Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said that he is not “the least bit surprised” by a poll which found that trust in the mainstream media, notably the BBC, has dramatically fallen amongst people on the left and right of the political spectrum.
In both cases, the programmes were only recently created, being first broadcast between 17 and 10 years ago.
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.
BBC anchor Emily Maitlis has not apologised for a rant against Dominic Cummings which the broadcaster admits broke the rules on impartiality.
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.
Analysis by a media monitoring body has found that leftist groups which advocate for higher public spending appear more often in the media that right-wing groups that support less spending of taxpayers’ money.
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.
Half of Britons want to the television licence axed and for the BBC to earn its own money, according to a poll.
A Today guest editor has accused the BBC of being a “secular church” that “preaches” on climate change, telling listeners of the difficulties he had getting underrepresented voices on the issue onto the programme.
A BBC editor has complained that Number 10’s boycott of Radio 4’s Today programme is a “Trumpian” plot to “delegitimise” the broadcaster.
Most Britons do not trust BBC journalists to tell the truth, according to a YouGov poll.
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.
A poll has revealed that nearly two-thirds of Britons think that the BBC is biased.
Douglas Murray has criticised the BBC for inviting him onto a programme to discuss woke culture, only for the presenter to ambush him with offence archaeology in order to derail Mr Murray’s argument and effectively ‘cancel’ him live on air.
I was so pleased to meet just about the world’s only sensible Greenie, Mike Shellenberger. Shellenberger used to be a deep green activist – pushing heavily for renewables – but then saw the light.
John Humphrys had said the BBC’s liberal bias had resulted in sympathetic, rather than neutral, reporting on transgenderism and open doors immigration.
John Humphrys, the veteran British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalist who helmed its flagship Today programme for 33 years, exposed the publicly-funded broadcaster “institutional liberal bias” within days of his retirement.
Calls have been made for the BBC to scrap the licence fee and move to a subscription model in light of the new rules which say that pensioners will no longer get their tv licence for free.
Citizen journalist and street organiser Tommy Robinson has released another undercover recording of top BBC journalist John Sweeney, this time revealing a boozy champagne lunch paid for by the corporation, and which cost more than a single household’s whole annual licence fee spend.
Brexit architect Nigel Farage has labelled the BBC the “Biased Brussels Corporation” after it was revealed the tax-payer funded broadcaster has received more that £4 million in funding from the European Union.
One of the BBC’s most popular quiz shows on Radio 4 has been found guilty of anti-Tory bias after broadcasting a joke attacking the Prime Minister Theresa May.
The BBC was forced to remove an educational cartoon aimed at children which claimed that the UK had always been “multicultural” and “there was no such thing as a pure Brit” after the tax-payer funded broadcaster accepted it breached its own impartiality rules.
The BBC has run a story headlined ‘Brexit threat to sandwiches’, citing an unnamed “senior grocery executive”.
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’s news editor has defended their initial lack of coverage of the Telford of grooming revelations, insisting the corporation is doing the “right thing” in relation to grooming gangs generally.
The BBC has attacked Anglicans after a study revealed that nearly nine out of 10 want immigration levels “reduced”, claiming that Christianity demands support for open borders.
Shadow Treasury Minister Clive Lewis has admitted pushing political bias in his work when he was a journalist at the BBC.
The BBC has overwhelmingly suppressed Eurosceptic views in its coverage of the European Union (EU) over the years, a study has found.
“Should anti-abortion campaigners be banned from standing outside abortion centres and urging women to change their mind?” asks BBC News in a five-minute report. Visiting an abortion clinic in London, outside which pro-life activists have “campaigned for years”, Leila Nathoo asks
An anti-Brexit group wearing “thank EU for the Music” T-shirts will be handing out EU flags to concert goers of the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms to lament what they see as the coming “Brexit Dark Ages” of culture.
Breitbart London’s Raheem Kassam blasted the BBC for asking him for interviews whilst continuing to refer to Breitbart News Network as ‘far right’, and said the broadcaster’s smears put his staff at risk of attack from Islamist and alt-left extremists.
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.
Parliamentarians from Britain’s leading parties have demanded the BBC end its anti-Brexit bias, or face being hauled before media regulators.
Jeremy Paxman, who presented the BBC’s flagship Newsnight programme for over two decades, has accused the organisation of being “partial” and “parastatal”, and called for the “antediluvian” licence fee to be scrapped.
A presenter on the BBC’s international radio service has had a furious debate with a Polish MP after she dismissed the views of the Polish people and berated his country’s resistance to EU migrant quotas.
