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i ve noted the bbc are all over “hamas” press conferences? stopping all the presses, today on 5lives Sheela Foglegity s show to bring it live?, just like Richarse Bacon, reverently bringing it the other day??, AND then fawning over a meeting between hamas and the egyptian muslim brotherhood leader ??? ….
WHAT ARE THEY ON? … just what are they expecting eh?
a miss world bleat on world peace …….
if we wanted to hear intellectually challenged genocidal hate mongers live, we could listen to press tv.
Well a news conference by one of the antagonists in a major conference could be of importance e.g. a cease-fire could be announced.
No doubt the BBC will interrupt their news coverage should the IDF or Israeli Government have a press conference.
And pigs might fly.
well 5live drive has just started … it is relentless …
wall to wall Israel bombardment, Israel strikes, the “poor” Palestinians, unliveable Gaza, Israels at fault, Israel created the problem on and on and on
disgraceful …
whatever next?
steven bedford as impartial advisor?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01ntm2z/
(12 mins 20)
I noticed exactly the same thing, so what else is new?
This is from the Mirror, but BBC related
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jimmy-savile-bbc-staff-cheer-1442634
To be honest, this puts the BBC hacks way up in my estimation.
Clearly, they hold the BBC management and PC culture in as much contempt as many of us…but only when it`s safe for them to do so…or they`re past caring and pissed up.
I carry round the “Rock and Roll Christmas” by Gary Glitter around for just the same purpose-great record, and sick of PC twerps removing the CD at the first strains of this festive fave.
If it pisses off Kevin Maguire, Patten and Harman/Rantzen…a good result.
Those po faces seem to hate mockery..so let`s have plenty more of it!
But who are BBC management, other than elevated BBC hacks (excluding Tim Davie, I guess)? They’re the same breed, just more contemptuous once they get power.
It’s no different than the Enterprise in the Mirror Universe: someone assassinates the captain, and then everyone moves up in rank. Nothing actually changes other than the faces shown to the public. There is no Prime Universe Kirk trying convince Mirror Universe Spock to change things from the inside.
Maybe but context is everything
or so I’m told
I think that all Savile’s victims should demand an apology from the BBC for this disgraceful behaviour. For the Mirror to run this they too must be appalled.
Once again the staff at the BBC are showing how little regard they have for ordinary people. Unless of course they can use the ordinary folk to make a political point.
As long as we keep paying the License Fee they don’t care about us. But hopefully more and more people will begin to see the BBC for what it really is and trust levels will drop to a point where even the Timid Tories feel emboldened to deal with the BBC.
British “Asians” turn to faith based exorcisms instead of modern medicine:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20357997
Rather than calling out this dark-ages superstition for what it is, the BBC makes the following statement:
“UK health and social workers and those in the criminal justice system are increasingly having to understand belief in spiritual possession among ethnic minorities, with new research highlighting a particular issue with some sections of the British Asian community blaming mental health problems on the supernatural”
Muslim is used once in the article (buried midway through the text) but there are numerous references to the ‘Koran’ as the mechanism by which the exorcisms are effected.
As an exercise, consider how the BBC would react to a group of Christians who performed exorcisms today at the cost of peoples’ health; would doctors and social workers be asked to ‘understand’ such circumstances, or would they be prima facie evidence of mental illness?
“BBC executives face grilling by MPs over £450k George Entwistle payoff.
“Commons committee to question BBC managers over payoff for former director general who resigned over Newsnight affair.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/19/bbc-grilling-mps-george-entwistle?
‘Guardian’ seems to miss this about Patten and Coyle (of over a week ago):-
‘Daily Mail’:-
“BBC Trust boss agreed to DG Entwistle’s £450,000 pay-off as she watched STRICTLY COME DANCING (and drank wine… judging by her Tweet)”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2232083/George-Entwistles-450k-pay-signed-Lord-Pattens-deputy-watched-STRICTLY-COME-DANCING.html
(I actually posted this yesterday but feel it needs wider coverage)
While the bBC omits any mention of radical Islam, have a look at this video (32 seconds) of the results of an airstrike where a young girl is found in the wreckage. Note how she isn’t wearing anything on her head then watch as some bloke covers her head so as to not sexually arouse any of the men trying to rescue her.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20386557
That relgious bigotry is the real reason behind this conflict.
Islam that intolerant death cult the BBC promotes as a religion of peace
Insha’allah she was beaten by the paramedics for her despicable behaviour
Rhys Hughes is the Head of Programmes at Radio 1 and Radio 1X and is responsible for the day-to-day editorial lead for both stations. Here’s the image he uses as his avatar on Twitter. Anarchist chic from a senior exec in his 40s. Only at the BBC.
Tweets by RhysHughes
@RhysHughes
‘These are my views, not those of my employers. We are Leeds, we are Leeds, we are Leeds…
In the 279 ‘
No balance in his attitude to sport either?
Oh dear he is trying way to hard with the football. My guess would be upper middle class , public school and maybe a Southerner as well.
He follows lots of anarchists and hardcore lefties on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RhysHughes/following .
He also follows David Cameron, Peter Manion, Claire Perry, Philip Davies, Nadine Dorries and William Hague – so maybe he is really a closet Tory.
I thought someone might try that defence but a quick scan through his Twitter timeline will tell you that it’s bullshit.
