Monthly Archives: December 2011

NOT ALL RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS ARE EQUAL

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A Biased BBC readers advises;

On Tuesday’s 6o’clock news on R4 there was a report about a religious school in Pakistanwhich had been brutalising its young pupils. Orla Guerin solemnlyintoned a list of atrocities that had been uncovered at this ‘religious’school, but neglected to go into more detail as to the particular religioninvolved. “What could it be?” I wondered. It wasn’t until very nearthe end that a mention of “Jihad” gave me the answer I was after.One has to question whether the BBC would have identified the brand of religionat the start of the item if, for example, it had been a Catholic school?

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NEWSNIGHT LIVE!

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Hi Folks. Let’s take on Paxo and the Newsnight gang – live here at 10.30pm. Fancy a bit of lively debate? Come along and join in the fun as we stuff Newsnight in time for Christmas! If you survive that, then there’s This Week for afters!

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PROPAGANDA WHORES

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Electricity bills to rocket by 25% because of ‘green’ targets, says Government

Low-carbon technology ‘will not mean big bill rises’

Spot the difference. The fatcat quango the Committee on Climate Change – a supposedly ‘independent'(ho ho ho) body set up to check the government’s climate change policies, but actually stuffed with alarmist zealots – has published a report that purports to dispassionately examine the impact of these fanatical policies on fuel bills. Actually, it can’t avoid the truth completely and says through gritted teeth that some bills are going to rocket, as the first headline – from the Daily Mail – shows. But the eco freaks at the BBC have followed the Commission’s honeyed dissembling entirely and constructed a version of the story designed from beginning to end to deceive. The second headline is from the BBC website. Their reporting of the survey tells us that any fear of rising bills is totally misplaced, and in any case – as the econut head of the Committee declares – we should be grateful because the tipping of billions down the drain on renewables will lead to better “energy security”.

In reality, the report is alarmist claptrap from beginning to end. Anything from Lord Adair Turner should have such words emblazoned on the cover. The BBC have here acted like propaganda whores, recycling the same old tired lies about energy policy that they always do.

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END OF IRAQI DAYS

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Let us be clear. The BBC opposed the liberation of Iraq long before US troops went in and ever since it has done everything possible to undermine and de-legitimise the war. Aligned with the “International Community”,  I am sure Saddam appreciated the efforts of the BBC to derail the necessary regime change and it’s just such a shame that he is no longer around, along with his evil sons Uday and Qusay, to listen to this kind of tripe on the BBC this morning. Richard Perle does his best but Humphyrs is bristling with the pompous self regard of the political left to whom every war is Viet Nam. At least he allows Perle to make his points without irritating interruptions Wonder what you make of the BBC coverage of the end of US operations in Iraq?

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GREEN ENERGY IS CHEAP ENERGY

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Great propaganda job here on the BBC this morning. First up, we had David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change to explain why claims that the costs of green energy and other low carbon technologies will lead to sharp rises in fuel bills, are wrong. Then, we had a “debate” between Matthew Sinclair, Director of Tax Payers’ Alliance and George Monbiot, journalist and green campaigner, discuss whether increased taxation a good way of tackling climate change. Note the interruptions Matthew has to deal with compared with the silence that accompanied Monbiot’s moonbat pronouncements. This was all about the BBC suggesting that a/Green energy will not add to our energy bills when all the evidence shows it already has and b/The BBC suggesting that higher taxes are the way to deal with “climate change”. Unbelievable to think we finance this lunacy.

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THE NEWS YOU WONT READ ON THE BBC

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Most excellent post here on Autonomous Mind questioning the BBCs print wing – The Guardian.

You won’t find this update, about the Guardian’s allegations about Milly Dowler’s voicemails being deleted by people working for the News of the World, on the BBC News website. The BBC, as the broadcast arm of the Guardian, has an editorial culture of omitting stories that paint the Guardian in a negative light and thus will act as if the story does not exist.

Make sure you read it all.

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TOUCHED A RAW NERVE?

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Doesn’t BBC DG Mark Thompson sound a tad defensive?

Mark Thompson, the BBC director-general, has suggested criticism of its faked wildlife programme scenes had been fuelled by newspapers’ bitterness over the corporation’s coverage of the phone hacking inquiry. Mr Thompson questioned whether condemnation of misleading footage of polar bears in its Frozen Planet show had been influenced by the BBC’s comprehensive reporting of the Leveson inquiry into press standards. “I do rather wonder whether this is really about polar bears or about Lord Leveson and other matters,” he told MPs.

It’s about truth, Mr Thompson. Is that such a hard concept to embrace? Attenborough misled and has been caught out – it is as simple as that. Trying to deflect everything onto Leveson smacks of desperation to me.

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OPEN THREAD

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Euro-megaphone
Wednesday dawns and time for a new one of these since the Monday one is bursting at the seams. Looks like you have been able to discern plenty of bias from the State Broadcaster so once more the floor is yours…see how quickly you can fill this up.

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NO NEWS LIKE BAD NEWS!

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Given BBC antipathy towards the current UK Government, one can almost understand it’s enthusiasm to move the debate on from yesterday’s better than forecast inflation figures and back onto the negative narrative so preferred. We got a double whammy of that this morning from the BBC. First was the “news” that government plans to reform the system of funding for elderly care could be delayed by 10 years to 2025. Andrew Dilnot, former chairman of the Independent Commission for Funding of Care and Support, says such a move would be a “betrayal of people’s trust”. Then, following up the meme, comes the item that the UK’s monthly unemployment figures are likely to bring more grim news after last month’s figures showed unemployment rose to more than 2.6 million in the three months to September. In summary – vote Labour!

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SALMOND SYCOPHANCY

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Anyone catch this interview with SNP Leader Alex Salmond on the BBC this morning? Although I missed the beginning of it I knew it had to Salmond speaking such was the lack of interruptions and deep respect afforded to such a BBC preferred “Statesman”. Salmond was there to put the boot into Cameron, of course, |(BTW – How upset must the BBC over the latest polls showing a  Conservative “bounce”? Let’s move on…) whilst insisting that an independent Scotland would graciously retain the Pound Sterling for “some time”, with the adoption of the Euro being much further into the future. I’ll say! This self serving economic waffle was not challenged in  any way. Suppose the people of the UK decided that if Scotland decided to depart the Union it could also depart the currency of that Union? It’s obvious that Salmond wants to cling to our National currency because he knows, and we know, that the Euro is a busted flush. In truth, this should act as a massive dampener on those Rob Roy dreams but the BBC mostly accepts the line taken by Salmond, never asking why he would prefer Brussels rule over Westminster co-operation.

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