Commentary
The NCF's new report, Groupthink: Can We Trust the BBC on immigration? was published last week.
The full report is now available to download from this site, at left.
The author, the journalist Ed West, introduced the report at an event at the NCF offices at 55 Tufton Street in London.
The report was covered in the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph. It was also featured in the Press Gazette, the Commentator, and Conservativehome.com, and received widespread attention and comment across the internet.
Examples range from the legal profession here to Nigerian news services here. Other examples can be seen here and here.
The report comes just weeks before the the publication of the BBC's own impartiality review.
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Submitted by peterwhittle on Tue, 2013-06-04 14:08.
Groupthink: Can We Trust the BBC on Immigration?
by Ed West
A major new report from the New Culture Forum looks at how the BBC has covered the topic of immigration from 1997 to the present.
Written by journalist and author Ed West, the report investigates how one of the most important issues of our time has been reported by the Corporation's news and current affairs strands.
It concludes: 'In its coverage of the topic of immigration, the BBC has given overwhelmingly greater weight to pro-migration voices, even though they represent a minority – even elitist – viewpoint. And in its coverage of the economic arguments for and against immigration, it has devoted somewhat more space to pro-migration voices. In terms of the social costs, the BBC has almost totally ignored certain areas.'
The report will be launched at 12pm today, Tuesday 28th May, at the New Culture Forum, 55 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3QL.
If you would like to attend RSVP to prwhittle@btinternet.com
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Submitted by peterwhittle on Tue, 2013-05-28 06:23.
Today The Commentator reveals that The Guardian continues to be the favourite in-house choice of newspaper for the BBC.
Following a Freedom of Information request, new numbers reveal that Britain's largest news outlet again procured more copies of the Left-wing Guardian newspaper than any of its rivals.
The news comes despite the continuing decline of the Guardian newspaper circulation amongst the general public. The paper, which openly declares its Left-wing editorial line, is one of the least read outlets in the United Kingdom, chalking up around 215,000 sales per day in 2012, compared with the Daily Telegraph's 518,000.
Despite these statistics, the BBC continues to purchase more copies of The Guardian (68,307 copies) than both the Telegraph (57,763) and The Times (59,490) and manages to pick up 50,398 copies of The Independent over the course of a year, a paper which registered an average of just 75,802 sales per day so far this year, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Raheem Kassam, Executive Editor of The Commentator said: "The statistics show what many have been concerned about for a very long time. The BBC has an inherent Left-wing bias and that is reflected by the type of news it consumes and then regurgitates.
"It's high time the BBC licence fee payer, i.e. the general public, was offered a choice on whether or not they wish to continue to fund the biased BBC. My suspicion is that many people, if offered the choice, would disconnect from the television channels and find their news elsewhere."
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Submitted by peterwhittle on Tue, 2013-05-07 13:32.
NCF director Peter Whittle will be talking about the significance of today's funeral and the continuing influence of Margaret Thatcher this evening on Fox News' Special Report
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Submitted by peterwhittle on Wed, 2013-04-17 14:47.