Or just following certain politicians he has to for his job, just like all those other Beeboids and music people he follows, while the personal choice stuff is obvious. Anti-monarchy Republic.org doesn’t have much relevance to his job, nor does Donnacha DeLong.
Good grief. Another one for the list. I wonder if it’s worth a complaint? It worked on Jude Machin.
This list of blatantly biased tweets and twitter accounts has now passed 100. The number of individual Beeboids represented is close to 50, from across the spectrum of BBC broadcasting. There are people from News, both domestic and foreign, several radio stations, producers and editors from many departments.
Even without having to prove that the massive personal bias these reveal actually affect BBC journalism and other output, there’s a clear case of groupthink and a serious dearth of intellectual diversity. I’ve been trying to write up a whole thing about this, with all the examples, but don’t see a way to publish anything without being afraid of libel laws.
I’m worried that in current British law, simply republishing biased tweets that were deleted could be grounds for libel. It’s all public statements, put into the public domain, but I bet there is a legal obstacle to publishing the list, along with an explanation of what it represents. McAlpine can sue over tweets, people go to jail for them now, so maybe I’m worrying over nothing.
I can’t afford legal advice, so don’t know how to proceed.
do like the beeboids do
come in under a proxy,change your handle and publish away
No, that won’t help against a legal battle. I just want to know if publishing a list of all these tweets along with the names and job descriptions of the Beeboid doing it is considered libel or otherwise actionable.
A written (hopefully well-written and thought out) indictment of the BBC’s Twitter policy would be considered opinion, so I’m not too worried about that.
but if they can’t trace who you are with your ip address masked by a proxy server,what can they do?
or log in via a VPN-even more secure!!
I’m not interested in dodging the law. And it wouldn’t be too hard to figure out who did it anyways, as there’s plenty of evidence here and plenty of defenders of the indefensible who would be all too wiling to run to the police.
No, this should be legitimate and above board, or it will not be effective.
Legit and fait comment I would have thought. Play ball not man and you’ll be fine.
Except for an explanation of what I think it all proves, I intend it to be all ball, as it were.
David
I don’t have time to prepare the piece. But I would be happy to publish it (assuming I agree with its content and tone) under my own name. Or maybe send it as a letter eg to The Times and other media. DG especially has done sterling work in exposing the appalling self-declared bias among BBC staff, it would be well worth publicising a summary more widely.
As they say – “there is no point in suing a straw man”. They can have a pop at me anytime, I am long since retired, they couldn’t get a brass farthing out of me.
Oh – and I have a little bit of experience in handling legal cases – as a layman. For example, I defended a claim against one of my daughters in an all-day hearing before the President of the Lands Tribunal, the plaintiffs had a QC and another barrister plus their solicitors present. Their claim was thrown out by The President. But they persisted in seeking leave to appeal at the Court of Appeal – and this time they were sharply rebuked by the Appeal Court judge.
And in another case – many years ago I had occasion to sue Sky TV – and I sent a similar writ to Rupert Murdoch as he had been personally involved in the business. His lawyers settled out of court within four days – I should have pressed for a larger settlement but I just wanted the thing dealt with. I had prepared the writ myself as the sum involved was not worth risking large legal fees on. Silly really – the solicitor acting for Murdoch was the estimable Antony Julius, who later screwed £22 million out of the Palace for Diana’s divorce settlement.
So – if you need a straw man willing to fight BBC bias and take any flak, I’d be happy to help out.
Thanks, John, but I don’t see the point of doing anything that would just get bogged down in legal matters. If there’s a legal problem with it, it won’t be effective. I’m more worried about dealing with frivolous stuff which will require real money to deal with.
We surely have here exhibit one : a 100% quintessential modern Beeboid?
Professional northerner?
‘We are Leeds, we are Leeds, we are Leeds…’
Tick
Anti-ITV corporate-loyal cultural snob?
‘Xfactor still seems to be infecting my timeline, hasn’t it died on it’s arse yet?’
‘Sarah Lund is back…. The Killing #bbc4 9pm. Oh yes’
Tick, Tick
Lefty?
‘You can experience a download, you can’t download an experience’ Billy Bragg #radfest12′
‘I know I shouldn’t read them, but most of the comments on the DM online make me so angry. Ignorant, ill informed & crass’
Tick
The Celtic fringe?
‘Always had a soft spot for Celtic’
TicK
English graduate?
‘WTF Leeds, need this friggin takeover to happen so we can buy a goalscorer, when u back @Rossmccormack44 ? We need ya #lufc’
‘The fuckers a nut bag’ #thethickofit’
Anglo-saxon scolar, perhaps?
Casual attitude to drugs?
‘Rudolph Austin is having a party, bring you Rizlas and Bob Marley. The big man scores for Jamaica to beat the USA’
Tick
Anti Coalition?
‘Wow, so I can extend my conservatory without planning permission & that constitutes an economic plan’
‘Danny Boyle has smashed this, big ups sir, great BBC coverage too, stick that where the sun don’t shine Daily Mail #olympicceremony’
Tick
Anti-Tory?
‘utterly fantastic, Danny Boyle smashed it. Shame a Tory MP revealed his true colours, but then again not that surprising… ‘
Tick
Sad over-grown inverted snob?
