- Date: 08/07/19
- Daily Express
The BBC is facing a legal challenge over the way it monitors its impartiality amid accusations of biased coverage.
Crowdfunding group Stop BBC Bias is close to raising the £30,000 needed to seek a judicial review into the way the BBC meets its statutory obligation.
The case is being brought by ex-BBC producer and executive David Keighley. His News-Watch group has analysed the corporation’s coverage of issues such as Brexit for 20 years. The challenge comes as MPs urged viewers outraged at plans to scrap free licence fees for the over-75s to speak up.
People have until Friday to lodge their opinions with a group of MPs who will hold a public hearing this month.
Mr Keighley’s challenge is based on the fact that the BBC ensures impartiality by merely using two surveys of viewers.
“The idea that a small group of viewers in a survey thinks the BBC is impartial is different to it actually being impartial,” he said.
The BBC said: “The first [survey] is an ongoing monthly nationally representative survey by Kantar Media for the BBC that allows us to gauge public opinion on a regular basis.”
more evidence of BBC bias – actually subtitled ‘when sceptics tricked the public’.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-48925015/climategate-10-years-on-what-s-changed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48929632 They always have a comments section on such stories and the same people always contribute with exactly the same information. Ad hominem attacks are the norm. No sensible discussion ever.
The BBCs Modern bias, in my opinion, all stems from Mark Thompson’s reign as DG in the late Naughties, when he invited Al Gore to present his Inconvenient Truth to an internal BBC audience in their biggest studio TC1 at the now sold Television Centre. I was at that time working for the technical contractors to the BBC so was eligible to apply to attend, which I did. It was actually hosted by Andrew Marr. It was also recorded. At the end Mark Thompson clearly told the audience including BBC journalist to go forth and spread the message! The rest is history really.
I just remember thinking the BBC should not be influenced by what was effectively the political option of the then ex Vice President Al Gore.
It is not just “climate change”.
The 20,000 word internal Balen Report, on which the BBC spent more than £330,000 to keep details secret, found a consistent anti-Israel bias.
Current biases include anti-Trump, anti-Brexit, anti-Boris, anti-Saudi and pro-Mullah.
On the basis that every terrorist is somebody else’s Freedom Fighter the BBC has stopped their reporters and presenters from describing any incidents as Terror attacks ‘ (unless they are anti-Islamic, such as the recent massacre in New Zealand by a right wing fanatic).
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1138545
But this is not a new policy as this report from the left wing Independent shows.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/paris-attacks-do-not-call-charlie..
This is interesting, BBC apologised because they breached their editorial guidelines when they interviewed a former police officer who compiled a report about Extinction Rebellion possibly being an extremist group, yet they still stand by their approach to AGW.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1267382900068703/