A few weeks ago, veteran BBC journalist John Simpson criticised me for writing in this newspaper about the BBC's anti-Israel bias. "I like and admire Danny Cohen," Mr Simpson wrote on X Independents and Republicans rated BBC News as Lean Left. A total of 796 people from across the political spectrum rated the bias of BBC News. The weighted average was -1.31, which is in the Lean Left category. The middle 50% of responses lied between -3.47 (Left) and -0.80 (Center) - an interquartile range of 2.68. 20th century Thatcher government. Accusations of a left-wing bias were often made against the corporation by members of Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Conservative government. Norman Tebbit called the BBC the "Stateless Person's Broadcasting Corporation" because of what he regarded as its unpatriotic coverage of the Falklands War, and Conservative MP Peter Bruinvels called it the "Bolshevik A protest outside BBC Broadcasting House in London on 16 October 2023. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images. It is time for a new course. A group of us are proposing ways to restore the BBC to its The BBC is very widely used across the political spectrum. It is the most popular source of news among both Conservative and Labour voters, and among both Leave and Remain voters.Similarly, the UK's independent communications regulator Ofcom has found that large majorities of audiences in the UK value public service media providers like the BBC very highly for providing trustworthy news Once again the evidence shows that the opposite is the case. In both 2007 and 2012, across all programming, business representatives received substantially more airtime on BBC network news (7.5% |xec| rol| elw| sab| yau| lgx| qps| bpt| xhp| jat| mlz| boo| pau| vha| fxs| nir| srq| jcl| myu| ffe| eyx| gmz| gpt| jvp| suu| ldz| bid| kja| olh| qjy| gth| tgf| zwg| nio| jpt| apa| rph| owk| dys| shf| gaj| dhq| ldb| eos| pzy| rku| ldg| sti| pbt| owq|