‘[name of his son] under peer pressure to wear Ralph Lauren to school prom, I want him to stick it to the man & wear his Clash t shirt.’
Tick
BBC career prospects?
‘NHS NHS NHS – hope Thatcher’s watching this ‘
‘Really political. Repping the working man & woman. Great stuff Danny Boyle #openingceremony’
You will go far my son
Don’t forget the one on Nov. 7 where he tweeted his approval of the President’s choice for a victory song at the campaign celebration.
Obama-love.
Tick
So he wants his son to wear a t shirt advertising a thirty odd year old band ! That would be like him going to school in the 70s/80s wearing a WW2 battle dress 🙂
I’m guessing he sees himself as a cool Dad as well.
Reading Hughes’ tweets, especially those around the time of the Olympics, it is simply impossible for someone with such strongly held political opinions, and with such an obvious hatred of the Tories to produce programs that are balanced and fair.
Head of programs and editorial decisions at Radio 1… Probably one of the most influential people on the lives of “the youth” in the country today.
Very fact that he is comfortable revealing his inner thoughts on a public forum, and his employers obviously don’t mind, is a sure sign of the arrogance of the BBC.
jimdeznicked going to grace us with their presence on this one?
I wonder if he is any relation to Stuart of their parish?
He has cropped up in matters twitter, and advocacy before, as well.
http://biasedbbc.tv/2012/04/taxi.html
As I recall, it didn’t end well for him or the BBC, but oddly didn’t make it to that 110% complaint free list they trumpet.
No idea why.
Benghazi update: what we’ve been saying here all along is correct: the White House has been lying about the circumstances of the attack.
White House Changed CIA Talking Points
Hill intel leaders confirm CIA guidance on Benghazi attack deleted terror references.
Senior Republican members of Congress confirmed Sunday that the Obama administration changed CIA guidance to senior officials that had identified the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi as an al Qaeda attack.
This means that whatever Hillary and Rice and any other Democrat mouthpiece was saying about the attack being caused by the video was not only false, but that their falsehoods were coming directly from the White House, not the CIA or intelligence community.
Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said this:
Rhodes insisted that the word “consulate” was changed to “diplomatic facility” to reflect the fact that the compound was not involved in traditional consular activities.
“Other than that, we were guided by the points that were provided by the intelligence community,” he said. “So I can’t speak to any other edits that may have been made.”
Rogers said the talking points were reviewed by a “deputies committee” of senior officials that is “populated by appointees from the administration. That’s where the narrative changed.”
And the Republican vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee which is looking into this said:
“At the hearing we had on Thursday and Friday, we had every leader of the intelligence community there, including folks from the State Department, the FBI, everybody there was asked, do you know who made these changes? And nobody knew,” Chambliss said.
“The only entity that reviewed the talking points that was not there was the White House. I don’t know whether what they said yesterday is exactly right or not. But, what I do know is that every member of the intelligence community says that references to al Qaeda were removed by somebody and they don’t know who. And references to attacks versus demonstrations were removed by somebody.”
Naturally, the Democrat chair, Sen. Feinstein, believes the opposite. She’s convinced that the only change the White House made was the mundane description of the facility. So no help there.
But it’s very obvious now either way: Everyone was lying, knowing they were lying. And the US MSM went right along with it for partisan purposes. The BBC dutifully followed along, because they’re not responsible for doing anything other than following the lead of other media outlets. So what’s the point of them? A news aggregator would leave you more informed.
I wonder how the US election would have fared if the electorate had know about this?
Probably different, which is why the US MSM helped cover it up, and why Candy Crowley lied during the debate to support the President and hurt Romney. Instead we were directed down a garden path filled with concern about why the facility’s security was sub-optimal, and people like St. Jon Stewart and all of MSNBC, CNN, and the Washington Post enabling the White House propaganda.
That’s why the BBC and most US media tried and succeeded in keeping this story off the agenda. Relatively safe now, it’s too late!
“‘Newsnight is in a mess, but I’ll be back this week’: Paxman dismisses rumours he’s leaving BBC show after McAlpine bungle”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235123/Newsnight-Paxman-dismisses-rumours-hes-leaving-BBC-McAlpine-bungle.html
“However, he has refused to confirm whether he would remain there for the long term”
Can’t find way out of contract maybe?
Or can’t find way into equally lucrative one on equally influential show elsewhere.
Probably why he’s been on missing list for a week- Job hunting
Maybe he just wants to stay out of sight in case he mouths off too much and gets into trouble. As far as management are concerned he’s just an interview-monkey, and editorial policy is none of his business.
Paxman said he’s been out “filming”. Another aspect of his contract he’ll find a hard time duplicating elsewhere.
Whichever way you look at it the fearless interviewer did not, himself, stand up to be counted.
The twat is still under a rock somewhere oozing slime.
I note the BBC are giving Milliband a free extended party political broadcast on Radio Four:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/on-air
Rather flatterring ‘statesmanlike’ photograph of him there on the website too, I note.
Question: When do the BBC reverse the sequence of events in a news story?
Answer: When Muslims are involved.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20401136
‘Kenyan soldiers ‘rampage’ after Garissa shooting’
‘Scores of Kenyan troops have gone on the rampage, beating and detaining residents of the eastern town of Garissa, after three soldiers WERE SHOT DEAD BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN.’
