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Was ITV’s Fern more sycophantic towards Brown than BBC’s Marr?
“Gordon Brown on sofa with Fern”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/politics/threelinewhip/may/gordonbrownandfern.htm
PKB:
Fry could earn an enormous salary elsewhere? then I suggest he does, soon as.
He already does, starring in the successful drama series Kingdom on ITV, and appearing as a recurring character in the popular Fox TV series Bones in the US. Programme-makers like Fry regularly switch from public to commercial channels.
My point – that he is arguing for an inclusive BBC out of respect for its creative quality – remains.
Yours – that he was arguing out of financial self-interest – fails, I’m afraid.
Peter:
Splendid,off he goes then.
As does yours…
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this statement made me howl , from the how your fee is spent webpage. “The BBC is paid for directly through each household TV licence. This allows it to run a wide range of popular public services for everyone, free of adverts and independent of advertisers, shareholders or political interests. 92.5% of the UK population used the BBC every month in 2006/2007.”
Free of political interests !!! lying Bas***ds .
It’s all too much: Where was the comment from our friend Chami Chakrabarti of Liberty then BBC? If a Tory had come out with that, you just know that the BBC would have got good old Chami to pour out loads of leftie liberal PC bile about the “Tories” pandering to the right.
George R: I see Gordon is going for the “big interviews” then?
Can ANYONE ever remember McBean going on the radio and taking questions from callers? I can’t.
I don’t think he’s ever done Question Time either. Now that surprises me as the audience would be packed with Gordon “luvvies” who’d cheer him farting.
THE BBC ATTACKING THE USA AGAIN
On Radio 5 they had an interview with some Beeboid over the problems in Burma. “Apparently” (well according to the thicko Beeboid) the reason that the Burma Government (nice bunch by the way) won’t let the evil Americans into their Country to provide aid is that they don’t trust them and that they think they will want regime change (as if the Burma Government is a nice cuddly democracy).
So lets get this right. The government of Burma doesn’t want American C5 Galaxy aircraft flying in tons of food and aid in case they what? try to take over the Country with a few pilots and groundcrew? What utter nonsense from the BBC.
The BBC are just full of shit and lies.
And again I challenged the same radio station to tell us what aid, China, Russia and all the rich Muslim Countries are giving. No answer.
Martin:
If a Tory had come out with that, you just know that the BBC would have got good old Chami to pour out loads of leftie liberal PC bile about the “Tories” pandering to the right.
And if the BBC had put Shami Chakrabarti on air, you’d have had a good whinge about who she represents and how come she’s never off air…
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Fry’s ‘public’ service on the BBC
Precious little.
In more recent years he has appeared on BBC radio a lot more than on television.
On BBCtv he has actually done almost all non public broadcasting stuff like Blackadder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie, or his most recent main effort QI.
He does hold one special ‘service’ to television that presumably makes the BBC think his quality is worth the huge amount of money, he holds the British record for saying “fuck” the most times on a live broadcast.
Though he did say it less times on air when narrating Pocoyo for the pre school children over on CITV.
Dear all,
Can any of you find a report on the BBC website regarding Boris Johnson’s appointment of Ray Lewis to tackle youth crime and violence? It seems strange to me that the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Times, the Guardian and the Independent have all reported on Mr. Lewis’s appointment (in their websites), but the Beeb apparently has not…
Rachel
I am sorry to say that it got blanket coverage on BBC radio London yesterday – almost entirely positive at that. It was the subject of the Vanessa Feltz phone in and most callers (apart from a self confessed communist) were ecstatic
PKB:
On BBCtv he has actually done almost all non public broadcasting stuff like Blackadder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie, or his most recent main effort QI.
I believe it’s Fry’s case that those programmes are a kind of public service because commercial companies rarely support new programmes which don’t get immediate, high auidences.
The first series of Blackadder did not do well and was regularly criticised at the time, though the subsequent series are generally considered to have been among the BBC’s best comedies…
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Broadcasting without tears:
How the BBC just gets everything wrong and the answer is to tip everything over to the commercial sector….
