So anyway, I bit my tongue and tuned in to the “Today” programme on Radio 4 for just around 15 minutes this morning. What a rich mine of institutionalised bias it is. First up, we had a report on yesterday in the Commons and the debate on the Nationalisation of Northern Rock. Thanks to the way in which the excerpts were spliced, every effort was made to make the pathetic Alistair Darling look in control. Naturally the always-in-favour of Statism of the GLib-Dem’s was given a soft ride, whereas apparently the venom in George Osbourne’s contribution “rallied” the Labour backbenches to their beleaguered masters. One Labour MP even referred to the Northern Rock as “the people’s bank”. And to hammer this home, we had Mark Simpson sent to Newcastle, interviewing “local” people on how they felt about the Rock. One man burst into tears claiming that the Rock had been very well run indeed (Wonder was he a local branch manager) A local Labour MP was brought on to tell us that it would be “unthinkable” had the government not stepped in. (Yeah, unthinkable for his re-election propects) The BBC is shilling to make us feel that this “temporary” change of ownership is the most natural thing imaginable and of course for one organ of the State to claim this about a new organ of the State is understandable, but still repugnant from an organisation that claims to be neutral. Following on from this, we had an item which suggested that a manager’s organisation backed the TUC campaign to cut back on the hours we work. Apparently we all work too far too many hours and the comrades in the Trades Unions have now found an ally amongst the managerial classes, to the BBC’s evident delight. Employers just need more regulation, right? Then to finish off, we had an item concerning the planned arrest of an Israeli General, stopping off at Heathrow, and wanted by the loony left as a “war criminal.” The BBC revealed that police feared a possible shoot-out if they dared boarding the El-Al aircraft to arrest the general. Hope so. It’s funny how the BBC did not question how it came about that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of this Israeli General – it merely repeated the far-left claim that he was a wanted “war-criminal” – well, all Jews are, right? There you go – just 15 minutes looking at the world through the prism of leftworld. Couldn’t take any more!
15 minutes.
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I see the BBC have a “positive spin” on the non dom story I mentioned above.
BBC 4PM news. Ron Sandler and his bird side kick is one of those being “targeted” by the Government to pay tax.
But hang on a minute, this came out the other day
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/feb/13/economy.taxandspending
So why is the BBC spinning this as a “pro” Government story when it clearly isn’t?
It was the “evil” Toreees that were going ot tax them, McBean and his glove puppet never had any intention to do so.
Lance | 19.02.08 – 12:22 pm |
Obama the devious is caught out, the word huckster exposed in his secondhhand clothes and Justin Webb throws his rattle out of the pram.
Aw, diddums.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/there…ers/justinwebb/
Believe it or not, Webb has more of a clue and makes more objective reports (on BBC World News) than the others covering the US scene. Sad, I know. Let’s not forget that the American executive producer of BBC World News America is the guy who was in charge at CBS when Dan Rather tried to flog those forged anti-Bush memos.
In any case, lots of media types are unimpressed with this charge against Obama. Politicians do this all the time, they say. But, more importantly, writers and journalists do this all the time themselves. A recent, classic example of this would be the sudden viral spread of the “campaign in poetry but govern in prose” line amongst BBC talking heads. They all think this is fine, so of course Justin laughs at this charge that Obama did it as well. Words are mere tools to them, tools with which they tell their story.
Webb was not the biggest Hillary cheerleader of the bunch, either. Although, he has definitely made it clear a Democrat President is preferable.
It has been amusing to watch Webb and the rest of the propagandists slowly realize that America is not, in fact, too racist to elect a black man. Early on, each and every Beeboid shown on air began their Obama segment with the caveat about race (accompanied by a practiced scowl). Yes, there are still going to be people uncomfortable with a black man in charge. But that group is a very small minority, and will not sway any election larger than one for the local sheriff.
Slowly, at least one bunch of Beeboids is learning a small but important lesson about United Statesians. Of course, I expect that to be forgotten the moment Obama loses either the nomination or the election in November. “Is America too racist after all,” will be the headline of every story, and the opening salvo of every radio and tv report.
But for now, the idiot Webb is dealing with a dose of reality, and it both alarms and amuses him. He’s really happy either way, as long as a Democrat wins in the end. Like the rest of them, they are drawn to whoever they think is the strongest horse. Webb has been all over the map in his enthusiasms, trying to nail down the front runner. Just from occasionally checking his dopey blog I seem to recall that he has called just about every single candidate a probable winner at some point. He’s been frustrated because he can’t tell his story without knowing who it’s going to be. And now like every other light-headed Beeboid on the scene, he is swayed by the same emotionalism as all the youngsters who are swooning over the platitude king.
“But Fidel Castro retained enough public support to become one of the world’s longest-serving leaders.”
Yeah, I think they mean he murdered his opponents before they murdered him.
It’s like that in the Socialist snake-pits.
just wait until they start bemoaning the retirement of their hero!
You think the BBC is arse licking Castro. try listening to George Galloway (RAJ TV at 6PM every night or Talksport at the weekends)
His endless list of arse lickers is unbelievable.
So I’ve been listening to R4’s “Today” segment with Howard Davies and John McFall discussing Northern Rock and its affect on The City, followed by Nick Robinson’s extra credit work after school to defend Darling against charges that he agreed that the government would run the bank into the ground.
