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The Crisis in British Journalism

Byline Times investigates media monopolies, their proximity to politicians, and how the punditocracy doesn't hold power to account

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Britain’s Top Lawyers Sign Climate Declaration Refusing to Prosecute Activists

, 24 March 2023
The 120 lawyers signing a ‘Declaration of Conscience’ are slammed by Daily Mail as 'woke'

EXCLUSIVE New GB News Director is a Tory Peer and Financier

, 20 March 2023
Invited to Rwanda by Suella Braverman and backed by wealthy Conservatives, the broadcaster’s ‘anti-establishment’ credentials are waning

EXCLUSIVE Prince Harry to Appear in Person in Phone Hacking Court Case as ‘Teflon Piers’ Faces ‘Both Barrels’

, 16 March 2023
The first senior British Royal to ever enter the witness box in the High Court will allege Piers Morgan oversaw a conspiracy of newsroom criminality at the Daily Mirror, reveals Dan Evans

Leaked Whatsapps Destroy the BBC’s Impartiality Myth

, 15 March 2023
Messages sent between BBC editors and reporters appear to confirm longstanding suspicions of a pro-Government bias inside the corporation, writes Adam Bienkov

The Herd Immunity Catastrophe: How British Public Broadcasters Failed the Impartiality Test on COVID-19

, 14 March 2023
A new study suggests BBC and ITV reports failed to scrutinise the Government contributing to a poor response to the pandemic 

‘The BBC’s Pursuit of Bogus ‘Impartiality’ Finally Crashes and Burns’

, 12 March 2023
After years of appeasing its enemies, former BBC journalist and producer Patrick Howse believes the BBC's destruction from within has been spectacularly exposed

Ofcom Does Nothing as Complainant is Threatened With Violence

, 9 March 2023
When Dr Ella Cockbain complained to the broadcast regulator that the GBNews channel encourages violent hatred, she was subjected to it on social media. Brian Cathcart reports

Gary Lineker, Andrew Neil and the BBC’s Real Impartiality Crisis

, 9 March 2023
Prominent right-wingers at the BBC have long been given the sort of leeway for their views that those on the left never will, writes Adam Bienkov

‘Oakeshott, the Telegraph and Unscientific Anti-Lockdown Propaganda’

, 6 March 2023
Kate Denkinson looks at the background to Isabel Oakeshott’s Lockdown Files and the newspaper which Boris Johnson once claimed was his ‘real boss’  

The Public Needs Answers on BBC Chairman Richard Sharp’s Donations to Groups Campaigning Against BBC

, 2 March 2023
Pressure is mounting on the Johnson-appointed BBC Chairman – but no answers have been forthcoming from him or the corporation, reports Josiah Mortimer

‘Incompetent Ministers and Duplicitous Journalists:’ The Matt Hancock Leaks

, 2 March 2023
Isabel Oakeshott's exposé comes in the wake of repeated rejections by the Government of every Freedom of Information request on the disclosure of ministers' use of WhatsApp for official business, reports Iain Overton

Front Page Favours, Bungs and Relief: More Details Emerge of Press’ Cosy COVID Relationship with Government

, 1 March 2023
More evidence emerges that, while Boris Johnson’s Government stepped in to prop up his old employers in the press during the pandemic, the favour was returned with helpful coverage

EXCLUSIVE BBC Chairman Donated Tens of Thousands of Pounds to Right-Wing Group Funding Criticism of BBC

, 24 February 2023
Richard Sharp has pumped money into a group that almost funds organisations like the TaxPayers' Alliance, Eurosceptics, and the BBC-bashing News-Watch

Cropped Out: The Curious Tale of the BBC, Brexit and our Missing Vegetables

, 24 February 2023
Former BBC journalist and producer Patrick Howse explores why the BBC’s reluctance to tell us when we are being lied to is well past its sell by date

‘Blaming Dead Women’

, 14 February 2023
When men kill women, there still seems to be a desire to pin the blame on her, writes Sian Norris

Britain Needs Wide-Ranging Media Reform – Now

, 16 January 2023

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