(A guest contribution by Graeme Thompson, who posts as
‘hippiepooter’)
“Firstly, I’d like to say, that from what I have seen of BBC coverage of the riots (mainly BBC News24 and R5L) I would say that on the whole,
it has been good. Especially ‘way to go’
to Sophie Raworth for describing this footage as “the
police up the ante”.
it has been good. Especially ‘way to go’
to Sophie Raworth for describing this footage as “the
police up the ante”.
That said, when we go into prime time BBC Television News, BBC
News for mass public consumption, we see ‘BBC Bent’ –BBC
News editorialising and ‘on message’ for the Labour Party.
News for mass public consumption, we see ‘BBC Bent’ –
News editorialising and ‘on message’ for the Labour Party.
I’m talking Allan Little and Nick Robinson here. Robinson practising the black arts of media
bias with more subtlety, Little, a bare faced liar.
bias with more subtlety, Little, a bare faced liar.
In Allan Little’s report for the main news 9.8.11 he claimed
that Mayor Johnson went walkabout and he was only met with angry residents.
Bare faced lie. I was watchingBBC 24
rolling coverage earlier in the day.
Firstly, Mayor Johnson had addressed a group of residents, a number of
whom did subject him to hostile questioning, however, half an hour or so
afterwards, theBBC cut to him
approaching a large ‘broom squad’ while brandishing a broom himself. He was greeted by them as a hero and cheered
to the rafters when making a speech.
that Mayor Johnson went walkabout and he was only met with angry residents.
Bare faced lie. I was watching
rolling coverage earlier in the day.
Firstly, Mayor Johnson had addressed a group of residents, a number of
whom did subject him to hostile questioning, however, half an hour or so
afterwards, the
approaching a large ‘broom squad’ while brandishing a broom himself. He was greeted by them as a hero and cheered
to the rafters when making a speech.
Little’s voiceover of Johnson only being met by angry residents featured the footage of Boris
Johnson approaching the cheering, broom wielding residents (who were out of
view) but then cut to the footage of him facing the hostile questions that had
happened earlier.BBC Bent.
Johnson approaching the cheering, broom wielding residents (who were out of
view) but then cut to the footage of him facing the hostile questions that had
happened earlier.
Robinson was more insiduous.
Watch his
report yesterday from 06:45mins (I don’t think it will be available on
iplayer tomorrow). In my view he adopted
a sarcastic tone to the Prime Minister’s statements and contrasted how the
Prime Minister did not take to the streets of Birmingham (didn’t he?) but Ed
Miliband did to the streets ofManchester BBC camera from the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal
Opposition with a purple overalled ‘broom squad’ behind him (genuine citizen
inspired ‘sweep up’ initiatives did’nt see people issued with overalls). Should theBBC
be collaborating with the Labour Party Leader to deliver stage managed pieces
to the British public as ‘News’ preceded by implicit sneering at his opponent? Robinson is a party hack for Labour.
Watch his
report yesterday from 06:45mins (I don’t think it will be available on
iplayer tomorrow). In my view he adopted
a sarcastic tone to the Prime Minister’s statements and contrasted how the
Prime Minister did not take to the streets of Birmingham (didn’t he?) but Ed
Miliband did to the streets of
Opposition with a purple overalled ‘broom squad’ behind him (genuine citizen
inspired ‘sweep up’ initiatives did’nt see people issued with overalls). Should the
be collaborating with the Labour Party Leader to deliver stage managed pieces
to the British public as ‘News’ preceded by implicit sneering at his opponent? Robinson is a party hack for Labour.
