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- JohnC Nov 24, 05:24
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‘Refused service yet again with my guide dog – I’m done speaking out’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87x2p535wqo So hot on the heels of… - Zephir Nov 24, 04:31
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‘Global North ‘ = whitey The problem is that our ‘government’ wants to keep giving money to foreigners, particularly if… - Sluff Nov 23, 22:25
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I’m confused. I just heard, on the BBC news, Justin Rowlatt explain that the $300 bn offered by the rich… - pugnazious Nov 23, 21:57
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The problem with ethnic minority presenters on the BBC. The BBC’s white presenters are bad enough as they grovel and… - Lefty Wright Nov 23, 21:44
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Mark That poor kid still hasn’t found her lost marbles yet. - StewGreen Nov 23, 21:31
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“reports” ?? ..he actually tweeted that, but might be tongue in cheek - StewGreen Nov 23, 21:29
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I enclose a link to the full text of Peter Oborne and Frances Weaver’s ‘Guilty Men.’ It clearly sets out- inter alia- the BBC’s far from impartial approach to all things ‘Europe.’ A strongly recommended read.
Click to access oborne-guilty-men.pdf
Did anyone note the BBC’s reporting of damage to the gravestone of one of the 7/7 bombers in Cottingley (Leeds)? Whereas West Yorkshire were quoted as stating that “We have received a report of damage to two graves in the Muslim section of Cottingley Cemetery and we are investigating,” the BBC report mentions ‘a number of graves’, which seems to imply more than two. Deliberate exaggeration? It also makes reference to ‘racist graffiti’ at the scene, but given that it classifies criticism of Islam as ‘racism’, was this really the case?
My take on the report can be found here: http://durotrigan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/77-bomber-grave-vandalised.html and the original BBC report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-18466187
I wake up today seeing multicultural advertising in abundance on the BBC – it’s everywhere, but nowhere more apparent than the Olympic Games build-up coverage; the diversity quota is in great health and can be appreciated across the BBC’s output. I suppose the point for contention these days is whether they are there on merit or because of some politically correct, multicultural balance-agenda? I suspect the latter!
Anyway, more specifically, the theme on today’s Sunday Morning Live (the pinnacle of TV idle chit chat) will apparently orbit around the well-worn and tired BBC favourite topic of nasty police officers targeting poor-old innocent ethnic minorities for no other reason than the colour of their skin. I bet the debate won’t highlight the fact that ethnic minorities, however, commit a sizably higher percentage of crimes per head in the capital than white members of the community.
If this fact is covered then I will cut my nostril hairs off with a teaspoon!
Yes, this is almost a running theme (obsession!) with the BBC and I get tired of it. No one could ever justify the discriminatory targeting of any ethnic group but the reluctance from the Left to even acknowledge the severity of ethnic minority crime is the real issue at play here; anyone with a modicum of sense (apart from Whitman aka Jim Dandy) knows that crime is out of control in London with ethnics accounting for the lion’s share of it. BUT the BBC, however, refuse to debate this and shout ‘racist’ if anyone even alludes to it, thus canceling out all debate in true Stalinist style.
OK, goodbye nostril hair!
Good old Peter Tatchell spewing out the same old politically correct, deluded nonsense!
I think it’s time to have a live thread for Sunday Morning Live; the level of political correctness is astounding! Peter Tatchell will always stick up for minorities because he’s a zealous Left-winger lol.
But, would it be humanly possible to type quick enough to detail the appalling bias? One hell of a challenge! I’ve only just progressed from one to two-finger typing
Behind Enoch Powell’s monstrous image lay a man of exceptional integrity.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9329245/Behind-Enoch-Powells-monstrous-image-lay-a-man-of-exceptional-integrity.html#disqus_thread
I note the McCarthy sharing the sofa with Randy Marr, this morning …. all cosy to talk about TA RA!
… Israel
how it is “considered by many” ??? to be a democracy …
[he obviously mean t present company, (of course 😀 ) excluded] …
Does he mean it isn t “shock horror” a fascist apartheid state? …
anyway … so he drones on and on , so to find out about the multitude of problems the West Bank has … he s doing a program about, wait for it! … the Arab perspective 😀
To even things out, he is going in to Israel too, hmmm to get a … wait for it 😀 … Arab perspective, on the West Bank.
not biased at all, thank goodness for that.
Did he really say, “considered by many”?
with use of iplayer ….
largely seen? as a democracy?
If you can keep your supper down you might laugh, at about 2 mins into this video, at Mick Napier’s claim that the BBC is complicit in hiding Israel’s crimes.
Israel probably would have been happier had the protests stopped the match as the Scots ladies thrashed them 8:0.
