BBC Complaints
May 11, 2021
By Paul Homewood
Currently I have six complaints outstanding with the BBC, dating back to February:
- Consistently biased reports by Harrabin re the Cumbria coal mine. Wall to wall anti-mine comments from Greenpeace etc, and virtually no pro-mine ones at all.
- Claim that there were record numbers of wildfires and hurricanes in the US last year.
- Claim that “the wealthiest 5% alone – the so-called “polluter elite” – contributed 37% of global emissions growth between 1990 and 2015"
- Claim that Victoria Falls had dried up because of global heating, following the worst drought in a century
- Implying that US tornadoes were getting stronger because of climate change
- Claim that California rainfall and drought was becoming more extreme because of climate change
I have covered all of these issues in recent posts.
Needless to say, I will continue to harry them!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Thank you very much indeed on all our behalves.
Hear Hear ! Thanks for keeping up the fight for truth and transparency
Thanks for swimming against the tide and the education you’ve given me along the way.
More power to you sir !
Thank you Paul.
KBO!!
Your involvement is appreciated. Hopefully one day (soon!) we can look upon this age of misinformation in the past.
Bravo Sir, I admire your persistence.
Good luck. I have many email questions to officials of all stripes (scientists, politicians, environmental media reporters) that remain unanswered, most not even acknowledged. What this tells me is that my questions may be too revealing and awkward to answer directly? I am currently awaiting a response from the EPA about HFCs in the atmosphere and their CO2 equivalents. These replacements in refrigeration for CFCs are now under further review by the Biden administration to limit or ban them.
Of course there still is no evidence that CFCs harmed the ozone layer. That was just a hypothesis based on correlation. That correlation no longer exists. The ozone hole around antarctica waxes and wanes annually in relation to the UV radiation from the sun. Sunlight creates O3 from O2 +O. Lack of sunlight in antarctic winter leads to lack of ozone. But the Ozone panic was never based on firm science. No evidence yet that CFCs have harmed the environment but no-ones bothered. There’s no ozone hole where CFCs are most concentrated.
bobn…That is correct about CFCs and stratospheric ozone. It is also correct that HFCs are measured in parts-per-trillion so it is unlikely that they could have had any significant effect on global temperatures since their industrial production beginning in the late 1980s. It is the CO2 equivalent of both that matters.
Brilliant. Keep harrying them. I have 2 still waiting a second response (I wasn’t happy with their initial replies). – The first relates to wild fires in Scotland (claims made by the BBC are not supported by the SFRS recently published data); and the second to flooding in Scotland and in particular of St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney.
The fact that you have had no reply shows they have no defence, can find nothing meaningful to say, and are guilty of rampant bias, distortion, propaganda and fakery as charged!
Or that they are submerged under such a pile of complaints (like the post office where I live) that they throw them in the bin…….. who’s to know?
As I indicated below they stopped replying to me completely. I did get one message to say they apologised for the delay in my receiving a reply saying that they were waiting for feedback from those concerned but that is the only response I have had in months and no there was no subsequent mail to that one.
I have had four such re: a single complaint – the story about the oceans running out of oxygen. The story itself dates back to December 2019. I will probably get another in a few weeks. I’m not going to the regulator because I’m interested to know where this all leads.
Good job you didn’t hold your breath then!
Thanks Paul for doing this. One complaint I made went three rounds and I received a reply supposedly from Tim Davie. Needless to say my query was never answered properly. More power to you.
I guess that complaints about their website are most worthwhile, because the content is long lasting, but the damage done by their real time output is almost totally irreversible.
“Costing the Earth” today on R4 (about the wonderful electricity transition in the UK) was typical of their biased advocacy, either Green Blob voices, or punters who have been given low or zero cost renewable electricity, at tax or other bill payers expense, no sceptical voices at all. And, no mention at all of the environmental impact of renewables, which is what that programme is meant to be about.
Maybe a complaint along those lines would be impossible for them to refute.
Surely there must be some people in the BBC who wonder if the science is really “settled” The fact that the BBC never mention that there may be an opposite opinion let alone have a programme where a reasoned discussion could take place indicates that they are managed in a totally stalinist manner with hell to pay for any disenters.
There’s nothing to stop others making their own complaints to the BBC. I do make complaints and sometimes re-complain when there’s a standard we’re right and you’re wrong because experts say so reply
The BBC have developed an interesting tactic. They stopped replying to my complaints regardless of whether or not I ticked the box requesting a response.
Selectivity about what they consider we proles need to be fed and selectivity about how they deal with dissent to the party line. At least they are consistent.
The public only see and hear what the BBC broadcast, they don’t see all our complaints which are just batted back with some stock response. Climate emergency is everywhere including fiction, e.g. the Archers which I have listened to since it began all those years ago. It’s compulsory now for climate change to be mentioned in almost every programme, no matter how irrelevant.
There ought to be a time limit for these complaints.
BBC know how to play the system and leave complainants hanging on. It’s not on!
I think we need to try a different tack. How about approaching GBNews to have them use stories here as a regular footnote to some of their programmes? It would clearly gain a very wide audience (some 45% of people polled said they might watch the channel), and probably be far more effective in holding the BBC to account in the process.
