Ofcom

June 29, 2022

Ofcom carves out Palestinian exception to rule against media incitement

As reported in the Jewish Chronicle, Britain’s broadcasting watchdog Ofcom – whose regulator...

June 26, 2022

OFCOM report criticises BBC impartiality and complaints handling

Readers may recall that last year OFCOM conducted a public consultation on the topic of its regulati...

January 9, 2022

BBC promotes BBC statements in report on complaints about BBC content

A report which appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘UK’ page late on the evening of January 8th...

September 6, 2021

OFCOM public consultation reminder

In July we noted that OFCOM had launched a public consultation concerning its regulation of the BBC ...

July 25, 2021

Have your say: OFCOM consulting on its regulation of the BBC

OFCOM has launched a public consultation concerning its own regulation of the BBC which began in 201...

December 1, 2020

BBC News falsely presents commentator on Iran as ‘non-partisan’

Courtesy of the Guido Fawkes website comes an item concerning the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizade...

November 29, 2020

Channel 4 News makes wildly inaccurate claim about West Bank

A Channel 4 News report (“Mike Pompeo becomes first top US diplomat to visit settlement in Isr...

August 16, 2020

BBC News replies to a complaint after four months

On March 31st the BBC News website published an article by Jonathan Marcus titled “Coronavirus: A ...

October 27, 2019

OFCOM reports on the BBC complaints procedure

This is a cross-post from BBC Watch. On October 24th OFCOM – which in April 2017 became the BBC’...

October 27, 2019

OFCOM reports on the BBC complaints procedure

The BBC's external regulator is of the opinion that the complaints system works 'effectively'. ...