The last two weeks have been a pleasure…Janet Daley in the telegraph explains her delight at the transformation of London’s ‘personality’……
‘What I had not anticipated was that the spectacularly effective campaign of advance warnings and threats to London’s travelling public would cause so much of its working population to abandon the capital. Thus the evacuation of traditionally depressive, harassed, exhausted Londoners made way for the arrival of a lot of rather sweet, smiley people who turned the city into a very jolly and, momentarily, carefree place.’
I can’t help thinking that the same sort of transformation has gone on at 5Live where the dedication to force feeding us Socialist dogma and re-educating the non-believers has been put to one side for a couple of weeks and we were left with what the BBC is best at…providing us with pure information unadulterated by politics, and entertainment from the sporting arena.
I came back down to earth with a bump this morning as 5Live announced Cameron’s new sport project and wheeled on Ed Miliband (who probably has never kicked a football in his life….though he is quite happy to turn up to football games in a Rolls Royce when he should have been at an NHS hospital). Not having heard him for 2 weeks meant his re-appearance in the public sphere was a bit of a shock……disheartening, dismal and depressing are three words that instantly sprang to mind as Miliband droned on.
5Live probably did us all a favour…anybody hearing him would surely be viscerally opposed to voting for him.
So it is back to the political dogfighting and undermining of Britain by the BBC now we’ve got all that horrible flagwaving, elitist, patriotic nastiness out of the way.
Taking a wide view of the BBC you could conceive of it as the mindless vandal in the midst of our community smashing up things of value and daubing its mindless slogans across our streets and airwaves in artless graffiti….much like the vandalism to the post box painted gold to celebrate an Olympic ‘Triumph’ ……
‘When the golden post box commemorating Jessica Ennis’s Olympic triumph was vandalised within 24 hours of its dedication in her home city of Sheffield, the civic authorities painted out the graffiti immediately. That was how New York’s police defeated their epidemic of graffiti: by scrubbing it off as soon as it appeared. It was one of the ways that they took their city back. Sheffield, inspired by the Olympic spirit, decided not to let the hooligans win. Is it too much to expect that the rest of the country might do the same?’
…And like that council that immediately sprang into action to erase the graffiti that defaces our nation and community, sites like Biased BBC do the same…aiming to tackle the BBC’s vandalism to our culture and society by its gerrymandering of the political debate in favour of Labour and the Left, its pro European stance, its pro-mass immigration position and it’s anti-Israel but pro-Islam standpoint.
This site in its own little way, and many others, tries to counter that BBC graffiti that so disfigures our political life and poisons the democracy that protects and lifts us out of darkness.
A small number of taggers and graffiti sprayers have a completely disproportionate effect on the quality of our environment (the real one, not the eco-tosh one). With the benefit of CCTV it shouldn’t be impossible to catch more of them, wandering about at night with pockets full of spraypaint? Their sentence should include 200 hours of community grafitti removal – preferably the first 10 hours with just their tongues.
The BBC didn’t even wait for the games to be over. In what was a disgraceful interview of David Cameron, our Prime Minister, this morning Misha Husain was hard faced and antagonistic. This is a day for celebration of our athletes and our country’s achievements and all she could do was carp on and constantly interrupt the Prime Minister in the most miserable po-faced way. Whatever your politics this was not the time for the BBC to show the world its wretched socialist colours.
How David Cameron puts up with this back stabbing organisation I cannot understand. He is either a saint or a fool.
Oh, the latter, without a doubt…
Absolutely, he had the chance to make sure the new director general of the BBC was someone who is genuinely impartial, but who got the job ? George Entwistle another Leftie. So the Tory bashing will continue.
Why does Cameron not realise the damage being done by the Leftie BBC and why does he continue to allow 50% of the population to be disenfranchised in relation to our National Broadcasting company.
Maybe he wants to lose the next Election. I am mistified.
Well he certainly managed to lose the last one, why change a losing formula.
I actually enjoy watching Vichy Dave getting roughed up by the bbc. He deserves it.
I have disliked Husain from Day 1 – several years ago when she was based in Washington.
Supercilious, anti-Republican, smarmy.
There is a huge struggle worldwide with Islamists. I really do not think our news should be presented by Muslims – her ant-Bush bias was crystal clear when she was in the US.
i am very sad to say … i agree with you
the sad part, or saddest … it is inconceivable for them not to speak,(or think) through their indoctrination … their world view is through that insular prism, mind you, you hear that from most cults too.
That is what is so astounding, you can see it and i, and you and you, and you etc, but so indoctrinated are they, they themselves just don t get it.
the difference being most cults do not immediately issue violence, and backed threats, and act on it, to all around them, as Islam does, al bbc to its shame, just joins the list of appeasers to it
Yes the INBBC thinks it has achieved peace in our time !
“I really do not think our news should be presented by Muslims”
Hell Yeah! Let’s ban Muslims from certain professions. After all, that worked out so well when we used to do the same to Jews and Catholics. Oh those good old days!
