Tens of thousands of people have joined a campaign the defund the UK’s public-funded broadcaster as the backlash grows against the media outlet’s supposedly ‘impartial’ reporting.
The BBC has announced that it has employed a high-level bias-checker to ensure that the taxpayer-funded broadcaster appears impartial on social media. The announcement comes after public outcry following a news programme airing a politically-biased monologue.
The BBC will replace Emily Maitlis on Wednesday’s edition of Newsnight after the anchor took to the nation’s airwaves to denounce Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings in what has been ruled as a clear demonstration of bias.
Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has said that the BBC must abandon its “narrow urban outlook” and be sure to provide “genuine diversity of thought and experience” if it wants to survive.
The BBC has announced that it will cut 450 jobs from its news division, as well as scaling back the number of stories covered in an effort to save £80 million by 2022.
A top Labour Party MP has blamed the party’s historic election defeat under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn on bias against the party from the BBC.
BBC flagship political show Panorama’s John Sweeney has allegedly been caught referring to working-class men as being like “cannibals from Amazonia” in an undercover video released by Tommy Robinson.
Radio presenter James O’Brien has slammed the BBC for hosting right-wingers like Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, equating it to giving a platform to people who believe in unicorns, whilst admitting “routinely” breaking BBC impartiality rules when working there.
The BBC has run a segment claiming online reaction GIFs showing black people constitute “digital blackface” and “white people” using “dark-skinned emojis” are guilty of a “form of cultural appropriation”.
The International Trade Secretary has written to the director of the UK’s publicly funded broadcaster, accusing the corporation of “bias” coverage of Brexit.
A high proportion of top earners at the BBC have railed against Brexit and controlled migration, voicing broadly left-wing views. With Wednesday’s disclosure of BBC salaries, funded by ordinary Brits forced to pay the TV license fee, many people have
The BBC has been slammed for allowing the Proms to be hijacked by anti-Brexit stunts twice in a single weekend.
An extensive new report has found the BBC’s flagship morning news show was “strongly biased against Brexit” in the critical week when Britain triggered Article 50 and began its divorce from the European Union (EU).
UKIP have launched their economic policies for the general election with an excoriating attack on the UK’s massive foreign aid spending, as well as a promise to scrap the BBC licence fee.
The BBC no longer has a duty to “broadly balance” its coverage of Brexit, Nick Robinson, one of the broadcaster’s most senior political journalists, has said.
The BBC has been slammed for their allegedly “fawning” coverage of the death of Martin McGuinness after they repeatedly described him as “peacemaker” rather than a militant.
The BBC is harming the UK’s reputation by portraying it as a “xenophobic” nation regretting its vote to leave the European Union (EU), 72 MPs from across the political spectrum have claimed.
A BBC editor who selected an Islamic State sympathiser to feature in a documentary has been appointed as the corporation’s new head of religious programming.
The BBC has been accused of a “conflict of interest”, as it emerged that the corporation has taken more than £300,000 in funding from the European Union since the vote for Brexit. Critics say the payment is bound to lead
A Conservative Member of Parliament has slammed the BBC, claiming employees who talk negatively about immigration, the EU or doubt climate change are discriminated against.
The BBC has ceased upon a report, by a think tank run by left wing Labour party supporters, which open conflates criticism of Islam and racism to claim “islamophobia” on social media has “peaked” and imply censorship is needed.
A Labour peer, who last week launched a report on the future of public broadcasting, has called for a rethink on impartiality laws. Lord Puttnam said Brexit voters are ignorant, and his remarks have been echoed by BBC Today presenter
The first ever Muslim to hold the position of Head of Religion and Ethics at the BBC has insisted that Islamic State terrorists are Muslim, and are motivated by their interpretation of Islamic doctrine. Professor Aaqil Ahmed was speaking at
The BBC has suspended a news reporter who claimed Tyson Fury is a “laughable idiot” who is “harming” him on social media, in addition to promoting a petition demanding the boxer be dropped from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award
Being economical with the truth is a BBC speciality. After all it views the world through a prism of oh-so-trendy left-wing morality so massaging the truth into something more palatable to its own world perspective is, sadly, a given. Viewers had
The BBC is a lefty haven taken hostage by liberal “group think” and dysfunctional governance. It’s a criticism often voiced by those with a dislike for the lavishly-funded national broadcaster – including UKIP leader Nigel Farage – but now a former
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) edited out all mention of Jewish people from a front-line report on the liberation of Belsen concentration camp in Germany at the end of World War II, it has emerged. The corporation had not wanted to air the
