Jon King – the Daily Express July 6, 2025
Police confront protesters outside an asylum-seeker hotel in Epping. Note the police camera person filming protesters, just as they once did in the old Soviet Union
A former BBC journalist has accused the broadcaster of “rigging” public perceptions of anti-immigration protests. Chris Middleton posted a series of claims on social media, including that the BBC “smears” or ignores those it disagrees with.
In a thread on X, Mr Middleton wrote: “The BBC does not report on protests fairly. How do I know? Because I used to work there”. He claimed if the BBC agrees with protesters, then it gives “sympathetic” coverage
But if it disagrees, then protesters are “smeared or ignored” by the broadcaster, according to the X-user. As evidence, Mr Middleton, who reportedly worked as a freelance newsreader doing shifts for BBC Newcastle, pointed to the thousands of people who protested against the use of hotels to house asylum seekers last weekend.
Thousands took to the streets of London, Manchester and Newcastle in protest at their continued use. Counter-protests were also staged in response.
Mr Middleton said the BBC ran just one story about the protests which focused on “arrests”, “clashes” and “anti-migrant groups”. He added: “No interviews. No voices from the protesters. Just framing: ‘These people are dangerous'”
The journalist continued: “I know first hand how this works. I worked at the BBC during the Sunderland protests and riots last year.
“Here’s what I was told: ‘The protests may go off peacefully, in which case they’re not newsworthy’. The BBC only wants to cover protests against immigration when they are violent.”
He then lists a series of BBC stories which he alleges show bias, including a report of a protest sparked by the death of George Floyd in which the BBC reported 27 police officers being hurt.
Mr Middleton tweeted: “The BBC reports that the protests were ‘largely peaceful’. That’s despite the fact that 27 police officers were injured, including one ‘who suffered a broken collarbone, a broken rib, and punctured lung’.
“The BBC then quotes a protestor, who says “‘these situations don’t come from nowhere'” and the police had been ‘acting very aggressively’ towards protesters.”
He concluded: “Sympathetic coverage for the protestors and their cause, despite the fact that 27 police officers were injured.”
The journalist, who claimed to have lost his job as a BBC newsreader when it emerged he was behind an anti-Keir Starmer charity single, goes on to make similar claims over coverage of pro-Palestine protests and anti-far right protests in London.
On BBC coverage of protests in Epping outside a migrant hotel, Mr Middleton accused the BBC of framing protesters in a negative light.
He accused the broadcaster of later downplaying the number of protesters and counter-protesters who took to the streets of Epping for more protests.
Mr Middleton ended by claiming: “What have we learned? The BBC doesn’t report on protests. It curates narratives.
“If your cause fits the worldview, you get empathy. If it doesn’t, you’re erased or smeared. No overt lies, just framing that dictates whether the reader should sympathise with the cause or not.”
The BBC was approached for comment.
It is not the first time the BBC has been accused of bias reporting. Pro-Israel protesters accused the corporation of failing to describe Hamas as terrorists in the wake of the October 7 attacks.
Protesters also gathered outside the London headquarters of the BBC to criticise the broadcaster’s coverage of Israel‘s attacks on Lebanon in September 2024.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested outside the same headquarters in May, accusing the BBC of concealing Israel‘s genocide in its coverage of Gaza.
The BBC‘s editorial policy insists impartiality is “fundamental” to the BBC‘s purpose and is “enshrined” in its Charter. BBC guidelines include the line: “The BBC is committed to achieving due impartiality in all its output”.
They add impartiality always rests on “good” judgement, rather than a mathematical formula and involves accuracy, fairness, objectivity and open-mindedness.
The guidance notes: “Just as important as the BBC‘s content are the words and behaviours of all the people who represent the BBC.
“External activities and public expressions of opinion, including on social media, may affect perceptions of the BBC‘s impartiality as much as its output.”
The guidance also states those working in a role that requires impartiality who want to express opinions in public on controversial issues to take part in political activity “must” tell bosses first.
BBC GUILTY OF FRAUD
why Is ‘Children In Need’ Sitting On A £90 Million Fortune?
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The Children in Need Charity stashes sum away in investment portfolio instead of handing it out:
BBC Children in Need has kept £87.7million stashed away in its investment portfolio instead of giving it to charity, its latest accounts reveal.
The charity, which has raised more than £600million for youngsters in the UK since 1980, is preparing to launch a fresh appeal to viewers next month. Children in Need has £87,705,000 invested in a range of portfolios, up from £81.2million last year. Another £2.2million is sitting in its bank accounts, up from £864,000 last year.
The accounts reveal it paid £9,000 in fees to fund managers and made £893,000 in investment income. its latest charity drive will include a series of celebrity-endorsed fundraising campaigns, and with the profits of a recently released BBC recording of the Beach Boys track God Only Knows, is expected to raise more than £20million.
