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BBC 1 News at 10 tells us that PM David Cameron’s plan for a Royal Commission for the press is rather like the way the BBC is regualted.
Oh really?
Perhaps the BBC will now point this out whenever we hear Hacked Off, Guardian, Labour and LebDem voices moaning on about legislation to control the press?
The Sun’s front page today is a picture of Winston Churchill and his quote “A free press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny. Where men have the habit of liberty, the Press will continue to be the vigilant guardian of the rights of the ordinary citizen.”
In the bBBC newspaper review at 0610 today, Evan Davis/ Justin Webb (I wasn’t awake enough to remember which one) said “The Sun has a picture of Churchill and a long quote which is too long to read out.”
Dumbed-down bBBC.
…too inconvenient to read out.
TV licencing on breakfast to tell people when they need a licence.
Still waiting for the Liverpool investigation team to “call” at the address we are looking after THAT DOESN’T HAVE A TV we are now back to just getting the normal hassle letters
Stand by for a series of tv ads about the impending doom of a tv detector van.
Have to declare an interest here, the Welsh connection.
Inbbc breakfast, at around 8 35am, Sally Nugent’s sports report. At the end she announced there has been complaints because she didn’t say anything about Wales victory in the rugby union 6 nations. Well, said she, we did mention it at 6 30 this morning and had a lot of it on yesterday.
So that’s all right then Sally!
Didn’t she mention (again) that a half-black British expat came fifth in the first Grand Prix of the season? That seems to have been the main bBBC sports news for the last 24 hours.
Nicky Campbell, his BBC editors and their little gaggle of phone-in lefties…. oh and guest star Alastair Campbell (New Labour spin meister – I will expalin who he is/was since the BBC don’t bother) have all been rather wrong-footed by the sudden cross-party agreement to give a two-fingered salute to his Right-On-Honour, Brian Leveson.
You can tell that this morning’s show is not the one the BBC intended. Campbell ( I mean Gameshow Nicky not Blairite Alastair of that ilk) talks of the ‘horrid press intrusion’ and ‘corruption in the Police’.
They used to say history was written by the winners….
The BBC: History written by the whingers.
Campbell exemplifies two socialist traits; hypocrisy and the need for control.
It’s around ten years since Campbell and his master Bliar took us to an illegal war. Campbell, now so critical of News International, was happy to use the Sun to plant his manipulative ’45 Minutes to Doom’ story about Iraqi WMD.
And of course Labour was not only happy to suck up to NI, it was happy to turn a blind eye to press wrongdoing. Remember! All of this happened on Labour’s watch. Gordon Brown saw the Motorman report that proved huge abuse by all newspapers (not just NI, as Campbell said) in fact Mirror Group were the main culprits. Why did Brown brush Motorman under the carpet? Gameshow should have asked Campbell and challenge his hypocrisy, but there was no chance that he would is there?
And Gameshow gave Campbell almost 25 minutes of unfettered access to a programme that was supposed to take a public view, but even that was not enough for Campbell. Unimpeded by Gameshow, he continually interrupted the opposing view of Neil Wallace – these lefties, with the support of the BBC really do have to control the message.
Alastair Campbell comes over laud and clear and has plenty of time whilst the opposite view is on a dodgy line – now how often does that happen?
I thought that the new 30-part series Noise: A Human History on Radio 4 might be quite interesting. But the trailer for it is all about class warfare. Ancient Rome, Middle Ages Edinburgh, modern airports … all about rich people inflicting noise on the poor.
Throughout history, silencing is something the powerful have tended to do to the weak.
Class prejudice has long had a nasty habit of making us attack the wrong targets.
I don’t think I’ll bother.
Gosh, I’m looking forward to Newsnight ECONOMICS Editor Paul Mason’s incisive insights into the Cyprus EU bailout.
His latest ECONOMIC pronoucements were on the subject of
Alcopops, racism and financial dystopia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/paulmason/
Pencil and notepad at the ready….
‘Paul Mason catches a new play at the Royal Court inspired by the financial crisis, which paints a picture of society on the brink of breakdown.’
