The BBC has been to the fore over many months to try and get the head of Andy Coulson – Cameron’s spinmeister. The Today programme has never missed the opportunity to sink the knife in. So I am sure there are celebrations at the Beeb that Coulson has resigned today. First Postman Pat (BBC meme – one of the good guys) and now Andy Coulson (BBC meme – forces of darkness) – it’s been a busy week!
COULSON – MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
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BBC and the Guardian are going orgasmic apeshit over this
The BBC got their scalp. They smell blood, so you have wonder who will be their next target. Funny how Coulson’s deal “calls into question David Cameron’s judgment”, but Alan Johnson’s appointment as Chancellor absolutely does not call into question Miliband Minor’s judgment.
Nor Ed Miliband’s appointment of Phil Woolas.
I hope that Coulson’s replacement is a real twat who rips the BBC a new one, the BBC knob ends have had their ‘exclusives’ cut off by the Tories, now they need someone to come in and take it to the next stage by outing BBC bias.
Come now, Martin. Surely you’ve realised by now that the Tories just aren’t going to do that. They’ll roll over like good doggies.
Cameron does but clearly those inside Downing Street don’t like Toenails and co as the leaks and exclusives have dryed up.
Martin,
To your first comment, wishful thinking !
Kelvin McKenzie is my Choice…he’ll “Rip that new one”… quality dialogue I just love it here…I have found my friends…Knobs ends..Cant stop chuckling…nice one Martin
Meanwhile, outside the world of politicians and the media, no-one gives a damn !
If I was Call me Dave I would be going after the BBC now. Just as Tony Blair did.
It won’t happen. But it is nice to think it would happen.
BBC and Sky must have jumped for joy this morning when their coverage of a stuttering totally unconvincing Blair was cut across by the news that Coulson had resigned. They dropped coverage of ‘Chilcott’ and spent the rest of the day questioning Cameron’s judgement for employing Coulson, the implication being that Coulson was definately guilty despite the lack of any credible proof.
They even have the gall to claim that the resignation was put out today to be hidden by Blair’s questioning. On the contrary, they jumped on the chance to use Coulson to move away from Blair’s troubles and make out the Coulson situation to be a major problem for Cameron.
Well BBC, the general public don’t give a monkey’s about Coulson, the reasons and basis upon which we entered into a protracted War
are far more in the public mind. But then you consider you should dictate Public opinion rather than take note of it.
and Mr J.Hunt still thinks that the beeb is ok,what a (c)(h)unt he is .pick which letter is appropriate.
I was watching Blair on BBC online and thought he put in another consumate performance. I’ve just listened to the Coulson resignation covered by Peter Allen on 5Live featuring various guests and it was all very even-handed and balanced. Might forgo the joys of Nicky Campbell tomorrow to see how TODAY handles it.
Well i have to disagree, the difference in reporting between toenails on BBC 1 and tom Bradby was marked.
Bradby simply pointed out that Coulson was good at his job, end of, with toenails he wanked on about Tory toffs and being out of touch, funny that Toenails didn’t seem to mind the last Liebour cabinet being full of toffs.
Martin,
You are right , Tom Bradby has been very even-handed as he usually is. Therefore, can never get a job at the BBC.
Norman Smith on the specially-extended World at One was playing the same game:
And when you look around David Cameron’s top team, bluntly they all come from a fairly priveleged background.
(Norman Smith is so bad he makes Nick Robinson look like Tom Bradby.)
Craig,
When you look at Mark Thompson’s top team and Beeboid
reporters , bluntly they all come from a fairly priveleged background.
I am , of course referring to Mark Thompson of Stoneyhurst and Oxford.
Why are Beeboids like him so bothered by people from a privileged background? It doesn’t bother me in the least, so why should it bother a Beeboid with impartiality genes and all?
It’s a pity people like him don’t stick to reporting and informing us so that we can decide whether the politicians, privileged background or not, are doing the job they are supposed to do in a responsible and proper way.
Martin, I was talking about how Peter Allen covered it.
