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Comment from Guido’s this morning – pretty uch sums the situation up.
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Osborne complaining, quite rightly, about bias on the bbc this morning.
Don’t f’cking complain, your the government. Do something about it.
You had your chance. You could have put a Consevative in charge, but oh no you put the fat smug faced wet liberal europile greeny paton in instead.
So, more useless words, no real deeds.”
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I find that I want to tag more and more of my blog posts with ‘David Cameron cowardice’, I wonder why… The whole cabinet seem spineless
I’m so incensed by the BBC’s unfair treatment of Israel that I’m reposting my comment on the “Israel in the Dock” thread below:
” The IDF rejected the reports of 23 deaths as “exaggerated,” Army Radio reported on Monday.
The Army said that at least eight protesters who died in Naksa Day border clashes were killed by land mines that exploded on the Syrian side of the border, after the rioters threw gasoline bombs, which exploded in a field, starting a fire that then set off the mines
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=223815”
more on the payments:
“The Syrian opposition group claimed that each farmer was promised $1,000 for showing up at the rally and $10,000 to their families if they are killed by IDF fire.
The Syrian opposition group claimed that each farmer was promised $1,000 for showing up at the rally and $10,000 to their families if they are killed by IDF fire.”http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4078698,00.html
BE WARNED!!! Someone put a sympathetic to Israel post on Facebook and has had his account hacked by the Islamofascists and their UAF-Nazi supporters. I realised too late so I’ve made my password more difficult to crack but I must remember to change it on a weekly basis as the little nazis will be trying to hack mine too.
They don’t like freedom of speech almost as much as they hate Israel. This bloke is actually a moderate and anti-racist, but doesn’t like the way good and evil are twisted by the MSM. It’s actually the second one I’ve known this happen to recently so watch your facebook accounts carefully.
Demon.
Try a new password along the lines of :
IHATEISRAEL or IWANTTOSLEEPWITHJEREMYHARDY
Should keep the bastards busy for a while.
“watch your facebook accounts carefully” Eh? – What Facebook account? Not me, Nor Twitter, nor MySpace, nor Linked-in, nor Meetup nor any of the other adolescent lame social media.
Biased BBC gives me everything I need.
Obviously my warning was intended for Facebook users.
Obviously. I knew that Demon. No offence intended. It triggered a pathological hatred I have of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg founder, valued at £4.4bn, age 26. Sometimes Capitalism can be hard to love.
This article is insane:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13663319
Oxfam to probe Pakistan flood funds ‘irregularities’
Between the whitewashing and downplaying one doesn’t get to know the basic facts, like how much money involved, what happened at all, what are the chances to recovery the donations, etc.
Oxfam actually comes out as a hero from this story. I wonder were it not Oxfam but a big pharma or something incolved the USA or Israel would they get the very same treatment from the Beeb?
Don’t need to answer.
As I say elsewhere, the last hour of Todays show this morning was comedy gold.
I get the idea that they`re juts making it up as they go along. Osborne, the wonderful Lenihan/Billington fluffy arts bit that followed( turned out to be allergy inducing wire wool!), the GSK/DSK bit..the Asda Fashion lady and the bitchslap between two godless atheists about the private uni…all of it together. The complete carousel around most of the BBCs prejudices and raw neuroses…and we got full insight.
Love the Osborne said-but luckily Nick is here to tell us what he SHOULD have been saying bit. Reckon they`ll be needing the same after every interview soon. A lot of people must be reading this blog now-Graham Lenihans tour de force left poor Justin crestfallen.
Sarah and Justin in the ball pool of history…and the only BBC dressage event worth listening to now for me…let them pretend its a bullfight though eh?
cj,
Yes, I laughed at Prick Robinson tellig us, in all seriousness, that, if the coalition were discussing “Plan B “, they wouldn’t be blabbing to the media about it.
The sheer childishness of Beeboids is beyond belief.
I disagree, I thought the Robinosn bit was fair: he basically said they can’t say there’s a plan B becasue to do so would indicate that there wa sone AND send a “we’re not really sure” message to the markets (in my mind this is perfectly true and it also tells the BBC “so why keep asking” and also shuts up silly left wing economists)
On Friday morning around 11:30 there was a Radio 4 programme called ‘PolyOaks’.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011jx09/Polyoaks_Episode_1/
It was a radio show about the evil Tories and their raping of the NHS. I don’t know whether anyone heard it or has already commented on it?
A gold medal to anybody who can sit through 30 minutes of that. I bailed at 7′ 15″.
My favourite BBC Radio 4 programme is “Beauty of Britian.” The other week the radio nearly went through the window. Blatant Labour propoganda/info-mercial.
I like to cmplain to thew BBC, maybe a couple of times a week. Makes me feel better anyway. This one was about how the BBc were plugging the Pro-AV cause, all those weeks ago.
