Further to Natalie’s post below, it could be added that the long-time BBC journalist, Robin Aitken, has been speaking out trenchantly in recent months. The Croydonian was there at a recent debate entitled “Can We Trust the BBC?”, did some notetaking, and followed it with a written up version.
It accords both with what this blog has been saying and what recently senior BBC journalists have confirmed in note-perfect fashion. Check it out.
Taster:
The institutional leftism shows up in its instinctive mistrust of capitalism, and it should be remembered that it is a pre-war corporation set up along with similar institutions like the Forestry Commission… There are questions on British contemporary morality that cannot be asked… In a programme planning session there would be no conservatives, or at best one in twenty. With age, one could become a ‘mad right winger’ and be treated as something like a court jester.
(I don’t place these comments in quote marks as they are written up from notes, not verbatim)
There’s plenty more to find by following the link.
Can we trust the bbc indeed?
Overheard on Trendy Street — al-beeb is to hire a veiled Muslim woman to read the news on TV!
On trusting them to spend our money wisely, what is J. Humphrys doing in Basra introducing reporters already there and reading news items generated in the UK?
Oh, I know the answer to that one. He is to be the one to interview Osama Bin Liner live.
Aye – the BBC’s promotion of all things Muslim continues apace. Remember, this is the organisation which forced a Christian news reader to take off her cross.
Scum! It should be disbanded and all their employees prevented by law in working in the media or the public sector for life.
The Scum even banned its BBC 24 Newsreaders wearing poppies a few years ago – It was overturned after a row, but I still watch closly at this time of year.
John writes:
Remember, this is the organisation which forced a Christian news reader to take off her cross.
Who was that? When?
The BBC seems to keep a text record of most of its output now?Ideal for News Sniffer (as long as it’s an accurate record).Perhaps speech recognition software has advanced far enough to be used to transcribe BBC newsreaders to text?They are a small(ish) group so speech recognition software could be ‘trained’ to recognize their speech via tape?((aided manually by an attendee when a word needs to be repeated (rewound)).This would allow monitoring,transfer to text (a true record) and search by software programmes at reasonable cost?Labour/New (improved) Labour are sometimes used to suit the context of the story.’Labour’ when addressing ‘traditional socialist issues’ and ‘New (improved) Labour’ when addressing the partys ‘vision of the future’.It would be nice to flag this up for example.
At last a blog I have been looking for.
Isn’t it time we applied real pressure on the BBC. I propose a campaign of civil disobedience in which we refuse tio pay the licence fee (“They can’t bang us all up” could be our slogan). Just to grate on the Beeb’s conscience we should make it clear that our move is inspired by Ghandi.
Maurice Green
Isn’t it time we applied real pressure on the BBC. I propose a campaign of civil disobedience in which we refuse tio pay the licence fee …
I have been for years. You’re most welcome to join me. Don’t worry, just don’t respond to their letters, put them straight in the bin and you’ll be fine.
Just to grate on the Beeb’s conscience we should make it clear that our move is inspired by Ghandi.
Ok, as long as I don’t have to wear a nappy.
The BBC didnt ban Fiona Bruce from wearing a cross. You are wrong. They have not hired a veiled Muslim to read the news. Again,wrong.
You seem happy to accept the tabloids as gospel yet refuse to believe the most trusted news broadcaster in the world. This is because what the Daily Mail et al print fits your agenda.
It is not the BBC’s bias, it is yours. You do not want the BBC to be impartial. You want it to be biased. Biased in favour of your pro-BNP, anti-Muslim, anti-EU opinions, pro-death penalty etc etc. Funny isnt it how all the things you accuse the BBC of being are the things you feel the opposite about? hmmm, funny that.
Any institution which produces then broadcasts a piece on how ‘good’ the taleban are is not only biased, but treacherous given that said taleban are attempting to kill our troops.
Pete London
Maurice Green
Re:
“Isn’t it time we applied real pressure on the BBC? I propose a campaign of civil disobedience in which we refuse to pay the licence fee …”
I got my little pale blue threatening letter yesterday. It has about as much chance of being paid as there is Richard Littlejohn coverting to Islam.
I don’t believe in subsidising conciously unlawful organisations and, having satisfied myself of said organisation’s concious unlawfulness, don’t believe my doing so would actually be lawful.
The BBC’s conscious and institutional unlawfulness is proven by its steadfast refusal over the last nine years to broadcast any news about this:
http://www.guardianlies.com/Contents.html
So much for the BBC’s policy of “seeking the truth”, “airing a wide range of views” etc. – something I’d like to test myself in a court of law. I’m just thinking of the witnesses I could call…..
I make that’s at three of us to get this Ghandi-inspired, quite lawful, civil disobedience off the ground. Any more out there willing to join us?
Carl Johnston,
You argue like the playground kid who says, “My daddy’s stronger than your daddy.” I doubt that anyone here expects or wants the BBC to adopt an opposing set of prejudices. And since it’s obviously too much to ask of the BBC to rid itself of its current prejudices, the best we can hope for is that it can somehow bring itself to operate in a professional fashion. It could make a start in that direction by disengaging itself from the embrace of Islamic terrorists. It would also be nice if it could bring itself to stop baying for the destruction of Western civilization.
Are you any relation to Alan – the BBC’s blue-eyed boy who tirelessly churns out Palestinian propaganda from Gaza?
Carl Johnston,
Most of the people here just want the BBC to stop being able to jail people.
Carl
You’re just making it up. There are of course several controversial issues on which I agree, at least broadly, with the BBC’s opinion. I don’t want then to push that agenda – I want them to give a balanced view!
The difference is that I know there is a reasoned debate, that people who disagree with me have good arguments on their side. The BBC personnel seem to believe that what they think must be right, they have no understanding of the contrary position, a great weakness in any debate. Lucky they don’t allow debate isn’t it?