Following on from last night’s post about the latest BBC faux-pas,

here is a BBC Newsnight interview of Peter Fincham, Controller of BBC One, the man who presented the fabricated clip of the Queen to journalists on Wednesday, saying, according to David Silitto’s report, “yes, it looks as though she stormed out”, as he did so. BBC Newsnight: Peter Fincham interview BBC Newsnight interview of Peter Fincham, Controller of BBC One Full post still to follow. Click through to read and … Continue reading

Today the BBC was forced to issue a grovelling apology

to Her Majesty the Queen after showing journalists a preview trailer implying, actually, lying would be more accurate, that Her Majesty had stormed out of a photo shoot after a dispute with photographer Annie Leibovitz. Naturally enough, journalists being journalists, saw this clip of the queen apparently storming out of the photo shoot for the major news story it apparently was, and splashed it all over this morning’s newspapers. Unfortunately, … Continue reading

Open thread – for comments of general Biased BBC interest:

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 an invitation for general off-topic comments – our aim is to maintain order and clarity on the topic-specific threads. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog. Please scroll down to find new topic-specific posts. Hopefully, now that we’ve had a brief … Continue reading

Today’s Daily Mail reports Viewers’ fury at BBC as £300,000 of licence money is lavished on coverage of Campbell’s diaries

. Reporter Paul Revoir writes: BBC staff, viewers and politicians have accused the broadcaster of ‘overkill’ in its coverage of the diaries, which Mr Campbell himself admits have been sanitised to protect Tony Blair and the Labour Party. As well as three hour-long episodes which run nightly until Friday, the corporation has already carried lengthy interviews with Mr Campbell on Sunday AM with Andrew Marr and Radio 4’s Today programme. … Continue reading

According to BBC Views Online, the third most important story

in the world at the moment is ‘No sun link’ to climate change – a journalistic cut and paste job by a Richard Black of a new study by Mike Lockwood and Claus Froehlich published in the Royal Society’s journal ‘Proceedings A’. Black’s article is even more partial and one-sided than is admitted in the Jeremy Paxman quote here in our sidebar. He writes, for instance: “This should settle the … Continue reading

Open thread – for comments of general Biased BBC interest:

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 an invitation for general off-topic comments – our aim is to maintain order and clarity on the topic-specific threads. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog. Please scroll down to find new topic-specific posts. Note from one of the “editors” (not … Continue reading

Richard Littlejohn’s programme on Channel 4

last night, The War on Britain’s Jews?, was excellent and informative. Whilst we don’t often stray off of the BBC on this blog, I couldn’t help but wonder as I watched, why doesn’t the BBC do stuff like this? And then I read Littlejohn’s piece in last Friday’s Daily Mail, in which he wrote: A couple of years ago when the BBC approached me to make what they called an … Continue reading

Some refreshing honesty on BBC News yesterday.

Here are a couple of quotes from BBC reporter June Kelly’s package on the Ten O’Clock News covering the verdicts in the 21/7 terror trial: “A week earlier, they were part of a group of Muslim fanatics who brought chaos to the London transport system.” and: “It was said that these men wanted to stage a bigger and better attack than the 7th of July. They did come very close … Continue reading