Ofcom

September 14, 2016

BBC Trust chair stepping down

Ahead of the announcement of the BBC’s new charter which is expected on September 15th, the ch...

July 26, 2016

BBC to review its complaints system again

The July 24th edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Feedback’ (available here) included ...

June 2, 2016

IHRA adopts working definition of antisemitism: when will the BBC?

At the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism held in May 2015, one of the many issues identifie...

February 13, 2016

DCMS report on BBC charter review flags up complaints system

The UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport published a report on the BBC char...

January 27, 2016

BBC’s Director of Standards: it ‘aint what they say, it’s the way that they say it

h/t CST As readers no doubt recall, on December 22nd listeners to a BBC Radio London phone-in show h...

July 6, 2015

Baroness Deech on the BBC complaints system and OFCOM

We recently posed on these pages the question of whether or not OFCOM is up to the job of replacing ...

June 28, 2015

Is OFCOM up to the job of arbitration of complaints about BBC content?

Depending upon which British newspaper one reads, the government seems to have decided (according to...

February 9, 2015

OFCOM’s response to complaints about remarks from BBC’s Tim Willcox

Less than a month has gone by since British government ministers vowed to do more to combat antisemi...

July 27, 2014

Sky News asks admitted anti-Semite her views on the rise of UK antisemitism!

We haven’t been monitoring Sky News long enough to provide a broader analysis of their coverag...

September 8, 2013

Are the BBC Trust’s days numbered?

In case readers have not yet seen it, here is an interesting report from the Telegraph according to ...