[my emphasis]
‘A reporter in Garissa, near the Somali border, has told the BBC that the soldiers ordered people to evacuate a mosque before assaulting them.
The three soldiers were part of the African Union mission in Somalia.
They were killed as they were fixing a puncture on their truck, the army says.’
‘Garissa and nearby parts of Kenya are mainly populated by ethnic Somalis.’
‘Kenya sent troops across the border last year to fight al-Shabab but its forces have since been merged with the AU force in Somalia.’
That report is really garbled, like one of those tv shows where they think doing it all in flashback sequences is clever story-telling. I can’t tell exactly what the sequence of events is.
Were the soldiers telling people to evacuate the mosque because they were looking for the “gunmen”? Were they all “ethnic Somalis”? Are we being discouraged from adding 2 and 2 together here?
‘That report is really garbled,’
S’ok… it’s the BBC. Ask the Flokkers.
Now, if a bloke called Alan were to be involved on a free website run on spare time by volunteers, there may even be a few who agree with them.
Luckily, I still agree with you.
I see that the BBC are worried that they may have offened some Chinese Welsh-speakers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20403439
‘S4C viewers complain farmers’ eisteddfod ‘racist’ and ‘sexist”
‘A number of viewers of the Welsh language channel complained about comedy sketches in the live broadcast from Fishguard on Saturday.’
‘One sketch which attracted complaints showed two members of the eisteddfod impersonating Chinese men.’
“S4C is conducting an investigation into the whole matter. We’ve been in discussion with producers this morning,” said Mr Rhys.’
[Dafydd Rhys, content director at S4C]
So I guess we need have no more worries here that the BBC take complaints seriously.
Did that stop them from broadcasting “Come Fly With Me”?
or “Are You Right There, Father Ted?”
Come Fry With Me” ?
I hope this is not that society of black lawyers again?
FFS we’ll dress up and impersonate anyone we want here in wales.
“Baaah”……..ok dear on my way.
A typical couple of hours on the BBC …both radio and telly “on message”
1. 7.30-8.00(BBC South)…the heart-rending tale of bigots of Brighton shouting out rude things to assorted trans-people.
Transphobic maan!
2. 8.00-8.30(Radio 4)…a free half hour puffpiece on the inner architecture of the mind and times of Eddie Miliband. As if we don`t know what he thinks-God knows, the BBC tell us often enough.
3. Panorama-at the same time…the travails of Mark Duggan and the hooded black community of Tottingham, and the reshowing of Ian Tomlinson getting pushed to the ground…bloody fuzz eh?
Wall to wall leftie tropes to keep the braziers burning, until the Unions and Miliband get their putsch…the only purpose for the BBC as far as it is concerned.
I only with that the BBC would let us vote on who are the biggest victims of white trash prejudices.
1. Transfolk of Brighton
2. Roma/travellers of Essex.
3. Chinese of Coleraine
4. Benefit claimants of Porthcawl
5. Muslims of Norris Gree.
Teens and kids from childrens homes in Muslim areas on Saviles old fun run routes?…nah, not worth watching!
The BBC love to worry on behalf of the rest of us…so we don`t have to, I suppose!
I listened to Radio Bour’s Miliband hagiography – talk about taking one for the team.
‘Thith ith the coun’ry which I with to build’.
Roll that phrase round your mouth.
The utter unthinking self-absorbed narcissism of that statement beggars belief.
Jog on, Ed, before you get sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
Thank you Uncle bup!
When I heard his name in the same sentence as Margaret Thatcher…as if he might be in 1979 mode , come the Glorious Day, I nearly threw up, and begged for Billy Braggs interview to be replayed…where wereYOU when you heard the “Chip Shop of dialectical Oppression”?LP of 1987?
Now then sir…can I count you in for next Tuesday-10am-1pm? Radio 4?
Yes-a three hour paean to Beveridges Report…Welfare, Poverty, Bevan…blahdiblah?
THREE HOURS Uncle?
It links both Womans Hour AND You and Yours?…oh, the dream is realised of seamless, unpredictable and surprising radio!
How many for the team does that count as, my friend?…and no excuses about choosing to go to Gaza that day(which would be more use I guess!).
There`ll be a Jim`ll Fix It badge in it for you, should you choose to accept this mission! God Speed sir!
BBC-NUJ’s continuing campaign for ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
BBC-NUJ’s Ms Kirby acts as NGO for illegal immigrants in Calais.
Indigenous people of Britain and France are invisible in her totally biased reporting.
“Calais after Sangatte: The migrants ‘worth less than cattle'”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20356446
This latest biased article comes despite the BBC’s own investigation into BBC’s political bias on issues such as immigration!:
“BBC’s ‘liberal bias’ to face independent investigation”
http://www.christian.org.uk/news/bbcs-liberal-bias-to-face-independent-investigation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+christianinstitute+%28The+Christian+Institute%29
No BBC programmes at Christmas?
BBC-NUJ strike for apartheid Asian Network.
“BBC faces Christmas strike.
“The National Union of Journalists is urging all members at the BBC to back industrial action in response to redundancies at the Asian Network.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9687079/BBC-faces-Christmas-strike.html
BBC = bias + incompetence + compulsory fee + strikes.
