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I would like to know why Radio 4 have Obama being endorsed by Clinton as the “Top Story” on a station which is paid for and supposed to be for the people of Britain.
“Environmentalists are concerned that climate change could affect Lebanon’s emblematic cedar trees.
Cedar forests once covered the mountains of Lebanon. But cedar wood and resin have been prized since the days of the Ancient Egyptians and over the centuries the trees have been cut down by everyone from the Phoenicians to the Ottomans to the modern Lebanese themselves. ”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7583757.stm
Climate change? there cutting the buggers down – even when it stares them in the face the BBC just can’t stop its nonsense.
From slavery to the nomination of a black man as the leader of a major party.
Expat in New York | 28.08.08 – 6:10
Justin Webb, may not have done his homework. Obama is the child of a ‘white’ mother and a Nigerian father. No slaver or suffering there. Unless he is referring to the slavery of black people by black people in Africa or the slavery of Christians by Muslims at about the same time.
This one’s a cracker:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1064485_bbc_soft_on_council_claims_star
TV and radio presenter Terry Christian was instructed to ‘go gentle’ on guests from Manchester city council by managers at the BBC, he told a tribunal.
He told a hearing he was controlled by BBC management to such an extent they gave him scripts telling him how to approach interviewees.
Mr Christian claimed he was handed sets of instructions that told him ‘go gentle’ with some guests on the show and be ‘harder’ on others.
Using guests from Manchester City Council as an example, he said: “I was told to go softer with those and not to give them too hard a time or they wouldn’t talk to Radio Manchester again.”
The BBC cosying up to Labour; who’da thunk it?
anon
Nice find !
The programme that Terry Christian hosted had pathetic listening figures – around 3% ( and that will have been 3% listened in a bit over the course of 3 hours, NOT 3% of the population listening right through.
But the BBC agreed to pay him a minimum of £90,000 a year of our money !
There was much gloating over the latest nonsensical WHO report on ‘health inequality’ on today’s The World At One.
Not a single interviewee, and certainly none of the interviewers, sought to ask the obvious question that the report’s authors failed to pose: if there are health differences between rich and poor, how would narrowing the income gap lessen them? How might this mechanism work? Magic?
The problem is that the Left holds it as an article of faith that people are poor because they are oppressed or somehow ‘disadvantaged’. The truth is, of course, that many are poor because they are, not to mince one’s words, stupid. They make stupid educational, work and dietary choices and they suffer accordingly. They steal cars and crash them. They take drugs. They fight in pubs. They smoke. The do stupid things and those things have an impact on their health.
But the two (British – of course) academics behind the report, simply conclude that if they had more money, their health would improve. – though they cannot explain how. Not better education, not better health care – just more money.
Faced with this breathtakingly naive conclusion, the BBC’s lunchtime hacks, falling back on their ‘Nation shall speak socialism unto nation’ routine, herded a procession of Marxists onto the show, all ready to say that giving yet more of other people’s money to ‘the poor’ would, in itself, solve their health problems. They capped it all by wheeling the Health Minister, Alan Johnson, into the studio for a quick party political broadcast on behalf of ZaNuLabour. It was, of course, all Thatcher’s fault – who’d ever have guessed?
Another good lunchtime’s work, chaps! Socialist doctrine propounded, ZaNuLabur boosted and the clowns at the WHO given a special award for yet more Marxist claptrap! Trebles all round!
deegee: Justin Webb just enjoys licking Osama’s butt. It must taste so good.
Al Beeb propaganda article on behalf of the colonel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/7573244.stm