Monthly Archives: April 2010

Small Victory

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Green Party activist Marcus Brigstocke seems a bit put out that the BBC has told him his privileged licence fee funded platform for leftist rants isn’t quite the same during an election campaign:


Something we said, I hope.

Of course Brigstocke could have chosen to take the principled path and not appear on the show, but I guess he’s got his media profile to worry about. After all, it’s not as if he gets much exposure on the BBC.

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Leaders’ Debate and QT Liveblogging Thur 22nd

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This Thursday evening brings a double-bill of liveblogging…. 

“You lucky people”, as Tommy Trinder used to say.

First up at 8.00pm we will be live blogging the 2nd Leaders’ Debate which is being broadcast on Sky News between 8.00pm and 9.30pm. Rather like the Budget chat this promises to be great fun as once again 10 blogs will all be hosting it simultaneously. Let’s see if Sky do a better job than the lamentable ITV production, and set a standard for the BBC to fail to live up to.

This ‘chat’ collaboration will be between All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Biased-BBC, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus, GrumpyOldTwat, Man Widdicombe, Subrosa and Tory Totty Online, – all excellent and highly recommended blogs. If you haven’t been to some of them before then please take this chance to try them out.

After a pause for breath we’ll be running our own regular chat for Question Time and This Week starting at 10:30pm. Hopefully you can make both.

See you here on Thursday night!

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Update

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Re yesterday’s post – Guido reports that Chris Summers has been assigned alternative duties, and Hippiepooter points out that Summers has removed his Facebook page. And Sarah Bell has deleted Friday’s tweet linking to her Lib Dem article.

Update. Chris Summers’ replacement will have been forced to watch the following BBC training video on dealing with complaints about left-wing bias:

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ISLAM ON THE BBC

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Hope you enjoyed “Thought for the day” with Abdal Hakim Murad this morning? I think the BBC is so brave to give Islam such prominence in this daily slot despite it being such a minority religion. Still, I bet that Aaqil Ahmed, the BBC’s Head of Religious Broadcasting will at least appreciate this.   

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SHIRL THE PEARL…

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Anyone have the stomach to listen to this grovelling interview by Naughty with Baroness Williams, that doyen of so many BBC programmes? The easy questions thrown her way contrast with those given to any Conservative figure but, then again, when you hear Shirley Williams talking you are hearing the political thinking of the BBC made manifest…

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Dick

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Last Friday on Radio Five Live:

Tina Fey: Will Ferrell played George Bush like he was a moron but no one seemed to think that he was going at him too hard.

Richard Bacon: Yeah. I’m not sure how many other ways there are to play him.

So says the university drop-out about the Yale graduate.

Update. I am reminded that Bush also has an MBA from Harvard (hat tips to Asuka in the comments and Jim Miller via email. Jim also points me to this item on his blog for further evidence that Bush isn’t as dumb as the haters would like to think.)

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Perfect

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Labour Candidate is BBC Bias Complaints Judge.

(Hat-tips to all who highlighted this in the comments)

Update. Craig has more on this. Good work Ryan.

Update 2. I see that Sarah Bell, the BBC hack who couldn’t find a single non-LibDem supporter in the constituency of her LibDem Facebook friend Susan Kramer, hasn’t tweeted for a few days. Told to keep a low profile, perhaps? (Facebook screenshot from Ryan, via Beeb Bias Craig)

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