How many BNP members openly work for the BBC, Dez?
dez ….. May I just point out that `WE` never used to do the same to Jews and Catholics… As `WE` were not involved in the Nazi occupation of Poland.. Maybe you were… perhaps as a member of the “13 Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS ‘Handschar’ (kroatische Nr. 1)” … although i admit that Muslims didn`t officially `see` action in and around Poland in 1939.. It is common knowledge that the Grand Mufti visited and toured the area with his good friend Adolf and fully supported the murder of six and a half million Jews and also any other Christians that were in the way…. So can you please clarify who the `WE` mention actually is please???
Oh, Cameron agrees with the BBC, but dare not say so until he’s fulfilled his term as Prime Minister that he feels he deserves simply because of who he is, not what he stands for.
You are probably right and of course he has said so many times, but how on earth he can agree with an organisation that treats him like an idiot? However this is the man that was entrusted to sort out the nation’s mess that Labour left behind and two years later he is happily sitting in it like a pig in s**t, so we should not be too surprised.
Don’t ever forget Dave wants Turkey’s accession to the EU!
He actually thinks it will be a great benefit.
As Frazer says: “doomed, doomed, we’re all doomed”.
Because he is an idiot???????
I was sickened by her attack. Don’t like Cameron but this was about a national celebration and she took every opportunity to attack.
She even tried to drag Redgrave and Ainsley into her government and elitism bashing. Two very gracious men who managed to completely disagree with her arguments and put her right back in her box.
Really was disgraceful performance by her.
A saint or a fool or a mole?
The BBC has been in overdrive of late, using the Olympics as part of its multiculturalist project. Why the focus on Mohamed (‘Mo’) Farah’s twin victory, placing his achievement ahead of Chris Hoy’s haul of six gold medals? It also of course lauded Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony which featured the peculiar retro-projection of London’s multi-ethnic population into our past, and alongside this has run a number of programmes pushing its usual messages connected to “celebrating diversity” and the denial that there is anything such as an indigenous British, particularly English, identity. Witness its screening of Julian Temple’s ‘London: the Modern Babylon’ and the end of Michael Wood’s ‘The Great British Story: a People’s History’, the former documenting the accelerating displacement of the English from London, and the latter celebrating the rise of immigrant “communities” and the re-emergence of distinctive Scottish, Welsh and Cornish identities, whilst remaining silent about the English: http://durotrigan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/david-starkey-versus-michael-wood.html
Yes, it’s certainly given us an insight in to which order the lunatic left’s ‘Progressive Stack’ sits at the moment.
The two programmes were entirely predictable. That is the liblefts’s great weakness. The very predictability means the argument loses force and can be discounted as mere propaganda that reflects a desired reality not an actual one.
You can see through it Dave, but there a lot of impressionable people out there who can’t and who still trust the BBC implicitly. It’s like any lie, repeat it often enough and it becomes the truth, and the BBC use the tactic shamelessly to promote their Leftist world view.
The trouble is the old BBC built up a lost of trust capital over the years, a faithin its impartiality, which it is now spending like water.
Are they stupid, or do they know something we don’t , as in the end of democracy being nigh, they can simply afford to spend spend spend now?
Yesterday a Britain called McKeever won an Olympic gold for kayaking. Unfortunately for him it was the same day that ‘Mo’ won his second gold. So 4 years hard work, an olympic gold and in the eyes of the BBC you become an also-ran. The news on BBC1 spent most of the time reporting Mo’s victory (yes, I was shouting at the TV for him to win too) but McKeever only got a mention once we got the ‘sports’ news just before the weather. Is it because kayaking is a ‘white’ sport or a ‘toff’ sport – but outside his sport McKeever will very much be an anonymous gold winner.
Yes, I agree. I don’t think the BBC have put anything on hold, to be honest; their socialist agenda has just been a little more subtle, but they simply haven’t been able to contain their orgasmic joy over the multicultural torrent that has been on display. I had the misfortune to catch a BBC News 24 feature late last night; in short, I was subjected to the most awful pro-Islamic groveling to do with Mo Farah winning another gold; some inane, snooty women with a stupid sounding voice ( I think she was from that disgusting rag, the Guardian), was saying how ‘wonderful’ it is to have a Muslim spearheading the tranche of gold medals for team GB. I simply had to turn over, it was unutterably foul. I had to rush to the fridge to get another ale to calm my poor nerves!
In my humble opinion, the BBC has been pushing the multiculti ideology to the max over the last couple of weeks… I don’t have any problem with different cultures living together peacefully; however, I do have a problem when our national broadcaster sees fit to continually enforce it upon us as part of some cultural Marxist subliminal indoctrination agenda.
The trouble is the BBC can’t distinguish between multicultural and multiracial (or refuse to). Mo’s achievement was a product of him integrating into the British way of life through school and the support of a very dedicated PE teacher, and not as a result of a separatist upbringing by Muslim parents who choose to live their lives as rural Pakistanis and force him to attend the local madrassa.
