Progressives insist that you read, watch, and listen to what is obviously left-wing propaganda and “bear it” as unbiased commentary. So much so, in fact, that in my book, “The Ten Woke Commandments (You Must Not Obey),” the Seventh Commandment is “You Shall Bear False Witness (Trust the Media).”

There, I broke media bias down into nine categories and gave examples for each.

While my book only references U.S. media like ABC, CBS, and NPR, it would have been easy to include the British Broadcasting Corporation, the United Kingdom’s state-owned media juggernaut. 

Recently, the Daily Telegraph, a conservative-leaning British newspaper, obtained a copy of an internal BBC report produced by Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to its Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee. Informed by this report, President Donald Trump has called out the BBC for glaring bias in coverage of his first administration.

As British establishment wagons circle to defend the “Beeb” against this assault on its imagined integrity, let’s take a look at the broadcaster’s recent record. 

Trump’s specific complaint is that the BBC news program “Panorama,” which is a bit like CBS’ “60 Minutes,” spliced together two clips of him speaking on Jan. 6, 2021, to make it look like he was encouraging people to commit violence and possibly insurrection. 

Previously, Trump successfully sued CBS for editing then-candidate Kamala Harris’ answer to a question before the election. Harris’s original answer was lengthy and confusing, and 60 Minutes edited her response to make her appear (slightly) more cogent.

That’s unprofessional. But deliberately splicing two videos to make it appear Trump said something he didn’t is worse—and it appears to have been deliberate deceit by “Panorama” to vilify Trump. 

What other kinds of more subtle bias does one regularly find at the BBC? Here are a few. 

As part of the British government’s export of “soft power” to influence foreign audiences, the........

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