With regards to your other complaint regarding BBC Radio 5 live, your concerns are currently being dealt with by our senior complaints advisors in London (my font change) and you will be responded to in due course. I hope you understand that the time taken to do so can depend on the nature of your complaint and the number of other complaints we are currently dealing with. We’re sorry that you’ve had to wait, but we appreciate your patience in awaiting a response.
Not sure why the need for London is, can advisors not work elswhere, I look forward to this Senior Complaints Advisor from London’s reponse!!
James
London means the core of the hive, which means they are taking it very seriously before deciding they ‘got it about right’.
Or one of Helen’s flunkies fulfills their bi-monthly duty and hits ‘erase all’ on her ‘special’ email addy in-box if the system can’t lose it before then. She’s a market-rate talent, see.
On a related note, has anyone ever had one of these patronising bits of template tosh that hasn’t had to claim deep sorrow that they can’t get their act together in anything like a sensible timeframe?
How many “complaints advisors” do they have and what are they paid ?
I wonder if it was Tony Robinson who dug up the TUC contacts book then?
For the last fifteen years or so the underwriters of Blairs project-the unions- allowed their Captain to scuttle any pretence of principle out in international(E.U) waters. AS a result, the “workers leaders” have had absolutely nothing to say about things political.
They were happy to simply be the puppeteers and goto guys for anything and everything that their prancing pirate (and that toxic wife of his) wanted from them.
Yet come the Tories-they get their teeth from the glass and put them back in-as if its 1972. The embalmers art comes back with Kenny, Simpson and the other Tolpuddle Trolls-and the BBC seem to get coy notes in their picnic baskets about coming ambushes of any non-U poiliticians…as if there had been no tuition fees, no NHS botch ups, no defence scandals, no library closures etc ,etc until the Toffs took over.
Could Niall Fewrguson give them a history lesson?-or indded just show them how to look at their own stools in their own time. Their dirty protest is tedious and I don`t see why we keep them in disinfectant supplies?
The BBC-the political arm of the Liberal Elite!
cj,
At first I assumed that you meant “Nick” and not “Tony” Robinson, famous , of course , for his role as Baldrick impersonating a Beeboid in the “Blackadder” series.
On second thoughts……….
Don’cha just love a rags to riches start-up story….a poor young girl in India married at 14, mother at 15 managing to get to the Helena Rubinstein Cosmetics School in Paris and building a business built on ‘natural beauty’ in contrast to the fantasy peddlers of the West.
Tics all the BBC boxes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13642263
Internationally, the Shahnaz Husain brand is available from Seoul to Dubai to London.
Apart from the claim of direct descendance from the great Mogul (a little eccentricity permitted to such a success, ‘praps)
The success is based on what the BBC presents as:
“Shahnaz Husain’s wholly organic products differed from the rest of the ‘hysterically mad cosmetic industry selling youth and dreams in bottled jars”
Ayurvedic you see. Full of eastern promise.
Looking at the company website they have cracked the rejuvenation problem and promise youth (unlike the Westerners who promise youth) based on:
……………Shahnaz Husain Group of Companies predicts it will introduce its herbal remedies and luxury skin-care lines—made with diamond dust, crushed pearls and flecks of 24-karat gold—through national chains.
Wow!
But hey, what’s this.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/apr/26dowry.htm
Could happen to any Sub-continental mother-in-law.
sarc off.
Pure advertising by the BBC for an Indian based multinational cosmetic firm.
Uncritical and unprofessional but it must tick a few boxes in Beebland.
Leave it to you to decide which.
RGH,
Now let me think which box, um, she’s an Indian Buddhist ?
What do I have to do to get worldwide publicity?
Without any hint of irony, the BBC website asks “Are UK children oversexualised ? ” .
A fine article in Canada’s “Financial Post” on the Global Waming scam so beloved of the Beeb. The author of this article describes himself as once being a “climate alarmist” before seeing the theory for the junk science it really is. DAVID EVANS was once a full time consultant for the Australian Greenhouse Office.
Unable to provide a link to the article (perhaps Dave Preiser could oblige?) but Evans is an insider blowing the gaff on the scam. I think we should all post a copyof this article to Helen Boaden.
This one?
http://www.financialpost.com/news/Climate+models+cold/4579652/story.html
The ‘science’ is far from settled but the stakes after 20 years are very high for a lot of interests.
They will not give in without a struggle….fortunes and empires have been built on the CO2 molecule….and reputations will be shattered. The BBC will have to critically examine its role….that’ll be a very interesting experience for us to watch in the medium term.
I’m sure BBC Midlands science correspondent David Gregory will interview this guy just as soon as he gets around to talking to Piers Corbyn.
Piers Corbyn? Seriously? I thought now that Piers was predicting earthquakes (with the same success rate he has with weather*) I thought we should perhaps draw a veil over him and just leave him alone?
*Just to be clear that’s no success rate at all. To predict an earthquake somewhere on the planet for June the 6th isn’t really that impressive. But for there to be no seismic activity at all on that date is really bad luck for Piers.