I, too, saw the screening of Julian Temple’s ‘London: the Modern Babylon’. I was appalled that the BBC allowed a clip of Margaret Thatcher’s words (quoting St Francis of Assissi, as she entered Downing Street in 1979) to be shown, but altered, so that she was depicted as saying “Where there is harmony, may we bring discord. ….And where there is hope, may we bring despair.”
It is despicable that a documentary on BBC allowed this clip to be displayed without any indication as to its being completely distorted and altered, and shown amongst a range of other media news-clips, giving the perception that the clip presented a true picture of her speech. There should be an aplology for such disinformation.
What am I saying ? – the Labour Party Broadcasting Corporation would never do such a thing.
“Where there is harmony, may we bring discord. ….Where there is hope, may we bring despair.”
A pretty good summary of the Left – except you should add “and the Kinnockracy shalt prosper as they leech off the poor”
Who was it who said the House of Lords was “unelected, undemocratic and unrepresentative” then took a seat in the Lords when offered one?
Where there is surplus, may we bring deficit.
Where there is excellence, may we bring mediocrity.
Where there is competence, may we bring diversity.
Where there is freedom of expression, may we enforce conformity.
That “Mo” bit did irritate a bit. Very touchie feely, less explosive than the usual.
Yes. Do you think that “Mo” will be invited to give a Ramadan broadcast on 18 August?
Nearer the truth than you may think I fear.
Which way was east in the stadium by the way?
Anyway,
It’s God Bless and good night all from me and Ali Akbar from him.
I was pissed off because lovely Denise Lewis and I-will-NOT-remove-my-tie Colin Jackson joined in saying Mo’s 2nd gold was Britain’s best Olympic moment ever…EVER. WTF? Brendan Foster said it first because those were his events, he’s been there, got a bronze when the last guy did the double (Lasse Viren the in 1976) so Brendan’s choice is perfectly reasonable – it’s his baby. The others were just waffling shite.
Sod the politics, the Olympics has been brilliant. You would have to have a pea-sized heart made of coal not to be moved by the triumph and tragedy on display. The competitors have been amazing, the crowds fantastic and the armed forces and volunteers (especially) have been just wonderful. The Olympic flame has been a shining light in troubled times; please don’t piss on it!
I agree and have loved every minute of the games. We should recognise what the BBC do well – the coverage of the games from a technology view point has been superb.
Which is why the man in charge of the whole show has been promoted to acting BBC Director of Vision.
Mo will be competing for your country in Rio, David.
If that’s true, it means he’s little more than a freelancer, a hired gun, and all the patriotism on display for his medals this week is nothing more than the kind of boo-ya loyalty to a professional sports team. Will he be a great example for Britain then, I wonder?
The presentation and commentary has been superb as well I’d say.
I haven’t been able to catch nearly as much as I’d like to, but of what I did virtually nothing irked. From what I’ve seen the BBC played a blinder. It remains something to be hugely proud of when covering sport.
True – not much to fault in the coverage.
I agree Sidleybird – it’s been a wonderful success, and proof that we can still handle an international event of this scale, despite the doubters. I was perhaps (slightly) one of those pre games, with memories of the Millenium Dome thingy returning. Glad I’ve been proven wrong!
Yeah, I was expecting it to be hugely embarrassing. I cringed when we won the bid.
I’m going to be diggin mud out of my face for months now.
The Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics have shown spectacularly that there’s far more hope left for Britain than middle aged curmudgeons like me hitherto believed!
True again – default cynicism is the least attractive aspect of the British character.
If anyone is pissing on it, it’s the INBBC!
Well said Sidleybird. I couldn’t agree more.
For me the only things adding a slight tarnish were the left-wing references in the Opening Ceremony and the various left-wing puff pieces such as Claire Balding’s and the Black Power supportthat the BBC have infilicted on us, while ignoring the real Olympic tragedy of 1972.
If you think I’m pissing on it my only answer is to say “piss off”.
“the Olympics has been brilliant.” I agree
“moved by the triumph and tragedy on display.” I agree
“The competitors have been amazing” I agree
“the crowds fantastic” I agree
“the armed forces and volunteers (especially) have been just wonderful.” I agree.
“The Olympic flame has been a shining light in troubled times” I agree wholeheartedly…so Sidleybird
…WTF is your post about?
Hear, hear sidleybird.
I hope his appalling performances during the last two weeks will end Colin Jackson’s media career. Remember his commenting on the 100m final? “Here comes whatsisname. Come on the big man. etc” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBuYKum4LiM
There are only two reasons why the BBC employ him, and his talent isn’t one of them. Surely the BBC can find another black homosexual amongst its countless friends?
I quite like Colin Jackson actually (cough, deepen voice – not in a gay way of course).
The other commentator that needs to go is the cycling bloke (not Chris Boardman, the other one.) He could not recognise half the competitors, constantly got information wrong including claiming the 21st placed cyclist in the road race came in 4th, and getting Victoria Pendleton’s name wrong in her sprint, though mysteriously this was corrected by the time it was replayed in the BBC news.
