BBC Chairman: Broadcaster’s Critics ‘Couldn’t Cope’ Without Their Content
Former BBC chairman Sir David Clementi has said the broadcaster’s critics would find they “cannot cope” without their content if they actually had a choice to not pay for it.

Former BBC chairman Sir David Clementi has said the broadcaster’s critics would find they “cannot cope” without their content if they actually had a choice to not pay for it.
When, last summer, the BBC acquired a new chairman Tim Davie he promised to deal with the organisation’s overabundance of left-wing comedy.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and husband Prince Harry had their team contact the BBC to tell them to make sure panels discussing their tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey were not populated by “old white men”, according to reports.
China launched a scathing new attack Wednesday on Britain’s ambassador in Beijing over an article she wrote on media freedom.
More than one-third of Britons think that the BBC is “too woke”, with more than half believing it is not value for money, the findings coming as a wave of pensioners reportedly refuse to pay licence fees.
According to a post on the British Broadcasting Corporation website, the BBC aired an interview with someone posing as Sen. Cory Booker.
The United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) said on Friday it has asked the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to furnish proof that Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, the 35-year-old daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, is alive and well.
BEIJING (AP) – The European Union on Saturday called on China to reverse its ban on the BBC World News television channel imposed in apparent retaliation for Britain’s pulling of the license of state-owned Chinese broadcaster CGTN.
China’s Global Times government propaganda newspaper dismissed the BBC as a “rumor mill” that had threatened China’s “national security” in a justification of the Communist Party banning the global broadcaster.
“There are loads of people who think it isn’t worth going on. And it’s about time some bloody Secretaries of State understood this!”
Communist China’s state broadcasting regulator has pulled Britain’s BBC World News from its airways for alleged content violation, including on impartiality and undermining the repressive regime’s ‘ethnic solidarity’.
Cambridge University and the BBC have become the latest British establishment institutions to have been accused of working in step with the dictatorship in Beijing, after signing deals with a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tied tech giant.
Some three-quarters of a million pensioners who would have previously been afforded a free television licence have refused to pay after the rules were changed, creating a substantial resistance to the television tax that funds the BBC, according to reports.
The BBC has added trigger warnings to the American sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and British comedy classic Blackadder, claiming that they contain “discriminatory jokes” which may cause “offence”.
Australia on Thursday called on the United Nations to investigate reports revealing that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has instituted a system in which Uyghur and other ethnic minority women in the nation’s concentration camps are “systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured.”
The EU is haemorrhaging goodwill over its handling of the corona vaccine, as pro-Brussels outlets line up to criticise the bloc’s leadership.
Olivia Newton-John hit back Tuesday at critics who attacked the BBC’s airing of the classic hit 1970s musical Grease over Christmas and called it racist, sexist, homophobic and “slut-shaming.”
Britain’s publicly funded broadcaster, the BBC, has been branded a “complete joke” after it was revealed it has offered staff a one-hour course on how to drink water. During the coronavirus pandemic, the BBC has produced a series of so-called
The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) has come under fire for a programme aimed at prepubescent children which claimed that there are “over 100” gender identities.
The BBC has apologised for calling the convicted murderer Phil Spector a “talented but flawed” music producer when reporting on his death in prison.
The publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is under fire after choosing to describe celebrity murderer Phil Spector as merely a “talented but flawed producer” in the headline of a report on his death in prison.
The BBC forwarded advised readers to wear masks and avoid face-to-face positions while having sex to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Personally, the BBC is about the last place on earth I’d trust with my children’s education. Its wokeness is relentless and all-pervasive.
“You would if they were black,” claimed LBC host and BBC alum Shelagh Fogarty, before Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt was shot dead.
Before airing a 1971 Christmas special, it issued a warning on BBC iPlayer: ‘Contains discriminatory language which some may find offensive.’
Some UK viewers who caught the BBC’s airing of the classic hit 1970s musical “Grease” over Christmas were aghast at its content, slamming the John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John-starring musical as an affront to their sensibilities.
A woke BBC comedian has called out Ricky Gervais for telling insensitive jokes about ‘trans’ people. Heres the funny part…
BBC diversity chief June Sarpong has insisted that “white privilege” is a fact and white people “will never be discriminated against” for their race.
British actress Joanna Lumley said Thursday people who work in the arts are “brave” and “not moaners… because they’re used to knock-backs all the time,” but added this year has “pushed people into the most dreadful situations” as she pleaded for financial support for show business people in need.
Sir David Attenborough — the BBC’s chief green propagandist — has described his joy on hearing that President-elect Biden plans to drag the U.S. back into the Paris climate agreement.
An audit of the BBC’s “comedy” output found that only four out of 364 slots went to comics who openly supported Brexit or the Conservative Party, while 268 went to “brazenly left-wing comedians”.
“Britain’s weather is getting wilder,” claimed the BBC on a Panorama documentary this week. This is actually untrue, but the BBC knows it can get away with blatant lies about climate change these days. Partly, this is because the sensible people who might object stopped watching the BBC long ago. And partly because there is no one left in the mainstream media left to criticise it.
The Vicar of Dibley — the BBC comedy show designed to reassure viewers that Christianity has nothing whatsoever to do with faith, religion or belief in God — has embraced Black Lives Matter. Dawn French, the painfully woke comedienne who
BBC Studios, the largest producer of content in Great Britain, is imposing a 20 percent diversity quota on all new productions in an apparent effort to boost the visibility of ethnic minorities, LGBTQ individuals, and people with disabilities.
The UK’s media watchdog Ofcom has warned the BBC that it is losing its core audience of older viewers, the report coming after the broadcaster has actively sought to attract younger viewers and prioritise diversity.
Christmas mainstay Fairytale of New York will be censored by the BBC this year because it fears sensitive listeners will be offended by some of the lyrics.
British-American relations under a potential Biden presidency are off to a bad start, with the 77-year-old Democrat declining to give comment to the British press, saying: “The BBC? I’m Irish.”
Definitely one of President Trump’s greatest achievements in his first term was his withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.
CNN media reporter Brian Stelter lost his temper during a BBC Radio 4 roundtable at the suggestion that mainstream media newsrooms had shown poor ethics and a double standard in their breathless reporting of the “Russia collusion” hoax.
The chairman of a Welsh football club is launching an investigation into why players did not kneel to Black Lives Matter ahead of a match.