The money was supposed to be used to help charities that support disadvantaged and disabled children around the country. Yesterday, the BBC insisted all of the money it raises is given to charity, but said it does not release all of it at once so it is able to measure the impact of its donations and ensure funds are being put to good use.
The BBC harassed and threatens people over buying a license when its sitting on many milions
on w w 2 the BBC was known by service men as ” bullshit time”
the BBC was taken over in the mid 1930s by Rorhschild and us allied to MI 5 who vet who comes on our TV screens
so they knew of the crimes of jimmy saville stephen fry paul gambacinni allan ” fluff” freeman and others
whistleblowers have said the BBC was behind the death of jill dando and rik mayall
In 2008 the BBC faced the prospect of an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office after keeping more than £100,000 which should have been given to charity.
The broadcaster admitted staff knowingly withheld money meant for causes including Children in Need and Comic Relief. The scandal emerged after auditors carried out an investigation into the BBC’s phone-voting system scams.
The cash was generated by callers voting after phone lines had closed on about 20 shows, believed to include Eurovision and Fame Academy, between October 2005 and September 2007.
They were still charged for their calls, typically around 25p a time, but the cash went into the bank account of BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial arm, rather than the charities.
An internal audit showed that a number of workers in Audiocall, part of BBC Worldwide, repeatedly kept money back. It has now been passed on, with interest. The BBC has said the ‘small number’ of staff involved face disciplinary action.
In 2006 TV viewers were warned against giving money to the BBC’s Children in Need appeal.
An independent watchdog said donating to the charity is ‘a bad idea’ because of its huge administration cost scams – £2.4million out of a total of £33million raised at the time.
intelligent Giving said money is swallowed up by the need for two sets of bureaucrats: those who run the charity and those in charge of the organisations to which it gives money.
If you buy a licence you are perpetuating this evil and the BBCs child molesters
Article From the Mail Online
ust reading that the main rent boy who set fire to Starmers house and car
has objected very strongly to being called a ” sausage jockey”
he said “he has earnt a good living from homosexuals and he has a name for good service
his street name is Mary.
“kier and mary
went down to the dairy
kier pulled out his long and hairy
ooh said mary
i knew you were just a fairy “
“Impartial”, meaning they don’t take sides, but they do, if we focus on Whites vs. non-Whites. How do they slip out of this responsibility? By using the Leftist illusion that Race does not exist, and the hypocrisy of recognising it for non-Whites
I became aware the MSM lies in my early- to mid-’20s when it became clear the BBC had edited footage of a clash between the miners and the police, to make it appear the miners had attacked the police and the police had responded when it was really the police who attacked the miners first. It only took that one incident to make me mistrust the MSM thereafter, and similar lies must have opened the eyes of many who know or heard an event unfolded differently or maybe even been there when media reports then twisted it.
Wow the commie media is protecting the scum. Welcome to ZWOG–the Zionist (Jew) & wog union/alliance governing/controlling the political-media system of Westworld & their joint operation to attack, supplant & exterminate the white race/civilization via immigration, murders, rape gangs, brainwashing, wars & miscegenation.
Not much you can do about it but join the Army of Aiwass.
93
Excellent..
That’s how we like old BBc hacks..ex-journalists…
Our would-be rulers will use all forms of propaganda all the time. It’s up to us to recognize it when we see it and seek alternative information.
What’s more important, enjoying your favorite tv show or getting rid of all the Muslim invaders who are taking over your nation? Quit watching tv. (No more licensing fee!) Read alt news on the internet; read the different versions of the news from different countries or political or religious groups. Talk to people who are also listening to the various versions of the truth and figure out what seems real and what doesn’t, and what important things nobody is talking about, and why not
But the real question is:
Should Nelson should have his own column?
On a lighter note:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCbfAK6g4vs&list=RDeCbfAK6g4vs&start_radio=1
all western MSM are fraudulent or inacurate !
here they still call the “horrible”Hamas attack
of 7th oct without mentioning that it was only
HORRIBLE by friendly fire + Hannibal directive
beforeplanet by their evil zionist government .
and the most israelis prefere to sleep in ignorance .
ignoring the reality of their own henchmen .
@ MM
Your awakening to MSM bias is exactly the same as my own. It was the Orgreave Coking Plant in South Yorkshire, in June of 1984, where persistent police aggressions, eventually provoked the picketing miners into retaliation.
As you say, this was universally reported as miners instigating violence against the police, when the opposite was true.
@ Simon Smith
Maybe but he’s been known to turn a blind eye to controversy and he’s a notoriously slow typist.
He’d be best suited as a pundit at the paralympics. Kiss me? Hardly.