It’s probably worth looking at their presenters and trying to work out which ones might do a good job and be interested enough to do so – and to try to get their interest while they are looking for ideas, rather than already immersed in day to day operations.
I do hope GBNews takes a more skeptical view of “climate change” and provides a counter to the out-and-out bilge from the other main stream media channels. We need someone to apply a brake to the run-away climate change juggernaut.
I’ve noticed that Paul has managed to get some of his posts syndicated at a variety of other sites, including Conservativewoman WUWT, GWPF, and maybe some others. It’s definitely the way to go, and GBNews is a great opportunity. In turn it will attract readers to come here.
As we say in Ireland – may the Saints preserve you Paul.
I complained about the Harrabin campaign to ban the new coal mine in Cumbria. I rejected their bland reply and complained a second time. This was weeks ago and I have still not received a response. The BBC treats us with utter contempt. I maintain that we need a plan of action against this green tyranny.
Unless you can get some big publicity/influential entity/people on board they will continue to spout rubbish and bat complaints away with impunity.
This is a job well worth doing. I hope that you have the patience and perseverance to maintain the effort. Well done.
Thank you Paul. More power to your pen, well keyboard.
How about putting that list in an add in theTelegraph?
Howard
Would make them sit up .
Thank you for standing up to the propaganda. I am happy to have put money in your tip jar.
O/T but I think news worthy if only because we may get to learn more about this cult.
Extinction Rebellion co-founder arrested by British police for conspiracy to cause criminal damage and fraud after bank attacks.
https://www.rt.com/uk/523459-extinction-rebellion-founder-arrest/
Well done Paul. Please keep it up.
I wrote to BEIS and got a letter back saying they would no longer answer any future correspondence, unless I provide additional information they have not already considered.
Brilliant job.Well done. I’m doing the occasional complaint but it’s like wading through treacle dealing with these idiots.
Keep up the good work! It’s time-consuming going through BBC bureaucracy.
I am making a nuisance of myself tackling Farming Today about their almost daily references to the supposed “climate emergency” – probably wasting my time but who knows?
I’m afraid that there’s no prospect of the media, even the venerated BBC, returning to the days of yore and investigating issues objectively; rather than the naked editorialised, alarmist stance that the media has entrenched itself in. The irony for those of us that recognise such group sociopathy is that it is we who are trenchantly accused of being in denial when the opposite is the case.
The rot is so deep and incestuous, the climate scam is such a big web. Most of you know the history of Richard Black Senior Associate at the ECIU, there’s even more astounding admission in his published credentials now. Stories he promoted whilst at the BBC came from or were expertly commented on the the Grantham Institute fro example, and now the BBC uses its ex-employee as a climate expert to push climate propaganda such as ‘The Facts’!
https://eciu.net/about/the-team
I complained on 5 February about the Cumbrian mine coverage which I thought was particularly disgraceful as it was campaigning against local employment. I have had two promises to reply “as soon as we can”, but so far, zilch.
Chapter 10 of the Major Complaint of April 2016 dredgeable on this site described BBC complaints procedure as a mix of “shallow sophistry, ignorance and disdain”. (Ch 8 hammers Attenboro)
THey just make it up to the 2006 agenda , then say that’s OK. No coldest ever temperature since records began in Rutland news this Spring. Blizzards in Texas anyone? There is no science done at the BBC, because there are no scientists. Never mind honest scientists.
Why are UK householders coerced into paying for this useless, so called, Public Broadcaster when what they unapologetically offer is so often, factless, biased, opinionated drivel. Drivel that a significant number of public do not agree with.
Why are households coerced in to paying for a complacent, tired, and unnecessary national broadcaster of little worth who propagates very bias news and views?
Defund the BBC now!
Hear hear
All comments agreed with: the BBC is (well) beyond the pale
The TV Tax is way past its Use-By Date and should be ceased asap, with the BBC privatised and the accumulated BBC archive operated by a government company (after all, we licence payers have paid for it over the years) and available to use for a fee
James Dyson just got a formal apology after all BBC fakenews about him on April 21
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/
The government has just shoved £8 million the BBC’s way, money for them to counter false news stories and social media misinformation. So watch out Paul, they may use that against you or anything for that matter that does not agree with their truth. As good as saying if the BBC says it’s right then that must be so. It’s the end of the world as we know it.
I still have running complaints about misleading News reports.
The Whaley Bridge dam collapse ( blamed on climate change)
David Shukman and his dangerous plastic particles in water bottles. The BBC wasted the time of WHO looking into this, it actually probably cost lives as some developing countries have to rely on bottled drinking water.
About 20 years ago I had a product development boss on loan from our English division for a year. We had to learn his English auto terms, such as bonnet, wings and boot. But the one thing we never figured out, is when he heard an engineer say something he didn’t believe, he’d say: “Is that true, or did you hear it on the BBC?”
American engineers didn’t understand what he meant. When I visited him at work in England, an English engineer was telling him something, when he interrupted with the “BBC line” … and a room full of English engineers started laughing. That was 20 years ago — the BBC must be even worse now !
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