Sounds like Richard Black’s got competition for his environment correspondent’s job, then.
He wasn’t commentating though was he, so it doesn’t matter…
there is only one solution to the BBC and that is to get rid of it, if a mass of people stopped paying the TV tax then the BBC is gone, people are waking up all over the country to the antics of this leftist publicly funded organisation and are not paying the tax anymore but we need more people to join us (PLEASE JOIN US)
BBC-NUJ turns Olympics into politics: ‘foreign aid’.
This is BBC-NUJ’s top UK online propaganda ‘report’ today:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19230427
“‘Beeb got it totally wrong’: Top general is furious over BBC’s claim Help for Heroes charity was spending money on MOD buildings and not soldiers.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2187118/Beeb-got-totally-wrong-Top-general-furious-BBCs-claim-Help-Heroes-charity-spending-money-MOD-buildings-soldiers.html#ixzz23Jy0f8vr
Typical of the BBC, I wonder why they chose to make these ‘revalations’ about H4H, rather than the plethora of social(ist) chariities that deliver nothing whatsoever beyond ‘campaigning’. Look at how the BBc bigged up the push-poll by some dubious charity that claimes that fully 1/3 of children in Britain were “starving” [because of evil tory kuts no doubt] or the disabled charity that – totally disinterestedly you know – claimed another push poll proved that welfare reform [excellently analysed and deconstructed on this site by the way] causes disabled people to believe that able people had a less positive view of them – translated by the Beeb into ‘evil tory kuts cteate mass lynchings of disabled people.
There are plenty of charities out there who do literally nothing constructive with the money that they get generally from the state. Newsnight special anybody?
My typing gets worse by the day – sorry, should wear my reading specs.
That is an excellent point.
One of the worst aspects of the last two years has been the endless whingeing by ‘charities’ that exist only to recycle public money and whose budgets have now been cut, with the BBC at the forefront of publicising these non-charities. This has caused a negative perception of the real ‘third sector’ amongst the general public, with a backlash against many genuine charities that are funded by philanthropic donations and member subscriptions and organise volunteer effort to help those in need.
I suspect this is a deliberate move by those in the bloated public sector to try to undermine the ‘Big Society’ and to push their notion of ‘big government is the only solution’.
But a Newsnight Special doesn’t seem very likely: it would mean getting one part of the bloated public sector to examine another.
‘..rather than the plethora of social(ist) chariities that deliver nothing whatsoever beyond ‘campaigning’. ‘
Fair point if, sadly, erring on the two wrongs comparison basis BBC CECUTT can swat away with ease, no matter how valid, claiming they have no control over what is selected to be discussed, who is invited on, etc. As David P has pointed out, that lie is rather nailed by Hugs Boaden’s directive from the desk of Der Fuhrer.
This case is a classic of what frustrates me about how the BBC has dragged professional, objective news integrity into the sewer.
I have been away so this is my first exposure to the ‘allegations’.
And it is just about possible that there is actually something newsworthy deserving investigation here.
However, if I see the names ‘Panorama’ or Newsnight associated with that word these days, my default is to presume a skewed agenda complemented by a pre-determined outcome ensured by rigging everything from the pre-pro through the post-edit.
Especially when I see such as this cranked out in ‘answer’ to questions being asked of them:
‘But the BBC said: ‘We stand by the programme and the high quality of our journalism.
‘We accurately and impartially reported our findings and strongly believe it was in the public interest to do so.
They ‘believe they got it about right’. It’s like a stuck record.
Why, then, is one of their poster boys not to on-side?:
‘Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy adding that the BBC ‘got it totally wrong’.
Cross-party criticism then. And the BBC responds with ‘we are incapable of error and that’s that’.
Given past efforts where Aunty’s tattered frillies have dropped round her ankles to trip her up, I’m erring on another ‘moving on quickly’ job.
New low? They’ll need Time Team to locate them in the midden they are excavating these days.
ps: Is there any reason why the link above from George R is turned to this on my browser?:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2187118/Help-Herpes-BBC-claims-charity-spending-money-MOD-buildings-soldiers.html
The dripping poison from the BBC just doesn’t stop. I’ve had BBC1 running for most of the morning whilst doing lots of other things. The programme has been a long review of the games in all its aspects since they started a couple of weeks ago. There seems to have been a pretty wide agreement that this has been one of the best Olympic games ever – if not THE best. There was a universally positive approach (almost fawning in some cases – but hey, sometimes that’s OK) to all the athletes and support staff, the volunteers and the officials…. all well-deserved.
Then there was the clip of Ed Milliband, who had nothing positive to say whatsoever.
And then there was the interview with our current prime minister.
Whereas, for everyone else, without exception that I could see, there was a warm greeting, a smile, and some congratulations on a job very well done, that was not the attitude towards David Cameron and his team.
