Is the BBC biased?

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Monday, 28 March 2022

March Open Thread

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Pinch, punch, first of the month! Mad March Open Thread                                                                  Your comments are m...
Sunday, 27 March 2022

Women

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  before and after On the same theme as the last post, following complaints the BBC changed a website article overnight. The piece by BBC ...
Saturday, 26 March 2022

Very Radio 4

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It sounds as if Radio 4's Tom Sutcliffe was taking the easy option last night: Women's Rights Network :  Last night BBC Front Row ...

Questions

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If William and Kate's Caribbean tour was “a PR disaster”, as the BBC's royal correspondent Jonny Dymond claims, there's a questi...

John Simpson, Lord Grade and Ofcom

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As discussed on the open thread, the news that Michael Grade - previously controller of BBC1, chief executive of Channel 4, chairman of the ...
Friday, 25 March 2022

Edits, fake news and BBC misreporting

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That people on Twitter - especially anti-Brexit people - would put out and spread a 25-second clip 'showing' Boris Johnson looking i...
Wednesday, 23 March 2022

Friends Reunited

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I continue to have lots of conflicting opinions about Julian Assange.  I, therefore, still don't quite know what to make of him, or how ...
Sunday, 20 March 2022

Business as usual

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Meanwhile, the usual goes on as usual... I saw a tweet from Douglas Murray responding to this tweet from Justin Trudeau: The attack on con...

Where is Ukraine?

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“BBC chiefs are lining up journalist and newsreader Clive Myrie to replace Emily Maitlis on Newsnight , The Mail on Sunday can reveal”, say...
Saturday, 19 March 2022

Two out, one back in

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Another of our old BBC favourites, retired BBC veteran Hugh Sykes,  took to Twitter the other day  in light of the BBC's Ukraine coverag...

John Simpson takes issue with Ofcom over Russia Today

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Russia Today's UK licence has been revoked by Ofcom. Ofcom says RT isn't "fit and proper to hold a UK broadcast licence". ...

'The BBC should correct this, it’s totally misleading and confusing and wrong'

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Talking of Andrew Marr, his old editor at BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show is now his new editor on his LBC show.  Yes, our old friend Ro...

Getting their own voices back

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Dr Philip Cunliffe, Senior Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, is someone I follow on ...

Comic Relief: another fall in 'white saviours' contributing?

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Last night's  £43 million for  Comic Relief looks to be following a trend.  Here are the previous totals listed on the charity's o...

50:50

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Here's an interesting Twitter thread from someone called Marwood who identifies on his bio with William Clauston's Social Democrati...
Monday, 14 March 2022

A hae ma doots

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  (Didn’t know I was Scottish, did you?)   We’ve been pretty quiet on the BBC’s coverage of the War / Special Operation in Ukraine. The BBC...
Monday, 7 March 2022

More on Mark Easton

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I may not be watching BBC News at the moment but I can guess what certain reporters are up in their broadcasts from their tweets - especiall...
Sunday, 6 March 2022

Amol Rajan, Evgeny Lebedev and Sir Ian McKellen

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I'm not sure if The Sunday Times story Boris Johnson’s Russian crony Evgeny Lebedev got peerage after spies dropped warning amounts t...

“The BBC’s hero in a hard hat” [ALERT: Bad language warning]

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Just catching up with Rosamund Unwin's Times interview with “the BBC’s hero in a hard hat” Clive Myrie. One paragraph follows on from ...
Saturday, 5 March 2022

The BBC and the Russian invasion of Ukraine [and an EXCLUSIVE behind-the-scenes glimpse of an ITBB discussion]

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Craig : The BBC is being praised to the skies for its war coverage, and not only by itself and the usual suspects. Not that I've seen  a...

Jeremy Vine gets it about right, according to Jeremy Vine

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As discussed on the open thread Jeremy Vine revolted many people with a particular exchange with a caller on his moonlighting-from-the-BBC ...
Saturday, 26 February 2022

February Open Thread

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Time for the February open thread. Thanks for your comments and please keep them coming.

What do I know

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Such a pity Biden is ga ga and Putin is a maniac. But what do I know? I only listen to the media. Once again we’re in When the Wind Blows te...
Wednesday, 23 February 2022

Coda to Sue's post...

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So Mates and Soapless are off to join James O'Brien, presumably leaving The Zurch in the lurch.  It's worked out nicely for the Beeb...
Tuesday, 22 February 2022

Oh!

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    The Telegraph.   Hope you can all access the comments!   Quick summary for those who can’t : “Good riddance / we are all watching GB New...
Sunday, 20 February 2022

Listen With MAMA

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Radio 4's Sunday had a very odd feature this morning. It concerned a perennial Sunday topic: 'Islamophobia'. The section began...

Rope-a-dope

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   I've learned a new phrase today, courtesy of Nick Robinson : “Rope a dope” is clearly Boris Johnson’s new tactic on partygate - he si...

Ukrainian affairs

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Peter Hitchens has the BBC squarely in his sights in his Mail on Sunday column this week .  I'm rather proud of having helped him , eve...

Did the BBC back up misperceptions during the Covid pandemic?

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Harry de Quetteville, special correspondent at The Telegraph , has a report on one epidemiologist's view of how we reacted to Covid.  O...

Alan Cochrane on the BBC's reporting of the SNP

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The Telegraph 's doughty Alan Cochrane today echoes Andrew Neil's concerns about the BBC's attitude to the SNP government at Ho...
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