Naga Munchetty’s message of defiance in BBC impartiality row: ‘We’re not robots or idiots’

The BBC Breakfast host apologised yesterday for liking “offensive” tweets about a Government minister’s video call backdrop featuring the Union flag. While interviewing Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, Ms Munchetty and co-host Charlie Stayt laughed after commenting on the flag. Mr Stayt said: “I think your flag is not up to standard size, Government interview measurements. […]

RT ‘extremely disappointed’ in UK media watchdog’s decisions over ‘impartiality breach’

RT is “extremely disappointed” following British broadcasting regulator Ofcom’s announcement that some content on the RT news network was in breach of impartiality rules. In a bulletin issued December 20, Ofcom stated that a total of seven programmes or segments, including Sputnik, Crosstalk and various items of news coverage were found to be in breach […]

Ofcom rules Fox News to be in breach of impartiality rules over rightwing programmes

The two broadcasts included discussion about Donald Trump’s travel ban and the response by the UK Government following the Manchester bombing, both of which have been deemed to have not included impartial analysis. The ruling has come two months after the US news channel ceased to air in the UK and less than a week […]