The constant interruptions started almost immediately, the carping about why he hasn’t committed millions for ever into the future, but that the current commitment has ‘only’ been extended until the next Olympics – 4 years away. The constant snarl on the face of the interviewer. The starting of every question (rather, interruption when the PM was pointing out anything positive) with the familiar “…. but you haven’t tackled this, that and the other….” – this usually to do with the school system which our dead-left ‘educators’ have bequeathed upon us.
The lack of acknowledgement that none of the massive potential problems, predicted long and loudly by the BBC amongst others, just did not happen – i.e. there were few, if any, problems at airport and port immigration points, the transport system clearly was able to cope, the empty spaces caused by other IOC teams not taking up the seats they had demanded in the first place was dealt with, the city of London did not grind to a halt, and so on and so forth. In fact, if you think about it, the key reason that London has probably lost so much commerce over the past two weeks has probably been founded on the constant and unjustifiably amplified claims of impending disaster, so well displayed by the BBC amongst others. After all, would you travel to the capital city of a country where the national broadcaster was all but claiming the advent of Armageddon during the period you might have thought of visiting ?
And the lies continue as well, such as the one in one of the reports this morning, regarding the numbers of members of our armed forces – all of whom, according to the BBC, were brought in to plug a hole left by G4S – notwithstanding that many thousands had been planned from the start, and that the contingency plan to use our forces worked so well when needed.
There was a complete absence of any form of positive words or congratulations on a job well done. As far as the BBC commentator was concerned, all the athletes, support staff, volunteers, officials, etc., must have just got together in London on a whim, and without any preparation, groundwork, organisation, or funding in a financially difficult time whatsoever, made the London Olympics what it has become. Any small thing thing that went wrong, however, was simply laid at the foot of the current government.
We have now seen, already I think, the end of the Olympics. For the BBC, it’s all eventually (we’ll forget for the moment the first few days of doom-mongering after the opening ceremony) been great fun, but now it’s time to get geared back up for the ‘day job’ – getting Labour back into power as soon as possible – so they’re wasting no time whatsoever in starting with the hypocrisy and non-stop attacks.
…and a ‘hat tip’ to Wayne X for his earlier comment re this interview – it took me a while to get the above post together, so I hadn’t seen his comment.
I have just watched the BBC1 interview with Cameron – about 9.15am.
Mishal Husain was awful. Attacking Cameron for promising funding only until Rio in 2016 – but that is exactly what the sports bodies want. She then decried competition in sport. Belittled how far Britain has come. Exaggerating the impact of the just-3 sports fields sold in the last 2 years.
Hard-faced aggressive interviewing, continual carping, many interruptions.
Miserable cow.
At least she can’t criticise PM Cameron for attending a British independent school, because Ms Husain attended one too.
Oh, don’t rule that out, hypocrisy knows no bounds!
Ms Husain’s ethnicity (according to ‘Wikipedia’) is Pakistani, and her religion is Islam.
Imagine, given the ferocity of her political attack on the British PM on provision of sport in schools, how she would treat the Islamic Republic of Pakistan PM on this:
“Pakistan: Jihad has killed almost 4,000 people in first seven months of 2012”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/08/pakistan-jihad-has-killed-almost-4000-people-in-first-seven-months-of-2012.html
The BBC Left will be pulling out all the stops to make sure Cameron doesn’t benefit from any feel-good factor over the Olympics.
I haven’t seen the interview, so can’t comment. But sounds very much what can be expected from the sundry subversives that Cameron does nothing to root out as is his democratic duty.
If the interview was as various people have said, No 10 should be demanding such a blatantly partisan interviewer is sacked.
Here’s a breakdown and transcript of that interview between Mishal Husain and Cameron (quoting only the BBC interviewer):
And the prime minister’s here this morning to answer some of those questions. Welcome.
8.28 Amazing tally of gold medals. 28. When you sat there in the opening ceremony what did you think was possible?
8.33 DC
9.12 (interrupting) We did put an awful..we did put an awful lot of money because these were our home games and we really wanted a good performance. I know you saw quite a few of the Olympic venues and experienced quite a lot of those moments. Any particular favourites?
9.22 DC
9.55 (interrupting) But the questions we have to ask for the Mo Farahs and the Nicola Adamses of the future is what happens to elite sport now and I know you’ve made some announcements..you’ve done some thinking about that in the course of these games…
10.05 DC
10.36 (Interrupting) Well you say it’s a lot of money but actually it’s only two more years because the Treasury funding was guaranteed until 2014, 2015, so actually what you’ve done is give them another two years for elite sport
10.50 DC
11.12 Yes, it’s very welcome new what you’re doing but actually two years in the life of elite sport is not a very long time and perhaps many governments do only think..but shouldn’t we be thinking more ambitiously and coming up with a longer term strategy?
11.23 DC
11.46 (interrupting) But you could…obviously we do not know how long you’re going to be in power for but you could set the tone though in saying actually our ambition is for a long-term strategy and you haven’t done that.