ITV, for exapmle:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/08/itv.tvfakery
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Hillhunt,
I do not think the BBC has entirely clean hands in this matter. A cat called Cookie springs to mind
Hillhunt: I don’t have a problem with Shami so long as her airtime is proportional.
We know that normally the BBC would have had her quoted, but the BBC is in “big up Gordon” at the moment so there is no negative opinion of Gordon allowed.
Hillhunt: Unlike the BBC that never fakes anything.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2879665.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6463901.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=485889&in_page_id=1770
Martin:
I think that you’ll find I have joined in the general criticism of the BBC’s fakery in the past, though much of it is very mild.
ITV’s behaviour betrays a level of cynicism and greed to take your breath away.
Hillhunt: I wouldn’t disagree with you there. However, defending the BBC by saying it’s not as bad as ITV is not really a defence now is it?
The BBC reports the Abu Qatada case this way:-
“Islamic preacher Qatada is bailed”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7390990.stm
But the ‘Telegraph’s journalist, Philip Johnston, gets to the heart of the matter here – which Labour and the BBC don’t refer to – ‘the flawed Human Rights law’, which the ‘listening’ Labour Government will do nothing about, but the Tory opposition should:-
“Abu Qatada case proves Human Rights laws are flawed” (Philip Johnston)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1938772/Abu-Qatada-case-proves-Human-Rights-laws-are-flawed.html
There is an opinion poll in The Sun that puts the parties as follows:
Con – 49%
Lab – 23%
LD – 17%
It is the smallest share of the vote and the widest margin Labour have experienced since the beginning of time! Well, since the beginning of polling anyway. Now, surely that warrants its own story because it’s not just about the figures, but the tale they tell? I believe we’ve seen that excuse used before. Let’s see what happens…
Sky have gone big on the latest opinion poll being bad news for McBean.
So I guess it’s fair to assume the BBC won’t mention it and they will make sure QT is very pro Labour tonight.
Good old BBC.
Hillhunt
“ITV’s behaviour betrays a level of cynicism and greed to take your breath away.”
Who cares?
Lebanon has been without a head of state for five months because of a power struggle between the Western and Saudi-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition which is supported by Syria and Iran.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world…ast/ 7387273.stm
pounce | 08.05.08 – 12:01 am
On the World Service today they only mentioned the Western-backed government, as they usually do, and nothing about the terror-supporting regimes of Iran and Syria
Notice the way Cameron and McBean are treated by the BBC regarding their families.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7295735.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7390235.stm
BBC Questiontime. No doubt a McLiebour love fest tonight.
Piers Morgan – Jesus that twat is never off the TV.
Big rounds of applause everytime McBean is mentioned, despite the fact they are boradcasting from the heart of Toryland.
Oh and the BBC wheel out Michael Hesseltine, just so some fat woman in the audience can shout out “I remember interest rates at 18%”.
We haven’t had that one for er well since last week and the week before that and the week before that……
Hey!! 10 minutes into QT and we’ve had 15% interest rates under the Tories once already and Piers Morgan’s big sppech about McBean applauded and cheered.
What a shock. The McLiebour minister on QT is an ex Beeboid!!!!!
The panned shot of 30+ audience members was very telling. I counted only 2 people NOT clapping at how wonderful McBean was.
Note the subtle nature of Beeboid propaganda in this sentence reporting on the capture of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq terror group, Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
“In an hour-long audio tape broadcast last month, he purportedly called for renewed attacks on US troops.”
“purportedly” say the Beeb. What after a month they cannot, or will not, say that he called for an all out terrorist murder spree. Segments of the transcript are not hard to find. (He did!)
Naturally Beeboids cannot bear to call him a terrorist, apparently he is a militant. So the World Trade Centre atrocity was a mere act of militancy?
