{"id":284990,"date":"2023-10-25T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T11:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=284990"},"modified":"2023-10-25T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T11:43:18","slug":"ofcom-find-gb-news-broke-impartiality-rules-but-what-about-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=284990","title":{"rendered":"OFCOM Find GB News Broke Impartiality Rules\u2013But What About The\u00a0BBC?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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GB News is currently the subject of either 11 or\u00a012 further Ofcom investigations<\/a>. Ofcom says GB news is not impartial, but how can that be true?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is abundantly clear that the establishment will do all it can to shut down anybody who challenges its control of the media narrative, as OFCOM\u2019s continual vendetta against GB News shows:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If OFCOM are finding GBN guilt of breaching impartiality rules, why have they failed to take any action against the BBC over the years, who often breach the same rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take, for instance, Roger Harrabin\u2019s campaign against the Cumbria coalmine a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the controversy over the mine was at its height in early 2021, Harrabin wrote four articles over the space of a month, all grossly biased against the proposed mine. Below is an excerpt of my complaint to the BBC at the time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6th<\/sup> Jan \u2013 Whitehaven coal mine: Govt refuses to call in plans<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrabin provides his analysis, which is wholly anti mine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14th<\/sup> Jan \u2013 Govt defends Cumbria coal mine green light<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This quotes at length Greenpeace and CPRE, both heavily critical of the mine. The only pro mine comment is one solitary unattributed sentence at the end.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

23rd<\/sup> Jan \u2013 Six questions about the Cumbria coal controversy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virtually all of this article is devoted to anti mine comments by Islands at Risk, the Fiji ambassador, Oxfam, Greenpeace, the Labour, Lib Dems and Green parties and the Committee on Climate Change.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only pro mine comment comes from the local MP<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

30th<\/sup> Jan \u2013 Minister rapped for allowing Cumbria coal mine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article is wholly anti mine, quoting at length Lord Deben and Greenpeace . There is not one pro mine comment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout this series, I can find no mention by Harrabin at all of the economic benefits of the mine, eg number of jobs created, boost to the local \/national economy, increased government revenue, balance of payments, or by how much emissions will be reduced by avoiding imported coke.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor have there been any comments at all by the local council (who approved the mine unanimously), the mining company, the local community, steel companies or economists.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a gross dereliction of the BBC\u2019s Charter, which requires impartial news coverage and the need to provide audiences with the full facts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This series of propaganda pieces culminated with this article devoted to a letter to the government from the US climate activist James Hansen \u2013 note the prejudicial headline:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The leading climate scientist James Hansen has warned Boris Johnson that he risks \u201chumiliation\u201c over plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK government, which hosts a climate summit this year, has allowed the mine at Whitehaven to go ahead.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Hansen, formerly Nasa\u2019s leading global warming researcher, urged the PM to halt production \u2013 or be “vilified”.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his letter, Dr Hansen \u2013 whose testimony before the US Senate helped raise wider awareness of global warming back in 1988 \u2013 writes: “In leading the [climate conference], you have a chance to change the course of our climate trajectory, earning the UK and yourself historic accolades.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Or you can stick with business-almost-as-usual and be vilified around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt would be easy to achieve this latter ignominy and humiliation \u2013 just continue with the plan to open a new coal mine in Cumbria in contemptuous disregard of the future of young people and nature.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe contrary path is not so easy, but, with your leadership, it is realistic.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter continues: \u201cPrime Minister Johnson, young people are fed up \u2013 and for good reason. They demand that political leaders follow the science and take the actions needed to preserve and restore a healthy climate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this [conference] is like the prior ones \u2013 with soothing words and worthless ambitions \u2013 they will be justifiably outraged.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was no attempt by Harrabin to challenge Hansen\u2019s views. Nor were any alternative views offered. In other words, everything GBN was guilty of applied equally to Harrabin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally the BBC\u2019s in house Executive Complaints Unit rejected my complaint. And OFCOM did not even respond when I referred it to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was just one complaint. You could write a book about all the other instances of BBC bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much for even handed justice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-55923731<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n