I wish they would all go on strike – permenantly
Radio 4 10’Oclock news is having a discussion on how British media can achieve balance in reporting on the current conflict. Only the Beeb would pick Mehdi Hassan and a Guardian journalist to discuss the problem between them. Jonathan Friedland points out, in the face of Mehdi’s claims that the British media is biased against the Gazans, that it’s not true of the Guardian, Independent and the BBC. Mehdi agrees with him about the Grauniad and Indie but says not enough people read them. For a Guardian journalist, Friedland makes relatively sane and balanced points against a Mehdi whose delivery comes close to being a rant (no doubt he finds it offensive when the cattle shoot back).
‘Only the Beeb would pick Mehdi Hassan and a Guardian journalist to discuss the problem between them.
Prid pro quo?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/bbc-newsnight-jimmy-savile-rupert-murdoch-david-cameron_b_2130903.html
‘By their friends shall the know them’
tomorrow a 3 way split – abdul bari – mehdi hasan and jenny tonge, oh! with shirley williams on skype from the “home” as 10pm …
hmm she d only just got “settled down”, for some balance.
So the world’s greatest orator and the cool, smartest man in the room goes to
BurmaMyanmar to establish ties with yet another non-democratic country, and to meet a fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate. So what does He do?Only mispronounces her name – several times – and then makes the diplomatic faux pas of wrongly addressing His host, Myanmar’s President.
As Obama stood next to the world’s most recognized democracy icon, he mispronounced her name repeatedly.
Ever gracious, Suu Kyi did not correct her American guest for calling her Aung YAN Suu Kyi multiple times during his statement to reporters after their meeting.
Proper pronunciation for the Nobel laureate’s name is Ahng Sahn Soo Chee.
And…
The meeting came after Obama met with Myanmar’s reformist new President Thein Sein – a name he also botched.
As the two addressed the media, Obama called his counterpart “President Sein,” an awkward, slightly affectionate reference that would make most Burmese cringe.
Note to presidential advisers: For future rounds of diplomacy, the president of Myanmar is President Thein Sein – on first and second reference.
The BBC, naturally, edited that bit out of the video clip they allow you to see. There’s no mention of either slip in any of the BBC online articles as of this writing, nor has a single Beeboid made the kind of snarky tweet they’re ready to let loose at a moment’s notice when it’s a Republican, particularly Sarah Palin, or more recently, Mitt Romney.
The President has made yet another amateurish blunder, and the Beeboids yet again remain silent. Yet when Sarah Palin merely tweets a garbled world, they can’t wait to laugh at her publicly on Twitter, blog about it, or do a full World Service segment about it. Never mind the endless Beeboid guffawing at Bushisms.
Since Nile Gardiner has now criticized the President for it, I expect Mark Mardell now thinks he’s a crypto-racist.
BBC, you are truly pathetic if you can’t even report the slightest error made by your beloved Obamessiah.
Disgraceful the bbc didn’t report this. the scales have fallen from my eyes. bold decision to visit Burma to promote the nascent democratic movement. But Yan instead of Sahn: unforgivable. .
Jim,
President Barack Obama called Burma what the government and many other people have been calling it for years: Myanmar. That single word was noted and warmly welcomed by top government officials here, who immediately imbued it with significance.
Which is ironic as Burma, the favoured appellation of dissidents and pro-democracy activists who opposed the former military junta’s move to summarily change its name 23 years ago was supposed to be the only variant that President Obama had agreed to use.
Myanmar presidential adviser Ko Ko Hlaing called the wording “very positive” and said it was an “acknowledgement of Myanmar’s government,”
Don’t care about the name of the pathetic little country. I’m talking about two glaring public gaffes – the name of a fellow Nobel Peace laureate and the most famous human rights/democracy campaigner around these days, plus the diplomatic faux pas about how to address that country’s President – which the BBC decided to censor, and which not a single Beeboid has made fun of on Twitter. This is in stark contrast to how they react to even the slightest minor slip by Sarah Palin or Mitt Romney or George Bush or anyone not of the Left. All Sarah Palin has to do is tweet something, and the Beeboids can’t wait to rush to judgment and publicly express their sneers. Mitt Romney makes an obvious joke on the campaign trail, and the Beeboids rush to make fun and act as if it was all in deadly earnest. I could go on, but only dishonest defenders of the indefensible need to have this rubbed in their faces, and they’re hiding from it or just lying about the point.
It’s all part of the ongoing favorable treatment the Beeboids have given The Obamessiah. It’s all due to both their ideological bias and a bit of racialist thinking. Their double standards and lack of integrity couldn’t be more obvious.
At risk of leaping to DavidP’s defence and presenting a dilemma to all, I seem to recall the Flokking fraternity being big on on topic, and on point.
You are being neither.
Why is this now acceptable?
And yet, Jim Dandy, “Barack Obama blunders again on the world stage” is currently today’s most-read item on the Telegraph.
And it wasn’t just Obama’s gaffes – Hillary nodded off during his Burma speech. Such a sequence of events would have been treated as manna from heaven by BBC journos if the protagonists had been Republican. What larks they would have had mocking the stupid GOP president and his stupid Sec of State. But it was Obama and Hillary C, therefore no coverage, no mention, no mockery.