‘I thought now…
I thought we should perhaps…’
Blimey, when it indicated ‘Open thread’ on the home page summary I didn’t realise one would have to hunt through the archives to see where the camp followers were coming up behind the advancing conflict to see if there are any pickings to be had while no one is looking.
Interesting quote. Might help to attribute it. Journalistically.
There are a few fresh enviro stories up front that really would benefit from the input of a BBC representative that I am sure many would value more than this.
Preferably less cherry picking, less straw man, less personal and more based on what ‘is’ backed by well researched commentray.
Just a thought. Or two.
Someone mentioned me by name and I responded. Piers is a totem for some when it comes to climate change and I think the assumption is I pay him no attention or I’m unaware of him. Always happy to correct that sort of misaprehension, if only to point out that Piers (who I’m sure is a lovely chap) appears to have entered some very strange areas. It’s less about weather and more about earthquakes. At the very least I think we have to say his predictive record is appalling, his predictions are couched in the worst sort of obsfuscation and he does those who disagree with the scientific community on climate change no favours.
As for other BBC Environment stories, well as I’ve always made clear there’s nothing to stop the BBC staff responsible coming on here to respond. But if the debate is at the “what about Piers?” level you can’t really blame them for not taking it terribly seriously.
“…and he does those who disagree with the scientific community on climate change no favours.”
What does that mean, exactly?
Can a scientist disagree with a scientist and still be a scientist?
So, David G, can I assume then that you similarly dismiss all of Linus Pauling’s work on molecular chemistry because of his loopy ideas about Vitamin C?
One of the greatest crimes of the climate-alarm industry is the miss-education of a generation of schoolchildren about global warming. If the Banks are having to pay compensation for the miss-selling of pensions and payment protection insurance, there should come a time when children begin to sue the Department of Education, for the miss-selling of their future.
Great piece but it’s a few years old: at least it is in “easy” language. Love the micro-thin half-truths in the first paragraph! Also…
…”At this point, official “climate science” stopped being a science. In science, empirical evidence always trumps theory, no matter how much you are in love with the theory.”…
Look at the comments…already at each other’s throats! 😎
This is the chap.
IMF says no changes are needed to UK economic policy
Ouch! Oh, dear Steph
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/13666188
How much of this attitude applies to Beeboids? Quite a lot?:
“An English obsession with all things foreign.Charles Moore reviews Treason of the Heart by David Pryce-Jones (Encounter Books) and learns that the great self-hating project for clever English people is the European Union.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/8558628/An-English-obsession-with-all-things-foreign.html
I doubt R4 will be making that Book of the Week.
A few people have pointed out this out regarding the e-coli outbreak, but the BBC is fighting to the bitter end with this one. So it’s time to play a round of Spot The Missing Word.
E. coli outbreak: German farm in Uelzen ‘likely source’
The BBC’s Stephen Evans: “It looks as though it is this farm that is the epicentre of the outbreak”
A farm in northern Germany has been identified as the most likely source of many of the infections in the E. coli outbreak that has left 22 people dead.
The farm, producing bean sprouts, is located in Uelzen, south of Hamburg, the epicentre of the outbreak that has also made more than 2,000 people ill.
German officials were awaiting results of tests on the farm’s produce that would offer more conclusive proof.
The farm has been closed and Germans advised to stop eating bean sprouts.
It goes on like this. Did you spot the missing word? The Beeboids really are pathetic. Their ideology makes them censor facts out of news reports. There’s no excuse for this one.
I thought thta you might appreciate the URL for the latest BBC News Quiz – http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011ckxs/The_News_Quiz_Series_74_Episode_7/ – Yes that is bo11ockxs – quite apt really!
Did I understand Ros Hawkins’ report correctly that public sector unions can go on strike without the members voting for it? Is it all done by the bosses ordering the workers to do it?
I like how the BBC showed a low-res video feed of Ed Balls spouting some sort of nonsense to union supporters, streaming live on the GMB website. Is the BBC a Labour/union mouthpiece or what? Take comfort in the fact that they saved money this way and didn’t send an entire crew up there to film it.
Why is Richard Bacon in NYC all week, and why is he at Ground Zero today?
Hopefully as aggregate.
😀 😀
I heard the bit where he talked about Anthony Weiner’s -ahem – problems. Bacon pretended he couldn’t understand what the fuss was about and managed to get through the segment without mentioning that Weiner is a Democrat. He was far more keen to get on to a discussion about Republican presidential challengers and quoted an Andrew Sullivan comment that they’re like the Wacky Racers on at least two occasions. I see he’s got Piers Morgan joining him for the entire show tomorrow so there’s little chance of any political balance there either.
Another Beeboid who thinks Andrew Sullivan is worth quoting. Is Bacon a Sullivanite birther like Katty Kay? How many more of them are?
Would Richard Bacon be best advised to go or stay away from site of new mosque?
