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With bated breath, Gavin Esler (without violinist?)presents, no doubt, a well-worn BBC answer to: ‘who caused the financial crisis” on ‘Newsnight’ tonight, with pro-BBC, pro-Labour Will Hutton leading the charge: NOT GORDON BROWN,NOT CLINTON, but I’ll bet, US Republicans:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/fromthewebteam/2008/10/newsnight_special_monday_13th.html
Yet another manifestation of the Beeb’s megalomania:
BBC Worldwide buys stake in Big Talk
LONDON – BBC Worldwide has bought a 25% stake in Big Talk, the production company behind Simon Pegg’s new comedy, Life and Other Distractions.
Nira Park, Big Talk founder and chief executive, and Matthew Justice, its managing director, have sold a quarter of the business for an undisclosed amount. As part of the deal, Kenton Allen, who was previously creative head of comedy at BBC, joins Park as joint chief executive.
Over the past 18 months, BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has bought stakes in a number of independent production houses including Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow, Jeremy Clarkson’s Bedder 6 and makers of the Australian Top Gear, The Freehand Group.
The deals link key independent executives and productions to the BBC. It is believed the investment in Big Talk by BBC Worldwide will help expand the company and help with the distribution of its content.
– and will also help maintain the BBC’s suffocating stranglehold on the British media (and, through the media, British national thought).
And isn’t life so grand?
When will John Simpson ( who is due for retirement)and other BBC top management get rid of LYSE DOUCET and her blatant Taliban propaganda? Send her back to Canada.
George R | 13.10.08 – 1:21 pm |
We don’t want her here. Send her to Waziristan. She’ll fit in well there.
Anyone want to bet money that when the Lords vote down the 42-days proposals this afternoon the BBC wil bury it? After all, this was only the vote that Brown won in the Commons after proimsing little gifts to various Labour MPs, and £3 billion for the Irish. There won’t be any analysis of how this weakens Brown, nor indeed how this represents a politcal minefield for him. Either he uses the Parliament Act, which will look astoundingly insane. Or he accepts it, which case why did he push so hard for it in the first place – the answer being that it was political games to make himself look tough. There, I just did the BBC’s job for them.
If, by some miracle, the Lords pass the vote, expect glossy coverage to follow.
DB 2:30pm
Thats hilarious. A surreal journey inside an econuts imagination.
TPO 4:02 pm
Yes; if she returned to Canada she’s probably apply for a job with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal:
“B.C. Human Rights Tribunal may never live down the embarrassing Steyn fiasco”
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=6debcaed-7a0a-4021-8079-9492163e7cd4
Also:
http://www.marksteyn.com/
P.S. the BBC doesn’t seem interested in the result, or the implications of the Steyn case, despite his British connections. It’s not the BBC’s sort of narrative.
Sky News going big on the Spekaer looking to investigate McBogey and Bliar over the Ecclestone bung.
Meanwhile on the BBC………zzzzzzz………zzzzzzzzz
Not a mention
Now on The BBC.
Notasheep: Notice they don’t mention the snot gobbler though. At the time he claimed he knew nothing about it, yet no money came into Labour without the Snotmeister knowing about it or the camp Lord.
BBC ‘reporters-for Obama’ largely ignore CANADA’s election.
The hordes of BBC ‘reporters’ in
North America are in the wrong country to report on TOMORROW’s federal election, which is in Canada; the BBC’s candidate Obama, doesn’t have an election until November!
Or is it that the Conservatives are likely to win the largest single number of seats in Canada, so this is automatically discounted by the BBC hordes?
But more generally, the BBC largely ignores CANADA as a country in its reporting on its news website, despite, or because of the long historical, social, cultural and ancestoral connections between to the UK and Canada.
In comparison to the BBC, the French media gives much more coverage to Canada.
In comparison, the BBC has a predilection to give comparatively ENORMOUS coverage of things PAKISTAN on its website. Whether this reflects the BBC’s preference of interest for that Islamic society, of whether it reflects a lobbying interest of e.g. the BBC Arabic TV service, which is based at Broadcasting House and no doubt contains several people of Pakistani origin, or whether it is part of a long-term BBC plans to reduce the coverage of joint British-Canada interests, but the disparity is there for all to see.
As a Canadian,(with British connections), Mark Steyn says today:
‘Happy Canadian Thankgiving!’
http://www.marksteyn.com/
(I think we’ve had more than enough from the BBC on ‘Eid’.)
More voter fraud which clearly affected the outcome of an election which the BBC denies exists:
Investigation Finds Thousands Registered Felons
Okay, aside from the fact that it looks like they have an ex-BBC junior sub-editor screwing up headlines, this is evidence that not only are there people on the rolls in Florida who shouldn’t be allowed, but many of them actually voted.
A newspaper investigation finds more than 30,000 felons who should have been stripped of their right to vote are still registered in Florida.
The Sun Sentinel discovered that at least 4,900 felons turned out in past elections and another 5,600 are still in prison.
Of the felons who are registered, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two to one.
But all Greg Palast and Meirion Jones could find were a couple of nasty Republicans.
4900 illegal voters turned out in past elections in Florida. Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two to one. Out of the 4900 voters, that means at least 3267 of those were Democrats. The elections may not have been as close as you were all led to believe. But all those false voters the Dems register never affected anything, eh, BBC?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7667051.stm
“Entitled TH.2058, the artwork – created by French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster – symbolises an apocalyptic vision of London in the future.”
The bunk beds seem to be unoccupied by muslims for some reason.