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BBC Bias Part 10

Mosey’s piece in the New Statesman addresses the question of bias directly. Emily Maitlis, he writes, laid out questions which the programme would address but “It was unambiguously clear what Maitlis’s own position was, and she stirred in words such as ‘fury, contempt and anguish’ to describe the national mood when a significant minority doesn’t… Continue reading BBC Bias Part 10

BBC Bias Part 9

There have been two interesting columns in the New Statesman, (one in the magazine, one online) on BBC bias and other issues about BBC News by Roger Mosey and Mark Damazer, both distinguished former BBC News executives. These are the best pieces I have read about the state of BBC News for some time. I… Continue reading BBC Bias Part 9

BBC Bias Part 8

Times Radio starts up soon. The Today programme may haemorrhage listeners. Talent is fleeing from BBC News, from Eddie Mair to John Pienaar. Emily Maitlis won’t be sacked, even if the BBC wanted to, because it is having too many problems with women presenters, most recently, Naga Munchetty, Samira Ahmed and Carrie Gracie. None of… Continue reading BBC Bias Part 8

BBC Bias Part 7

This is an understatement. Too many BBC reporters and presenters think they are addressing like-minded people, especially about Brexit, Johnson and Cummings. Damazer is wrong. Bias is not “rarely an issue”. It is a growing issue, on Twitter and on air. Why are there so many interviewees from Novara Media, an unrepresentative Leftist organisation? Why… Continue reading BBC Bias Part 7

BBC Bias Part 6

On 29 May, The Mail Online reported that the BBC had announced that Richard Sambrook, former head of BBC global news, will be heading an inquiry into whether tweets by BBC talent breach its impartiality policy. Sambrook has been in BBC News and Current Affairs for thirty years. For those of us who have been… Continue reading BBC Bias Part 6

BBC Bias Part 4

On Bias at BBC News, the main argument is that whatever you think of Boris Johnson or Dominic Cummings, we are entitled to unbiased news coverage from BBC TV and radio news. We are not getting it. When Emily Maitlis gave her controversial introduction on Newsnight, Social Media was ablaze, and there was an extraordinarily… Continue reading BBC Bias Part 4

BBC Bias Part 3

Jonathan Dimbleby admitted some of the BBC’s audiences are politically biased in 2015, but blamed Government cost-cutting for leaving the corporation “cash strapped” and unable to afford help with vetting, unearthed reports reveal. “It is hard to think of any BBC presenter who could be accused of a pro-Johnson bias. The traffic is all speeding… Continue reading BBC Bias Part 3

BBC Bias Part 2

In the last couple of weeks, the BBC has come under fire for its coverage, as many accused it of breaching its impartiality rules. At the end of May, BBC bosses were forced to reprimand Emily Maitlis over a monologue, in which she attacked the Government’s handling of Dominic Cummings’ trip to Durham during the… Continue reading BBC Bias Part 2

BBC Bias Part 1

Sorry, but it won’t wash. The most grievous example of “bias” that McDonald could come up with was a BBC reporter who on election night referred to the “election victory that Boris Johnson so deserves” rather than, as she meant to say, the election victory he so desires. Against that, we had six weeks of… Continue reading BBC Bias Part 1