Is the BBC biased?
...and any other matters that take our fancy
Sunday, 24 January 2021
One for BBC Trending?
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Sounds interesting, Marianna. But what about daft MSM conspiracy theories promoted by political editors of major UK broadcasters, like the...
JoJo gets a coming-out present from the BBC
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Some people aren't impressed that the JoJo story [ JoJo Siwa 'never been more happy' after coming out ] is on the BBC News home...
Inevitably
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Andrew Marr had the Israeli health minister Yuli Edelstein on today to talk about Covid and vaccines. I guessed yesterday that Mr Marr w...
It's one muddy marathon after another
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For those who missed it, here was Andy Marr's intro this morning : Good morning. Everyone seems to agree - this is a race. We vaccinat...
Hugs
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As StewGreen notes , at her first press conference Fox News's Peter Doocy asked Jen Psaki tougher questions than Jon Sopel: Peter Do...
Frustration at 'Panorama'
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Sticking with the same paper... The Mail on Sunday 's Jonathan Bucks reports that BBC journalists working on a John Ware-fronted Pan...
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
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It's a strange sensation, dipping into the Sunday papers online and finding The Mail on Sunday going heavily with the BBC Teach tellin...
Saturday, 23 January 2021
"So embarrassing"
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Did you see Jon Sopel's first question to Joe Biden's new press secretary Jen Psaki ? Did it make you cringe? Neither of them too...
'Woke' defence work from the BBC website
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Gingerly re-entering culture war territory, I spotted a BBC article and a response from Raheem Kassam on Twitter: The links for the two pi...
In which Nick Robinson lets himself down
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If only BBC journalists like Nick Robinson could resist the temptation to go for the easy 'gotcha'. And I'm not talking about ...
First the came for...
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It's perhaps a sign of how the particular the focus of BBC Trending's disinformation unit is (tunnel vision maybe?) that they are ...
The Case of the Deleted Tweet
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A Twitter mystery. Earlier today Emily Maitlis posted a tweet about crowds at a London airport with a cryptic remark that I can't qui...
TV tears at teatime
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A letter to The Telegraph :
Larry King 1933-2021
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An interviewer with a very different style to most interviewers today, Larry King has died aged 87. The BBC News Channel bungled their ann...
Another of our stories is missing
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The extraordinary civil war in the SNP between supporters of Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon is proving gripping if nothing else, and n...
The view from the US embassy
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The BBC's Dan Johnson ( best known as 'the Cliff guy ') was on droll form on Radio 4 this morning , making light of the whole...
And almost finally...
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Yesterday brought us the news that Nissan has committed itself to a long term future in Sunderland, with 6,000 jobs now seeming secure an...
Punchline
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Good comic timing here ...and not from HIGNFY:
A mass revolt against the BBC licence fee?
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It was always going to be interesting to see how many over-75s would willingly pay for the BBC licence fee after the corporation welched on ...
Nitty-gritty
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Matthew Moore, Media Correspondent of The Times , reports today that the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit has chucked out a complaint ...
The size of Wales
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The news that the BBC spent over £1m of licence fee payers' money on external lawyers to fight the likes of Samira Ahmed over equal p...
Not for long...
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As has been discussed here earlier in the week , blog favourite Daniel Sandford, Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News, became a news st...
Another Pause for Art
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It's not the first time that we've featured a painting by Simon Palmer , the master of moss of lichen. This one is called Pennin...
Friday, 22 January 2021
Robert Peston is driving Newsnight's Deb Cohen insane!
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As Charlie spotted... If there's one thing ITV's political editor Robert Peston is known for - other than his unique manner of deliv...
"A gaggle of blubbing, gushing, babbling groupies"
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This is well-put by Gerard Baker in The Times re the inauguration of Joe Biden and the media: Those solemnly self-important purveyors of f...
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Offski
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“To lose one licence-fee-paying household, Mr. Davie, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose 450,000 looks like carelessness.” So said ...
The toxic legacy of Jon Sopel
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Historian and novelist Allan Mallinson was listening to Radio 4's Today this morning and heard Jon Sopel talking of "the toxic ...
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Mid January Open Thread
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A new open thread, for when the old one feels like retiring... Thanks, as ever, for your comments.
What next for Jon Sopel?
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As discussed on the open thread , Jon Sopel has a piece in the Daily Telegraph today which ends: But the real fragility of American democ...
Monday, 18 January 2021
Did 'Panorama' use statistics in a misleading light tonight?
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"I can't breathe!" These same words were uttered two years later by George Floyd whose death sparked outrage on both sides of...
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