Is the BBC biased?

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Monday, 4 October 2021

Nadine Dorries on the BBC [among other things]

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Here are some quotes, with my reactions in parentheses, to Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries's appearance at the Conservatory Party Confe...

The BBC goes too far in point-scoring in drama even for 'The New Statesman'

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I don't watch many [i.e. any ] BBC dramas these days but heard Radio 4's Sunday plugging BBC One's Ridley Road yesterday. The ...

Respect

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R.I.P. Lars Vilks, the Swedish artist who draw a cartoon of the founder of Islam and spent fourteen years under police protection as a resul...
Sunday, 3 October 2021

'Our local hero'

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  Harry Cole, political editor of The Sun, tweeted this  while watching Andrew Marr and Boris Johnson slugging it out earlier :  Getting spi...

Some Sunday morning reading

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I According to The Mail on Sunday , Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries will use her conference speech to 'throw down the gauntlet to the B...
Saturday, 2 October 2021

blah blah blah

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'Officials from developing countries' are 'demanding' something, according to the BBC : This is presently the second story o...

Even the Guardian...

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There's been a lot of anger directed at the BBC today because of the BBC News website's reporting of the David Miller affair. David ...

On Jonathan Munro, the petrol pump panic and Carolyn's sister-in-law

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  This week's 'I think we got it about right' BBC editor on  Newswatch was Jonathan Munro, the BBC's Deputy Director of New...
Monday, 27 September 2021

September Continuing Open Thread

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  ''By putting a concern for neurodiversity at the heart of its design, the BBC’s headquarters in Wales has taken a radical approach...

News management

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After London primary school teacher Sabina Nessa was murdered, I saw plenty of comments about how the BBC was seriously underreporting the s...

Two and a half months later...

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On the open thread, Charlie referred to the BBC's 'reality check' of the causes of the lorry driver shortage, noting that it u...
Sunday, 26 September 2021

St Andrew and the Dragon

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It was fascinating watching Andrew Marr don shining armour and go into battle, lance raised, on behalf of damsel-in-distress Labour MP Rosie...
Thursday, 23 September 2021

Selective checking?

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I see that the BBC's rather selective Reality Check unit has fact-checked Boris Johnson's UN speech. Boris, therefore, joins Brazi...

A Tale of Two Takes

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The OECD's predictions for the world economy received some contrasting coverage this week. City AM headlined their take   OECD: UK musc...

Being kind

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A tweet from Jeremy Vine today... ...hasn't struck people as being very kind, or classy. Here's a flavour of the reaction: Genuine...
Wednesday, 22 September 2021

Nothing new under the sun

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  This won't be my finest post perhaps, and if it weren't for this blog I would never watch Newsnight  again... Newsnight isn't ...
Tuesday, 21 September 2021

Tim in the kittens' den

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   I've just caught up on the whole of Tim Davie and Richard Sharp's appearance at the Commons Culture Select Committee today. If yo...
Sunday, 19 September 2021

''BBC Hit By New Bashir Shame''

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“The BBC has a really grim bit of reading in The Mail on Sunday . This is another Martin Bashir-related story. Goes on for pages and pages a...

The Bishop of Radio 4's 'Sunday'

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   It's surely time now for David Walker, the go-ahead Bishop of Manchester, to be officially installed as Bishop of Radio 4's Sunda...

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It also wouldn't be Radio 4's  Sunday without what I used to call "the usual airing of Muslim grievances". This week'...
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