Just how many turned up to protest? Couldn’t tell. As far as I can see, no one including the evil BBC mentioned their efforts. Scotland’s women smash eight past Israel
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZbWgEkHjo0&version=3&hl=en_US%5D
It’s this bizarre leftist claim that the BBC is biased towards the Zionist Entity that unwittingly provides the alibi that allows Al-Beeb to claim that as far as Israel-Palestine is concerned they get the coverage *just about right”.
If it is “just about right” why the secrecy re the findings of the Balen Report?
I suspect Napier believes the Jews own the media and the BBC. Somehow I doubt he pays the license fee, a rare point of agreement with B-BBC although for different reasons. He doesn’t want his hard earned cash going to the Zionists.
BTW how does Napier earn a crust?
No idea.
I’m only at 44 seconds in that first video and he’s basically outlined the Hamas charter for the Jews and put the word Palestinians in place of Israel and Jews.
On Sundays the chattering class at BBC Radio 4 likes to take some time out to relax (chillax if you will), to reflect on the previous week’s news and to have a bit of a natter.
Kevin Connolly is sitting in for Paddy O’Connell this morning on Broadcasting House. I think this is a blessed relief from that plastic paddy and his whispy lefty Eurovision Song Contest fan views.
Kevin has a pleasant enough slightly old school radio voice but if you consider his recent BBC background of former USA and Middle East correspondent you will guess the kind of cookie cutter Beeboid attitudes he favours.
The press review often throws up some nice insights into BBC approved thinking.
Guests this morning are:
Ngaire Woods introduced as an Oxford economics don. In fact the interests of this former Kiwi are more in the political area. She is a fan of ‘Fair trade goods’ and argues ‘democracy is not just about being elected’. So she is all for the EU sacking non-approved politicians and putting in the technocrats. I’m sure she would get on well with Lord Mandleson.
Next up, Katrina Evran (?) a Greek Comedienne. (No, me neither).
Michael Deacon political sketch writer from the Telegraph. Gosh I wonder if he might do a skit on Ed Miliband ‘I’m proud to be……(fill in the blank)’ speech? Somehow I doubt it.
So how did the review of the papers go with this top notch team of independently minded entirely non BBC groupthink reviewers?
Well the economics guru has left a massive hostage to fortune ‘I don’t think Greece is heading out’. The BBC still swimming against the tide there I think. I notice even Steph Flanders is keeping her powder dry this time.
Katrina is wailing about the Greek public health service in melt down. She is not very funny for a gal billed as a comedienne. She wants to tell us about a cartoon she found in a Greek communist newspaper – lots of German bankers wearing Nazi armbands we are told. Again not funny. Miranda she aint.
Here is my thought: Greece was a poor country. Once in the Eurozone they borrowed massively to catch up with northern european living standards. They didn’t earn this new wealth. This was the kind of spending the left like to call ‘investment’. Then the borrowed money ran out. Now they are poor again and with a big debt. (That’s economics folks!)
Katrina has one good story for us. It is about a Green village in Germany – powered entirely with pig excrement. Ah at last she is getting the hang of this BBC newspaper review.
Ngaire turns out to be a big Harry Potter fan. That would go some way to explain her belief in a magic new world government, devoid of democracy, but ruled by good wizards who know best and who protect minorities from mob rule.
Kevin Connolly has noticed both Ngaire and Michael have picked Leveson related stories to look at. Well you could have knocked me down with a feather (as Paddy might say).
Well this is a BBC gig and the BBC do so love Leveson – whatever the public might think.
BBC and Leveson, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Now we see why Michael Deacon is on. He does his bit on Cameron which is de rigueur but he really warms the cockles of the BBC heart with an attack on Michael Gove (boo hiss, we perceive the cry from the production crew across the studio).
Deacon likens Gove to Niles who was Kelsy Grammer’s brother in the 90s TV show Frasier. Well there’s a reference for the chattering Beeboids of a certain age!
Gove is also a ‘Fruit Ninja’ and his perfermance at Leveson (how many weeks ago was that?) was full of ‘campness’.
Steady BBC, it’s lucky Gove is a Tory, you’re beginning to play to that crowd that used to follow English football before they all took to Dido on their Ipods and voted Yes in the AV referendum to leave the Russians to pick up their baton – and break the windows in foreign cafes with it – what would Paddy make of such casual homophobia?
Kevin Connolly is oblidged to make a disclaimer: ‘I have a vague feeling I should be disassociating myself and the BBC from that – but it’s too late now’.
They do say there is many a true word said in jest. I’m afraid there are few true words or much in the way of jest on the BH press review.
‘If young Americans knew what was good for them, they would all be in the Tea Party.’ – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18456131
This is probably the first article I have ever seen on the BBC news website that is written from a right wing perspective! Sadly, it will probably also be the last…
Jeff
I suggest you look at the author: the superb Niall Ferguson: I’m reading The Ascent of Money again now.
