BIAS BY OMISSION

It’s a funny old world, isn’t it. The Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness casually informs the media that contrary to a previous on the record statement to the BBC, he HAD in fact met the killer Priest Father Chesney, the mass murdering IRA terrorist behind the Claudy massacre. So, was McGuinness lying when he previously denied ANY contact with the Provo Priest, is he lying now when he says here was contact, what else might he be lying about and does being a liar make for holding senior office? ALL questions ignored by the regional and national BBC. So, rather than investigate this issue, BBC instead looked into budgie-breeding wars in the West Country. I have been contacted by non-BBC journalists stunned at the disinterest shown by the BBC in the McGuinness admission. Truly the BBC is not just biased but it is a moral vacuum.

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13 Responses to BIAS BY OMISSION

  1. Backwoodsman says:

    OT , but in case any one is interested in visiting & commenting , there is a thread on Conservative Home, following a ministers’ proposal that the Audit Office should count the paperclips at the bbc !
    Don’t hold your breath chaps, radical reform may take some time !

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  2. Cassandra King says:

    Hey I know of a great trick the BBC could use when complaints are made that the BBC primarily uses left wing talking heads and commentators and journalists instead of using a variety of left/centre/right wing commentators.

    What the BBC could do is invite the right wing commentator on only when trivial nonsense is aired, you know the kind of ridiclous boring dead end crap ‘speakin da proper Inglish innit’ even better is to portray these right wingers as pendants with nothing more interesting than petty bollocks nobody is interested in.

    Oooooh wait! The BBC just did that with Simon Heffer, now he has many many interesting views on lefitsm and the AGW fraud and the EUSSR monster BUT the BBC machine played its little tricks and when complaints are made that the BBC does not invite right wing commentators the BBC can say ‘look we invited Mr X on at Y dates cleverly leaving out the subject on which they commented on.

    Just another little dirty childish trick in the BBC cupboard of tricker and deception.

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  3. cjhartnett says:

    The moral vacuum goes much further.
    Heard the 8.25 slot on Today which features a creepy bloke called Gary Richardson.
    He was interviewing two boxers-and he said that ones “career had been going nowhere for some time” and that he was really unpopular with fans. He reminded the other that he had said the upcoming fight would be as “one-sided as a gang rape”…and wanted an apology on air. He also said that the two of them sat in opposite corners of his studio and so hated each other he`d guess.

    1. Anyone tell me Garys sporting credentials to tell a trained athlete that he career was going nowhere?…and when will someone finish these fat preposterous couch fantasists off as BBC puppets that ask questions that are racist or incitement to violence etc?

    2. Had previously heard Humphrys talking over Nick Clegg in regard of one “Andy Coulson”…would Nick PLEASE confirm that the media should “move on” as Alan Duncans Saturday soundbite had us all do/…or was he splitting the Coalition that all of us in the pubs and shops were rather hoping for with our Friend in the North…the BBC of Salford Parish? Humphrys wanted Camerons backing for either Clegg or Duncan-and did he give Nick the party line,even from the Toulon Morgue?
    3. Both these interviews need another look-as Hugh Sykes showed recently the BBC really needs squashing so it is not arrogant,presumptuous(since when did the BBC get the right to commisssion its own surveys for research and spouting on its own news…pity the Teesiders if the nasty Tories don`t let them keep screwing up our tax demands and Energy Trust guidelines?).
    In short then…we know what they are up to and they won`t be wanting our taxes…hows about a Koran Burning contest for charity lads…winner gets a flat in Salford

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  4. Natsman says:

    Martin McGuinness?  Fenian, lying git…

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  5. Ian E says:

    “does being a liar make for holding senior office?”

    Nowadays it is surely a prime qualification – ask ‘cast-iron’ Dave!

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  6. hippiepooter says:

    The BBC a moral vacuum?  A moral monstrosity is a term I would use.  It gives a whole new concept to the term ‘vacuum’.  Is it possible to have a ‘vacuum dirtier’?  A vacuum that sucks up all that is good and honest in a society and leaves the filth to fester and multiply unchecked?

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  7. David Preiser (USA) says:

    The BBC told me that McGuinness is irrelevant and the only important thing here is whether or not the evil Church and the nasty Conservative Government helped the priest move to a safer location.  The BBC went over this a couple of weeks ago and made that very clear.

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  8. Guest Who says:

    Well, inasmuch as Nature abhors such things, maybe a corrective might be to hand ‘ere long…

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  9. NotaSheep says:

    If Martin McGuinness now states that he never discussed the Claudy bombings with Father Chesney, just his support for a united Ireland, why should we believe this version of Martin McGuinness’s story when he apparently lied to us before? Will the BBC ask Martin McGuinness why he had previously lied to us? Will the BBC ask the reasonable question; what else has Martin McGuinness lied about before? Why do the BBC headline this story ‘MP met Claudy bomb suspect priest’, with no mention of name or party; would they have done the same with a Conservative MP?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Or the BBC for that matter? On anything?

      ‘contrary to a previous on the record statement to the BBC’

      Or, well, lying. I am sure the BBC will be outraged, and pursue this doggedly. Or… maybe excuse it as ‘politician’s [that we like] shorthand’ and moving on…

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      • Guest Who says:

        Wouldn’t do to affect the ‘peace process’ by holding the violent types who got what they sought – power and control – to account. They and their simmering support base might ‘react’ poorly. Danegeld ring a bell, BBC?

        I couldn’t stomach the blonde and bouffant teleprompter ‘give us your views’ show this morning, but if SKY was any guide the word from on high is roll over and bare your neck. With luck the threats will subside.

        All ‘comments’ and ‘guests’ slamming the Pastor for his provocation (true..and dumb). A few pointing out the MSM’s role (totally true… and venal… and dumb). None to ponder how we have a bunch of outraged Muslims a tad selective on what counts as an insult, where, and when.

        But when even Pressie O has hoisted his pom-pom dress and dropped his panties to offer the helpful notion that any right-thinking Muslim is now fully justified in whacking a Marine, then we’re getting Government in complement to media that deserve each other… though I suspect the rest of us will be the ones to cop the consequences of their incompetence and social idealism.

        At which point Aunty will be on hand to call it ‘an audacious response by some freedom fighters that resulted in some deaths’, having transcribed the press release ‘they have learned’ about.

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