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Public urged to return BBC licences
By ADRIAN ROBERTS THE Stop the War coalition urged the public to return their BBC TV licences on Monday in protest at the corporation’s refusal to broadcast an emergency appeal for Gaza. The call
Read More »We will never work for the BBC again – actors and directors in Gaza protest
By EMILY PYKETT ACTORS and directors have warned the BBC they will not work for the corporation again if it does not broadcast the Gaza charity appeal. In a letter written to Mark Thompson,
Read More »BBC staff protest over decision not to show Gaza aid appeal
By Leigh Holmwood The BBC is facing a growing revolt from its own journalists over its decision not to broadcast the Gaza humanitarian aid appeal, with sources reporting “widespread disgust” within its newsrooms. BBC
Read More »Conspiracy Files: Lockerbie
By Paul Stott | Few terrorist attacks have had such contrary explanations as the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. Sunday evening at 9pm the BBC2′s Conspiracy Files enters the fray,
Read More »BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions
By Jane Corbin | A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq. For the first time, the extent to which some
Read More »BBC kept £106,000 of charity cash
By Leigh Holmwood | The BBC today apologised for keeping £106,000 made from premium-rate phone calls on about two dozen shows that should have been given to charity. In the latest scandal to hit the
Read More »The BBC as an Imperial Tool?
Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News At a time of growing public disenchantment with the major media, millions now rely on alternate sources. Many online and print ones are credible. One of the world’s most
Read More »BBC journalists arrested in Irish probe
Four BBC journalists were arrested at the weekend by Irish police monitoring the Real IRA, the dissident group responsible for intermittent violence in Northern Ireland. The four were among 11 men arrested and held
Read More »Fears of bias as BBC gets £141m in EU loans
Jonathan Oliver THE BBC last night faced accusations of pro-Brussels bias as it was revealed that the corporation had taken out £141m in “soft” loans from the European Union. The broadcaster has taken out
Read More »Lyric censorship heralds swansong for the BBC
TELEVISION Quality seems to be the very last thing on BBC execs mind, writes Declan Lynch THERE was a general air of stupefaction when the BBC bleeped the word “faggot” from Fairytale Of New
Read More »BBC should not decide how society develops
By Janet Daley What is the BBC for? You might think that there was a pretty straightforward answer to that question, or at least that the answer provided by Lord Reith (“to inform, educate
Read More »BBC to spend £500k on trust classes
Ben Dowell Two-hour classes to teach the BBC’s editorial staff how to avoid deceiving viewers are likely to cost around £500,000, the corporation revealed today. The director of the BBC’s college of journalism, Vin
Read More »BBC deliberately distorts Iran’s history
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has deliberately distorted Iranian history in a recently published news report. In the news report ‘Tajik capital’s last Lenin plea’ published on its website on Nov. 9th 2007, BBC
Read More »More Deception: BBC admits manipulating news footage
The BBC has admitted adding the sound of babies crying to footage of quintuplets born to a Russian woman. The original footage, distributed by an Oxford hospital of the five girls, had no audio.
Read More »More BBC Deceit: The 9/11 Hoax That Didn’t Quite Work
On September 11, 2007, the BBC published an article called “9/11 demolition theory challenged“, which described a research paper written by University of Cambridge senior lecturer Keith Seffen. Dr. Seffen, the BBC said, had
Read More »BBC on brink of internal war
Staff accuse ‘arrogant’ new trustees of standing in the way of radical reform By Tim Luckhurst The cuts endorsed by the BBC’s controversial new governing body, the BBC Trust, have started to bite.
Read More »Did the BBC Broadcast Fake News Reports?
David Miller A Spinwatch investigation has revealed that journalists working for the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) have been commissioned to provide news reports to the BBC. The BBC has been using these
Read More »BBC: Big Brother Cooperation
It’s a matter of alarm and concern that there are so many people out there who still believe that the BBC is a balanced and fair-minded source of news and current affairs. That belief
Read More »BBC Boycott
First, they axed Ozzie soap Neighbours. Then, they edited film footage of the Queen to make her look like a mardy old minnow. Now, the BBC plans to recover a £6 billion “shortfall” by
Read More »BBC rakes in adverts cash as heads roll in cost cuts
The corporation’s rivals and detractors are up in arms over claims of commercialisation James Ashton THE PARADOX will not have been lost on rebellious news heavyweights such as Jeremy Paxman and John Humphrys, who
Read More »BBC stars keep sky high pay, yet support staff face cuts
By Chris Hastings The BBC’s highest-paid stars including Jonathan Ross, Terry Wogan and Graham Norton will keep their huge pay packets despite drastic cuts to the corporation’s budget. The Sunday Telegraph understands that Mark
Read More »BBC controller quits over ‘crowngate’ scandal
BBC1 controller Peter Fincham resigned today in the wake of a damning report into misleading footage of the Queen. The most high-profile casualty in a string of TV fakery scandals, he was forced to
Read More »Measuring BBC bias reporting
Not a sheep I blogged yesterday about the blatant bias in the BBC’s coverage of the Labour and Conservative party conferences. In amongst that article was the following analysis of the BBC news “reaction
Read More »Iraq body count: BBC and other mainstream media use misleading figures
The mainstream media are continuing to use figures provided by the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) to sell the public a number for total post-invasion deaths of Iraqis that is perhaps 5-10% of the
Read More »BBC DJ apology over ‘fake’ phone-in – yet more and more BBC Total deceit uncovered
The Press Association Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley is due to make an on-air apology following the revelation that a staff member posed as a caller during a phone competition. In the latest fakery
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