Is the BBC biased?

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Thursday, 1 April 2021

April Still Continuing Open Thread

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  Courtesy of Arthur T, a view of the ramps up to a famous rooftop racetrack - the Fiat Lingotto factory in Turin, Italy (1923) - to lead us...
Friday, 19 March 2021

March Still Continuing Open Thread

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  Thank you for your comments. Bring on spring! And the Open Thread really is continuing (above the closure post).  We close the blog, then...
Sunday, 14 March 2021

Closure Post

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To every thing there is a season. A time to blog, and a time to stop blogging. Due to too many circumstances to bang on about, both Sue and ...

A nest of singing birds

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  The Atticus column in The Sunday Times brings news of a revealing (if unsurprising) email : PM and Beeb coo in harmony Much has been said...
Saturday, 13 March 2021

Sir David Clementi's Last Stand

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Nebuchadnezzar (Blake) The outgoing BBC chairman Sir David Clementi has risked ridicule by using a very small-scale internal BBC study of 70...

Not taking it very well

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  Meanwhile, from an alternate universe near you ... Guess what's agitating these four people? Yes, they're talking about the BBC...

Roger Harrabin wins the battle

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  When we last met the BBC's ( environmental activis t) environment analyst Roger Harrabin he'd published 8 separate BBC News websi...

'Newsnight' and accuracy

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  In his regular Spectator column Charles Moore recounts how - and why - he spurned the BBC's advances earlier this week: On Tuesday, I...

Moving to Channel 5

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  Kate Humble on Channel 5 So Eggheads  Chris, Kevin & Co. are moving en masse  to Channel 5, along with Jeremy Vine, where they will do...
Friday, 12 March 2021

The BBC's bread magnet comes unstuck

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  Two critics of Nish Kumar The Independent quotes Nish Kumar's reaction to the BBC's cancellation of his The Mash Report : Respon...
Tuesday, 9 March 2021

"Why not BBC News?"

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Former newspaper political editor and ex-MEP  Patrick O'Flynn wasn't overly impressed with the BBC's behaviour this morning :  O...
Monday, 8 March 2021

Ofcom 'does a BBC' over Emily Maitlis

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  In news that's unlikely to surprise anyone hereabouts, we learn today that Ofcom won't be pursuing the BBC over Emily Maitlis...

Nick Robinson tweets

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I've no desire whatsoever to write about Meghan & Harry, but I think Nick Robinson's editorial on Twitter needs recording for p...
Sunday, 7 March 2021

Naga Munchetty wants us to talk about race

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  The BBC Press Team is retweeting the following tonight : Naga Munchetty : My BBC Panorama team and I have been working on this for a yea...

The BBC goes Fox hunting

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As a blogger, I sometimes feel as if I'm dancing in the dark (hopefully with Monica from Friends )   when it comes to the BBC . What on ...

Poetry please

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This morning's Sunday programme on Radio 4 was "a special programme to celebrate International Woman's Day.  It was classic Su...

Undiplomatic reporting from the BBC's Mark Lowen

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  The BBC News website's report on the historic meeting in Iraq yesterday between Pope Francis and  Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has ...

From Orwell to the Irwell

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   Rod Liddle's turn of phrase remains a thing of beauty. In his Sunday Times column today he writes about the Treasury's decision ...
Saturday, 6 March 2021

Clarification Time (again)

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Aficionados of the BBC's Corrections and Clarifications page have been treated to five new specimens this week.  The oddest one is the ...

'Why is "BBC Bitesize" Promoting Gender Ideology to Children?'

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( h/t Stew Green ) Here's a well-presented video from Caroline ffiske concerning the BBC's reaction to criticism over its promotion ...

"Should Jews count as an ethnic minority?"

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  To recap:  This week  BBC Two's  Politics Live   discussed Angela Rayner's remarks about the new Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwa...
Friday, 5 March 2021

‘Nothing is too good for the ordinary people’

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A Guest Post by Arthur T Amongst the flurry of EO reversals that Joe Biden has been signing willy-nilly - and a story that the BBC has faile...
Monday, 1 March 2021

The BBC defends their Slalom Witch Trial

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  LunchTimeLoather brings us news that the BBC has published its response to complaints about "their 'more BAME people should be ...

What the BBC chooses to cover, and how...

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  Here's a Twitter chat that might interested you.  I saw the BBC article they're discussing being plugged myself early this morni...
Sunday, 28 February 2021

Late February Open Thread

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  Flowers from Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh. Photo not taken by either Mr Salmond or Ms Sturgeon . Thank you for your comments and supp...

John Simpson Strikes Again

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  I'm not entirely sure that the BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson always realises quite how unhelpful he's being to the B...

A helpful suggestion?

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It happens every year. It's as traditional as cheese-rolling in Gloucestershire. Andrew Marr invites on the Chancellor of the Exchequer...

Redoubtable

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I wasn't looking at the TV during Andrew Marr's introduction this morning , just listening, but when he described one of his guests ...

"It's a simple law of nature"

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  Andrew Marr's public sector instincts leaked out this morning during the paper review. BBC reporter Nick Eardley was reading from a S...

In which Anthony Zurcher gets carried away and then repents

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  (h/t JunkkMale) "Tweet in haste, delete soon after" is becoming quite the BBC thing.  Senior BBC reporter Anthony Zurcher is the...
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