11.59 DC
12.38 And what about the decisions..the difficult decisions that have to be made about how you spend the money on elite sports, so where UK sports…you know, how it divides up the cookie. What about sports that have underperformed, like swimming – which had a target of more medals than it actually ended up with, which was three.
12.54 DC
13.40 OK. You’ve also come out with..erm…er…plans about earlier in the chain, and clearly we have to think well before we get to the elite sport level, now how…and you’ve talked about how important competetive sport is and that seems to be now at the heart of what you want primary schools to be doing. Why is competitive sport so important? Shouldn’t you be putting the focus on high quality physical education in school and maybe competition comes later?
14.01 DC
14.31 (interrupting) But there are children who can get alienated by competitive sport, aren’t there, and I’m just wondering if the focus should be on high quality physical education as a starter. Mo Farah’s old P.E. teacher said if you expose children who aren’t ready for competitive sport to it you can put them off sport for life.
14.45 DC
15.23 But if you think sport and school and particularly your belief that competitive sport in school is so important then what was wrong with that target of two hours a week in primary schools?
15.31 DC
15.44 (interrupting) Was there actually any evidence that schools were doing that?
15.46 DC
16.07 (interrupting) Not all of which is going to schools, we should be clear about that.
16.10 DC
16.57 (interrupting) Yes, but it is just a blueprint. That’s the point. At the moment it’s just a blueprint and it’s a question..it’s a question of the effort you make at this point. Well, what about..sorry, prime minister, what about..what, what…
17.08 DC
17.11 (interrupting) We are still…we are the start of the journey of building a legacy though for these Games.
17.15 DC
17.26 (interrupting) But we’ve lost..we’ve lost so many playing fields, we’ve lost school playing fields and we don’t know how many of those..do you know how many of those could be safeguarded for the local community even if they don’t belong to schools anymore?
17.37 DC
17.58 (interrupting) But what happens to that land? Could those fields, even if they don’t belong to schools, could they be safeguarded for community rather than dis..
18.06 DC
18.50 But if you say that the legacy of the Games is already underway and that we’re already securing it then you can’t be very heartened by the figures on school participation…these are figures for England. Only 6 out of 31 funded sports are actually showing any increase in participation. 15 of them are showing a decrease and in fact it’s really only running and cycling which are really, really doing well with people taking it up.
19.11 DC
19.40 (interrupting) But we don’t..we don’t know who’s going to use the stadium after that.
19.44 DC
20.05 (interrupting) …even though there’s..even though there’s no permenant tenant for the stadium yet.
20.09 DC
20.30 (interrupting) But just going..just going back to these figures on participation in sport. The theme of these Games has been ‘Inspire a Generation’ yet if you look particularly…and again these are the figures for England…on participation among 16-24 year olds, that is the group where participation is falling the sharpest and that has got to be a serious concern and a worry if..
20.50 DC
21.25 We’re just in the final few hours now until the closing ceremony, which no doubt will be a wonderful moment though, what do you think this experience has taught us about who we are in Britain? What has it done for us as a nation?
21.38 DC (Cameron’s big ‘Britain is wonderful’ speech, undercut by….)
22.20 Well, a confidence boost, but the reality is that we wake up tomorrow morning and, you know, we are all reminded that actually we are in a really severe recession and this country’s not in a good place at all economically. That’s the reality.
22.30 DC
22.48 Prime Minister, thanks very much for joining us this morning and enjoy the closing ceremony.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/london
I wonder why someone would go to all that trouble in transcribing what an interviewer said. Nearly a thousand words for heaven’s sake! Mind you it shows what an excellent job she (Ms Husain) did of interrupting him to get her important speech across. Anyway, evidently Craig agreed with her in that what she said was much more important than what the PM said or he would have transcribed the PM’s comments too.
I am mystified as to his motives or is it just that perhaps Craig is a BBC left wing union socialist sympathiser with too much benefit cash and time on his hands. If so, you don’t see too many of them in this neck of the woods.
“It’s a funny old world”, as a heroine of mine once said
Wayne, for more of my left-wing union socialist sympathising and general time-wasting, please see my old blog:
http://beebbiascraig.blogspot.co.uk
Wayne – I think that Craig’s full transcript of the BBC side of the interview very well supported your view and mine of the attitude and behaviour of Ms Husain. Maybe we’re so used to the BBC and its minions defending their behaviour in voluminous and detailed obfuscation, that we perhaps miss the intent of a supporting view. I think we’re all on the same side. Anyway – I’m off to have a look at Craig’s blog, which I didn’t know of before – hopefully I won’t return red-faced at my comment here 😉
…and here I am , back again, red-faced at not remembering Craig’s blog from before the last election. Oops.
Our point many months ago about Craig’s excellent forensic analyses of BBC interviews was – why the hell don;t the BBC themselves analyse interviews as important as with the PM ? Why don’t they have ANY mechanism to check for bias ?