On Newsnight 09.08.11 (about 15mins in
or so) the appallingly sneering and, well, ‘completely up himself’ David
Grossman was in topBBC biased
form, with a suitable intro from the equally appalling Gavin Esler. Amongst various Gramscian delights, Grossman managed
to refer sneeringly to Mayor Johnson being ‘the last to hit the tarmac’, and
featured clips of him and the Deputy Prime Minister getting a hard time from
members of the public. Somehow, the
footage of Labour Leader Ed Miliband getting a hard time from members of the
public in Peckham that featured earlier on the BBC managed to elude him.
or so) the appallingly sneering and, well, ‘completely up himself’ David
Grossman was in top
form, with a suitable intro from the equally appalling Gavin Esler. Amongst various Gramscian delights, Grossman managed
to refer sneeringly to Mayor Johnson being ‘the last to hit the tarmac’, and
featured clips of him and the Deputy Prime Minister getting a hard time from
members of the public. Somehow, the
footage of Labour Leader Ed Miliband getting a hard time from members of the
public in Peckham that featured earlier on the BBC managed to elude him.
The response of the Metropolitan Police to the riots and to
a lesser extent other, ahem,‘Services’, has been so weak because they have been
emasculated by 30 years of Political Correctness. The Gramscian BBC has played a pivotal role
in this emasculation. We don’t need
another inquiry into the Police, what we need is an Inquiry into
Inquiries: The Scarman Inquiry and most
especially the MacPherson Inquiry that came to the genuinely insane and
Communist conclusions that have led directly to the mayhem we have seen just
now. A key part of any such inquiry
would be to examine the subversive propaganda war that led to the insanity of
the MacPherson Report and the key role that theBBC
played in that propaganda war.
a lesser extent other, ahem,‘Services’, has been so weak because they have been
emasculated by 30 years of Political Correctness. The Gramscian BBC has played a pivotal role
in this emasculation. We don’t need
another inquiry into the Police, what we need is an Inquiry into
Inquiries: The Scarman Inquiry and most
especially the MacPherson Inquiry that came to the genuinely insane and
Communist conclusions that have led directly to the mayhem we have seen just
now. A key part of any such inquiry
would be to examine the subversive propaganda war that led to the insanity of
the MacPherson Report and the key role that the
played in that propaganda war.
On last nights Newslite I noted the Harman bull she spoke the night before -with, of course: no demolition of all she said by Gove!
Oh…so BBC…at least we have the housestyle figured and can detect and detest it every time we meet it now!
Detestable Gramscian slime…
‘ I noted the Harman bull she spoke the night before -with, of course: no demolition of all she said by Gove!’
So they didn’t like the way it went the first time, so re-ran it, suitably ‘adjusted’ to get the desired result?
They should run referendums like that.
Excellent post, h-p
Thanks. I always post as someone who loves the BBC and is appalled by what it has been turned into by the 60’s bratocracy and their heirs.
Great stuff Hippie and its good to see you contributing posts, hope to see many more.
Funny you should mention Peckham, Here is a bBC video on a resident demanding that the PM go and live in Peckham with his wife and children for a week and do it on benefits and see how hard it is.
SO while the bBC is more than happy (Just having a larf) to offer the challenge, on the more serious side of things is the message the beeb sending is that people on benefits should have no aspirations in life in which to better themselves. Because that is the message I got, and I’m a lad who as a child lived in a one down 2 up house, then a children’s home, followed by the British army. My mortgage is £1.40 a month. That wasn’t done by sitting on my arse and expecting somebody to do everything for me. It was done by not going out for bloody years and spending all my money on the house.
A former girl friend who was (and still is) a single mother worked 2 different jobs a week so she could feed and clothe her son. She paid herself through college, runs a part time business and owns a 5 bedroom house.
By continuingly handing out benefits you stifle any sense of worth people have and thus like a drug make people dependent on the State for everything. The bBC like the left while playing the concerned citizen card do not care about dragging people out of the gutter, instead all they they see are people who must be told what to do (by them of course) in which to make them feel better.
The Conservatives have no votes to lose among the scrounging classes. Labour has always sought to placate their fiefdoms and the BBC, the elitist scroungers par excellence, paid for taxation, ultimately are comrades in the charade.
The woman who played the politics of class card has subsituted a breadwinner for the state.