Rember those BBC social media training courses at £100 a pop? Here’s a result for you:
Shouldn’t that be posted as a Direct Message? Or is that on the advanced course?
BBC World News America dying on the vine, I think. Not only has the show been dumped from BBC America and shifted to the BBC’s own World Service channel and just a few PBS outlets, got cut down from a full hour to half an hour, which caused Matt Frei to jump ship to Channel 4, but now the executive producer Rome Hartman is quitting to move to GE-owned NBC. Awww.
All those Peabody and other awards, and they can’t keep an audience even among BBC-loving Yanks? Is it because we can’t understand the accents?
BBC America is also getting worse. Their latest attempt to shore up ratings – beyond the increase they got from the Star Trek reruns and replacing the News with very old Top Gear episodes and Gordon Ramsey, I mean – is the complete run of Battlestar Galactica.
It’s all because of the nasty Tory cuts, right? Nope: there’s going to be even more investment in the News. Management claims shifting it to the international News Channel will make the (half a) “flagship” newscast available to a wider audience. I suppose, then, I should take all this as a rebuke, that the parochial, crass, low-brow US public just can’t appreciate the better stuff, and the network moved accordingly. But I think it’s just because the operation is run by media dopes with an endless contempt for their audience.
I dont understand why the BBC is trying to be the world’s most influential news broadcaster, or whatever self-aggrandising mission statement it uses to justify its bloated presence. Why not leave that to Al Jazeera, which has the benefit of Qatari funding and not our compulsory tele-tax. That way we can get our anti-Israeli bile direct, saving the cost of the middleman.
“BBC World News America dying on the vine, I think.”
No updates on its website since 13th May, either. Reckon there’s trouble at t’mill.
whilst on holiday recently I wanted to know whether UK flights were being disturbed by the latest ash cloud. The hotel only had BBC World. I am not complaining about the bias just the sheer awfulness of it – all of it. The amount of time spent showing red balls with the clung clung clung of BBC ‘pips’ or whatever they call that sound.
BBC World could only cope with 1 story a day. When Mladic was arrested it was the only thing that could be reported that day. Lots of Beeboids (it didn’t mean they cut (hurrah for cuts) the number of reporters. Lots of people standing outside buildings where nothing was happening. I could only assume that UK flights were OK because the Beeb wasn’t saying anything.
And the weather reports on BBC World. Having our usual weathermen telling us it was hot and dry in Ryad and hot and humid over the whole of India (it is the monsoon season) isn’t really a good use of resources. And what was the weather in Europe including the UK. I never did learn because it just wasn’t mentioned.
Deborah,
Remember Beeboids don’t live in the same World as the rest of us.
When abroad I avoid BBC World as it is so uselessly uninformative. CNN is better, just. Al Jazeera for all its faults does at least report more than one story a day.
Hey, credit where due: Sopel just shouted (literally) at Ed Balls for being slippery, and then said he was “struggling to remember” a time when Labour was in power and they said don’t pay attention when the IMF says the economy is okay. Doesn’t quite balance out the rest of the BBC’s output on the topic, but it’s a small positive step (not the actual shouting, though, which is unnecessary).
No reason to doubt this David!
Brings to mind a line from a VanMorrison song
“ Why can`t it be like this all the time”?
That we seek these little crumbs of comfort-independence-amidst the continual effluent that passes for current affairs coverage from our monopolistic national broadcaster just shows how pathetically grateful we`ve all become for ANY show of speaking truth to power.
And no doubts at all…Balls and chums disembowelled this nation over 13 years(and the process had already been started) .
Yet the BBC persist in blaming the current lot for all that went before.
I recall Thatcher and sons being held responsible for all things wrong in the nation for at least seven years-and any Tory who wants to keep the limo and red boxes had best take the fight right back to Balls,the BBC and the liberal elite that caused all this.
cj,
Sadly, the problem is that the current shower of Tories are part of the liberal elite.
Correct entirely.
It`s as if the Tories are happy to take the limos and the pensions-but philosophically have no idea what exactly they are there for.
Just a big game to play at politics and have a go with the red boxes, until they go crawling back under their stones-and not being worthy.
If they actually took the offensive and were actual Tories as we know them-they would walk in next time.
Peter Hitchens says it all so much better. That the Tories stand for nothing and fall for anything will be their undoing.
If they can`t demolish the pretensions of the BBC and its old paymasters the Labour Party-then maybe they don`t really want to do anything but keep the seats warm until the Lords beckons.
Witness the defenestration of so-called” two brains Willetts”.
If all the big policies of the coalition are the same as Labours (the EU, “Climate Change”, Open door immigration), then why would anyone want to suffer the loss of a job for more of the same.
The difference is – you can keep your job and live in an undemocratic hell hole, or lose your job and live in an undemocratic hell hole. If this is the choice what chance as the “conservatives” got.
JHT,
But has anyone actually lost their job yet ?
I guess the first to go will be in the Armed Services !
cj,
Quite agree. You get to the key question “what do the Tories stand for ? “. I have no idea.