And that wanker Piers Morgan (he who tried to get British soldiers killed in Iraq) is getting far too much time. The twat never shuts up. Dimbleby keeps shutting up Hesseltine but not Morgan.
Despite the BBC ‘QT’ audience composition manipulators’ weekly efforts:
“‘Brown-out’ chronicles the contribution of Gordon Brown’s personality failings to his political decline”:-
http://brown-out.blogspot.com
And, from ‘Sky News’:-
“‘Brown’s Days Numbered’ -Fleet Street”
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91211-1315152,00.html
You just gotta love Piers morgan. Now he demands that the very people HE tried to get killed with his fake pictures should carry out humanitarian air drops, even though they might get shot down.
Why does this fat vile left wing wanker get air time?
Oh and Boris Johnson’s sister. She’s hopeless. No wonder the BBC had her on. It was supposed to be Alison Pearson from the Mail.
David | 08.05.08 – 9:06 pm |
Guido has this as well.
It would appear that YouGov conducted the poll.
http://www.order-order.com/2008/05/yougov-whisper-number-26-tory-lead.html
That would be the YouGov pollsters who have a very good track record in predictions as opposed to the BBC who have an abysmal record in polling.
Perhaps the BBC might consider using YouGov in future. It would certainly stop their disastrous gaffes in this department.
QT
I now know for a fact that the BBC manipulate the QT audience. The QT audience from Dorking had a total of six (6) BME participants, strangely five of whom got to speak on air. There was a labour majority in the audience in a seat with an huge Tory majority. How could this happen?
Did anyone notice how Morgan said when challenged about his discussion with Boris at a party (who paid for the wine and canapes there then?) “It was on camera, and the camera never lies”, except of course when it is providing pictures for the front page of the Mirror that subsequently force the resignation of the editor when they are exposed as damaging fakes……
This hasn’t made it onto the BBC web page yet
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/1939413/Labour-hits-lowest-ever-rating.html
Any guesses why? Perhaps because it reports the orst labour poll in decades.
It happens because the BBC manipulate the audience to suit them. Read my original post. We know McBean is in a hole so QT packs the panel and audience with lefties.
I don’t know if anyone else noticed but when someone wanted to applaud something positive about the Tories the applause was very muted and stopped almost straightaway, yet the McLiebour applause was very prolonged.
Dimbleby was a disgrace as well. Morgan got to prattle on and on and on. Yet Dimbleby only ever seemed to try to shut Hesseltine up.
As for Morgan, the man is a piece of excrement. I remember listening to Mayo on Radio 5 when he had Ian Hislop and Jeremy Clarkson on his show before Christmas. They were laughing about punching Morgan (which Clarkson has done and I think he’s been punched by someone elese as well) Ian Hislop suggested it should be made a national sport.
Also, the left never seem to let go what Boris was supposed ot have said in the past, yet nothing that Boris has said (and what he said about Liverpool I agree with 100%) compares to the suicide bombing Muslim terrorists that piece of shit Livingstone used to invite to London.
The BBC won’t report the Yougov poll. They only report good news for McLiebour.
QT is not inflicted on North America through the BBC’s transmissions here.
Interesting to see though that despite the very reputable YouGov showing almost 50% support for Dave’s Tories, the BBC are still rigging the QT audiences heavily in favour of the socialists. By comments above it seems like over 80% of the audience are lefties. And what on earth is Michael Heseltine doing representing the Conservatives. that’s like dragging some socialist slimeball like the ‘war hero’ Dennis Healey out to speak for the modern zanu labour.
BBC and bias. Whatever next!!!
Any credibility QT had disappeared on the 13th September 2001.
TPO: Yes Hesseltine is pro EU. Did you hear the cry of “rubbish” when he was spouting on about how wonderful the EU is?
Next week it will be fatso Kenneth Clarke no doubt.
Personally I think it would be better if the Tory party just boycotted the thing.