The BBC bought into the plan a long time ago, and won’t be shifted in their support. As far as I could tell from any of this, the only benefit to nationalizing the bank is that they supposedly won’t start cutting jobs. Of course that’s what all the northern Labour MPs are concerned about anyway. So now the British taxpayer will be paying to support all those bank employees on their full salaries and benefits for as long as Brown and his Chancellor can sustain it. Yes, it’s value for money now, isn’t it, Darling?
At least Davies was allowed to say that London’s financial reputation has suffered a bit, before the Scotsman got to do more cheer-leading. Ooh, the bank will be turned around and run commercially, ooh, people will remain employed, ooh, Barclays just announced a nice profit because it got more fools to sign up for its card, ooh The City is robust.
Nobody pay attention to the 100 billion pounds and counting this is going to cost all of you. Nobody remember that NR actually had some other reasonable assets it could have turned to at the time, and that with more prudent guidance this whole thing might not have been necessary in the first place. Nobody think about how things might have worked out if NR was put into receivership under control of the Bank of London, as that would possibly benefit nasty shareholders and creditors while bank tellers and phone reps (and other potential Labour voters) are made redundant. Nobody mention the falling value of the pound as we are pretending this doesn’t have any affect on that. Oh, but Sandler promises to make good on this taxpayer investment? I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell the taxpayers as well.
This is all a big dance, the taxpayers are going to eat it mightily, and the BBC is happy to play along.
The BBC, how it couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery and Bad Admin.
A number of people begrudge how the BBC wastes money, here is a perfect example.
This letter hit the mat the other day at our house.
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3149/dsc00365qv8.jpg
It is a demand (with I should add a payment slip at the bottom made out in my name for £135) that I purchase a TV licence
Now out of all the options listed the one that is relevant to this house is the one that should ask;
“Do you already have a licence in your own name “
In other words the BBC presumes I am guilty.
Now here is a JPG of our current licence;
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/4541/dsc00366jp0.jpg
It is valid, it is in date and it is in my name.
Yet for some strange reason the BBC tax collectors are more than happy to send out a warning letter (at cost) without checking to see if our house already has a licence. Electronically that would take somebody on a computer typing in our licence number all of 10 seconds. Instead they send letters out in which to try and rake it in.
The BBC, how it couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery and Bad Admin.
The above was me.
“Nick Robinson’s extra credit work after school to defend Darling against charges that he agreed that the government would run the bank into the ground.”
To be fair, on his blog Robinson made led those making that charge on the basis of Hansard, but then found the tapes didn’t back him up.
The Today Programme is NuLabor’s key support propaganda programme, and unfortunately it is echoed by the World at One and even steady Eddie’s 5 o’clock show that I am listening to now.
I do not agree that if by a miracle the Conservatives get in they will only try to appease Radio 4 news – they will have no alternative but to address the roots of the problem and set up controls to ensure balance and objectivity. They will be saved by the fact that most of the loony left are reaching pension age if not past it.
Had to laugh at Radio 5. Some thicko BBC droid was interviewing some business journalist from the Independent and the journo reckoned that the £100 million quoted for “fees” is a big underestimate and that it could be up to £200 million.
The Beeboid then said (and honestly he said it with no humour in his voice) “why did the Treasury need to employ external advice when THEY HAVE SOME OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS WORKING FOR THEM…”
I kid you not. I spat my tea out laughing.
Hang on a second
Lets take a look
Alistair Darling (McBean’s hand puppet) has a degree in law and has never run a business in his life.
Yvette Cooper: Another politics educated prat.
Jane Kennedy: Ex Social Worker
I could go on. The BBC thinks this bunch of arseholes have brilliant minds.
These are brilliant minds you BBC idiots
http://www.hawking.org.uk/
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Whittle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
“Brilliant minds” in government?
The great thinkers of the age that lost all our Child Benefit data?
Brilliant minds are not to be found in government, just incredibly ignorant people.
Brilliant minds? The only way these mediocrities can climb the greasy pole is via politics.Getting to run a multi-billion pound enterprise, UK plc by lying about their qualifications.
Things were no too bad when politicians made political decisions regarding the art of the acceptable to the electorate.Now these fools micro-manage things way beyond their comprehension.
The BBC is locked into the statist mindset. They can’t think outside of the state, they can’t think without it. The perpetual question is “what more can the state do” never, “how has the state harmed matters” let alone “what is the state doing here in the first place”. This is genuinely unconscious, it’s just the world they occupy.
This is the kind of bias they exhibit which can’t be so easily categorised in party political terms, but is arguably more harmful socially and culturally in the long run because it inures the whole population into a catatonic dependency culture, intellectually as well as materially; successive generations self-abrogated from personal responsibility. Which of course leads to more state involvement, as someone has to clear up the mess.
P.S. David Vance could improve his posts by not writing in the first person and using paragraphs.
Any chance of opening up a new General BBC-related comment thread
This morning Today had a beautiful example of who these geniuses are in Government.
The health minister (from humble origins) was advocating the use of his new “wellness” doctors note in the health service.
Almost every word was in consultant speak and I believe even his speech was drawn up by a consultant.
Consultant fees to Westminster go into the £billions per year.
PS. I am a a consultant.