Prime Minister and MPs urge BBC to drop the ‘offensive’ term ‘Islamic State’
The BBC has come under pressure to stop using the term "Islamic State". (Picture: BBC's New Broadcasting House, Shutterstock) A…
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Cameron ‘close the BBC’ quip no joke for political editor Nick Robinson
Prime Minister David Cameron quipped that he would close down the BBC while talking to journalists in the run-up to…
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‘Sultan of spin’ Alastair Campbell rounds on Conservatives over treatment of regional press
Tony Blair’s former spin-doctor Alastair Campbell (pictured, Reuters) has criticised the Tories’ treatment of the regional press during its election…
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‘Campaign control freakery’ sees journalists ‘cordoned off’ from Cameron and Johnson nursery visit
The Conservatives have been accused of running a campaign of “control freakery” after the party refused to allow journalists to…
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David Cameron snubs Huddersfield daily on ‘carefully staged’ visit to factory
There was more evidence the extent to which journalists feel frozen out of a stage-managed election campaign as David Cameron…
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Sky’s Adam Boulton condemns ‘insidious intimacy’ of BBC kitchen interviews with party leaders
Sky News presenter Adam Boulton has described the BBC’s interviews with political leaders from their kitchens as “woeful”. Last week,…
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Michael Grade: Broadcasters are ‘playing politics’ and breaching impartiality rules with debate threats
A former chairman of the BBC and ITV has accused channel bosses of breaching impartiality rules by threatening to stage…
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Three months after asking ‘What’s the Buzzfeed?’, PM to be interviewed live on website’s Facebook page
Buzzfeed is to stream a live interview with the Prime Minister (pictured, Reuters) on its Facebook page. David Cameron will…
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