Did you by chance catch the BBC new drama series “Bonekickers” which started a six episode run last night? What a hoot! We had a set of archaeologists led by the undeniably feisty Julie Graham investigating “mysteries of the past.” This quickly turned into a laughable plot which revolved around white psychotic Christians seeking to rid Britain of all other religions. This culminated in the beheading of a Muslim by one of these crazed right wing Christian types. Got to hand it to the BBC – they sure have their finger on reality.
BONEKICKERS.
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Gunnar wants proof of NuLabour/socialist infiltration into the BBC? ‘John reith spins in his grave’ has all the names and positions in detail so perhaps you could visit his blog? No fan of NuLabour then? mind you who is these days! I would bet the farm that you are a leftist/socialist/limpdum though.
If you were impartial you would be able to contribute at least one example of BBC bias and the fact that you do not speaks volumes.
FWIW I dislike all shades of politics.
Didnt know about the BBC celebrations when the BBC NuLab allies got elected in 97? if you are telling the truth then you cannot be a beeboid as the celebrations were huge.
Cassandra:
Gunnar,
The Guardian, home of the nonjob ads that would not last a week without the artificial subsidies from the establishment and socialist talking heads wittering on about class war and social justice blah blah!
My bro is a sub on the Manchester Evening News, part of the Guardian Media group. The profitable part, that is.
Here’s the facts about the massive loss making Guardian which is a perfct paradigm for the socialist mindset.
Despite it’s huge cover price, and ad subsidies from its government lefty pals with pages of non-job advertising, the Guardian runs at a huge loss.
Well, it’s editor did have 11 assistants, a well known source of amusement for everyone who works there.
So how does the Guardian stay in business one might ask.
Simple. It’s run by a Trust — whose sole job is to ensure the survival of the Guardian at the expense of EVERYTHING else, and everyone else, who doesn’t work for the Guardian within the Media group.
It does this by using the profits made from the mainly working class readership of the MEN to prop up the Grauniad.
That’s right, the nobs screw the workers yet again. It also sells off profitable media business within the empire.
This is the business model of the Guardian. Partonizing, inefficient, over-paid, and non-responsive to market forces.
Does this remind you of another British “institution”?
Just watching the new ‘comedy’ Lab Rats. It must be ‘Shit Week’ at the BBC.
Perhaps there is a correalation between the vast pay and pension packages awarded to the BBC chiefs and their increasingly bizarre programming and behaviour.
There is now for them no question of dismissal or forcible retirement seriously affecting their lives.They are now paid so much.Say 30 years worth of many people’s salaries in one single year let alone pension rights that financial hardship for them is impossible.So well have they protected themselves from any adverse consequences from the taxpayer.Power without responsibility is an apt comment.
They can just ignore people like us.The wealth they have protects them from any hardship.
Most of us really suffer if we lose our livelihood.These bosses never will.And unlike a soldier will never personally feel the shame of failure.
They are just not that sort of person.
This stricture applies to a whole corporate and governing class that has used the last 20 years to ensure that no personal real loss attaches to failure.
it is this that makes them so contemptible a foe.We have to care for the sake of our families.They do not.
We’re caught in a pincer movement between:
1.)political pressure, with some violence and threats of violence, put on the West/ Christianity from Islamic interests globally;
2.)surrender from Western ‘liberal’ elites (inc. BBC) to Islam.
This is the way things are going, as the BBC knows, but rarely reports:
“UN scheme to make Christians criminals”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69163
What priority does the BBC give to this?:
“The Plight of Christians in the Middle East”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=37F126B9-109E-46B8-AC42-D1A4F45C8F2F
Hi Jack Bauer,
I have read somewhere, that the Guardian also owns the “Auto Trader” and offsets losses on the newspaper with those revenues.
I know, not much consistency for a news paper that worries about climate change. But never mind, the Guardian even still carries adverts for cheap long haul flights. So much to the “left” credentials.
gunnar | 10.07.08 – 4:26 pm:
I do not think the BBC is piping Guardian values into our homes. … Obviously, there are exceptions, but on the whole, most of the time it is pretty much in the safe middle of the road if not steering to the right.
You’re wrong. There is a mountain of anecdotal evidence to show that the BBC is, as former Guardian staffer Melanie Philips calls it, “The Guardian of the air.”
Take, for example, the BBC’s appalling, snide coverage of the death of the Queen Mother. It mirrored The Guardian’s exactly and only The Guardian sprang to the Beeb’s defence in the wake of the subsequent condemnation of its coverage.
The Daily Mail summed up the synergy between the two organisations perfectly:
‘Now here’s a surprise. … Yesterday, as sure as night follows day, the Guardian sprang to the defence of the BBC’s coverage of the Queen Mother’s death. This is the same paper, of course, that enjoys a virtual monopoly of the BBC’s recruitment advertising. So here’s a question for all fair-minded people: is it really so surprising that the Corporation is Left-wing and republican, when it recruits most of its staff from the Left-wing and republican Guardian?’