I assume the answer is that they don’t really care. They spout their false claims to political balance and no-one can touch them for it. They are – as Jeff Randell said after working at the BBC at a senior level – leftie in their guts – not “impartial in their genes”.
Wayne, I think the point here was to show that Husain had a specific agenda to pursue here, and wasn’t going to take any of Cameron’s answers for, well, an answer. Apparently every statement from Cameron was met with, “But you’re wrong.”
I suppose this is the kind of thing the BBC defines as properly challenging. But the agenda behind all of her remarks – mostly not questions, really – was pretty obvious.
Praise for this from Front Row and R4 presenter, John Wilson:
If Cameron came on thinking he’d get a soft feelgood-factor interview he didn’t reckon on @MishalHusainBBC.
Like I said, the BBC sees this as properly challenging. So it’s either a soft love-in, or this?
Over on the Commentator :
“This week’s podcast is hosted by Raheem Kassam and features author and journalist James Delingpole as well as UKIP Press Officer Gawain Towler”
From about 16mins30secs the BBC comes under a lot of criticism for about 10 mins, mainly in connection with the Beeb documentary ‘Young bright and on the right’ broadcast the other day.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1515/podcast_we_need_to_talk_about_mensch_mars_and_the_bbc
(George R had linked to this at 9AM on the Open Thread but I didn’t see it . When the Open Thread sinks below the horizon, so to speak, I’m afraid a bit of out of sight out of mind syndrome tends to set in.)
The return to political finger-pointing started last night on the 10 o-clock news. In their Olympics round-up, their sports reporter finished on a mention of future funding for British athletes. He claimed that funding of athletes might be cut in the run up to the next games in Rio, but that after the success here in London there was surely no way that Cameron could be seen to do such a thing. I don’t know if this is true or not, but it was said in such a way as to suggest that the PM would love to cut cut cut if he had his mean way, but that the public reaction would probably force his hand against his natural instincts…and this from the SPORTS reporter! I’m surprised Bruce Whine didn’t tut-tut her disapproval as they linked back to the studio
I have thoroughly enjoyed the spectacle of the games, and the two weeks of interruption to normal service. It just makes the return of their incessant political point scoring all the more noticeable. They just can’t quit, but I don’t think they realise that what they are doing is not even handed.
My only quibble with this otherwise excellent piece was that you should have written, “…and we were left with what the BBC OUGHT TO BE best at”. To say “is” best at kind of implies that they do occasionally provide pure and unadulterated information, which as far as I can tell isn’t something they actually do.
Ed miliband and sport, don’t make me laugh. He is the kind of dweeb I used to smash on the rugby and football pitch. As if he gives a monkeys about sport!
I remember that at school – from the receiving end! :O
Thunderous man-mountains colliding in a frenzy of mud, sweat and deepheat – with scrawnies like me doing their best to avoid the action whilst still appearing to be making an effort to participate. I got it down to a fine art, I must say.
Best days of our lives, my arse. 🙂
…but Ed is still a chump.
I doubt it, he looks exactly the type who always had a sick note.
As the old Bonzo song goes ‘Give him an ice-cold shower’.
WHAT A WONDERFUL OLYMPIC GAMES. WHAT A SHAME THAT MISHAL HUSAIN CAME ON THE TV THIS MORNING WITH HER NEGATIVE ATTITUDE, JOURNALST ? NOT. I WAS EMBARRASSED!
“I can’t help thinking that the same sort of transformation has gone on at 5Live where the dedication to force feeding us Socialist dogma and re-educating the non-believers has been put to one side for a couple of weeks”
As a quite regular listener to 5Live I dont recognise that statement.
I think it’s an excellent example of how B-BBC has a tendency to be more ‘anti-BBC’ than ‘anti-BBC bias’.
Try listening to it dipstick.
To be fair Radio Five is not the worst by any means. He should try listening to the relentless propaganda on Radio Four!
@ Ian Hills
The boorish right has spoken.
‘…Rio, here we come…’ Is the cry from Nicky Campbell this morning.
Gold medal to our Nicky for his performance in men’s lightweight unequal Olympic twaddle before eight o’clock this morning.
Then he has the gall to ask as a question for his phone-in debate: ‘was it all worth it?’ Well we’ve no doubt what our Nicky thinks: Rio here we come.
Looking forward to Eddie Izzard coming on next to us Brits what to think.
Thought you might like this from New Zealand Herald:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/best-of-sport-analysis/news/article.cfm?c_id=1502180&objectid=10826504
“What was out of whack was the hugely lopsided work of the BBC. They didn’t just drop their cloak of impartiality; they biffed it over the bridge.
Interviewers wore Team GB shirts and chatted to sixth or seventh-place finishers while races were still on. “We” was everywhere. It was cringeworthy, and unworthy of the organisation.
It drew a spray from US network NBC’s sports boss, Dick Ebersol.
“They openly root for their athletes on the air,” he railed. “Nobody ever uses the word ‘we’ in our coverage, and if they did they wouldn’t last long.”
