Here we go, it is Friday and I’m hoping that this will last until Monday without getting too big! The floor is yours – you see, hear and and read the bias, share it with us.
Confessing insufficient financial experience to comment on legal/ethical issues, I merely trust that what I have co-funded, and am a stakeholder in, is being used appropriately:
FTmedianewsBBC seeks to head off pensions clash: The broadcaster is trying to prevent a brutal confrontation over pensions wi…http://bit.ly/b7TY31
I refer of course the possibility of ‘losing’ rampant agenda and social engineering under the guise of public service broadcasting.
He’s like that Philippines copper, holding ‘Blue Planet’ hostage in the bus as he demands that John Prescott gets his own talk show.
Someone wrote on it “Can’t you just close this darn site and admit that a 5 Live moderated ‘phone-in’ has defeated free speech and diverse viewpoints!”
Monkey is able to reassure them that the BBC director general and his director of vision, Jana Bennett, were strictly economy class on their flight to Edinburgh. That the plane they were travelling on did not actually offer a business class option should not detract from the merits of this latest austerity drive.
Trains, presumably, no longer being the BBC’s darlings whilst slamming short hauls?
And that, dear BBC, and groupies, is a BIG problem.
You are NOT there to ‘balance’ privately funded entities, any more than you are tasked to be the de facto opposition to idealogical entities your comfy little reality-isolated glee club doesn’t fancy.
The imam actually has spoken out against terrorism, even to the point of saying suicide bombing is against Islam. But he always qualifies that by saying that he understands why people do it, and it’s the US’s fault that it happens.
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ScrobleneJul 26, 18:35 Weekend 26th July 2025 Sorry Doc, I said the above before reading yours, which is much better than mine!
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I am sure the BBC has covered this, somewhere, given the enthusiasm for featuring various campaigners whose views this might not support..
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8339528.Speed_camera_data__misleading_/
Or, possibly, it’s too ‘contra-narrrative’?
Now that’s proper investigative journalism!
Confessing insufficient financial experience to comment on legal/ethical issues, I merely trust that what I have co-funded, and am a stakeholder in, is being used appropriately:
FTmedianews BBC seeks to head off pensions clash: The broadcaster is trying to prevent a brutal confrontation over pensions wi… http://bit.ly/b7TY31
From the horse’s… um.. mouth?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2010/aug/30/interview-mark-thompson-bbc
And the down side?
mediaguardian Edinburgh TV Fest: Mark Thompson: ‘Once gone, it will be gone for ever’ http://bit.ly/cKoIlb
I refer of course the possibility of ‘losing’ rampant agenda and social engineering under the guise of public service broadcasting.
He’s like that Philippines copper, holding ‘Blue Planet’ hostage in the bus as he demands that John Prescott gets his own talk show.
Someone wrote on it “Can’t you just close this darn site and admit that a 5 Live moderated ‘phone-in’ has defeated free speech and diverse viewpoints!”
He’s clearly got the BBC’s number!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2010/aug/30/edinburghtvfestival-television
Monkey is able to reassure them that the BBC director general and his director of vision, Jana Bennett, were strictly economy class on their flight to Edinburgh. That the plane they were travelling on did not actually offer a business class option should not detract from the merits of this latest austerity drive.
Trains, presumably, no longer being the BBC’s darlings whilst slamming short hauls?
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mediaguardian Edinburgh TV Fest: Edinburgh wasn’t about TV, it was all about Murdoch http://bit.ly/a9qiai
And that, dear BBC, and groupies, is a BIG problem.
You are NOT there to ‘balance’ privately funded entities, any more than you are tasked to be the de facto opposition to idealogical entities your comfy little reality-isolated glee club doesn’t fancy.
The imam actually has spoken out against terrorism, even to the point of saying suicide bombing is against Islam. But he always qualifies that by saying that he understands why people do it, and it’s the US’s fault that it happens.
Another useful Jew.