BBC Question Time Complaint: Bias by Self-centredness
BBC Question Time on Thursday 8th September at 9pm concentrated on the UK or British Labour Party Leadership debate. Please note the term ‘UK or British’. The UK or British Labour Party leader is in a position of authority over the party in ...
Corbynism and the Corporation: BBC Bias and the Case for Media Transformation
In an interview for Jacobin magazine earlier this year, Jeremy Corbyn discussed his leadership campaign’s use of social media. He compared it to the situation in the early 1980s when the left of the Labour party, which was then still strong, was ...
The Broken BBC – From Public Service to Corporate Power
In the face of austerity cuts to state infrastructure provision, the British Broadcasting Corporation has recently generated something of a moral panic about the future of public sector broadcasting—mobilizing both its own news channel and its ...
Scotland’s Propaganda War: The Media and the 2014 Independence Referendum
How biased were the Scottish and UK Media? Why they were biased? Why did it matter in 2014? Why will it matter less next time? Professor John Robertson, of University of the West of Scotland, provides a detailed account of the role ...
Don’t be fooled by the shrieking newspapers … It’s the subtle BBC you need to watch
So another smear bites the dust. Newspapers lined up to accuse Nicola Sturgeon of planning to cut Scotland’s share of funding that pays for the Royal Household. Her Majesty would be denied £2million from her Scottish ...