Monthly Archives: August 2011

PERRY

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I noticed the BBC covered the imminent announcement by Texas Governor Rick Perry that he will be running for the GOP Presidential nomination. Now, I am quite a fan of Perry (along with Palin/Bachmann) but I was surprised to hear the BBC say that his weaknesses are that 1/He is from Texas (home of the evil Bush) and       2/ had once made an alleged comment suggesting Texas might leave the Union. I would have thought the fact he worked for Al Gore back in 1988 was more of a downer. I suppose the BBC see Gore as above associated criticism, I don’t. As Obama sinks deeper and deeper in the mire, it should be fun to watch the BBC do their best to assassinate the characters of ALL the GOP candidates. It is obvious the BBC wants to see their hero re-elected and you can be certain that the bais will shine through as we run up to the 2012 elections. Just wait until Palin declares…

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LAW AND ORDE…

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I know I’ve been banging on about this but the BBC really is using Sir Hugh Orde to undermine David Cameron’s authority. This morning, the BBC’s official candidate for next Met Chief, was to the fore in pointing out that Police Chiefs. not politicians, were responsible for the “magnificent” actions in recent nights. In particular, they use him to undermine Theresa May and speculate how she could work with him should he deign to put his hat in the ring for the job. Orde is a great asset to the BBC these days and since he ascended to his perch at ACPO he has been a trenchant critic of the Coalition. The BBC know their own and always look after them.

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Question Time LiveBlog 11th August 2011: Crime Special!

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David Cameron may have recalled Parliament today to discuss the looting and criminality, but we all know who really think they run the country. Yes, the BBC have recalled Question Time.

As usual the media are exaggerating the disturbances. What the BBC called looting in Liverpool, we all knew as Wednesday but most importantly for Police Force Service quotas we have heard no reports of smoking ban violations or inner-city foxhunting.

On the panel tonight we have an utterly unbelievable lineup of John “thug and adulterer” Prescott, LibDem Brian “my boyfriend didn’t deal in pot” Paddick, an exotically be-hatted Iranian called Camila Batmanghelidjh, also exotically be-hatted but in a different way Rev John Sentamu and Fraser Nelson. UPDATE: and David Davis – Cameron’s opponent for the leadership and a critic of his prisons policy.

As a frequent critic of the government Fraser Nelson fits the BBC panelist profile of token rightist nutter so why isn’t there a representative of the government? At all? Society has fallen apart after 13 years of socialist education and social policy but you’d at least expect BBC pet wet rag Ken Clarke on their speed dial to make a mess of the case for the defence.

TheEye will be joined by the splendid David Mosque in moderating what promises to be a partisan carve-up unparalleled in the West since the Treaty of Versailles.

TheEye intended to put together Shot Bingo for this event. “Deprived”, “Cuts”, “Fatcha” and so on. Maybe even doubles for Miners Strike. But the targets are too obvious and there’s an ‘elf’n’safety lawyer risk to how much liver damage would be caused. Tequila, my friends, is the way forward. But limit yourself to a bottle. TheEye, to keep a sense of refinement, may open some calvados.

Join us at 10:30pm at your peril.

UPDATE: The spat between the BBC and No10 about a Minister being on the panel

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HELPING THE LOOTERS?

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Wonder what you make of this?

Cllr Brian Silvester, a Conserative councillor in Cheshire East, is calling on the BBC to hand over unbroadcast footage of the recent riots to the Police if it can be used to identify the culprits responsible for the looting and destruction and lead to their prosecution. 

On the Media Show on Radio 4 the BBC’s Head of News Gathering, Fran Unsworth (about 17.30 minutes in), that if the Police wanted the footage the Police would have to apply for a court order to get it. She said:


“No. We don’t do that without a court order. It is a matter of principle for us.” She added that she didn’t want to “compromise our standards”. She said if the police “come up with a court order we will probably hand them over.”

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BIAS IN LINKS

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A Biased BBC reader draws this to our attention;

“I’ve noticed something for a long-time that is clear evidence of bias – and that really gets on my nerves, but easily slips one’s mind because it’s so incomparably insignificant compared to TV News output or Question Time (which I’m really quite looking forward to!)… 

Whenever one links a BBC Story (and this most often occurs on Facebook), then the head-line changes from what’s actually on the news-page you’re linking to, to a more conspicuously supported position of the BBC. For example, I’m working at X and predicted that European Share Markets would collapse and the ECB would run-out of money. My predictions were largely correct. Thus I wished to post the BBC link to the fact that Shares had plummeted as I predicted.

The original headline was “European Share Markets reverse Earlier Gains”, which is still inaccurate but to be honest, the best we can expect from the Beeb. However, when I posted the link on Facebook, it transformed to a different headline altogether, “European Share Markets open higher”… Now these headlines give two completely different impressions. The first headline implies that European Markets are declining. The other, making no mention of this, implies everything is fine with the ECB/European Bond-Markets and that, at a quick-glance, nothing is worth worrying about. 

