: The BBC has admitted that Alan Yentob, the corporation’s creative director, has performed “noddy shots” on interviews that he did not personally conduct for his arts series Imagine. In the first instance of a senior BBC executive being drawn into the TV trust issue, a senior corporation source admitted to MediaGuardian.co.uk that Mr Yentob often does not conduct all the interviews on Imagine – even though he appears nodding … Continue reading →

on BBC Views Online yesterday – a fawning and uncritical analysis of Labour’s school building program – a nice companion piece to last night’s BBC Ten O’Clock News that featured Gordon Brown visiting the very same school on the same day – what a happy coincidence.   Gordon Brown: “This school’s great!”, BBC: “It really is a school of the future!” Biased BBC reader Ayayay commented: The story basically says, … Continue reading →

I’ve set up an RSS feed for Biased BBC via Feedburner (with a redirect from our previous blogspot provided RSS feed). Those who wish to use RSS to read Biased BBC can do so by clicking on the link in our right hand panel. So far, according to Feedburner’s daily estimate, we have around ~250 daily readers that we didn’t know about before, in addition to our normal web readership, … Continue reading →

, informing us that: Germany, which has soldiers in Afghanistan but did not send troops to Iraq, has been largely spared terrorist attacks. Cause and effect you see. Apart from all the Islamist terror attacks and atrocities in countries that didn’t send troops to Iraq or Afghanistan… Thank you to Biased BBC reader champagne bottles for the link. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

, referring throughout to his ‘militancy’. Does this mean that, in common with many Londoners, the BBC regards Mr. Crow as some kind of terrorist? Or is it just further evidence of the BBC’s egregiousness in referring to real terrorists as ‘militants’? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

Please use this thread for BBC-related comments and analysis. Please keep comments on other threads to the topic at hand. N.B. this is not (and never has been) an invitation for general off-topic comments, rants or use as a chat forum. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog. Please scroll down to find new topic-specific posts. Click through to read and contribute comments on this … Continue reading →

to the question I asked yesterday (see post below) as follows: The piece you are referring to was made by the independent film-maker Jamie Campbell. The BBC has said it was not good practice to reorder the sequences, but that the overall sense of the piece was not significantly changed. I am convinced there was no intention to deceive the viewer and that the ordering of the two sequences was … Continue reading →

of David Cameron (see posts below) she has written Bribery and wedding bells in the Sunday Times, explaining, among other things: I asked Cameron whether he had met anyone who would get married for £20 a week, because that’s the question everyone asked themselves when Iain Duncan Smith’s social justice policy group unveiled its married couple’s tax break a few months ago. …which is certainly not how it came across … Continue reading →