It was only two months ago, on September 9, that the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee summoned BBC chairman Dr. Samir Shah and director-general Tim Davie to answer allegations of bias, editorial failures, and recent scandals – including how the BBC had transmitted a program about the Gaza war that turned out to have been narrated by the son of a Hamas official.
Shortly afterward, the broadcasting regulator Ofcom found that the film was “materially misleading” and ordered the BBC to tell its audience as much. It was removed from the streaming service.
Now a new furor is brewing. On November 4, the UK’s Daily Telegraph revealed the contents of a 19-page whistle-blowing document, already circulated to the 14 members of the BBC Board of Governors, listing numerous examples of blatant bias in BBC news coverage.
References to the Gaza war abound, and it also cites one egregious instance of deliberately faked news. Michael Prescott is a respected journalist who served as adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee (EGSC) for three years.
He resigned in June 2025 because, as he explained, his repeated warnings about systemic bias and misleading coverage had been dismissed or ignored.
Direct appeals to BBC’s top executives, including the chairman, he said, had resulted in no meaningful response. It was the consequent frustration, leading eventually to despair, that prompted his resignation.
Out of office, Prescott wrote his 19-page memo,...
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