I’ve found that it does this whenever I post an article from the BBC regarding the Middle-East Conflicts, the European Crisis, Terrorism and quite a few other topics. I also wish to draw your attention to perpetual re-writing within the BBC. The problem is that the BBC will say something – and when it turns-out not to be true – they merely delete it or alter the sentence so that when you look back upon it, you think you’ve been mistaken. I know of numerous examples where this happened (such as the Breivik story, amongst others)… Surely, the BBC shouldn’t put-out material that it wont stand-by in perpetuity. Surely, they must fact-check before putting out news-content? 

These insidious, internet-based tactics – sometimes to hide biases that have turned out not to stand-up to facts – and sometimes, to promote their view of a story to people glancing at a headline… are yet more evidence of the BBC not behaving by those rigorous journalistic standards that it uniquely will hold against NewsCorp, but not the Trinity and Mirror Group or, evidently, itself.”

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A LETTER TO THE BBC…

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A B-BBC reader writes;

“Simon Kelner, editor
in chief of the Independent, is not in the BBC but is of the BBC, someone with
a mindest firmly in line with the BBC….and it seems quite happy to defend the BBC against accusations that it might be abit on the Liberal side…..(and the
BBC were still calling the rioters and looters ‘protesters’ on Wednesday’ he
should note)….

Letter from Simon Kelner
Thursday, 11 August 2011
 
‘So now we know it’s serious.

Not only has Parliament been recalled from its summer recess, but BBC1 will
tonight broadcast a special edition of Question Time on the riots, the first
time the programme has had its own holiday break interrupted. What a relief!
Just when you were worried that an insufficient number of people had offered an
opinion on the disturbances, along come David Dimbleby and co to tell us what
they think.
……And add to that the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph castigating the
BBC (didn’t you just know it would be its fault!) for their general liberalism
and, in particular – on the first night of disorder – referring to rioters as
protesters. Each to their view and we can but wonder at how opinion splits on
party lines! I will offer only this thought on an aspect that seems to have
been forgotten, amid the rush to judgement. If the police hadn’t gunned down
someone who, it is now believed, did not shoot at them, none of this would have
happened and we could have gone on in blissful ignorance of the social and
economic divisions that blight Britain.’

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TAXI?

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It must be the unique way they are funded….

Chief operating officer Caroline Thomson, one of the corporation’s biggest cab users, claimed £2,814 on cars in a three-month period – £100 up on the previous quarter. The claims, for quarter four of the past financial year, were disclosed as the BBC said expenses claims were down overall on the previous year. It also pointed out the number of senior managers and the amount they are paid has been reduced. Ms Thomson – who receives a salary of £307,000 – had claimed £2,715.59 for the previous quarter. For the full financial year she ran up a total taxi bill of £10,381, the newly-disclosed expense claims show.

Because she is worth it?

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BBC BENT

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(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”.
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.
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.
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 watching BBC24
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 BBC 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.
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.
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 of Manchester.  He featured a staged piece to 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 the BBC
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 top BBC 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.
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 the BBC
played in that propaganda war.

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CUTS, CUTS, CUTS.

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I listened in to the Today programme today and, as usual, it lived down to expectations. We had the uberliberal Church of England prelate Richard Chartres on to tell us about the “minority without hope“. Presumably their lack of access to Iphones and Plasma TV forces their hand into looting. Then we had Mark Easton philosophising here, note the references to “cuts”. Next up; Nick Clegg. Again the line that BBC pursues is the awful “Cuts” and a reference or two to Thatcher. In the BBC lexicon, Thatcher stands for greed. By contrast, Labour stands for “social inclusivity.” Naughtie was daring Clegg to agree with Cameron that there is a sickness in our society knowing the Clegg’s liberalism prevents him from doing so. Hugh Orde’s comments were then wheeled out to imply that it is impossible to implement any cuts in the bloated ranks of UK Policing. (Axing all public funds to ACPO would be a good start to save money) It is perfectly obvious that the BBC has reverted to type, accepts the “lack of yoof club provision” analysis of the likes of Chartres, and is now doing what it does best – undermining the Government.

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DAVID CAMERON VS HUGH ORDE

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Nice hatchet job on Cameron by Nick Robinson on the 10 News. In essence, they ran Cameron talking the possibility at least of water cannon and plastic bullets and then instantly used the comments of the BBC candidate for Met Commissioner Sir Hugh Orde who flatly contradicted him. Orde has been weaseling away for some time from his ACPO perch, beloved by the State Broadcaster. Robinson also trotted out the “Don’t cut our resources” line that Orde espouses, backed up by Miliband and the opportunist Boris Johnson.

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