Did they consider not lying for political gain? https://t.co/f8nuy1ZMjB
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 11, 2025
IT ALWAYS WAS: The BBC licence fee is now a tax on stupidity.
HAVE you handed over your annual BBC tribute money yet? If so, what were you thinking of?
Panorama’s cheap digital conjuring trick, its ‘footage’ of Trump agitating for violence in Washington DC on January 6, 2021, was journalistic malfeasance of the sort we’ve come to expect from a corporation which has long been at war with its own Charter and principles of governance.
I understand that the incumbent President of the United States isn’t for everyone. But why is the antagonistic commentariat so unimaginative in its subversions? The Trump phenomenon – the dancing, trolling, quips and mugshots – has an enchanting overall aesthetic. There is an artistry to Trump that makes him a generational political talent. He deserves to be traduced far more creatively than this.
His critics are entitled to criticise the performance, and restrict coverage to the highlights, but not to editorialise vindictively. If you’re going to bowdlerise a Trump ‘weave’ it would be better manners to do it in a way that doesn’t have him saying the opposite of what he did in fact say. And if you are going to do news in the style of a bad homemade video, at least don’t get caught.
The BBC is a stinking Augean Stables of bias and fabrication whose licence fee is no longer tenable.
THE walls of Broadcasting House have finally begun to crumble.
Over the 25 years that News-watch has been monitoring BBC output, millions of minds have been tainted, conned and betrayed by the relentless streams of bias and propaganda churned out by the Corporation. Now a day of reckoning has arrived.
Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, the BBC’s Director-General and Director of News, are set to resign after revelations that a BBC One Panorama programme in the build-up to last year’s presidential election deliberately falsified a Donald Trump speech to suggest that he fomented rioting on Capitol Hill. The BBC at the highest levels knew about the fraud for many months and concealed the truth.
It is arguably the most serious scandal in the Corporation’s history. But let us be clear: this collapse did not happen last week, or even last year. It has been at least a quarter-century in the making, the inevitable result of successive governments’ cowardice and BBC arrogance.
So-called accountability has been left in the hands of the BBC itself – as judge and jury of its own standards – and Ofcom, and both bodies have become bastions of self-interest and complacency, censorship of dissenting voices and fraudulent fact-checking.