Reddit mentions of Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain

I'm off my mobile now.

Now to be fair, if we're critisizing things as being "a blog post without any detail" let's see how that wikipedia article backs-up its claim.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/david-wearing/six-problems-with-sarah-ditum%E2%80%99s-article-about-iraq-and-left

Oh...

Are we allowing that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Specific_allegations

A whole page of it for BBC...

Here is a better Wings Over Scotland article with more detail:

http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-extraordinary-untruth/

And a followup after their pithy response.

http://wingsoverscotland.com/an-act-of-provocation/

Likewise here is a better media lens link which deals with Andre Marr reporting for the BBC:

http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2010/15-a-journey-unchallenged-andrew-marr-interviews-tony-blair.html

You may not be ideologically inclined with either of these websites. But their source data are always accurate or from legitimate sources (in so far as they don't make up any statements or claims).

Without my university credentials decent academic sources can be tricky so this is a bit from memory:

Here's a book from the academically acclaimed GUMG which deals with BBC and ITN bias, long time since I looked at it though:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0745320619

This looks quiet promising as well:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Without-Responsibility-Broadcasting-Internet/dp/0415114071

The fact of the matter is, news bias or slack reporting is one of those areas which are pretty well addressed in blogs or columns. Fawning praise is pretty easy to spot likewise false claims and lies unscrutinized are also very clear with hindsight.

If you remain unconvinced that the BBC has issues with bias there's still plenty more places to look. Most courses wouldn't even deal with the idea of something being free from bias, only the nature and extent of it. With the BBC it is endemic and it neuters their standards of reporting state claims.