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  1. Jim Dandy says:
    November 14, 2012 at 7:03 am

    Those lefties at the BBC have just wished prince Charles happy birthday and played the national anthem.

    Establishment flunkies.

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  2. Guest Who says:
    November 14, 2012 at 7:03 am

    http://melaniephillips.com/the-real-bbc-scandal
    Well, it’s in Mail territory at last.
    I was wondering, who was DG at the time?
    Has he, or his new colleagues anything to say on the matter?
    Not sure ‘I was there but unaware’ will continue to cut it…will it?

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  3. Jim Dandy says:
    November 14, 2012 at 7:05 am

    The left wing Today programme has just wished prince Charles happy birthday and played the national anthem.

    What’s that about?

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    • Bunny Fuchs says:
      November 14, 2012 at 2:05 pm

      Well, given HRH’s enthusiasm for man made global warming and other eco-cock, I’m sure that they absolutely love him.

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  4. Colonel Blimp says:
    November 14, 2012 at 10:03 am

    This is a subtle and insidious example of biased reporting

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16290598

    “What caused the Eurozone crisis?”

    No mention at all that
    a) the Eurozone isn’t an Optimal Currency Area and is in fact about as far from being one as it’s possible to construct, thus ensuring that this essentially political project was doomed from its inception
    b) government policy rather than borrowing is to blame; there’s a passing mention that access to low Germanic interest rates fuelled a massive debt boom in Southern Europe but a curious sheepishness in admitting that this is due to being in the Euro at all for its newer members
    c) that a third possible solution exists as well as the two listed at the bottom – Greece (and possibly Spain, Italy and Portugal) exits the Euro, devalues and issues its own currency again

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  6. Cosmo says:
    November 14, 2012 at 12:58 pm

    Just watched a consumer prog’ on BBC 1. A watered down version of their Watchdog prog’. It had 100% female presenters of which 66% were ethnic.
    I have no probs’ there, untill Harperson harps on about us males, and now featherbrain Featherstone is really laying into males in a very nasty way.
    FFS when is someone going to stand up for us males and tell it like it is.

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  7. Guest Who says:
    November 14, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2051/bbc_bias_in_the_run_up_to_police_and_crime_commissioner_elections_
    Whatever deal Mr. Cameron thought he might squeeze out of Savile/McAlpine/28Gate, I think he may need a refund.

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  8. George R says:
    November 14, 2012 at 4:22 pm

    INBBC’s ‘militant’ HAMAS: the killing of Islamic jihadist, Jabari.

    This is ‘The Independent’s opening of report:-

    “After days of blood-curdling threats that seemed to have ended a massive Palestinian rocket barrage that confined over a million Israelis to their homes for more than three days, Israel has struck at the very heart of the shadowy Hamas armed wing with the pinpoint assassination of the group’s supreme military commander, Ahmed Al-Jabari, in a targeted air strike in the middle of Gaza City.

    “Al-Jabari, who was last seen in public just over a year ago escorting kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to freedom, was driving with his bodyguard in a grey Kia family saloon along Omar Al-Mukhtar past the Gaza Public Service Hospital in east-central Gaza City when the vehicle was torn apart by Israeli missiles. Both men appear to have died instantly.”

    Instead, INBBC and Donnison, appear to get their political line from ‘militant’ Hamas:

    “Israeli air strike kills Hamas military chief Jabari”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20328579

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  9. #88 says:
    November 14, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    While Cameroon plays by the rules Miliband shows a flagrant disregard for election law, unchallenged by the BBC.
    Courtesy, ‘The Commentator’:
    http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2051/bbc_bias_in_the_run_up_to_police_and_crime_commissioner_elections

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    • #88 says:
      November 14, 2012 at 5:21 pm

      Sorry GW, didn’t spot your post

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      • Guest Who says:
        November 14, 2012 at 5:26 pm

        🙂
        Some things can only gain in repetition.
        Vide BBC SOP.
        though we seem more to err on facts backed by URLs.

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    • Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling says:
      November 14, 2012 at 5:36 pm

      They’re so blatant: A BBC spokesperson told The Commentator: “In accordance with these guidelines, BBC WM have given all candidates fair and consistent coverage. All seven candidates have taken part in all aspects of their election coverage …
      Apart, that is, from giving ten minutes to one union leader (Ed Miliband) to plug his candidate.

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  10. Pounce says:
    November 14, 2012 at 6:49 pm

    I see the bBC is in full blackarm band mode over the death of Abu Bowens favorite terrorist.
    Listen to the live feed (Over the death of a f-ing terrorist?) The jews are guilty. they have slapped Eygpts muslim brotherhood in the face, why now?. The Pals are being brutally suppressed , President Obama isn’t happy with Israel. Don’t forget Op CAstlead where Lets not forget 1500 pals were mkileld as opposed to 13 jews”

    In fact the live feed is just a diatribe about how evil Jews are. Lets not
    The bBC, the traitors in our midst, who are really shocked over the death of a terrorist.

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    • Pounce says:
      November 14, 2012 at 6:50 pm

      And now they have a white woman wearing a hijab reporting the news. I fucking give up., The bBC really have gone over to the otherside.

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      • Pounce says:
        November 14, 2012 at 6:57 pm

        And on the rolling feed as pictures show the crowds of Gazians swarming the burning wreckage of the bBCs former director of their foreign policy.

        The split arse in the bBC office comes out with:
        “This looks like war”

        160 missiles and 1 anti-tank missile and the bBC keeps quiet. Take out a fucking terrorist and the bBC claims the jews are ramping up the anti.

        Now the bBC split arse is questioning an Israeli Col over how they are targeting innocent people.

