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I mean you don’t make a pretence not to be BioD so a ban is.. somewhat academic.
Academic perhaps for you but a real bloody hassle for me if I want to comment.
When I was first banned Andrew started banning each proxy as I used it so I had to continually find another.
There’s been no sign of Andrew here for quite some time. I know he was suffering from ill health, I sincerely hope he gets over it.
Biodegradable’s Ghost | 20.02.08 – 5:26 pm |
My goodness • The first time I’ve been back here for donkey’s and the usual rabble (not you BioD) are in still full flow trying to justify the unjustifiable.
I got banned for stating that I had ceased to post because of the censorship that was taking place and suggesting (politely) that I found it somewhat obsessive.
When told by Bowman that a suggestion of obsessive censorship was personal abuse I told him to grow up. Till today I haven’t been back to this site, however I didn’t realise he was ill.
Have I missed anything?
I mean where I am there is no compulsory television tax. All the scary stories put about by the BBC about the parlous state of TV in North America are just that • scary stories.
Sure there’s dross (I had to pay for that on the BBC • anyone for My Hero) and wall to wall adverts. But guess what? They have real political debates on TV on both sides of the border here (We get US stations as well) involving all shades of opinion. None of your Dateline London twaddle hosted by a far-leftie, with a panel of far-lefties and not so far-lefties, pumped out purely for the benefit of far-lefties and funded by the unwilling.
Of course, if you are of that bent, then you can still see it on BBC World (Is that their plan • world domination, well as a start they are being bunged by the EU) but few here are even aware of it and those that are don’t really bothers with it. They prefer to go online and scan the Brit press.
Will I be back here? I’m not sure as the BBC is losing any relevance for me personally.
TPO
But David, of course the BBC makes no mention of book shredding. They are no longer allowed to report stories that throw a bad light on the RoP, “community cohesion” don’t you know.
The BBC no longer makes any pretence of balanced and unbiased reporting.
Not TPO’s Ghost | 22.02.08 – 8:06 pm,
Good to see you make a non-ghostly appearance here, TPO. Have you missed anything? Probably, but like yourself I’m getting a bit weary of monitoring the BBC’s decline.
TPO, I was banned around that same time under a different user name for also disagreeing with the censorship. I remember Andrew’s response being “You can all go away and take your fellow ship jumpers with you.” Or something along those lines.
Considering this site is a lot of people uniting against a common cause – a common cause being the BBCs threat to our future – I thought it was a bit parochial of him to behave in that way.
But coming back here I marvel at how many people there are with the same opinion of the BBC, but how nothing is being done.
And in all the years this site has been active, has there been even the remotest change at the BBC?
I don’t understand why the moderators don’t organize a protest point for examples of BBC bias. E-mail addresses of the producers or editors concerned would be a good start. Or better still any outside governing body that could also address the concerns.
A template e-mail to send would also be a good start. This is the very least I would expect from a site like this. Forget organizing protest meetings, or a class action lawsuit – as someone suggested – or disseminating information about the BBC to a wider audience, really putting it in the laps of those who don’t full understand what the BBC are up to. I guess that would be TOO MUCH to ask.
No, it seems most people here would rather just piss in the wind by moaning to each other like old dear’s in a bus queue.
I’m starting to wonder what the point is of coming here, because it’s not going to have any result, except to annoy me.
Roland Deschain:
I noticed that the killer in last night’s Ashes to Ashes was a Christian nutcase.
..and white..
One of only two in the murdered girl’s gospel choir.
When programme showed a picture of the choir early on I knew one the two whites would be the killer.
Watching the BBC drama programmes is a bit like watching the original Start Trek.
Remember how you always knew the security officer who you never seen before and who beamed down to the planet would be dead in 2 minutes flat.
make that STAR TREK
And in all the years this site has been active, has there been even the remotest change at the BBC?
The People’s Front of Judea | 23.02.08 – 9:37 am
Yep, sure has. The BBC has made stealthy changes to its website articles from time to time based on what it reads here. (It must really hurt it to have to mangle those polished little pieces of propaganda.)
Of course we can’t be 100% certain that this site forced the changes, but at times they have been made right after a debate with John Reith here, for example.
But there is another important function we fulfil. If not for sites like this and Honest Reporting and others, the BBC would feel free to pump out its propaganda unhindered. They know they are being very carefully watched and this must limit the free flow of bias.
Bryan:
I accept that the BBC has stealth edited due to exposure from this site. That is undisputable. But I suspect it’s more of a token gesture on their part, because if they hadn’t of changed those articles who else would have cared?
What I meant by no change was that the BBC’s agenda or attitude hasn’t changed over the years. They don’t care what anyone says in critique against them, no matter how many of them say it, they carry on regardless due to their conceited arrogance.
They need the rug pulled out from under them hard.