I’ve given up waiting for the Tories to tackle BBC bias. After the election I was looking forward to seeing the license fee eliminated and the BBC routed but nothing much happened.
Then I reasoned that the Tories must have done a backroom deal to spare the BBC in return for a 180 degree about turn in the propoganda, with all guns being redirected towards Labour. This hasn’t happened either.
I’m now puzzled why the Tories are apparently so powerless against the BBC.
It’s not that they’re powerless. They have the same mental block as many defenders of the BBC: they simply cannot separate in their minds the News division from the orchestras, history docs, pop music stuff, famous old comedies, and David Attenborough. Any criticism of the bias at BBC News, or of management and top star salaries, is seen as a criticism of all of those. It’s an impossible situation.
I apologize to everyone for sounding like a stuck record here, but that’s how I see it, and nobody in the media or at other blogs who are critical of the BBC will address this.
I see what you mean but the political agenda permeates light entertainment, drama, Cbeebies and CBBC as well as news and current affairs. Most of the good stuff is 30-40 years old (Fawlty Towers comes to mind), The Sky at Night is good value but they relegate it to 1 a.m. when most working people are in bed. There is potential for the BBC to produce some good programs but it will not happen while the corporation is under control of the Fabians. It would be best to draw a line under it and admit that the licence fee model has past it’s sell by date, it’s time for a voluntary subscription based BBC, no more compulsion.
Let them sink or swim by their own efforts.
Competition improves the breed.
I don’t disagree with you, PacificR, but I’m talking about why Call Me Dhimmi Dave and the rest of them always say they love the BBC and it’s a great institution, etc. It’s an intellectual failure on their part.
John, its called fear.
Not BBC, but Channel 4 News ( usually 30 mins on a Friday ) has been specially extended. Incredibly, the first 22 minutes were devoted to Coulson and they haven’t finished yet.
Fatty Prescott is to be interviewed later. Why would his phone be tapped when no-one could understand what he was saying ?
One funny moment when an ex-News of the World journalist was interviewed and said lots of people were phone-tapping at a time when politicians were fiddling their expenses and one was fiddling with his secretary !
Prescott harbours the delusion that his ‘phone was tapped because he likes to think of himself as having been a significant political figure, as opposed to a lardy non-entity with the manners of a fat ape, the appearance of a fat ape, and a teeny-tiny cock barely visible without a microscope which no self-respecting fat ape would lay claim to.
Still, all the time he’s vapouring away on C4 News those poor passengers he’s holding hostage on the QMII are temporarily free of his loathsome company, so let’s be happy for them at least.
Buggy,
LOL !!!!
They have obviously been wetting their knickers over this for weeks as Special More4 Dispatches tonite on Tabloids, Tories and Telephone Hacking An examination of the details of phone hacking when Andy Coulson was editor of News of the World, and News International’s links with the government.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3158199
Bof,
The whole thing is a big risk. If tapping was rife in the News of the World, it is likely it happened at other papers. Has anyone investigated the Daily Mirror ?
The bBC like to educate so for their benefit I suggest:
Bias = media inclusion – media omission
Thus bias is a measure of the inclusion or over emphasis of certain stories verses the omission or downplaying of essential stories.
Nice idea. I would just add a couple more factors after the inclusion and before the omission part.
media inclusion X volume + opinions – media omission = Bias
B = (MI + O) * V – MO
What is Andrew Neil up to? Clearly he has been told to not only suck on BBC penis but to swallow as well. He’s just been on Newsnight knifing Cameron and sitting along side him was fat slag shagging shit Prescott (yet again)
Just how many times can the BBC wheel out this fat ugly c**t who was shagging cheap slags when he was supposed to be running the Country?
Clearly his phone wasn’t tapped or we’d have known he was shagging cheap slags a lot earlier.
How the BBC can take Prescott seriously is beyond me.
But Andrew Neil disgusts me, he’s got no honour left, happy to knife Newscorp and Rupert Murdoch just to keep his job at the BBC.
You can almost see the dry sperm around his lips.