The great majority do not deny genuine need, but resent whole armies of welfare professionals wasting their lives on the labours of others because they are ‘rich’. The MAJORITY of tax-payers are not rich. They actually have more difficulty than those with the time and leisure to access all the benefits advice etc.
The mystery is how much is unclaimed especially by pensioners.
How would she react to the following.
“I have the misfortune to have a 16 year old daughter who has a 4 month old son. … shortly after the birth we are called by her appointed social worker (due to her age ) he was there to facilitate her housing needs and help with her benefits applications plus organise liaison with the birth father . Poor man was appalled when she said she was staying at home with her family, didn’t want her own home, was carrying on with her education and wanted to get a part time job.”
No doubt, the writer would be seen as weird by the woman from Peckham given airtime by the BBC.
Or just casually dismissed as, “it’s up to her. ”
Once you have decided that the state is your sugar daddy and ACCEPT that mindset, you are lost and will use every bit of emotional blackmail….slurs about class, wealth, privilege to create a phoney morality which is pure bull.
Good post, regarding Miliband I actually tried to get a photo of it last night on the news as it showed Miliband doing what was a staged photo shoot with as you say the ethnically correct crowd stood behind him (you just know that was set up by his PR people, the very same ones who ordered the removal of the first class seat covers when he was interviewed on a recent train journey, had Cameron done that the BBC would have mentioned it in their reports), there was also a photograph done of him with a Muslim girl. All very nice Ed, but stop trying to make political capital out of others misfortune.
Quite often with the BBC it’s only when you see the same film footage on another network you realise how sneakily the BBC have been in editing their version.
I’ve also noted that both the BBC and C4 have moved on to attacking the ‘EDL’ over their peoples groups.
Forgive me but the EDL didn’t smash up loot or murder anyone and why is plod all of a sudden targeting the EDL? Seems to me threat useless plod is looking for a scapegoat and the EDL are it.
Wasn’t Ed on holiday too ? I have not heard the BBC mentioning that.
Well said, hippie.
I was going to object to your opening statement that the BBC’s coverage has, on the whole, been good, but then a thought occurred. I think there’s a parallel between the failure of leadership and policy from the top in the police versus the praiseworthy performance of the “rank and file” on the street and the failure of the high-profile Beeboids (Robinson, Maitlis, R5L, etc.) and the editorial policy coming from the top versus the “rank and file” Beeboids in the thick of it on the street and less high-profile newsreaders.
I wouldn’t be suprised if these failures were connected somehow.
News presenters like Sophie Raworth are very capable and experience journalists, but they dont go from presenting the news to more high profile jobs like Emily Maitlis because they’re ‘not with the programme’.
Oh, this is a pic DV overlooked in what I sent:-
BBC NEWSNIGHT PRESENTERS: WALL TO WALL LEFTIES
Outstanding post HP, you did the subject proud.
If you can do it in your spare time, how come we need to pay for these BBC media-tarts sorry talent £100k-£300k to lie to us with their bent tosh and then charge us their cab fare home.
BBC die, please, we are sick sick sick of you.
‘In the thick of it’ was the right expression. The sheer criminality and vandalism confronting the foot soldiers and the unrelenting fear caused the conditioning to crack at times. Headquarters has, of course, seen to it that normal service has been resumed.
I think you’re onto something. Stage-managed in every way. I have got no doubt about collusion between BBC Staffers and the Labour Party on this.
Do you remember during the News International furore, Kirsty Wark acting as Ed Miliband’s Press Officer off camera, prompting him what to say in a supposed ‘interview’? There are plenty of people at the BBC behind the camera and mic as well as in front of it with as much shame in looting license fee money to promote left-wing propaganda as the scrotes seen making off with with plasmas under their arms through broken shop windows.
I don’t know about outright continuous collusion, but of course there’s a healthy…um….exchange of information between certain Beeboids and Labour. The enabling we often see on air is probably mostly reflexive, something that comes naturally to many Beeboids, and I include producers and editors in that.
