Polish Migrants: Coming or going?
The BBC’s story today on Polish emigration is wrong. The evidence reported does not disprove the claim that half the Polish migrants since 2004 have gone home.
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UKIP MEP stands by attack on “biased, censoring” BBC
UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom tells Left Foot Forward he “absolutely stands by” his anti-BBC rant; he said they had “blocked sceptics of climate change for four years”
BBC deny Griffin’s “lynch mob” stitch-up claims
The BBC deny Ku Klux Klan fan Nick Griffin’s claims that last night’s Question Time was a “lynch mob”.
Political interference and the BBC
Jeremy Hunt, Tory culture spokesman, needs to answer the difficult questions and stop chasing headlines, writes Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the NUJ.
Shopkeeper’s Labour “boycott” up in flames
The Express today report that, “Newsagents urged to boycott Labour” if the Health Bill, which would ban the display of tobacco and the sale of tobacco from vending machines, becomes law. But it’s unclear what a “boycott” would mean or where the idea has come from.
Media for all? The challenge of convergence
With a media facing economic and technological changes, many requiring political solutions, the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom is holding a conference on Saturday 31 October which will address key issues of ownership and regulation.
Today give platform to climate denier
With the US and EU reportedly at odds over securing a climate deal at Copenhagen, and doctors warning of a “global health catastrophe” if we don’t get one, you might think we need less confusion about climate change in the media, not more. Why then does the Today programme continue to give air-time to people who have no credentials to talk about climate change?
BNP to appear on Question Time
The question of how best to deal with the British National Party raised its head again yesterday with the news that BNP leader Nick Griffin will be asked to appear on Question Time in October. The arguments for and againsttest
Grayling depicts Wire fiction as fact
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling has compared Britain to The Wire, a television series thick with violent crime, vehicle jacking and vandalism, rooting his claims in a British Crime Survey report that shows violent crime down 48%, vehicle related thefttest