A Legal Challenge to BBC bias against Brexit - Briefings For Brexit

taking on the BBC in the complaints framework is not for the faint-hearted... set-piece responses ... ‘we get complaints from both sides, so we must be getting it right’, or, ... you are not taking into account that seven weeks previously we broadcast a balancing item’... summarises the basic BBC stonewall approach...

‘due’ impartialit... that not every shade of opinion – especially those considered ‘extreme’ – need to be taken into account when achieving balance...

senior Corporation figures have lined up to insult the News-watch methodology, dismissing it as crude counting...Lord Wilson of Dinton... commissioned ... to mount an inquiry into the BBC’s EU-related coverage... content analysis conducted on the same basis as News-watch... scathing of the BBC’s ignorance of its own output... A news editor was appointed... everything went quiet... commitment to carry out monitoring in response to the Wilson report had been abandoned... too costly, got in the way of journalism, and did not yield helpful results...the BBC was once more its own judge and jury

as well as delivering impartiality, the BBC must have in place... robust systems which deliver it... The case being outlined in the judicial review is that only rigorous monitoring ... can illuminate and ensure impartiality