Monthly Archives: November 2011

NO ADVERTISING ON THE BBC?

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The BBC has a curious relationship with advertising. A B-BBC reader shares this with us (names redacted as requested). Comments?

“Hi XXX

Good to speak to you earlier,

To summarise 4Media own a news body called (http://newsdatanetwork.co.uk/)who provide editorial content to BBC and commercial radio stations. We have had a number of requests from presenters and program controllers for content around the frighteningly deep cuts to the education system effecting the middleclass households, & private top up tuition as a good way of counteracting the effect. (My emphasis, DV)

As we are organizing the features for the BBC and commercial stations in means we can position a relevant brand at the centre of the features. In essence it enables us to put forward a spokesperson from XXXX to be part of the features and discuss the issue from your perspective & the benefits of taking up XXXX with you. It is a good opportunity to promote the XXXX service, without having to pay the typical 10’s of thousands of pounds in advertising costs.

The radio interviews take place from one central location, (our studio in our building just of Regent Street) meaning your spokesperson with have the opportunity to reach all the BBC and commercial radio stations all across the UK – and all in the space of one morning. The typical audience reach for say 10 interviews is around 2.5 million and the interviews themselves are usually 8-12 minutes long, giving you the opportunity to get your key messages across in a subtle, editorial way. The only cost associated is for our work arranging the features, this equates to around £150 per radio station we secure coverage on.
We work to a capped budget with you & if we excide the amount of interviews (this happens a lot) They are free at no extra charge.

Here’s a link to some of our work

http://www.4mediarelations.co.uk/whatwedo.asp

Please do keep us in mind if you have any marketing or messages you want to get out there.
We have a constant flow & demand for content so we may be able to tailor something else to you.

Kind Regards

xxx

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WHY DOES THE BBC HATE BRITAIN?

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I know this has been posted elsewhere on an Open Thread but thought it is worthy of a prime spot. James Delingpole speaks for many of us when he ask; “Why does the BBC hate Britain?”

“It’s long since time that the BBC was forced to recognise its responsibilities as our compulsory, near-monopoly broadcaster. If the only people who funded it were tofu-eating metropolitan anti-capitalist bien-pensants who all believed in renewable energy with the same blind ideological fervour as Chris Huhne then the BBC would be perfectly within its rights to broadcast this Spartist drivel. But they’re not. The BBC’s job is also to represent – or try to represent – the interests of people who are shocked by rising energy bills, who are desperately worried about Britain’s economic future, who might benefit from a job working in or servicing the shale gas industry, who innocently believe (in their sweet but oh-so-naive way) that the British Broadcasting Corporation’s true purpose is to broadcast for Britain.”

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PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED? NOT AT THE BBC.

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A B-BBC reader notes..

“BBC News of the firebombing of the French satirical magazine ommited photographs of the offending article even though Le Monde covered them on its front page. BBC’s HYS moderated out attempt to publish links to le Monde. Here is the BBC photo with appropriate black line over the newspaper picture and a few words indicating that the perpetrators were not the good muslims.”

On, and here is the image the BBC are too scared to print..
CharlieHebdoMuhammad.jpg

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COMPARE AND CONTRAST

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Three interviews on Today this morning to contrast. First, EC President Barroso is allowed to waffle by John Humphyrs here with little interruption and a clear element of sympathy. The UK Chancellor Osborne is constantly interrupted by Sarah Montague at 7.50am here. Finally, Barclay’s Bank Chief Bob Diamond is assailed by John Humphyrs here. I’m sure the Occupy rabble will be happy with Humphyrs misrepresentation of Banking. How much does John Humphyrs earn in a year?

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Occupy What Now?

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On David Vance’s “That General Assembly” post from yesterday, DB posted a comment (his reply to mine at the top of the thread) about how a well-known clothing company, Men’s Wearhouse (an off-the-rack suit chain) spoke out in support of the Occupiers.  The dopey bearded CEO decided to have a store in Oakland put a sign of solidarity in the window.

DB posted this picture of said window:

The message apparently went over the Occupiers’ pointy little unwashed heads, so they smashed it.