My late father was right. When I was a little boy he described them as “slow motion socialists”.
As for Wimpo Willets , what a pathetic little man. Two brains ? There are smarter people posting on this website.
Even ConservativeHome has moved to the left of Patton
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/06/micturition-in-same-pot.html
JHT,
Is it possible to be to the Left of Patten ?
If only it were General George Patton, I can imagine his solution to the BBC 😀
(Note to Scottie/Dezzie. JHT made a tpyo thereby invalidating this whole website !!! )
Seven years? Brown, Balls and co were blaming Thatcher almost up to the end.
Anyone else enjoying seeing the BBC report that the Libyan Government tried to manipulate the international media by showing them faked victims of NATO bombings? Anyone else think Wyre Davies will apply this intrepid journalism next time he’s in Gaza or Lebanon?
Far be it from me to suggest that the BBC takes all its ME output and runs it through an Al Jazeera filter, they did however omit to follow through on their Golan border story which suggests that the incident was a put up job by a desperate Alawite ruling establishment struggling with an Islamist uprising to provoke the Zionist response.
Anyway just a footnote to the story:
“Sources have told Al Jazeera that families of Palestinian refugees who were killed along the border with Israel yesterday on the Golan Heights, have attacked the headquarters of the PFLP-General command, while two senior members were there and burnt it.
Families accuse the Ahmad Jibril group of encouraging their sons and manipulating their nationalist feelings to serve the Syrian government.”
Come on BBC, Al Jazeera have been there….why so coy.
The BBC seems to be uncharacteristically quiet on this matter. Usually it would be screaming “bad Israel ” from every orifice it has. I wonder why?
If the BBC don’t report the real story behind these “protests” it is a new low, just when you think the BBC can’t sink any lower. The BBC has redefined the word “gutter”.
It’s not an original idea, but as the Beeb just loves to do covert journalism in care homes, hospitals and the like, wouldn’t be ironic of they had the tables turned on them? It’s such a sprawling organisation that it should be relatively easy to get a journalist in as a sub-contractor. As to the focus, that would depend on the context, and those who commission and manage the research would need to have an open mind at the outset. But in terms of the moral and legal underpinnings, there’s a sound argument for getting primary data on how taxes are spent.
Covert,
Yes, a job for “Dispatches”, maybe. Or the BBC themselves, that would be a laugh. As I posted recently, how about Panorama “Undercover BBC ” ?
Once again reality forces the BBC to report news they’ve been censoring for days (except for apparently Richard Bacon mentioning it today because he’s in NYC for some ungodly reason). The reason for the BBC’s silence can be found in the second sentence.
US Congressman Anthony Weiner a underpants photo
(The typo is the BBC’s, not mine. This was rushed out after Weiner finally admitted it, and the poor Beeboid sub-editor hit the publish button too fast.)
Married New York congressman Anthony Weiner has admitted sending a close-up picture of his underpants to a young woman, but says he will not resign.
The Democratic representative also acknowledged “inappropriate” communications with women online.
This has been all over the US news for a week already. The Beeboids know all about it because all their favorite sources of information: Washington Post, HuffingtonPost, Politico, New York Times, and St. Jon Stewart – have been talking about it for days. The Congressman has been lying about it and slowly backtracking for over a week now, and everyone who reads this blog knows it.
No excuses, BBC.
Guido has posted on this today including a long vid of Andrew Breitbart telling how he got the pics, how he managed the story, and how Weiner’s staff suggested that Breitbart had hacked Weiner’s Twitter. AB’s take on why the Democrats went into overdrive to deny the story and denigrate the messenger, is that Weiner’s holier than thou politics are very close to those of Obama’s. Which I guess is why the Beeb have said very little about it.
Former Mr Gay UK jailed for 30 years for cooking and eating flesh of boyfriend
Police officer and former My Gay UK ‘raped a man and sexually assaulted three others while on night out with colleagues’
Is a trend developing here? I guess we need to await the verdict in the latter case. No doubt if the trend is established the BBC will leave no stone unturned in looking into it.
‘Be prepared’ for equality: The Scouts look to recruit more gay leaders and members
Makes yer proud to be British. No doubt TODAY will cover this from all angles, especially if any risk might be posed to vulnerable boys, given the well researched evidence of a very much higher propensity for homosexuals to be paedophiles. Nothing to worry about, I’m sure.
When I was in the Wolf Cubs our Akela looked like Clement Atlee, carried an Army revolver on a lanyard, lots of knives, & probably thought ‘omosexuality was something to do with the sex life of people who worked in laundries. Confronted by Graham Norton, & the 2000 head of gay that graze on Old Compton Street of a summer evening, I somehow think Akela would be calling in the water cannon. He would have made an excellent DG of the BBC.
“Former Mr Gay UK jailed for 30 years for cooking and eating flesh of boyfriend” and “The Scouts look to recruit more gay leaders and members”
Does this mean that Scouts will be learning new survival techniques around the campfire? Will they get a badge for cannibalism?