Did anyone see Portillo on This Week? He had a face like a smacked arse. He didn’t vote for Boris in the London election, but wouldn’t say who he did vote for (probably the Lib Dem I’m guessing)
Typical BBC that the “tory” representative on This Week isn’t a Tory. Well there’s a shock.
Potillo is an arsehole. He bottled his chance as leader of the Tory party and bottled his chance at being Mayor.
At least Johnson had the balls to have a go.
Into my 7th year of boycotting QT.
I value the life I have gained back by not watching it…
Re that slimeball Morgan
The editor of the Mirror, Piers Morgan, once discussed the early decision of Tony Blair’s cabinet to freeze their salaries as a temporary gesture to the working class with them. Flaunting his own wealth, he took out a £20 note and threw it at Blair shouting, “Hey, Tony, buy the kids some toys!” The ministers became silent, until the PM’s Press Secretary Alistair Campbell picked up the note, straightened it out and return to Morgan, suggesting he give it to charity. As(Nick) Cohen notes, “It takes a man of extraordinary vulgarity to bring out the hidden grace in Alistair Campbell. Piers Morgan was that man.”
When take a shit these days I say I’m going for a “Piers”
‘Did you hear the cry of “rubbish” when he was spouting on about how wonderful the EU is?’
Martin | 09.05.08 – 12:39 am |
Martin I live in Canada now so don’t have the opportunity to shout at QT any longer.
Does wonders for the blood pressure though.
Potillo is an arsehole……..
Martin | 09.05.08 – 12:39 am |
And there was me thinking he was a shirtlifter.
Was it Portillo who coined the phrase ‘I always thought sex was a pain in the arse until I met women’
Wow.
Just about all of the meedja running with the fact that Dave’s Tories are about to hit 50%.
Oh no. Wait a minute. There’s one bunch that’s not running the news from the most reputable pollsters in Britain.
Now who can it be? Are we all waiting for that “The BBC has learned that” moment?
Don’t hold your breath. Socialist filth central will still be ‘reporting’ their exit polls showing the filth in the lead right up until Brown’s c*nts are ejected.
After that you’ll have years of Polly Toynbee telling everybody how stupid, untrustworthy and how ungrateful the proles are.
BBC and bias – all in your imagination folks!!!!!
Time to report to the socialist re-education camps to be re-wired.
Yes, the BBC and its Muslim staff
especially, may find it hard to adjust to this:-
“Londonistan and the end of an era”
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/14681
I am sorry to say that it got blanket coverage on BBC radio London yesterday
It’s all too much | 08.05.08 – 5:00 pm | #
Thanks for the info! Still interesting that it is not on the website, though.
BBC radio 5 lite this morning. The Vicki Derbyshire phone in. Guess which Country is betting the blame for the lack of aid to Burma?
Anyone want to have a go?
Extract from a review by Leo McKinstry of BBC reporter, Andrew Hosken’s biography of Ken Livingstone:-
“Lavishing praise on Livingstone over the congestion charge or the successful Olympic bid, Hosken has little to say about the vast empire of sleaze and wasteful expenditure that Livingstone has created at City Hall. The book also fails to challenge Livingstone’s stance that, after the July bombings in 2005, the ‘most important’ task was to ‘prevent a breakdown in community cohesion’, this to be done through lavish spending on anti-racism campaigns. Some would argue that it is precisely this ideological attachment to multi-cultural diversity, so eagerly promoted by left- wingers like Livingstone, that has helped to foster radical Islam in our midst.”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/books/628606/part_2/a-workingclass-villain.thtml
I recently heard ecstatic BBC radio trailers about the upcoming celebratory concert in London for Mandela’s 90th birthday.
The usual people will be there to be seen wearing their ‘right-on’ badge – after all Nelson is the patron saint of left-world.
But who else would be on the panoply of gods in lefty heaven?
Which Clinton would be at Nelsons right hand – would Geldhof be up there – Polly Toynbee – Ewan McColl – who else?
Suggestions please – and what Rennaissance painting could we superimpose their heads on?