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 →

I wonder how the BBC would cover a story where a BNP activist was arrested on a charge of murdering his Asian next door neighbour. Like this ? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

Blogger Mick Hartley spots the contradiction in this BBC story. (and it must just be one of those amazing coincidences that the Guardian is covering the same subject) Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

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. 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 →

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 →

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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 →

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 →

in their coverage of the publication of Alistair Campbell’s sanitised diaries – you’d almost think they have a three-part series to promote (BBC2, Wednesday 8pm, Thursday 8pm and Friday 7pm – just to catch you out). Michael Crick on Newsnight concluded his filmed piece on the Campbell diaries with: Crick: “This journal doesn’t match those of Richard Crossman, Tony Benn or the right-wing Tory Alan Clark, [pause] seen in these … Continue reading →