Lol my god south park story lines are now becoming policy hahaha!
BBC website heading that Syria vows to deal with “attackers”.
When does an “attacker” become a “militant” ? When does a “miltant” become a “freedom fighter ” ?
The BBC, still supporting that nice Mr. Assad.
Nice one centurion!
The word I got was “insurgents”.
Nomenclature is a moveable feast it seems,but that nice Guardian Handbook (they put it out free at the start of the year) is obviously the BBCs concordance.
Radio Guardian, BBC NuLabor, Broadsheet Beeb-it`s all a seamy whole where truth escapes-or is it bound gagged and pushed? Might make Doctor Who that!
Meh, they’re technically quoting Assad there, no?
I see that one of the main recommendations of the IMF is for tax cuts in the UK.
It is only a 7-page document , so even Beeboids have had enough time to read it.
This is big news, headline in today’s Telegraph. Have the BBC reported it ?
Grant, this is clear BBC bias. A huge ongoing story – the main story in the Telegraph, one of the top stories at Mail Online – and yet it’s been dropped completely from the main headlines on the home page of BBC Online.
No, the story they are promoting instead as the second most important story in the world (after Yemen) is Warning on university funding gap , which also just happens to be the lead story in the Guardian.
Presumably Today won’t be talking much about the economy this morning (unless Balls is free) – unlike yesterday. Will they be concentrating on the Guardian‘s lead story instead too? A safe bet they will be, I’d guess.
Even on their Business page, this has now dropped into 4th place, behind the Jockey Club’s turnover!! The section is headed with a gloomy story about dipping retail sales – which rather backs up George Osborne’s charges about the BBC’s coverage yesterday.
But unless George osborne and the rest actually do something, make a stand; the BBC will continue to destroy them.
Graig- you seem to have some sort of “special power” to predict the future – you are 100% correct. The only mention of the IMF story was a very obvious sneer on the review of the newspapers at the “slanted” story run by the telegraph. It is really obvious just how lock-stepped the BBC and Guardian is with the Labour agenda. There must be a weekly meeting to co-ordinate the ‘grid’.
Strangely enough the “Plan B” meme was being pushed very hard by Balls and the BBC, until it was revealled as total bollocks by the IMF. I object to being fed political opinion as fact by the BBC. They couldn’t even be bothered to tell me that the ‘economists’ were supporting a labour narrative.
‘sneer on the review of the newspapers at the “slanted” story run by the telegraph.’
I don’t have much time for SKY’s Eammon Holmes, who may be bright but is too committed to the populist schtick that pays his supermarket-opening wages to be any more than a ‘host’.
However, on today’s paper review, he was rather good value.
Luvvie peroxide sink Clemency Burton-Notting Hill was in full bleat mode on cuts related issues, from IVF to Uni funding, but then decided Foreign Aid was a ;good thing’.
Mr. Holmes decided to challenge on which she felt was the priority, given that you can’t have all of it.
Poor dear was flummoxed, so decided to ignore the whole thing and grabbed a lifeline when the subject changed to Cheryl Cole.
I sense the economic wisdom of Clemmy will soon find a more empathetic home chez Aunty soon. If I was Stephanie I’d be worried, as the BBC is also known to have multiple standards on eye candy when it suits, and Ms. Notting Hill is of an aspect that even a youthful Balls or Milipede wouldn’t rate a second look let alone a fumble despite her ‘left on’ views’.
The whole of the energy press (and others) have been charting the promise and technical breakthrough of shale gas worldwide. The issues have been examined and real issues regarding ‘environmental’ impact are being addressed fully.
The International Energy Agency has described a coming golden age for gas…and, all in all, this is a cause for celebration.
The BBC reports this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13677732
But cannot resist the snide observation:
“Getting gas from rocks is relatively easy, but there are still environmental concern”
The technical achievement by brilliant, hardworking industry engineers and geologists has made it look ‘easy’.
To underline their incompetence and green bias they link to a January piece by Harrabin which films the ‘burning taps’ misinformation (long since explained and proven to be a deliberate green propaganda falsehood).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12212361
That Harrabin report is discredited but classic.
Ed Balls is the Beeboids’ prodigal son. Given his track record, how could any, supposedly serious, news service, give him the time of day without constantly pointing out his role in the ruination of the UK? Unless, of course, they were so deep in bed with Nu Labour that their catastrophic performance is an irrelevance. Asking Balls for fiscal advice is like inviting the burglar back to tidy up your desecrated home when he’s already fenced off your valuables.
I too wondered about how old Popeyes manages to get away with telling us that the IMF agree with him and all he`s ever said-but Osborne won`t let them say as much in public!
Balls(never a joke there to “delight” us is there?) ,his wife(Bisto kid or Billy Whizz-jurys out!) and the other tatty pirates that still dare to show up to any gobfest-are just given the canter round the bullring with a light sabre, as if they KNOW anything, have ever DONE anything or been PROVED RIGHT in anything over the last 15 years or so!