(OK, yes, I am surprised he is allowed an outlet on the beeb!)
Apologies for being late in with this comment but I was busy last week and never had a spare moment.
Anyway did anyone watch BBC1s Springwatch last week ? To cut a long story short I enjoyed it and ended up watching parts of it on most of the days it was on. What was very pleasant was that while I watched it there were no mentions of Climate Change what so ever ! Even when the nature reserve in Wales they were filming in was basically flooded out the event was just treated as freak weather with no preachy mention of Climate Change. When I have watched it last year and the year before there only needed to be a spot of rain , an hours sun or a bird breeds numbers to be slightly down and we would suffer 10 minutes of why Climate Change was to blame.
This year though it was like a switch had been turned off and the subject was no more. Does even the Beeb realise they jumped the shark with their pet subject ?
Since it’s now been ‘decided’ that as ‘climate change’ is too controversial for the Great Unwashed, the new watchwords will be ‘sustainability’ and ‘poverty’. Just wait for the press releases coming out of Rio next week.
In the light of all this, the BBC is doing its level-best to keep all mention of ‘climate change’ out of the public eye. Even Captain Black has been uncharacteristically reticent on the subject in his recent epistles from Rio.
Rio will be getting the BBC full backing, but they have to be careful at The Corporation not to frighten the horses if they are to allow the undemocratic shenanigans at Rio to pass unchallenged – and this is of the utmost importance. Truth, openess, debate be damned. Getting all those lovely new draft treaties, laws and ‘green’ taxes approved MUST come first and must be allowed to slip quietly under the radar.
So for the next few weeks whatever you do ‘don’t mention climate change’. Not until the knees-up in Rio has crossed the ‘t’s and dotted the ‘i’s, that is.
Phil – I fear you could be right about this. Realising CC is so unpopular they moving into stealth mode much as they did with the EU a few years back.
“Viewpoint: Why the young should welcome austerity.”
By Prof Niall Ferguson.
BBC Reith Lecturer 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18456131
http://honestreporting.com/bbc-holocaust-denial-or-philosophy/
If you care to check out the above — well, what can one say?
They don’t think, therefore they are ‘unique’.
Like others above, I am both surprised and delighted that Niall Ferguson will be giving the Reith lectures.
One of the few great thinkers and historians about these days, who can relate his historical knowledge to urgent current trends.
His recent stuff on the West and on China were spot-on, so I have high hopes.
Even the BBC won`t be able to hide this will they?
Tweet by Jeremy Vine:
Thoughts about life in the BBC, gentle colleagues, some not-so-gentle: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/the-man-who-16173253.html
‘The most common question Vine is asked is how he refrains from giving his own opinion on his Radio 2 debate show…
“It’s the ticket to doing the show that you mustn’t air your views but it’s complicated, because I do think you need to have values.”‘
Yes, one is sure all have noticed how opinions, especially from the host, on air and twitter, are noticeably absent.
Must be why Lunchtime Loather got banned, failing to appreciate that ‘fact’…daily.
‘He also enjoys valuable time with his family: wife Rachel Schofield, a BBC News presenter
Are any of them not married to each other? I guess there is a fair % of office romances inevitable, but this is more like some bad 50’s Sci-Fi where there’s a department ensuring the gene match will be ‘suitable’.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/the-man-who-16173253.html#ixzz1y4LLqzgo
There have been many occasions where Vine and a guest have ganged-up on a “2 against 1” attack on another guest. His opinions shine through in everything he says, starting with the trail for his show with Ken Bruce and continuing in to the not-so-subtle voice inflections used in “coming up on today’s show” at the start of the programme. If he genuinely believes he keeps his bias and opinions to himself then he is a bigger fool than I thought.
Contrast & Compare:
Palestinian ‘attackers’ killed by Israeli truck driver
Truck driver kills 2 Palestinian robbers
Israeli shoots dead 2 would-be Palestinian carjackers
The BBC covering for terrorists – it’s what they do!
Excellent spot.
It was amazing how they used the conditional tense when reporting the Israeli side of events but the Palestinian side of it has little or no equivocation about it.
I also found it interesting how they had used the “according to media sources” which effectively meant they have built this story based on Israeli media stories.
So if we revisit those stories like those you’ve identified here Bio there is something very telling . The BBC quote the settler / palestinian tensions near Hebron – something not mentioned in the media reports they have relied on to build this story that I could find yet curiously omit the background quoted in the final report of Shin Bett thwarting a number of kidnapping attempts by Palestinians.
There was also a report somewhere else, which I can’t find now, that talks about the increasing number of truck hijacks.