Good post Hippie.
As you say, very stage managed as you can see it is a lot more direct than the piece AFP TV were able to achieve:
I wondered about the group behind them. They seem to be from a charity called vinspired but were more directly there from a group called Greater Manchester Youth Network. Here was their take on the events:
http://gmyn.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/ncs-team-help-clean-up-city-centre/
I suspect they were stood there for a long time as you can see from the first piece of footage Miliband seems to repeating his talking points to different cameras, although most people have to be satisfied with something less direct.
The question is who was it went to Manchester to cover it as they didn’t seem to have much work to do. I was trying to do some background firstly for the video on Ed Miliband in Manchester but could only come across the text on the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-14480160
As I was looking into it, the text from the “Twitter Group” down to the bottom appears almost word for word on other news sites. Although I can’t find the specific site now, one site attributed those words to the PA which I presume made it a wire release from the press association. In fact here it is:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ed-miliband-mobbed-on-manchester-visit-2335310.html
but the BBC conveniently edit out criticism such as:
He was quickly mobbed by members of the public and a large group surrounded and followed him as he made his way slowly around Market Street.
One man, mistaking the Labour leader for his older brother, shouted: “All platitudes, Dave, as usual. You are all the same.”
Funny though our left leaning liberal media don’t seem too keen on this photo of him probably a bit brassed of with his “people”:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/06k00IPcUPfiF?q=Ed+Miliband
This was posted in response to someone posting about the colour coordination between the purple overalled ‘broom squad’ and Miilband’s tie, but its disappeared now.
That was me. I took it down because I originally thought his tie was purple as I was working from memory and couldn’t track the clip down. When I first saw the whole thing I was struck by just how coordinated it all looked. I thought it fair to take it down because I wasn’t 100% accurate with part of what I was saying.
I stand by my overall impression of the situation being managed, especially having found the group in the backdrop and their view that they were asked to stand in the background whilst he gave a speech. From that I take it that he didn’t just want them for a photo op but specifically for the speech, which is what we got for the BBC straight to camera piece and they clearly did not appear to be vying for a camera angle like the AFPTV footage was.
The whole thing just looked too “perfect” to be a grabbed story on a walkabout.
I noticed in the House yesterday Miliband had his purple tie back on, as with a colleague to his side, and it was Mrs Balls, I believe it was, who was sporting a purple dress.
What does it all mean? Could be something, could be nothing. They’d need a lot of purple overalls to dish out to sweep up the mess the last Labour Government left behind.
His purple tie is an effort to look statesmanlike. As a colour used correctly (according to presentation specialists) it is to convey an aura of wisdom and nobility.
Just the sort of thing someone trying to convinvce people they were suitable for high office to wear.
Like Hippiepooter I have long been a supporter of the BBC. But when the facts change I change my opinions. Nobody in their right mind would view the BBC these days as trying to open your eyes (and your mind) to the complexity of the world. Quite the opposite. They are seeking to narrow your mind.
They are a reliable guide to one thing only, the partisan dogmatics of the hate filled Left.
The BBC are the prime defenders of everything the BBC were once against. They are liars, immoralists, lowest common denominator nihilists, waxing fat at the trough of public funds. The initals BBC means only one thing these days, self-serving Leftist crap from people whose desire educate is as fake as their commitment to political impartiality.
They have take a great institution and destroyed it. Who are the they? The same they that have destroyed so many other institutions in this country. They destroy because it is the only thing they know is the hate in their hearts, which is why they are secretly on the side of the looters.
As has been pointed out many times, they will not be satisfied until England has become Somalia, but by then of course, they and their descendents will have long gone.
Great response to HP’s post! Want to thank Hippiepooter for taking the time and encourage him to do more when he gets a moment. That goes for all the rest of you – if you want to pull together a guest post I am always happy to consider!