Really need the FreeMasons cartel of privilege and evil to have sunlight shine upon it. Why no Murdoch undercover sting about the incestuous marriages of convenience up there-and the dangerously narrow meme pool we`ve now let get out of hand!
There’s something of the wildly unpredictable rodent about Mr Balls-up, cj. I wouldn’t want him standing too close, eyes bulging, quivering with a ghastly, destructive energy, at any moment liable to tear off your trousers & inspect them for ‘unecessary cuts’.
I have issued a challenge to Ed Balls following his performance on Newsnight last night and one claim in particular. http://goo.gl/kCxN8
Will he rise to the challenge?
Was it not Mr and Mrs Balls who each claimed second home allowance for a different one of their joint homes? I know one of them claimed that the home where they lived most of the time and where their children attended the local school was somehow a second home! A friend has a lock up where he keeps his motorcycle; could he claim that was his first home and pay council tax on it, and claim the reduction for an unoccupied second home on the place where he only eats, sleeps, lives etc?
Just read this on the “Spiked” website:
It shouldn’t be treason to criticise the NHS
Unlike the BBC, even a lefty website can be sensible sometimes.
Mind you, I thought Paxo gave the idiot Balls, quite a hard time on Newsnight.
BBC crime drama is fantastic escapism, isn’t it?. All the detectives are black and incorruptible. Their bosses are all women. The villains are often white middle-aged men motivated by a warped take on Christianity and their crimes are invariably the hetrosexual abuse of children (so we don’t mind them getting some just deserts for their crimes). Mostly the abuse is within their own family. Warms the cockles of your heart doesn’t it?. Drama – that stuff ought to reflect something of the true nature of our society, right? I doubt if the BBC have got a true take on the crime thing – I’ve seen Crimewatch and doesn’t look much like the drama. Now what if they had to produce shows that people had to choose to pay for….
As I See It. If, miracuously, somebody at the BBC began producing crime drama that really reflected the true nature of our society, they would be denounced as ‘grasses’; & probably blackballed from Yentob’s, the members-only media club that occupies large parts of Islington, although not the violent bits.
For nothing must be permitted, certainly not the truth, to stain the multicultural ‘success story’ currently raging across London’s estates, schools, buses & trains. In fact, just about anywhere, these days, if you happen to innocently catch some psychotic’s nihilistic eye.
One of the last, excellent crime dramas I remember, was ‘OUT’, in 1978! Written by Trevor Preston, starring the late Tom Bell. It was ITV, admittedly, but there would be no chance of it being made today without radical PC doctoring.
In the 90s there was talk of the BBC dramatising Derek Raymond’s ‘Factory’ police novels. It came to nothing. The anti-hero detective had a formidably low tolerance of ‘trendies’.
Yes, I do remember Tom Bell in ‘Out’. It was a classic and as I recall it was from an era when on release from prison the old lag found his suit had gone out of fashion and was astounded by the cost of cab fairs. Not many do a such long stretch these days.
Of course I’m exaggerating and the malaise is not confined to the BBC, but I am sick to the back teeth with the feeling of watching constant Guardian-friendly propaganda.
BBC4 Televisual feast alert.
10.00 pm – Grow your own.
Comedy about refugees hi-jinks on a Liverpool Council Allotment site.
I’m laughing already.
‘Harry’s Place’:-
14 Palestinians shot dead in Syrian refugee camp
“I don’t normally repost straight news stories about the Israel-Palestine conflict, because that is covered well by various newspapers and other online news sources.
However, remarkably, this story doesn’t appear to have made it into the BBC or the Guardian:”
http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/7913
Not my bag, so I wasn’t interested and didn’t watch. But I’ll concede many did.
However, I am getting a wee bittie vexed by the aspect of unique funding whereby I co-contribute a shed load of dosh to folk who can turn around and refuse to account for it.
Who does the BBC think it is? The EU?
Don’t know if anyone has posted this.
“The BBC swallows Assad-controlled Syria media rubbish whole. Then reports it as news”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaelweiss/100091058/the-bbc-swallows-assad-controlled-syria-media-rubbish-whole-then-reports-it-as-news/
Lots of commenters unhappy with Jews there. A few BBC employees included, probably.
Find myself going to Al Jazeera and Sky for any news these days.
Just as the BBC will say we should accept that the energy hikes will be due to the Arab Spring (ah bless) and not the green taxes imposed by the last lot so, no doubt Huhne will keep them,but I expect no comments on that from Al Beebi.
Al Jazeera and Sky say that,at best: it`s just the froth on the price rises…but I know what the BBC will be sayingso why bother listening?
Luckily I know it`s not true-but why the hell am I paying liars to slant all they report to their own creepy,mad agenda?
Got to be a tax boycott for the licence-Billy Bragg has one going for bankers or so he says!