Maybe this thwarted attempted was an attempt at hijacking, maybe of kidnapping, but in any case the BBC bottom line, quoting the Palestinians as saying that the men were on their way to work is patently ridiculous. That, and the mention of “recent clashes between settlers and Palestinians” is clearly an attempt to paint the Israeli as a cold blooded murderer who killed innocent Arab workers for no apparent reason.
You have to smile at this:
(Ashkelon is not a “settlement”)
“BBC criticised over Bomber Command live coverage failure”
by Thomas Harding.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9336890/BBC-criticised-over-Bomber-Command-live-coverage-failure.html
It looks like Greece’s pro bailout party, New Democracy, has beaten the Marxist Syriza party, increasing its share of the vote by over 33%.
BBC News say that this result was closer than expected. You bet it was! For days now our ‘Newsnight’ friends were predicting nothing but a big win for the ‘radical left’, as they describe Syriza (BTW that’s an interesting phrase ‘radical left’ as opposed to the other end of the political spectrum which the BBC call the extreme right).
Anyway, to coin a phrase, Karl Marx, Alexis Tsipras…Paul Mason (with all of your left wing ‘contacts’), your boys took one hell of a beating!!!
What sort of a victory was it BBC?
Ah yes, a narrow victory.
Sorry, I missed that could you repeat it please.
A NARROW victory. Did you get that everyone it was a NARROW !!!!! victory.
Remember now – NARROW !!!!!
How the BBC is dragging its feet on bias – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9337932/How-the-BBC-is-dragging-its-feet-on-bias.html
My fave, as cut and pasted by BBC CECUTT every time they reply to say they cannot be wrong becuase they are always right:
‘The BBC has ready answers to most of these complaints – it has clearly defined policies designed to ensure that its output is even-handed. ‘
So – “Our impartiality is confirmed because our policies require it.”
Nice little self-fulfilling virtuous cycle. Unique.
Just as predicted Dame Nicky Campbell does his bit on Chernobyl this morning and a useful text comes in to the BBC (comment goes straight to air – natch) drawing a link between the disaster and the UK Coalition’s current attitude to what this mysterious texter apparently terms ‘clean energy’. Job done! Beeb green pension scheme boosted a per cent or two.
‘a useful text comes in to the BBC (comment goes straight to air – natch) ‘
The ‘listening’ BBC – We want (y)our views
If they select the comments broadcast in, and reject others out, it can only be propaganda backed by censorship.
Time to start a petition to get Gameshow to *stay* in Chernobyl.
I hear they’re looking for security guards.
…might do him some good – cause some mutations in the supposed impartiality that resides in their DNA.
The “Today” 8:10 slot did at least have 2 politicians from the centre-right to discuss the outlook for Greece, but Humphrys continued with the BBC tunnel vision that “growth” can only come from government borrowing & spending. Whereas Greece actually needs lower public spending to allow the private sector to regain competiiveness & generate sustainable growth.
Here’s the end result of the ‘compassion’ that the Labour MP on Question Time insisted we must always demonstrate when it comes to the issue of immigration – it engenders an entitlement mentality. As always, it’s so easy for these Socialists to be generous with other people’s money.
Not happy here? You were under no obligation to come, please feel free to leave.
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Mr Kiunsi, who is still here, complains that the state has failed to provide the family with their ‘basic needs’ of accommodation and food, so he has had to pay rent, council tax and other living expenses himself.
The electrical engineer from Tanzania says he has ‘scientifically calculated’ the appropriate figure to compensate him and has reached the figure of exactly £11million.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160578/Immigrant-sue-UK-11-million–making-UNHAPPY.html
I wonder who’s paying his legal expenses.
You couldnt make it up, you really couldn’t!
Oh look, Guido discovers that, on the basis of a 2009 report in the Guardian, Brown lied to Leveson or, at least, was very economical with the truth.
Although this conclusion is based on a report in the BBC’s paper edition, I suspect that we will see nothing concerning this from the BBC.
‘Stockmarkets have responded positively to the New Democracy party’s NARROW !!!!! victory in the Greek election – but we’ll see where they are at the end of the day’
Gotta lurve that ‘we’ll see where they are’.
The world’s greatest news gatherer firstly reporting the news it wished had happened rather than the news that actually happened. And then – reporting the news it hopes is going to happen: ie stockmarkets giving a thumbs down to an election loss by the lefties.
Joseph Heller – where are you now, mate.
@NickyAACampbell: Hi folks, I like it so much here in Chernobyl that I have decided to resign from @radio5live !!!! and take a job here as a security guard,
Well if the droids can report what they wish the news would have been I can report what I wish twitter would have been.
You can certainly see your enthusiasm in the work you write. The sector hopes for more passionate writers like you who are not afraid to say how they believe. Always follow your heart.