Jesus is a 'bold statement' A picture of the Last Supper show...

How the Rot Set In

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      Robin Aitken gives a fine 10-minute talk on this New Culture Forum video (posted below).  A former BBC man himself, he describes how ...

The Comedy Club

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The comic stylings of the BBC's North America editor-turned-stand-up comedian, Jon Sopel, continue to tickle the funny bones of his admi...

Hope Springs Eternal

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The other day  I read  Peter Hitchens saying, "I was inoculated against optimism at an early age, and it has served me well all my life...

The full story?

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  Before I went to bed last night I noticed that the BBC News website was leading with the summary of a draft report looking into allegation...
Saturday, 14 November 2020

November's First Open Thread

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  Thank you for your support and comments.

Samira's Adventures in Wonderland

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The main question on this week's Newswatch   was: "What language is unacceptably racist for BBC News?". Here we went down the ...

BBC turn a blind eye t'ward Albert Island

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A guest post by Arthur T  This story caught my eye the other day:  City Hall to relocate from central London to the East End Various extract...

Back to Square One

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  To echo Charlie on the Open Thread, it's a good thing that Jane Garvey hasn't left the BBC yet because I bet she saw a fair few ch...

Samira takes aim and fires

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  Samira Ahmed wasn't wrong on this week's Newswatch when she said: I t can often seem that journalists are unduly fascinated by th...

Experts now fear...

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  Talking of the omnipresent Marianna Spring, she was also on BBC One's lunchtime news today.  The BBC has now declared Georgia for Joe ...

The BBC's Selfie Queen

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If 2011 was The Arab Spring then 2020 has been The Marianna Spring - at least as far as the BBC goes.  Marianna Spring  is the BBC's spe...

Gotcha!

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  When does the political becomes personal? When still at Sky News, Lewis Goodall famously had an extremely bruising six-minute encounter w...
Sunday, 8 November 2020

"It should not have been shown and we apologise for the offence caused"

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Three weeks ago we published a post about Melanie Phillips's strong criticism of the BBC for allowing BBC Arabic to broadcast a piece ...

From today's papers...

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Though regarding BBC Radio 4's afternoon plays as "vital" for our national culture, especially in a time of lockdown, that doy...
Saturday, 7 November 2020

Gloating

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Jon Sopel was in full gloating mood on BBC One this evening.  Though he's happy at the moment, I think he's going to end up missing ...

The BBC has spoken

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  As you know, the USA has been on tenterhooks for days, waiting for the true arbiters of the US election to deliver their verdict.  And fin...

Talking Trump (BBC-style)

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The latest BBC departee to speak out - Mr Mark Mardell, formerly of The World This Weekend -  said this on yesterday's Feedback : I mea...

Over to Tim

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My friend David Keighley from News-watch has posted a fabulous open letter to the BBC's DG Tim Davie today at The Conservative Woman . ...

Tying up loose ends

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In a former blogging life  I repeatedly railed against pro-EU bias  on an obscure BBC programme called  The Record Europe .  It was meant to...

The end of populism?

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* From John Simpson's interview with Geeta Guru-Murthy this lunchtime, it looks as if the BBC believes that the 'populist balloon...
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