        And the icing on the Cake.
        Abu Bowen who is talking out of his arse as bloody usual.

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  11. deegee says:
    November 14, 2012 at 9:50 pm

    Could the BBC have found a more untrustworthy, shifty-eyed picture of Netanyahu than the one they used under the heading of ‘Israel kills Hamas military chief’ on the news home page.

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  12. chrisH says:
    November 14, 2012 at 10:03 pm

    Oh dear.
    Israel has targetted a Hamas bloke who`d behead you for fun , before driving all Jews back to Belsen.
    Oh dear…disproportionate was it?
    You see _Hamas are a lovely bunch of blokes, who will “not be happy…even disappointed” at what the Israelis just did to the enemys terrorist-in-chief.
    Hamas are now cross…as if those cartoons, those Youtube clips and Bin Laden not being sent to Ford Open Prison…didn`t provoke those peace loving chappies enough.
    Hamas are angry are they?….well tell me a day when they`re not .
    Glad that Israel has given them something to be angry about…but that will never do for the BBC.

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  13. George R says:
    November 14, 2012 at 10:04 pm

    INBBC: Gosling, Gaza, Jihad Hamas, and Israel.

    -Hardly worth mentioning-

    Ms GOSLING (BBC News Channel) ) finds it’s impossible to even disguise her anti-Israel political bias.

    In interviewing Israel Ambassador she was hard-voiced, interrupting and prone to cynical laughter.

    In interviewing Palestinian Ambassador she was soft-voiced, non-interrupting , with no cynical laughter.

    Just for the predictable record.

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    • chrisH says:
      November 14, 2012 at 10:13 pm

      I`m wondering whether I should adopt a Hamas or a Hezbollah vulnerable young person this Christmas.
      No doubt there`ll be the radio 4 Appeal from Jon Snow or Sandi Toksvig to let me know which of these passionate exciting brands of Islamic japes is a la mode this coming season.

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  14. jonsuk says:
    November 14, 2012 at 10:05 pm

    Newsnight looks like it’s going to be a jolly good laugh tonight

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  15. Reed says:
    November 15, 2012 at 12:52 am

    Have a read of this for a fond portrayal of anti-capitalist, anti-development sentimentality…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20243493

    Poverty is so noble and empowering when it’s in other countries.

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  16. Reed says:
    November 15, 2012 at 1:11 am

    More arrogance from the BBC, who now seem to be defining the criteria for the success and legitimacy of the police commissioner elections. They declare that turnout will decide whether or not they’re worthwhile, not whether they cut crime locally in years to come….

    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2012/11/who-are-the-bbc-to-question-the-legitimacy-of-police-crime-commissioners/

    I guess they weren’t a Labour policy, so they’re setting up their dismissals of the legitimacy of these appointments before the elections have even been held, as turnout is already predicted to be low. I bet if some of the key Labour candidates succeed in their bids the BBC will start to be very selective in their dismissiveness.

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  17. Jim Dandy says:
    November 15, 2012 at 8:56 am

    Anyone see Newsnight’s coverage of the Gaza strikes? Analysis from Tim Whewell was pretty matter of fact and unlike Bowen was clear about the provocation of the Hamas rocket attacks. They then interviewed an Israeli minister who gave a good account of himself.

    Now my personal view is of guarded support for the assassination but this piece could have benefited froma voice antipathetic to israel’s actions. Media lens will be going nuts.

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  18. Guest Who says:
    November 15, 2012 at 9:10 am

    Andrew Neil ‏@afneil
    I trust all of you who sent me tweets with vile links about McAlpine are quaking in your boots this morning as his lawyers come after you
    One wonders which ‘you’ he might mean?
    And one presumes intranet emails don’t count… yet… unless one of those funny ‘leaks’ crops up, this time from within the BBC as opposed to via it, that allow us to assess the equine adventures of the UK Prime Minister.
    In the words of certain earthy types of whom the chattering classes are usually so enamoured: ‘shame if your… unfortunate… knee jerk round the office became public, George’

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  19. jimbola says:
    November 15, 2012 at 9:50 am

    The Beeb is winding me up this week by talking itsself up incessantly. Banging on about how loved and trusted they are, smug faces all round.

    It’s like some kind of institutional masturbation.

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    • Guest Who says:
      November 15, 2012 at 10:05 am

      A sticky mess usually hidden for others to find and clear up to serve a quick moment of purely personal satisfaction.
      Sounds about right.
      Only they seem to have taken it to a new, more debased level.
      The British Bukkake Corporation?
      Maybe the licence fee demand should be printed on ‘Juan Sheet’s’ most absorbent stock in future?

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    • As I See It says:
      November 15, 2012 at 10:07 am

      It is always BBC policy to:
      bash the bishops
      punish the white man
      puff up the Unions
      vigorously back up the Arabs
      tickle the Jocks
      and generally twang on the same old one-sided mass debates.

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  20. Guest Who says:
    November 15, 2012 at 9:51 am

    BBC Yoda has trained her Padawans well..
    ITV ‘Punish’ Schofield for PM Blunder
    http://order-order.com/2012/11/15/itv-punish-schofield-for-pm-blunder/
    ‘Quotes’ mine. Seems appropriate.
    It also seems ‘Disciplinary action’ is the new ‘slap on the wrist’.
    Lessons are still being learned.

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    • As I See It says:
      November 15, 2012 at 9:59 am

      ITV have done well to settle this so quickly.

      BBC Ken MacQuarrie report 12.11.2012: ‘We will now embark on a disciplinary process where appropriate. Clearly we will not discuss the details of these individual cases.’

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