News-Watch Founder: I’m Not Sure the BBC Can Be Saved

Published on April 19, 2024

“I’m Not Sure the BBC Can Be Saved,” says former BBC journalist David Keighley, who started a bias-monitoring organisation in 1999. Speaking to NTD’s “British Thought Leaders” programme, Mr. Keighley, principal at News-watch, argued the public broadcaster suffers from confirmation bias and ossified ways of doing things. He also said “BBC verify” is “truly sinister” because it’s shutting down freedom of expression in the name of tackling disinformation. Mr. Keighley said his news-monitoring operation was set up in 1999 because of concerns over news coverage on EU affairs, and they were “astonished just how little coverage there was” on the Euro-skeptic side of the election....

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