Good work and observation there re Robinson and Little. Bent BBC indeed. Newsnight is an utter disgrace. It really is appalling to see the level of blatant bias and the endless recycling of the same old Labourite favourite has-beens. I get the impression that a lot is devolved in the Beeboid Corporation and that the people who dictate the content of these programmes and the line to follow on any topic, seem to be the editors. Newsreaders just follow my editor, I think, unless they are Jeremy Paxman, who seems to have a bit of latitude. Lord knows what those Director-level people actually do.
Another thing about the coverage was this business about “UK” riots. Apparently it took members of the public to bring to the attention of the Beeboid Corporation that the riots were in England and not the other parts of the UK. As a result, the Beeboids told us all that in future they would refer to them as “England riots”. Well, bully for them! Why couldn’t they notice that and call them that without having to be told?
I would guess that it’s because in its characteristic imperial manner, with its lust for world domination, the Beeboids took it they were directing their news not to the licence fee payers of the UK who actually fund them but to the great wide globe that they take as their fiefdom.
On the police, this week I have been wondering about the leadership of the Met. In an emergency, isn’t it obvious that it’s a matter of all hands to the wheel? Why didn’t whoever was in charge get more of them out on the streets? Don’t they have some sort of a plan for situations that might arise? I don’t get it. It just seems so obvious to gather up as many as they could, cancel leave and get out in force. It beggars belief really, that they didn’t seem to have a rapid response capability and operational plan. It’s not as if the government hasn’t been co-ordinating and running emergency planning scenarios since the time of the fuel crisis in 2001. I mean, that’s ten years of planning and rehearsing. I’d better not even think about the Olympics.
HP
First class post – it’s fascinating to see the shamelessness of the BBC in the face of Conservative feebleness. Just after the formation of the coalition one could sense the diffidence of the BBC. Even the warmist propagandists posing as journalists were paying lip service to the fact that there might be . . er . . .weaknesses in the case for CAGW.
However, when it became apparent that the coalition would do nothing and say nothing and then appointed, in effect, one of the BBC’s own as DG, the BBC has been off the leash. The bias (and, of course, rampant incompetence and wilful ignorance in its finance and economics reportage) has been ramped up to force 10 on the broadcasting Beaufort Scale. That Little is a liar comes as no surprise: the BBC has been running a vicious anti-Boris campaign since he was elected mayor and its blatant support for Livingstone as mayor in 2012 is shameless. I hoped that the BBC narrative that the looting, rather than out and out criminality, is in fact “protest” by a persecuted underclass victimised by Mrs T and her successor stormtroops now in power (if only) would be so laughably “right-on” that even this government would have criticised BBC coverage.
No such luck. Concerning the BBC, Cameron has continued the policy of appeasement. Sure he’s mumbled a few truisms and has got the police out on the streets but, as I commented earlier this week, for the BBC it’ll be “business as usual” come September: the narrative of “victimisation”, “racist persecution” and “protest” will continue. Duggan will take his place among the BBC heroes alongside Binyam. The BBC will lead the applause as Darcus Howe (or another parasite and race hustler – Lee Jasper, perhaps, or Gus John of the Institute of Education) is appointed to the commission looking into the cause of the riots (as if we don’t already know).
British Degeneracy on Parade
“The culture of the person in this situation is not such as to elevate his behavior. One in which the late Amy Winehouse—the vulgar, semicriminal drug addict and alcoholic singer of songs whose lyrics effectively celebrated the most degenerate kind of life imaginable—could be raised to the status of heroine is not one that is likely to protect against bad behavior.” Theodore Dalrymple
http://www.city-journal.org/printable.php?id=7355
One of the great things about this website is the people who pass on such links as these!
Mr Tooke is only the latest to show me that great writing from the likes of Theodore will never be found in the MSM…so thank God for the obscurer media outlets and the web!
Thanks John!
He used to write a regular column in The Spectator. It was always scathing about the types of criminals, shirkers, scroungers and excuse-makers that he dealt with in the prison system.