Don’t waste my time, Jim. You know exactly what I mean, so please stop playing games and blatantly misrepresenting my comment to suit your own agenda.
INBBC enthuse again about repressive Islamic Mughal Empire in India.
In political synchronisation with Michael Wood’s false propaganda of his repeated ‘Story of India’ BBC 2 TV series, episode 5 last Sunday, we now have more false propaganda for the Islamic Mughal Empire from INBBC’s Tom Donkin and from British Library, praising some fantasy of early ‘multiculturalism’ of Muslim emperor Akbar.
“Art and religion in Mughal India”
(inc 2 min uncritical, propagandist video)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20405482
The reality, which is censored:-
“Mughal emporer Akbar ordered the massacre of about 30,000 captured Rajput Hindus on February 24, 1568 A.D., after the battle for Chitod, a number confimed by Abul Fazl, Akbar’s court historian.”
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/125650
The politically fawning propaganda for the Islamic Mughal Empire contrasts with the typically negative treatment given by INBBC to achievements of British Empire in India.
“The Legacy of Islamic Jihad in India”
by Andrew Bostom.
http://www.islam-watch.org/Bostom/Legacy-of-Islamic-Jihad-terrorism-in-India.htm
The BBC’s pathological attitude to Islam is that of a lunatic shaking a dead geranium. Despite a plethora of facts to the contrary, no effort will be spared to imbue a deadly, deadening, regressive, totalitarian parasite with the virtues of an all-healing wonder drug. Any criticism of chest-beating Islaaaarm! & up pops the BBC airbag to obscure the debate. In reality, the upper-hive beeboids are voyeurs, like most of the trendy left: shilling from a safe distance. But Faustian pacts have irrevocable consequences. More realistic people, those living where beeboids fear to tread, are tuned to a different wavelength. We have far more in common with Ayaan Hirsi Ali than Sarah Montague.
This site’s just gone past 13 million hits, having had a million since October 17th. That’s an average of 30,000 a day. Just shows how insignificant this site is, I suppose. Just a bunch of embittered old fruitcakes.
Meant to say – thanks to the team who keep this site going. Most of all to A-SE, who seems to have got the technology working nicely, thank goodness.
California is going bankrupt. Several cities there such as Stockton and I believe Bakersfield have already declared bankruptcy – to get out from under the debt burden of paying exorbitant public sector salaries and pensions. The state itself is going under and now has the highest level of poverty in the US
What was the economic magnet for the dustbowl farmers of the mid-West in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath is in virtual economic collapse. My first visit to Cali was over 30 years ago, during the Winter of Discontent – I recall being bowled over by the sheer wealth and sense of well-being there – relative to Callaghan’s Britain.
Has anyone heard anything on the BBC about the mess California has been plunged into by decades of stupid government coupled with excessive immigration from Mexico ? I can’t remember a single reference. What was the “seventh biggest economy in the world” is going down the tubes – and Mardell and all the other Obama cheer-leaders ignore it ?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/11/california-home-of-the-destitute.php
BenghaziGate – Obama and his team have lied at every turn for weeks on end, and they will carry on lying for as long as they can get away with it. Here is a long list of the lies that have been spun to the American people – failure to recognise the threats to the consulate, failure to provide adequate security, failure to send help over the 7 hours when Americans were under terrorist attack, and then blaming it all on a video rather than seething terrorist hatred of the West.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/11/what-obama-would-like-us-to-believe-about-benghazigate.php
BBC-NUJ: strike for apartheid Asian Network.
“BBC could ‘go dark over Christmas’ as journalists balloted on strike action”
By John Glenday.
Read more at http://www.thedrum.com/news/2012/11/20/bbc-could-go-dark-over-christmas-journalists-balloted-strike-action#ZFfiOw5KRvIlk7HS.99
Of course, ex-BBC D.G. Mark Thompson announced that the apartheid Asian network was to close, but he did a ‘U-turn’ in March, 2011:
“BBC U-turn over Asian Network closure”
By John Plunkett.
[Note costs of Asian Network.]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/14/bbc-asian-network
A reprise:-
“Even sacking everyone involved can’t fix the institutional bias and incompetence at the BBC”
By Graeme Archer.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/graemearcher/100189072/?
INBBC extends its activities in the provision of Islamic-compliant programmes for children, in co-operation with its Islamic chums at Al Jazeera.
“BBC cuts huge kids programming deal with Al Jazeera”
by Stewart Clarke.
http://tbivision.com/news/2012/11/bbc-cuts-huge-kids-programming-deal-with-al-jazeera/19760/?
In BBC-NUJ’s publicity about:
“MPs’ expenses: Row over ‘secret landlords'”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20407037
– there is no reference to this Labour MP-
“Labour MP Margaret Hodge challenged over family firm’s tax”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9689134/Labour-MP-Margaret-Hodge-challenged-over-family-firms-tax.html
bbc 5live – new strains of e coli – mrsa in hospitals … now found to be being brought in through different … “communities”? outside …
bit vague eh! … it is the bbc … one wonders where from ?
visitors from the NHS world service, eh!, minimum wage agency workers/cleaners from god knows where, our merry travellers syphoning to and from india?, the pak?, our al bbc favourite “asians” – somalia? afghan?
why so vague?