Martin,
Thank God I didn’t see it. I avoid Newsnight like the plague and it is way past my bedtime anyway.
But, you confirm what we have said about Brillo being nobbled.
Surely, it can’t be for the money, he must have made his stash from many sources already. It may be apersonal thing with him and Rupert Murdoch, who knows.
But, you are right, he has no honour nor principle. Brillo has metamorphosed into that vilest of creatures, a BEEBOID !
I find it interesting that the top story on the BBC news website:
No 10 communications chief quits.
is nowhere to be found on their ‘Most Popular’ top 10 news stories on the front page. It has been up for a while but is less popular than ‘Quiz of the week’s news’
That speaks volumes…
Stuart,
As said before, outside the media and politics, who gives a damn about Coulson ?
Food and energy prices are rocketing, interest rates likely to go up, the NHS in melt-down, muslim extremists succeeding etc. Ordinary people have more important things to worry about than Coulson.
But, highly paid media people and politicians are cosseted from all this. They live in a different world from the rest of us.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349506/Left-wing-bias-Its-written-BBCs-DNA-says-Peter-Sissons.html
Peter Sissons admits the BBC left wing bias in their DNA. Good quotes for the top of this blog.
“In my view, ‘bias’ is too blunt a word to describe the subtleties of the pervading culture. The better word is a ‘mindset’. At the core of the BBC, in its very DNA, is a way of thinking that is firmly of the Left. says Peter Sissons”
By far the most popular and widely read newspapers at the BBC are The Guardian and The Independent. Producers refer to them routinely for the line to take on running stories, and for inspiration on which items to cover. In the later stages of my career, I lost count of the number of times I asked a producer for a brief on a story, only to be handed a copy of The Guardian and told ‘it’s all in there’
Brilliant! Thanks for the link.
This bit proves what I said earlier about Clive Myrie’s line of questions about Blair and Chilcott today:
Then it started — a steady stream of email messages from producers telling me what to ask. Three or four of them all wanted to have their say, and they seemed particularly twitchy about Harman being interviewed by me, unsupervised. Most seemed to be fully paid-up members of her fan club.
BBC news producers have a perfect right to try to ensure that a news presenter sticks to their agenda — it is the BBC way. But too many of them are concerned not about what will be the best thing to do journalistically, but about what will best please the news executives on the floors above. The two are not necessarily the same thing.
I managed to bat away most of the stuff suggested to me, and the way the interview might go took shape in my mind. Then, half an hour before transmission, a producer arrived with a list of questions for Harriet Harman emailed in by viewers.
This was news to me, but I had no choice in the matter because they had already been set up with captions, and it was my job simply to put them to her. After that, if there was time — and the interview was to run to no more than eight minutes — I could put some questions of my own.
David,
There’s a thread devoted to this Sissons interview now. Perhaps you can copy the bits you copied here into there.
Radio 4 this morning;
First of all we had the news at 9. They interviewed some chap in the media who thought that David Cameron had been weakened by the Coulson resignation. I can’t remember his name, but what was interesting was they introduced him as ‘but <his name> has said that David Cameron had been weakened by the…’. There were no other interviews, and it came across as as they went out to look for someone that could say the government were going down with this.
We’ve also got Torin Douglous on the news website with an article titled ‘Long way to run for Andy Coulson phone hacking story’. Yes you want it to run don’t you?
So I got through that… then the next program on Radio 4 was Saturday Live – this was not connected to the Coulson story but we were treated to a long article about a man who had converted to Islam. It was incredibly dull and rather predictable.
That Saturday Live interview with the Muslim convert was unbelievably gushing. And long. And as you say – very very boring.
Who decides that that boring man is worth interviewing at all – let alone at length ? Has he any other attainments – indeed, if he is now well in with the Muslim community – does he now have a job ?
Just heard fat Polly on Sky News bleating that because Coulson resigned the Murdoch takeover of Sky can’t go ahead without the competitono Commission approving.
So now we know the truth, the Guardian were doing this on behalf of the BBC to stop Murdoch.