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WATCH: Jonathan Sacerdoti brands the BBC a 'pathetic news institution' in powerful rant
Nov 9, 2025
Journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti has hailed GB News as he tore into the "institutional rot" within the BBC, saying the organisation is a "pathetic institution" and the two resignations are not enough. Speaking to Free Speech Nation, he said: "The point is that the BBC has inbuilt bias. It might be conspiracy, it might be groupthink. "It's institutional rot and it's institutional capture. So even if the people at the top, it's great that Tim Davie and Deborah Turness have resigned and taken responsibility, and I take my hat off to them for that. I hope they're also not going to get their fat pensions as a result."WATCH ABOVE.
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The point about the BBC is there's a big difference
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People are forced to pay for it. And so when I hear people saying, well, GB News has a bias
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the Telegraph has a bias, the Mail has a bias, if you don't like their bias, you don't put your hands in your pocket
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and buy them or pay for them or watch them. Whereas the BBC forces people to pay for it
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And the point is that the BBC has inbuilt bias. It might be conspiracy, it might be groupthink
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There was a Freedom of Information request some years ago, in the early 2000s, about how many newspaper subscriptions
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the BBC had for each newspaper. It had at that time 200 subscriptions for The Guardian
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and every other newspaper, especially right-leaning ones, had around 50 or fewer
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This is just one example of why such groupthink sets in in a place like that
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It's institutional rot and it's institutional capture. So even if the people at the top..
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It's great that Tim Davy and Deborah Ternes have resigned and taken responsibility
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and I take my hat off to them for that. I hope they're also not going to get their fat pensions
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as a result of this, because they have basically overseen a period
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at least in the last two years, for people who cared about the truth in the Middle East, which I talk about, of calumnies about Israel
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of twisted lies and falsities, which, you know, some people might say were mistakes
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but after you make enough mistakes, even if we give them the benefits of the doubt
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they're rubbish. They're a rubbish news channel. The BBC is a pathetic news institution
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it pumps out ideology in a number of areas. And the Prescott memo or report or whatever you want to call it
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simply shows that it comes across many different topics and issues, that it was raised internally in the BBC many times
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I know they knew about it before the Prescott report because I've written investigative pieces on the BBC
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In 2021, I wrote about BBC Arabic. Camera Arabic, the fantastic organisation
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translates a lot of the rubbish that they put out. They have guests they have people working there who have records online on their social media of anti and ridiculous outrageous anti bias and they still hire them and still put them on hundreds of
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times on that channel. People who say things like, you know, they should do to Israel what
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Hitler did to the Jews, or they should burn like Hitler did to the Jews, or people who celebrated
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October the 7th, a horrific, barbaric Islamic jihadist attack on Israel simply for being a
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Jewish and free state. The BBC really should hang its head in shame
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and the resignation of these two people is not enough. It's absolutely not enough
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It needs to go all the way down. All the people who lied or failed or made mistakes underneath them
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need to be swept out by whoever takes their place. The idea that two new people in these roles could do a better job
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we know the kind of people that will get put into those roles. It will be more of the same
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more people who embody the bias and the prejudice that is so endemic in the BBC and has been for decades
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not just now, not just in the last two years, not just on Israel, not just on trans
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not just on the environment, not just on Brexit, not just on the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump
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On virtually every topic, they take a left-leaning or far-left view. They pump it out to the nation as if it's consensus
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They try to re-educate the nation, and it's time that stopped. And thank goodness for channels like GB News
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because at the beginning of this 7th of October war, I sat right over there next to Nigel Farage
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and he allowed me to read out sections of the Hamas Charter, which preached for the death and killing of Jews
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That is in the Hamas founding charter. The BBC would never have let me do that
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They won't even call them terrorists. Well, I didn't even get a chance to do it on the BBC. Despite them calling me for many years as an expert on Israel
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do you know when they stopped calling me? October 7th, 2023. They didn't call me once since then
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They're cool. They have every right to decide who they invite. But until that date they considered me to be an expert on the topic After that date they didn It very clear that whether it by design or whether it by accident or whether it by institutional capture the BBC represents a monolithic opinion that leans left on virtually every topic Nothing wrong with that if they want
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to make it on their own, if they want to get people to pay for it commercially. They are not
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offering any more a service that isn't offered elsewhere, commercially and better. This channel
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is outperforming the BBC because people value what's happening on this channel. Whether you like
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the political slant or not of some of the shows and the presenters. GB News is consistently beating in certain times on viewing figures BBC News
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and that should tell you everything you need to know. This channel is small compared to the BBC
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this massive beast with the massive resources and the limitless access to cash, our cash
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which is not challenged by pressure groups or commercial bodies or efforts to try and boycott advertisers like happened to this channel
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They don't have to deal with any of that. So when they made a documentary, for example, about children in the Gaza Strip
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and they accidentally put on air an entire documentary narrated by the son of a minister in the Gaza Strip
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who was part of the Hamas government, when they did that and paid his family, a Hamas-linked family
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and they put on another child... By the way, pay our money. Our money. Right, the British people's money
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But there were other problems in that documentary that people aren't talking about. There was the non-sequential editing
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exactly what they've been shown to have done to Donald Trump. They edited a whole section captioned with the day of the war
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it was meant to represent, and they then had a whole sequence of a child who was 9 or 10 or 11 who they said was a volunteer paramedic
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I mean, a child of that age. Nonsense. This is typical Palestinian..
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Some people would argue that's a mistake. Well, even if it was a mistake, it shows a dreadful, shameful level
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of journalistic instinct, like when Jeremy Bowen said that the Al-Ahli hospital had been flattened
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And then you get people like that saying, well, they couldn't have journalists there. The BBC had their Gaza journalist in Gaza on October 7th He lived there He chose to leave Gaza during the early weeks of the war So the BBC of all channels has no leg to stand on
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when they say that Israel wouldn't let them have their journalists in Gaza. They had one, and he left
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The point here is that Jeremy Bowen should have looked at those videos of the Al-Akhli Hospital
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as I did. I cover this area of the world, and I could see that it wasn't an Israeli strike
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My instinct told me from covering previous wars in Gaza and previous Israeli military action that it was most likely a misfired rocket from the Palestinians as it turned out to be
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My instinct told me that from the videos, we couldn't see that the hospital had been, what Bowen said, flattened
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500 dead, supposedly. The car park had a pothole from a misfired Palestinian rocket
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So even if it was a mistake, which Jeremy Bowen then went on to say he didn't regret at all, he said that on the record
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this shows a low level of journalistic ability. That from one of the BBC's highest paid correspondents
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and veteran correspondents of that region. It shows that whether it's deliberate or not, I don't care
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They've been doing this for decades. They have been taking the British public and the world for fools
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in expecting us to believe the propaganda that they pump out. That documentary did the same as was done to Donald Trump
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with non-sequential editing of that child. They pretended scenes recorded on different days happened on the same day
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and you could see from the child's hair length that that was the case. No, the BBC needs a clean sweep
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This is an opportunity for them to get someone in who will really get rid of this institutional rot
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and turn it around so that it could be what it should be, a channel that does the difficult work
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that commercial channels maybe can't because of pressure groups, commercial pressures from advertisers and from protest groups
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The BBC could stand up against all of the free, free Palestine brigade who go out onto the streets and call for jihad
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or who go out onto the streets and call for intifada, which is terrorism
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They could stand up against all that and put the truth on there, but they're not doing that
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