Ah, the rise in TB all over again.
Too many wealthy tax dodgers slumming in it Dhaka and bringing it back on those defence contracts, so I understand.
Barack Obama blunders again on the world stage – http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100190254/barack-obama-blunders-again-on-the-world-stage/
Funny how the BBC overlooked this story…
Jeff
‘The Commentator’ on some recent BBC-bias:
http://www.thecommentator.com/articles/tag/bbc_bias/11345
Unbelievable.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20388298
It all started when Israel hit back. BBC reporting in a nutshell.
Dark hints on Guido’s about a business scandal with BBC connections arising from this story from Peston:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20413318
Aahh good old newsround run this story
http://www.tntmagazine.com/news/world/pakistan-blasphemy-case-controversial-koran-burning-case-against-disabled-christian-girl-dropped
Whats that the reporter said ? They family were hiding because a “small number” of people threatened to hurt them. A “small” number, yeah right!
What’s that coming over the hill is it a lynch mob?
We`ll not be hearing too much about this one from the BBC will we now?
It’s little wonder the BBC has never felt compelled to address the anti-GOP bias of its US coverage when even the guy who presented Newswatch for 8 years tweeted shit like this after Romney lost:
So apparently we superior clever Europeans all knew instinctively that Obama was the right choice. Oh, thank you Mr Snoddy for imparting your wisdom from on high.
Nice catch, DB. Another one for the list. Unbelievable bias from the only Beeboid tasked with pretending to look for it.
DB
I knew Ray Snoddy in the mid-eighties. He was the FT media correspondent. At the time I was dealing with several other FT journalists , and with people like Andrew Neil at the Sunday Times- but they were straight arrows, unlike Snoddy.
Snoddy was focussed at the time on the beginnings of planning and licensing for satellite TV. You would expect an FT journalist to get things right. For 2 years he was wrong on every call – he was asslicking everything the Home Office, the BBC or the ITV companies were feeding him.
“FT – No Comment” used to be the watchword. ie – trust the FT – we have news only on most of our pages, no commentary except on the “Comments” page.
In my dealings with Snoddy I found him untrustworthy – and utterly biased.
The horse he backed – the BSB consortium – lost about £200 million. The horse he always wrote against – Murdoch and Sky – now rules the satellite TV scene in Britain, the US and many other parts of the world. Sky is a multi-billion firm, one of the largest in Britain. DirecTV in the US also rules the scene – based on Murdoch’s UK business model.
We told Snoddy time and time again why Murdoch had the right technical and business ideas – and why the other lot were pig-ignorant about how to enter the huge new market. He preferred to suck at other teats.
Nuff said ?
And he is our “REFEREE” on complaints about the BBC ?
Gawd help us. Snoddy was a prat when I knew him in the mid-1980s – and apparently he is still a prat.
http://www.heart.co.uk/thamesvalley/news/local/high-wycombe-child-exploitation-arrests/
Auntie doesn’t seem to have picked this one up.
Now than, I wonder just why not?
Link Dez please?
Better get in before Dez does. It’s on their Beds, Herts and Bucks page,
flagged as 14 hours ago. The police have released no names or anything that give any idea of the offenders’ backgrounds.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20405716
The Daily Mail says, pointedly, “The ethnicity of the victim or her abusers has not been revealed.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235658/Sex-abuse-gang-suspects-held-dawn-raids-High-Wycombe-girl-tells-police-attacked-years-age-12.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
So they are obviously Innuits ? Or Maori maybe ?
I am wrong. The Mail story talks about “Asians”.
This will be another despicable play-down, stick on obscure webpage. “keep walking along, there is nothing to see here” story.
But round the whole UK – anyone who heard about this latest example of “Asian” sex abuse of a kid from 12-years onwards will have a clear likelihood which “Asian” people they are.
…………….
Please call me back if they are Buddhists from Tibet.
Somalia and British Islamic jihadists: censored by INBBC.
‘Telegraph’:
“Briton stars in Somali terror videos.
“Terrorists in Somalia have produced a series of full-length documentaries featuring a masked narrator with a British accent as part of a publicity drive designed to attract Western recruits.”
By Duncan Gardham.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/9676341/Briton-stars-in-Somali-terror-videos.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/14/bbc-guardian-most-popular-newspaper ……. the comments section is laughable, especially lonelysoul72
14 August 2012 6:30PM
I just wanted to mention that this article is highly unusual at the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20415886
The contrast is unspeakable to the usual crowd of ‘human rights’ warriors, anti-Semites and far Left wing ‘experts’.
Maybe the BBC gives up the infantile reportage at last?
‘Thousands’ of children sexually exploited by gangs’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20409229
The report does mention ‘Asian’ and in reality this isn’t a bias issue but I do think the following should be at the top and highlighted (it is in the very last section: ‘wake up call)
Killer quote should be first paragraph:
“Sex offenders come from all backgrounds but if there is a problem with one community in a particular areas we must be bold enough to address it and not just turn a blind eye.”