Norman Smith, Radio 4’s Chief Political Correspondent, had a characteristic (anti-Tory) take on the IMF’s support for the government’s economic strategy on last night’s The World Tonight:
Ritula Shah: “Our chief political correspondent Norman Smith has been musing on whether voters really care about the IMF’s verdict.”
Norman Smith: “It may make little difference to the broader debate over the economy. For many the IMF report will amount to little more than yet another report from yet another organisation known by yet another acronym..Such reports come and go and in the public’s mind probably blur into one. Yes the IMF report matters in the Westminster Village and in the unending battle for unfavourable headlines but when it comes to the economy it’s the feelgood factor and the pound in your pocket, not reports from the IMF that wins votes.”
Move along, nothing to see here, eh Norm?
Craig,
Imagine if it had been a case of the IMF agreeing with Gordon the Moron’s policies ?
The BBC is pathetic.
Another questionable moment for impartiality on The World Tonight came on last Friday’s edition, where Ritula Shah was talking to Portuguese politicians in advance of Sunday’s general election (won very convincingly by the centre-right). At one point she said:
“Do you think the Portuguese people know what they’re in for potentially. Austerity cuts have gone down badly across Europe, not least in Britain. Is that something actually the Portuguese people realise?”
Have they really? Or has Ritula been listening to far too much BBC spin? Don’t opinion polls (and election results) show that a substantial number of people in Britain actually support “the cuts” (such as they are)?
Craig,
So , in the eyes of the BBC, anyone who votes for “cuts” is stupid.
Shouldn’t Black be blogging on this.?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394945/The-green-killer-Scores-protected-golden-eagles-dying-colliding-wind-turbines.html
JHT,
There is evidence that the same is happening here in Scotland, but the RSPB seem pretty quiet about it. I guess if they have to choose between windfarms and birds, they go for the windfarms. Why is the taxpayer subsidising this fraudulent charity ?
Being an untrendy sort of chap, I thought I’d start watching Newsnight again a week or so ago. Since 27/5/11 the politicians appearing on the programme have been:
Ed Balls, Labour (27/5)
Alan Whitehead, Labour (31/5)
Lord Owen, cross-bench peer (1/6)
Denis MacShane, Labour (2/6)
Marta Andreasen, UKIP (2/6)
John Redwood, Conservative (3/6)
Baroness Bakewell, Labour (3/6)
Ed Balls, Labour (6/6)
Hazel Blears, Labour (6/6)
That’s 6 Labour politicians, one cross-bencher, one UKIP MEP and a Conservative. Who’s in government at the moment?
(There was also Alistair Campbell of course, 27/5).
And to preempt the usual point from the BBC’s defenders – ‘Maybe all the Tories and Lib Dems turned down the invites’ – Newsnight usually says whenever that happens. No such refusal has been mentioned.
Come off it Craig, no Caroline Lucas proves that Newsnight is not biased.
Untrendy ? Is that why you live in Morecambe ? 😀
“According to Der Spiegel, a realistic new deadline looks to be 2014 or 2015. A new treaty would regulate CO2 emissions for 40 industrial countries. But Russia, Japan, Canada and the USA have already said they would not join in.
China, the world’s greatest CO2 emitter, and India are not bound to CO2 reductions in any treaty. Currently represenatives from 180 countries are meeting in Bonn in a half-hearted attempt to lay the groundwork for Durban.”
http://notrickszone.com/2011/06/07/der-spiegel-world-climate-deal-to-be-postponed-again/
“US President Barack Obama said at a dinner of the G8 summit in Deauville on Thursday night that the US would not sign up for an updated Kyoto Protocol despite the European Union’s wish for such an agreement, the diplomats said. ”
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/US_Russia_Japan_to_nix_new_Kyoto_Protocol_diplomats_999.html
Where is the BBC? Where is Harrabin? Is he hibernating until some freedom loving republican is elected in the US?
Its not as if he doesn’t know how to rant about lack of “progress” on carbon emmisions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7019346.stm
A terrible thought, but this country is the only one in the world who has legaly binding anti-industrial acts of parliament. Perhaps Harrabin is getting ready to emigrate before all the lights go out (France seems a good bet).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8562690/BBC-staff-earning-60000-will-be-given-1000-pay-rise.html
It’s sorta like cuts, Cuts, CUTS!!!!!!… only isn’t.
Being unique, I am sure there will be a full and adequate explanation.
Or it will get ignored.
SOP.
Looking at the BBC Editor blogs at the moment they all say: “Sorry, there has been a problem displaying comments, we are working to fix this.”
Probably comments are not going the approved way and they are indeed trying to fix it. Rather like they fix the Question Time audience.
A comedy writer has accused Radio 4’s Today programme of “poisoning” national debate by contriving “artificial” arguments between guests.
Justin Webb a “pompous John Humphrys stand-in” according to excellent article in today’s Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8562010/Graham-Linehan-accuses-Today-programme-of-poisoning-debate.html