, might as well have been a Labour Party Press Release – a jolly retelling of Ed Balls’ words, unencumbered by any opposition response (not even from the BBC’s favoured ‘opposition’, the LibDems), with, for good measure, a free kick at David Cameron at the end.
Biased BBC reader Pete points out another BBC Views Online story, NHS staff protest against reforms, apparently so universally uncontroversial that it too requires no balancing comment.
“Unsurprisingly, the demographic groups that BBC3 is supposedly produced for already have lots of other entertainment options”
Yeah, it’s called You-Tube.
>Ultimately it comes don’t to the fact you obviously don’t like the license fee and would prefer to watch what you want and not subsidise others.
Not really, no. I can accept subsidizing the viewing of others if it is obviously good for the nation overall, or for some underprivileged group. But stories about people marrying goats, models supposedly not wanting US currency, and the rubbish which mostly fills the mostly unwatched BBC3 don’t qualify.
>Fair enough, but not exactly adding anything are you?”
And what exactly are you adding?
No, just not particularly anal when I’ve got work to do – should have realised it’d get taken so literally by you guys. Lighten up!
Thanks for the history lesson Andrew, I’m not sure what your point is though.
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Well if you remember Haversack the original discussion concerned an alleged (I’m learning!) anti american bias – not the quality of output
Okay, but my question is still there. A compulsory poll tax to fund rubbish collection I have no problem with. But a compulsory poll tax to fund rubbish production I do.
Ben: “Thanks for the history lesson Andrew, I’m not sure what your point is though.”
The point is that it would be incorrect to say that the pound has demised, even though its relative value has fluctuated greatly over time. The same applies to the dollar. The dollar is not going away, whatever the BBC might like to think or imply or report so cheerfully.
The best example of relentless behaviour I’ve ever been subjected to is the nasty letter campaign from the BBC’s revenue department. With no evidence whatsoever that I have used a TV at my address, these vile people seem to think that I need constant and rudely worded letters telling me about the need to have a licence to watch TV and the penalties for those who watch with no licence.
I’d be ashamed to work for an organisation that used such methods to fund themselves. I’m tempted to send a stream of letters to the top staff at the BBC warning them not to molest children or murder anyone because of the vigour with which the police investigate such crimes and the penalties they attract.
IMHO the two best items contributed to this particular thread are:
1. Quote from Haversack: “A compulsory poll tax to fund rubbish collection I have no problem with. But a compulsory poll tax to fund rubbish production I do.”
2. Pete’s suggestion apropos of the methods adopted by the BBC’s tax-gatherers’ methods “I’m tempted to send a stream of letters to the top staff at the BBC warning them not to molest children or murder anyone because of the vigour with which the police investigate such crimes and the penalties they attract”
Both brilliant – a Nobel Peace Prize to both of them.
The BBC and how it defends the taliban.
Ball bearings used in Afghan bomb
Early investigations into Tuesday’s bombing in the Afghan province of Baghlan indicate that the attacker used ball bearings to maximise casualties.
The ball bearings were mixed with explosives, the interior ministry says. Efforts to establish an accurate casualty toll will get underway later on Friday. The provincial governor says the death toll now stands at 52, with 106 people injured. The Taleban have denied that they were responsible.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7086599.stm
And the story the BBC doesn’t want you to know
Afghan suicide attack killed 59 children, ministry confirms
A suicide attack in northern Afghanistan earlier this week killed 59 schoolchildren and wounded 96 others, the education ministry said today.
The schoolchildren were lined up to greet a group of lawmakers visiting a sugar factory in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday when a suicide bomber detonated explosives.
In total, at least 75 people were killed, including several parliamentarians.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,2208390,00.html
So a major story about the murder of 59 children is re-written by the taliban loving BBC as a ball bearing story.
The BBC and how it defends the taliban.
pounce:
Well spotted. I just read the earlier report on the 7th that was filed by Alix Kroeger who was clearly wetting himself with excitement at the opportunity to defend his beloved taliban.
Just why his story lapses into one gigantic excuse for these murdering savages is astounding, considering he gives only a cursory mention to the dead schoolchildren.
But this part of his story defies belief:-
“Put bluntly, most suicide bombings here kill only the bombers themselves.
There are still some people who believe, partly because of the devastating death toll, that it was not a suicide bomb at all.”
So there you have it. Alex Kroeger – official BBC arse-wiper of the taliban – sees suicide bombers as only a harm to themselves and in this instance, their glorious reputations have been tarnished by the crude suggestion that they would do something so heartless as to blow themselves up next to a crowd of schoolchildren.
But with hacks like Kroeger doing the taliban’s P.R I’m sure it will only be a matter of time before Al Beeb publish a defence story that it was just a car back firing that did it.
Anyone hear Lisa Jardine’s “Point of View” on radio 4 this evening?
After a few sentences we had 5 minutes sustainedly anti US (particularly anti-Bush), anti business and pro man-made climate change.
Of course it’s presented as a personal view – but who chooses the people who get to express their personal views on the license-funded BBC!
Reg further to my last ref the BBC ball bearing story.
here is how the US reports that story;
Reported deaths of 59 students push death toll in Afghan bombing to 72
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/09/asia/09afghan.php
Canada
Afghan bomb attacks killed 59 schoolboys
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=0bc03814-5bc0-4798-bed4-af6c154ba72f&k=28180
Australia
Afghani bomb attacks killed 59 children
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22734110-38197,00.html
Even Iran informs its people over just who the radical idiots in Afghanistan murdered;
59 Afghan Children Killed In Suicide Attack
http://www.iran-daily.com/1386/2986/html/politic.htm#s270990
But for some strange reason the BBC doesn’t. I wonder why?
Is the BBC downplaying Italy’s 1 year detention without trial by calling it remand?
Meredith accused held on remand
Three people accused of UK student Meredith Kercher’s murder are to be remanded for up to a year in Italy.
Italian law allows judges to jail suspects without charging them .. the investigating judge concluded that they should be held until a hearing is fixed to press charges.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7086619.stm
We have heard the claim numerous times in the past days that 28 days is already far longer than any other state in the western world.
In an article yesterday the BBC seems economical with the truth
Detention times around the world
It merely says of Italy
Suspects may be held for 24 hours without seeing a lawyer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7084762.stm
Will, I take it that your point is that while the first BBC article you mention is clear about the matter, the second is very misleading (which I would agree with)?