So, do Katty Kay and Laura Trevalyan and the rest of the comrades working for the BBC in the US still think these people want to sit down with their opponents and work out how to fix the system?  Can we admit what’s going on yet?

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Question Time LiveBlog 3rd November 2011

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Question Time tonight comes from Westminster Hall.

On the panel tonight we have Home Secretary Theresa May, Ed “Blinky” Balls, sanctimonious old bat Shirley Williams, Peter Hitchens and vegan, ‘poet’, Green Party nutter and Animal Liberation Front terrorist supporting Benjamin Zephaniah.

Nice.

TheEye is able to join the Two Davids…Vance and Mosque…in the Moderators balcony tonight, so we all look forward to seeing you at 10:30pm!

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TREASONABLE?

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The UK economy continues to teeter on the edge of recession, with all the misery that this entails. But Richard Black and his assorted greenie fascist chums want to push us even further down into the mire. Here, Mr Black wheels out a range of eco nuts led by the Committee on Climate Change (as well as his bosom buddies Oxfam and WWF, whose idea the shipping tax is) who want Britain to impose taxes on the cost of shipping fuel. Where do these nutters come from? Out country is an island. Our very existence is based to a major extent on physical imports and exports with the big, wide world (as this excellent Civitas pamphlet points out) – but have no fear, the greenies want to hobble our economy even more by ensuring that we make it as costly as possible to go about activities that have sustained us for centuries. As usual, there’s scarcely a peep in the story from anyone with an ounce of common sense or a contrasting view; the main thrust is that nasty “carbon” emissions must be curbed, whatever the price.

I’m all for free discussion, but Mr Black is engaged in a deliberate, sustained camapign to damage Britain and its people. Time he read Matt Ridley.

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ENGLISH BREAKFAST?

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It’s curious how the BBC treats some stories.  Take the one which suggests that lives in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland could be saved IF people adopted a more “English diet”. Cue disgruntled Scottish Professor to inform is how superior Scottish diet was and that it was only because of the economic disadvantage in Scotland that prevented “working class” people enjoying a better diet. Later on, I tuned into the Nolan Show on BBC NI, and he was running the idea that it is because of our unemployment and “social deprivation” that caused diets to be poor. There was a suggestion that “the poor” needed perhaps special locations where they could buy cheaper food and fruit – maybe the Government should open supermarkets for those on Welfare? Amazing Statist stuff – and all served up without any dissent.

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THAT GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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Did you listen to this FAWNING interview with one of the Swampy’s gathered outside St.Paul’s this morning? Ms Colvin  could not have been treated with softer kid gloves by Evan Davies and I noted that he was extremely respectful to her repeated references to the all powerful decision making  “General Assembly” of the #OccupyLSX movement. It seems that the Nation must wait breathlessly on what the comrades in this ragbag collective decide and the BBC has no intention of challenging them on their “ideas” With Druid Williams and the other dripping wet apologists for Christian leaders in St. Paul’s having rolled over to the nihilistic anarcho-commies gathered in their tents, the BBC is now able to spin like made on behalf of this collective and invoke clerical support for their mad ideas. I notice the BBC have chosen not to give any prominence to the news that MI5 had Williams down as a dangerous leftist subversive in his earlier days – that’s the wrong type of story. Not all news is equal and the BBC is careful to ensure that it reports what best suits the narrative – in thiscase, down with capitalism.

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PAPANDREOU GONE

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Another day and another concerted attack on Greek PM Papandreou by “the international community” and its mouthpieces such as the BBC. Did you catch this? David Buik was incredibly angry and outraged about the decision by the Greek PM to consult the Greek people – thus delivering the message the BBC wanted. Furthermore, the BBC itself is longing for Papandreou to lose the vote of confidence that will be held tomorrow, and it is holding the Finance Minister up as hero.

As I write this, the BBC is running the story that Papandreou is about to resign. Presumably this will mean no referendum and hence the BBC will be content. It’s VITAL to EU interests that the people do not get to speak – rarely was tyranny so obvious and yet, remarkably, ignored by our well funded State Broadcaster.

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