So that’s not left wing biased at all then?
It’s not first of the month, so backsies are allowed, right?
‘Whitman
Do be quiet.
Love you lots
Xxx’
OK, I admit I did edit it a tad, but let’s say it was so it fitted. The BBC does it allllll the time, so it must be OK, right?
I couldn’t care less what weird superiority complex you have. Did I say anything about editing anything. The New Zealand Herald is saying everything to the contrary of what you say, yet you use it seemingly in support of what you think. I’m just saying this sounds a lot like double think, or maybe just stupidity. But I suppose one can’t expect much more.
‘I couldn’t care less…”
But you do seem to care, lots. I still treasure the first time you felt the need to set me on the course of righteousness, albeit on your terms.
‘Did I say anything about editing anything.’
Nope, I did. To pre-empt a whinge on how I cut and pasted your quoted contribution back to you, albeit a smidge ‘enhanced’ to suit my narrative, which is you seem to operate on multiples of standards, deliberately missing points, cherry picking, straw manning, ex-pram toy lobbing and ignoring what doesn’t suit. QED, as expected by your response.
No, I really don’t care. You never fail to amaze me at how clever you think you are, how brilliant and sparkling you think your wit is. If you were half as clever as you fail to convince me you are, maybe you’d realise that this doesn’t really matter.
‘this doesn’t really matter.’
And yet, and yet, whilst being unclear on what ‘this’ is, it seems to matter enough to you to keep coming back despite claiming you’re off, to tell one and all you don’t care.
This topic. This site. This miserable waste of time and effort. This idiotic faux-eloquence you seem so proud of.
‘This miserable waste of time and effort.’
To which you seem so addicted, month in, month out, since about here…http://biasedbbc.tv/2012/06/04/open-thread-396/#comment-31538
That appears to be when you first graced us with one of your presences, flounced off, didn’t, changed names, denied it, got shown up as a porkie-teller, claimed it didn’t matter, sulked and flailed about…
I can only presume it is some kind of nihilistic school project, set by whom and with what intention, heaven knows.
Not much has changed since, and hence unsure you have too much credibility in debate left to expend, should you ever decide to start.
Fauxly yours:)
Were you dead pleased with that? You seem to have put a lot of effort into it, which I applaud. And then the little flourish at the end with the smiley face, ooh, prey tell how I can reach your intellectual level? Those of us here in the gutter, those not looking at the stars, are so envious.
‘…pray tell how I can reach your intellectual level? ‘
Quite easy, really. Certainly nothing like the effort committed by those who think sourcing an obscure online page serves to offset dawn to dusk skewed messaging across broadcast.
First, avoid negative emotions like envy; they are corrosive. Then, focus. What’s the actual aim? Lashing out can seem satisfying but often it can damage not only those around you but end up hurting yourself.
I am responding to you for sure, but there is a wider audience I seek to engage (though all I think have long ‘moved’ on, probably wisely). With the value of calm exchange based as much as possible on fact rather than raw emotion. Hence all I have mainly done is cut and paste URLs or quotes of some your past gems back to you. And using your own words seem more effective than anything. Interestingly, this seems effective with BBC’s CECUTT too.
So really, none of this would have been possible without… you.
For which, many thanks.
As for the ‘us’ (if any feel standing by you in such terms is aspirational) you feel need to share your currently accepted location, the decision is simple: stay there and continue to try and drag others down to that level, or seek ways to climb up and out. The choice is yours.
Of course, choice is not something those on the BBC advocacy side of things seem to comfy with.
Now, as the exchange seems only to be between us, and has spun in one place for long enough, I will take my leave.
I am sure, despite not caring and a dread of wasted time, the lure of the final word will be near irresistible, so the floor, albeit a now deserted one, is yours…
Hey… `Wit`man … Cool story bro….
“So that’s not left wing biased at all then?”
No, you’re right, it’s showing pro British bias, I’m not quite sure why the NZ guy (and the US guy he quotes) seem to think it shouldn’t be. The (no so impartial) impartiality that the BBC claims is for their news gathering.
I’m beginning to lose count….
Let’s see….seven Cameroonians, that’s their entire boxing team, half their swimmers and a female soccer reserve goalkeeper….
Three Sudanese…..
An Ethiopian torch bearer……
A South Sudanese middle distance runner who jogged into a police station in Leeds….
‘……all just part of the Olympic backstory….’ (Gordon Farquhar, BBC)
http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2012/08/13/comment-asylum-in-the-age-of-austerity
‘UK immigration officials have gone so far as to suggest that up to two per cent of athletes, team officials and supporters may seek sanctuary in the UK during and after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.’
Pretty sure that was never mentioned as part of the BBC’s Olympic backstory.
Do all be quiet.
Love you lots
Xxx
What’s not reported was that the “Graffiti” on the post box in Sheffield painted gold for Ennis, was WAIT for it…….
“Go Ennis”
But that doesn’t make a story does it.