Some days the BBC excels itself by exhibiting bias beyond the call of even left-wing duty. This morning of BBC Radio 4 Today between 7.30 and 8.00am was such a case. My god but they went to town on their favourite memes with no pretence whatsoever of balance.
First up with we had Hazel Blears (I know..) who chirped that we were winning the theological battle with militant Islam. How? Well she is supporting Muslim community centres to help stop young Islamics turning Jihadist. As she points out, when people are young they are angry, frustrated about world poverty and UK foreign policy, and so naturally….. they want to slaughter us by the dozen. Happily Hazel is here to rescue us and she may even attend some of the seminars with young angry Muslims. I’m just hoping they don’t get mad with her.
Next, we had a discussion on the soaring costs of the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre which will cost more than three times as much as originally estimated. They key theme the BBC were pushing here was that unless we want the London Olympics to be known as the “Accountants Olympics” we should not restrain the cost. Finance without limits, it’s the BBC’s daily prayer
Finally, we had an all out attack on the United States for having the temerity to find Bin Laden’s driver guilty of supporting terrorism. Lord Goldsmith was wheeled on to declare that the US lad lost the “high moral ground” of 9/11 and had it replaced with the Orange jump suits of Gitmo. Pathetic simpering stuff from the ridiculous Goldsmith.
Throughout this 30 minute whinge-fest, there was no attempt to offer alternative views. This was an extended sermon from the BBC and it was riddled with bias.
Cassandrina – thanks for your reply. It was Beryl Cook ( the artist of naughty fat ladies). I read about her too. I’ve noticed a lot of threatening, unpleasant adverts telling us “we know where you live” and they are disgraceful. It makes me feel like taking them on in court. The trouble with giving up the BBC is that they do produce a (very) few programmes which I want to watch – classic serials, history and wild-life. The thing I would like to happen is pay only for what you actually watch, but I suspect that my sort of programme would not get made. The BBC should be prevented from advertising jobs in the bloody “Guardian” , which is a major cause of their bias.The link i clicked for this reply is under the name of “Patrick Crozier”. Did he live in Watford, nascot wood?