Daily Mail 4 April 2002
Further to my post above, this is what Melanie Phillips said following the launch of Robin Aitken’s book “Can We Trust the BBC”:
‘Robin Aitken, who spent his entire career as a BBC journalist, has written a book accusing the BBC of institutionalised leftism. For 25 years he chalked up solid experience across the board as a BBC reporter. In other words, he is a BBC man through and through. So when someone like this lifts the lid on newsroom culture, it carries weight. And his message is that BBC journalism is as bent as a corkscrew …
With a few honourable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, secular, anti-western thinking. It is The Guardian of the air … On issue after issue, the BBC throws impartiality to the winds.’
Daily Mail, 16 May 2005
gunnar:
Hi Jack Bauer,
I have read somewhere, that the Guardian also owns the “Auto Trader” and offsets losses on the newspaper with those revenues.
Last time I spoke to my brother on the subject ( a while back) I’m sure he mentioned they were selling Autotrader.
They have been of-loading their local paper portfolios for a while.
And you are correct. It is to prop up the Guardian.
If the Guardian is selling assets to cover expenses there must be hope that they will eventualy run out of assets.
I look forward to that day.
Disillusioned German asked what made visitors here aware of BBC bias initially –
For me it must have been the Live 8 concerts in 05, the BBC’s involvement in staging and torrential promotion of, crystallised my emerging sense that the state broadcaster was itself a political actor, an adjunct to the liberal establishment (whose disingenuous pose is to claim that the establishment is still in the hands of their enemies ala Gunnar). IIRC this was not too long after the Gilligan-Hutton affair, in the wake of which Beeb propagandising ramped up so much that even someone as behind the curve as me couldn’t miss it.
“I wonder if we could find out what made the posters on here aware of Al Beeb’s bias.”
A few things for me, I think the first was a BBC radio documentary piece, saying how history meant that Japan had a fear of Chinese invasion (well, I suppose the BBC finds it hard to tell them apart). Then, the decision by the BBC not to broadcast a dramatisation which showed Mrs Thatcher being upset about casualties in the Falklands War. And then I think it was confirmed by the BBC puffing a big budget drama glamourising the IRA rebels of 1916. I think there are a few hold out journalists, maybe mostly tucked away in corners on the radio network, who still report rather than comment or promote, but that’s about it.
It was Hutton for me too. I am no supporter of the Iraq Invasion or the intelligence allegedly responsible for it but the BBC’s refusal to admit it had made arrogant and highly political mistakes and then its rubbishing of the judicial inquiry was the last straw (as well as the America is Satan QT as the twin towers still smouldered). Oh and Stephen Fry – dont know why but just cant stand the fellow and he IS the BBC.
Don’t wish to spoil it for anyone but I know how bonekickers ends…..
Just as the evil “Christian fundamentalists (whom by now, have morphed into evil BNP “Nazis”) are about to plunge this Country into an unspeakable future – An overweight mono-eyed “Superhero” – Surrounded by his politically correct comrades, and leading lights from the religion of peace – arrives from nowhere to save the day.
The Country rejoices at their tenacity and courage – The queen is found to be a member of the “Evil” BNP, and sent to the tower for life – The U.K. sees the light – embraces Islam – Becomes a republic – realises democracy doesn’t work – And the much adored, but unelected Gordon is made President for life. (and no – not like Mugabe at all)
Oh – And we all live happily ever after in our new Islamo-Socialist republic, safe in the knowledge that the ever wonderful BBC, will always be fighting our cause.
Far fetched? – O.K. so what have you been watching then????
It was the endless pro-Islamic propaganda on the Web site that did it for me. I studied Islam for many years and so it was easy for me to pick out exactly where they were omitting inconvenient facts and outright lying, which they did in practically every story they put up that dealt with the “I” or “M” words.
Then there were the constant (D)HYS “questions” about the US that were specifically designed to elicit frothing, hate-America responses.
Coming in third was the constant banging on, day in and day out, about Stephen Lawrence and Damilola Taylor while completely ignoring white victims of racial violence such as Kriss Donald.
Then of course, as someone upthread said, there was the unbelievably mean-spirited and hateful gloating about Katrina, and the way they tried to present the corrupt and incompetent Democratic mayor of New Orleans, and the corrupt and incompetent Democratic governor of Louisiana, as heroes battling an evil and uncaring Bush administration for crumbs to feed the starving Katrina refugees, etc., blah blah. To this day Al-Beeb has absolutely no concept of what American federalism is all about, and hence the absolute refusal to understand, for instance, that the governor of Louisiana was the only person who could call out that State’s National Guard to assist refugees.
I went on the Bonekickers Web site but couldn’t get the video clips to work. This description of the next episode sounds like — surprise, surprise – it has an Obama connection:
Preview of
the next episode:
Warriors
The team find 18th Century bones in the Bristol Channel. Presidential candidate Senator Joy arrives in England to unlock a secret from his family’s past, and soon everyone’s life is in danger.
Alberic –
Sorry if this is a daft question but is there anything in the public domain about what was agreed between the BBC and NuLab circa Hutton? Some kind of deal MUST have been done, given how much more prominent the pro-liberalism pro-globalism schtick has become since then. I must presume the licence fee’s continuation was hinged on the Beeb more fulsomely helping the govt’s broad aims.
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