Monthly Archives: March 2009

QUESTION TIME LIVE

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David Dimbleby, Douglas Alexander, Andrew Mitchell, Baroness Williams, Germaine Greer and Toby YoungI’ve been away so sorry about lack of posts from me! Anyway back in time for Question Time and what a soaraway sizzler it promises to be. We have Shirl the Pearl Williams, we have Germaine “Moonbat” Greer , then there is wee Dougie Alexander, Conservative Andrew Mitchell (Sounds a bit drippy to me) and Toby Jug Young. Might be a laugh watching them big up Prudence ever since he conquered the USA yesterday. Will anyoneoppose quantitative easing? So hope you will join me in a few hours time – prepare for battle!

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Puzzled in Gaza?

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I’m taking a recent phenomenon, namely the social acceptability of ‘dinner party’ antisemitism, as a signal that it’s time to look beyond merely citing individual cases of bias. Each particle of bias inevitably joins forces with every other till they clump together into a massive whole and become the norm. Once accepted and firmly embedded, from there on in everything hurtles downhill. Antennae in my horns sense that we are hurtling.

Imagine being at a dinner party with Sarah Montague.

Despite the decline in standards demonstrated by recent cases of deception and inefficiency, awareness of this downhill spiral still lags behind. Few notice when the BBC is unreliable and unscrupulous, because their outdated reputation for impartiality and integrity is stubbornly resilient. The BBC rests solely on the laurels of a reputation that no longer fits. It’s a has-been. Time to take it back to the library and pay the fine.

An example of omission. Something that is out there, but will have no impact on the BBC is Yvonne Green’s report Puzzled in Gaza . It probably isn’t in the MSM either, because the long-term influence of biased BBC reporting places it beyond the pale..
Lorenz Gude comments:
“The MSM unsurprisingly wasn’t interested in Pallywood if for no other reason than it exposes their own betrayal of journalistic standards.”
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“The MSM still succeeds in passing off propaganda as journalism in large part because it is the only voice most people hear.”
Even on the blogosphere, Puzzled in Gaza stands to be invalidated because the author is a Jew. The fact that the BBC hangs on every word from Palestinian reporters, stringers and even Hamas spokespersons is apparently neither here nor there.



The BBC alone could turn things around. Without any change on their part the outlook is bleak.

Come on BBC, you love diversity. Why not give a voice to this ‘diverse’ view?

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Brown Broadcasting Corporation

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I wonder if the BBC can realise just how pandering this Kevin Connolly article is to Gordon Brown’s chosen narrative of his trip to Washington?

Right from the beginning it takes the Brown line:

“Even as the Prime Minister grapples with the catastrophic economic fallout of globalisation, he has been suffering at the hands of the media’s own version of it.”

Attacks on Brown’s blatant showboating are described as “unkind”. Brown’s economic responsibility is summed up passively and yet personally. Imagine if “you were at the helm when the seeds of recession were sewn”. Just imagine. How do you feel about your low poll ratings by the way? Oh, you don’t have any poll ratings? Well, try to sympathise with poor Mr Brown, please.

Connolly deserves an anti-Orwell award simply for the risible mixed metaphor of being at the helm when the seeds were sown. You can see why the licence fee is necessary to fund such talent, can’t you?

and on, and on until the pathetic “bottom line”. In this case it is a Brown bottom. And it stinks of bullshit:

The bottom line for Britain is that lots of foreign leaders come here and any absence of column inches reflects more on Britain’s standing than Gordon Brown’s

Yeah, right- it is because we is unimportant, not because Gordon’s future is as unpromising as his past.

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Graphic illustration

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of imbalance

Via a number of blogs, including the excellent Augean Stables, from figures discussed here, the casualty “footprints” of two ongoing conflicts. The BBC is obsessed with one of these conflicts. Can you guess which?

As one blogger says:

“My only hope is that, forty years from now, this scandal will be seen as a problem of the past. As a symptom of the problems of a society -our developed one- that, with time, changed for better. I hope to talk about it to my grandsons in the same way afroamerican grandparents talk nowadays about Rosa Parks. Like talking about an evident problem that finally, one day, one person dared to face. And changed for good.”

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General BBC-related comment thread!

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Please use this thread for comments about the BBC’s current programming and activities. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog – scroll down for new topic-specific posts. N.B. This is not an invitation for general off-topic comments, rants or chit-chat. Thoughtful comments are encouraged. Comments may also be moderated. Any suggestions for stories that you might like covered would be appreciated! It’s your space, use it wisely.

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THE BEAUTIFULLY RACIST GAME?

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I see that BBC are pushing the line that “Asians” are getting more and more into football but apparently racism still plays a part from deterring some of these “asians” from going to a game. Looks like soccer is also institutionally racist, just like every other UK institution. How lucky we are to have the BBC to point these matters out to us.

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BIRD BRAINS.

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Another morning, another hysterical story proving just how bad “global warming” is for dear old Blighty! The BBC provided a platform for Ruth Davis head of “Climate change” at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to give flight to her theory that Britain’s birds are being driven northwards and towards extinction by the grim advance of global warming. There’s nothing like a little one-sided climate sensationalism to get the week off to a good start!

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NOT ENOUGH AID FOR HAMAS.

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I listened to this interview with Nicholas Young, chief executive of the British Red Cross, on “Today” this morning. He was on to argue for more financial help for Gaza and to ensure that those pesky borders aree opened up to allow for the flow of all that “humanitarian aid” which the inhabitants of this moral sewer require. It’s interesting to listen him get through the interview without having to even once deal with the fact that the genocidal Jew-killers in Hamas rule Gaza and that Hamas are directly responsible for borders being closed and for IDF military intervention in Gaza ! It’s almost as if the Red Cross and the BBC deliberately obscure the reasons for the condition in which Gaza finds itself! But that could never be….could it?

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Letter to the BBC

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Dear BBC,


You’re doing well. Israel is demonised and the Jews are dehumanised, now you’re getting on with normalising Islam!

This morning someone with a foreign namewas being asked how to punish Israel some more for its war crimes, did you know that over 800 civilians have been killed in Gaza?

A lot of young people are trying to combine Islam and rap music. Fascinating, I was so inspired. Why, though, did the presenter say the two were incompatible?
“With their lyrics about violence and misogyny?”

Just think, the present financial crisis could be resolved straight away if we adopt Sharia finance! What a great idea!

I know I’m being groomed, but I’m not quite sure what for yet.


Yours,


a listener to the Sunday Programme Radio 4.

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