As a public service broadcaster, the concept of trust is paramount. From its news coverage to funding and political questions behind the scenes, can we trust the corporation?
An inquiry into the future of public service broadcasting in Britain launched its report days after the Brexit vote. It holds important clues to how we deal with the current breakdown of consensus.
The film producer and chair of a major inquiry into the future of public service broadcasting calls on the BBC to help rebuild trust in Brexit Britain.
On the anniversary of the 1926 General Strike, looking back to the early BBC helps us understand the latest bias scandal, over coverage of Labour's anti-semitism scandal vs Tory election fraud.
The BBC is doing cutting-edge research into Visual Perceptive Media, virtual reality and facial coding technologies. But do we want our shows to be tailored to our age, gender, and tastes? And what happens to all that data?
The so-called ‘sharing economy’ is composed largely of opaque shoddily
managed companies. Rather than mimicking these models, the BBC must make the
case for improving and developing its much-lamented bureaucracy.
Research suggests that the UK media are failing to adequately inform the British public, ahead of the country's referendum on EU membership. The BBC, in particular, has a duty to step up its game.
Afghanis inside and outside the country have been angered by the BBC's interview with a Taliban
spokesman directly after a suicide attack, in which he announced a new target.
In a week when the
BBC has been hit by yet more scandal as a result of suppressing an investigation into the notorious paedophile Jimmy Savile, we ask: does the BBC
need an investigations unit?
From its inception as an unabashedly
‘unionist’ organization, the BBC in Belfast has had a problematic history. Has
the corporation of today managed to shake off the dilemmas of the past?
Why isn't there a digital Scottish channel for the 5 million Scots who speak English? Such a move could start to heal the wounds between Scotland and the BBC.
This week’s Panorama documentary on Jeremy Corbyn has been
criticised for shoddy reporting and overt political bias in favour of the
political establishment. This is not an isolated incident.
When it comes to state surveillance and
“terrorism”, there is a long history of political pressure, control and
manipulation over the arm of the media entrusted with the explicit mission of
serving the public.
The ‘Royal United Services Institute’ has close links with the British
state and its military establishment. The BBC should not present its analysis
as apolitical ‘fact’.
A
chorus of critics is calling for the abolition of the BBC Trust. Yes, it may be
flawed but this body could yet be reformed to fulfil its public service
function.
Infuriated by the BBC’s
lack of coverage of its work, The European Scrutiny committee is at the
centre of a discussion about the ‘limits’ of the corporation's independence.
The European Scrutiny
Committee has locked horns with the BBC, repeatedly accusing it of a pro-EU
bias. Is the corporation’s editorial independence under threat?
In its recent appointments to the BBC Trust, the
government has deeply associated our public broadcaster with the arms trade.
Why aren’t we talking about this?
The new Chair of the BBC Trust Rona Fairhead has given her first public speech
which was widely reviewed. Now the dust has settled – but what did Rona say, and
more importantly, what did she really mean?