New Deckchair for the Titanic: Ex-BBC, NYT Tapped to Lead Divisive CNN

August 31st, 2023 11:44 AM

Publicly revealed on Wednesday, WarnerBros. Discovery tapped former BBC Director-General and former CEO/president of The New York Times Company to lead CNN as it continues to struggle not only with ratings, but improving its image from the days of the Jeffrey Zucker-led circus that lived for spewing venom at Donald Trump and the GOP writ large.

BBC Apologizes to Nigel Farage on Inaccurate Bank Canceling Story

July 26th, 2023 1:16 PM

The BBC issued a full apology to Brexit leader Nigel Farage for countering his claim that his bank account was closed for political reasons.

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CBS Unsure If It’s ‘In the Public Interest’ to Discuss BBC Sex Scandal

July 13th, 2023 5:20 PM

Thursday’s CBS Mornings became the first broadcast network flagship newscast to cover a scandal rocking the British press as legendary BBC News anchor (known as “presenter” across the Pond) Euw Edwards was named Wednesday (by his wife) as the mystery BBC journalist who allegedly paid a young boy for sexually explicit images starting when he was 17 years old. But instead of denouncing…

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BBC Host Nukes Her Twitter, Claims Israel Is 'Happy To Kill Children'

July 5th, 2023 12:34 PM

BBC anchor Anjana Gadgil nuked her Twitter account after a Tuesday interview with former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett where she accused the Israeli military of being “happy to kill children” as it conducted anti-terrorism operations in Jenin.

State-Affiliated BBC Champions Climate Change ‘Ninja Trollhunter'

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April 17th, 2023 5:22 PM

The leftist U.K. outlet BBC News actually found the space to promote climate "ninjas" fighting the woke fight against climate change as a serious news item.

BYE!! NPR Quits Twitter Over Twitter’s (Accurate) ‘Govt.-Funded’ Label

April 12th, 2023 1:45 PM

On Wednesday morning, taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) upped the ante in its hissy fit against the Elon Musk-owned Twitter as, in light of the fact that Twitter added the “state-affiliated media” label to NPR’s account and then tweaked it to say “government-funded media,” the far-left crackpots would be quitting the social media platform because Twitter was “falsely implying that we…

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Musk Slaps Down BBC Journo Over Ridiculous ‘Hate Speech’ Accusation

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April 12th, 2023 10:13 AM

Twitter owner Elon Musk took the leftist U.K.-based BBC to the woodshed when the latter accused the platform of being plagued by a rise of so-called “hate speech.”

NY Times Defends ‘Revered…Non-Partisan’ Left-Wing BBC on Front Page

March 15th, 2023 7:37 PM

New York Times London bureau chief Mark Landler made Monday’s front page by using the temporary suspension of BBC soccer commentator Gary Lineker -- who makes his liberal views known in sometimes offensive ways on Twitter -- to again hail the left-wing, tax-funded U.K. institution as revered and impartial: “Turmoil Engulfs BBC After Soccer Icon Meets a Political Divide.” The front-…

TikTok Bans Teen Beauty Queen Acne Account for ‘Gruesome Content’

January 5th, 2023 2:49 PM

“My face just broke the internet.”  That’s what 16-year-old beauty pageant winner Eva Grant told her mother when TikTok banned her account which posted pictures of her struggle with cystic acne along with encouraging messages for those suffering from similar conditions. BBC Look North (North East and Cumbria) reported. 

BBC Chiefs Agree They Must Fight 'Liberal Bias' and 'Groupthink'

December 4th, 2022 3:52 PM

The chairman of the BBC has indicated “the BBC does have a liberal bias” but added “the institution is fighting against it.” Richard Sharp, in an interview in the Sunday Times, said he and Tim Davie, the director-general, had drawn up a ten-point plan on impartiality, anti-bias training along with reviews of news output in a drive to tackle the problem.

CBS Touts BBC Disinfo Correspondent Creating Fake Accounts Online

November 3rd, 2022 11:59 AM

The disinformation correspondent from the BBC was just caught creating fake accounts on social media, supposedly to expose “disinformation” for potential censorship online. And leftist CBSNews.com appeared fascinated by her efforts.

Protests in Iran: The Silence of the ‘Feminists’ and ‘Progressives’

October 16th, 2022 10:05 PM

Where are the American feminists and “progressives” when we need them? You know, the men-versus-women, pro-abortion types who say things like the reversal of Roe v. Wade represents “men wanting to tell women what to do with their bodies”? Last month, on Sept. 16, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman living in Iran, died in a hospital three days after being arrested in Tehran by the state’…

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Rubbish! 'Peppa Pig' Features First Gay Family

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September 8th, 2022 5:12 PM

According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the popular…

Column: The Media Bias Fight in Britain

August 26th, 2022 8:00 AM

Whenever conservative media watchdogs aspire to an argument seeking to expose and correct the distortions of the liberal news outlets, they receive the argument of hypocrisy. “You can't complain about bias,” they say, “because you're awfully biased yourself.”