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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