EXCLUSIVE: Public opposed to ex-Daily Mail editor being lined up for broadcasting regulator role
An overwhelming 71% of the public believe it is more important for the chair to be politically neutral rather than influential in UK media and culture.
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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – 20th January 2021
Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week…
Sun ‘clarifies’ calling pregnant police officers “fat blue line”
The Sun newspaper has issued an apology (or clarification as they call it) for a story published on 29th August claiming that 10,000 UK police officers had been put on ‘light duties’ for being physically unfit. It turns out thattest
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried
Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that got buried
Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week.
The media are hyping fringe herd immunity views to ‘stir false debate and boost profits’
An open letter – dubbed the Great Barrington Declaration – has been condemned as promoting a dangerous minority position on Covid.
BBC bosses tear apart Tory claims of left-wing bias in fiery Commons hearing
“You want to ignore the evidence…you rely on individual anecdotes,” the BBC chairman told Tory MP Philip Davies.
Satire’s job is to make us all uncomfortable – especially those in power
Pricking governmental pomposity is important. But satire does more than just that.
National Union of Journalists hits out at PM over ‘dark mutterings’ about BBC overhaul
Tory clamour for an end to the BBC’s universal funding model is growing.
Ministry of Defence blacklists investigative journalism outlet
“We no longer deal with your publication.”