Amusingly that ‘wake-up call quote is: The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, described the report as a “wake-up call to government”…Coalition failing again? Jeez.
in fact, n. campbell on the bbc 5live, your call is “shocked” by the news today
as enough to fill at least 20 secondary schools, is the latest victim count, many many 1000s, of victims a problem across many northern towns/cities?, these organised child raping gangs?
but as he states, there are so many things to consider?, so many “factors” …. is wider society to blame” ?? are we allowing our children to be “sexuallised” in “OUR society” too early ???
why are children like this being “sexuallised” is it they have access the internet perhaps? …… just what are the “root causes”?,
what are “WE” letting them see?
are “WE” letting them wear?
….. wait a minute … what is this CRAP!
….. and on and on and on and on he drones ….
“child exploitation happens everywhere you see”
wheels out useless politically correct ann cryer, no change still the same narrative ……
as the perfect example of themost despicable bias imaginable …
straight after that programme,
the news bulletin, again runs the story
and quotes a yorkshire IMAM! , on 3 girls under 13yrs old who were gang raped, the problem …..
you guessed it …. pornography
Today was surprisingly candid this morning: in the newspaper review at 7.45, Humphries quoted Alibhai Brown’s article in the Mail saying there was a specific problem with Muslim men in northern towns and the Times was quoted to the effect that we should not ignore the fact that there seemed to be a disproportionate number of Pakistani men involved, just because it was an unpleasant thing to contemplate.
When he interviewed Berelowitz about her report, at about 8.20, Humphries actually asked her why she had left out any discussion of Pakistani men’s ‘overwhelming’ involvement. When she said that was just one model of abuse he went on the attack and said that if they were responsible for one third of the cases she discussed and they were only 2% of the population then it was a hugely disproportionate number. Even Berelowitz admitted it was a case of their targeting white girls.
My suspicion is that this surprising openness on the subject comes from some Beeboids being worried about getting a reputation for protecting paedophiles.
Hopefully but on the hourly news bulletins on Radio 2 (I was in a car all morning so was able to listen to more than usual) this ‘various model’ pap was emphasised and that ‘30% of all the abusers were white’. Perhaps this could be a ‘white lie’ because it totally misrepresenting the real point that 70% is in fact coming from ‘non white’ which make up less than 15% of the population….and even worse…probably 60% of the total coming from that certain religious minority making up less than 5% of the population.
apparently the deliberate obfuscation, and widening of the figures to aid obviously political correctness has called this whole report into question …
BUT …. in the facts of conviction, after conviction, the now proven pattern and of course forthcoming cases … there is no doubt, over 60% of the cases, (a percentage that is set to dramatically increase) from barely 5% of the population! …. protecting, obfuscating over this is deplorable, to run an hour long phone in!, on a supposed news station!! with, ahem “experts”!!! on the same day as the report!!!! …. and no mention, that is a shameful indictment
of why the bbc has to go, to then attempt to apportion blame elsewhere
is unforgivable
Perhaps if the BBC hadn’t been so coy about the “problem with one community”, especially considering the BBC’s regional influence, the wake-up call might have happened a lot sooner.
With great power comes great responsibility, but the BBC sure does pick and choose how to wield it.
I’m getting impatient for this….
12th October BBC DG George Entwistle announced an inquiry into the dropping of the Newsnight Savile report.
23rd October he promised MPs
“Entwistle said he expected the Pollard review to take four to six weeks to reach a conclusion.”
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-10-23/george-entwistle-slammed-by-mps-for-lack-of-curiosity-over-jimmy-savile-newsnight-report
Time scale slipping I wonder? Waiting for a good day to bury bad news?
Perhaps they’re waiting to decide their Christmas schedule first?
http://order-order.com/2012/11/21/bbc-journalist-calls-for-chavs-to-be-euthanised/
Tricky one?
Better or worse than calling all supporters or members of a political party the BBC and staff are totally objective about… vermin?
http://order-order.com/2012/11/13/bbc-editor-tories-are-lower-than-vermin/
Alun Cairns, Conservative MP for Vale of Glamorgan, made an important speech (12:40) in the second reading in Parliament (Ten Minute Rule Bill) of his BBC Bill (Audit Arrangements and Publication of Invoices, etc.) that the BBC should work with the National Audit Office and the BBC should publish a register of interests, etc (over £500).
I wonder if it will be reported?
http://order-order.com/2012/11/21/bbc-transparency-briefing-in-full/
Apologies if already posted but hot off the press:
“Over the last 10 years, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has spent at least £18,580,040 in legal costs…”
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2102/spiralling_bbc_legal_fees_leave_licence_fee_payers_out_of_pocket
But only a small percentage of it on payments to victims of shoddy, biased reporting? It’s hard to tell, but if it was a big percentage, the Commentator would have said.
The BBC got off shockingly lightly over McAlpine. 185K is a pittance for what they did to him. Elton John got far more money for having the actual truth about him published, didn’t he? But if the bulk of it is on employee tribunal stuff for things like getting rid of older women and the kind of in-house legal team required by a behemoth organization of that size, it’s not much of a cause for outrage.
Unless, maybe most of those settlements to disgruntled employees were to people fired for no good reason other than holding unapproved thoughts.
Rachel Shabi again on News 24. Once again allowed to say without challenge that Gaza occupied and also to peddle the myth that NO construction material allowed into Gaza.
The best of was her assertion that the only reason that rockets available in Gaza is due to the tunnels which only exist because of the siege. If the tunnels didn’t exist, the rockets wouldn’t be there.