“What actually is a bond?” asks Lucinda, chief executive of a designer chocolate startup, in Anders Lustgarten’s controversial new play at the Royal Court.’
Another young BBC star is in trouble with the Police
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-21821063
‘Londoner Simon Brodkin, 35, star of BBC Three’s Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, is charged with pitch encroachment under the Football Offences Act.’
Expect the BBC to laugh it off.
Car drivers ‘will save cash thanks to CO2 rules’
Roger Harrabin By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst
‘Drivers will save £3,300 (€3,800) over the lifetime of their cars if the EU imposes strict new standards on manufacturers, a report claims.’
And if you believe that, you will believe anything.
Utter bollox. The existing mileage to fuel ratio as advertised, is bollox already – how controlling emissions of an essential life-giving gas can make things cheaper, heaven only knows.
They should be thinking of ways of producing CO2, if they really believe it makes the world warmer (which it doesn’t), because we’re going to need it soon, particularly when the lights (and heaters) go out/off, and the next Little Ice Age takes hold.
Where’s Harrabin’s analysis of how other “strict new standards” have raised fuel prices to eye-watering levels, making it so important for drivers to be able to save money as a result of this new scheme?
bit of an “I” word perspective, on press restriction
well, the “fudge cake” result, could it,
possibly aid a ahem certain ideology, that is so used to using corrupt “lawfare” practices anyway,
deliberately orchestrated “victim” mentality,
organised erm so called “community” media outlets/committees,
have obviously got the foot in the door with outlets like the bbc, and others
could it,
(as has been proven on so many levels previously, not only here) be a lever to silence, used to even tighter restriction
on fact/truth emerging … using premises like the old favourite “racism”?
Where are you Coldez?
Ed Balls says that Osborne is running the economy as if it were a “lunatic farm”.
Forget his garbled language-surely Marjorie Wallace of SANE ( other “champions of the mentally recovering” are, of course, all too available) ought to be all over the BBC and Guardian by now demanding an apology or a resignation.
They`d surely be doing so had a Tory said this!
And yet…all is serene, calm and no story to be had…got that?
Following on from another episode from Eric Joyce(full glass, full moon…you decide!), it all gives me the impression that the BBC are happy to lie about “plebs”, but happier still to ignore a wanton slur on the mentally ill….a disgrace had anybody else , but a lefty liberal,said it.
But Balls is the cause…no case closed…even if it`s a nut one!
Last line for the pedants like Dez…that “no” was meant to say “so”.
Blame my move to much nicer premises, and managing not to have to go up to Salford…hence all those BBC stiffs celebrating their last days at Wood Lane.
And we`re supposed to provide the party bags?…self-indulged twonks with the delusions that we CARE where they choose to lie and rip us off from….Israeli Bulldozer c/o St Rupert asap!…please!
Biased Broad Cresent News – headers
Afghan Koran ‘burning’: US apologises
Urging calm over koran burning,
Terry jones cancels koran burning
Men arrested Gateshead over suspected koran burning
New koran burning suspect held in Carlisle etc etc.
a little irony, this was another attempted islamic atrocity
bbc headlines?
couldn t make it up alert …
a touch more added mystery, not even blowing it up but throwing a copy around in the street!
the result? … (shakes head)
http://digitaljournal.com/article/345602
Was it absolutely necessary for the Beeb to illustrate an article summarising a R4 Analysis, due to go out Monday, on transgenderism with a photograph of the bald headed Richard O’Brien in cheesecake pose wearing a skimpy miniskirt? It’s enough to put you off watching repeats of the Crystal Maze.
I think you’ve a pretty weak point here. The article is headlined as being about Richard O’Brien who declares himself 70% male.
Seeing as he is a ‘transgenderist’ which as I understand it is someone who lives part of their life as a different gender, it’s valid. In addition he was the creator of the rocky horror show which is the best excuse for middle age men to cross dress in public for an evening !
Was the article itself absolutely necessary?
Oh sorry, gender bending is completely normal, silly me.
I’m so glad Mr O’Brien likes his boobs.
So your elected leaders have agreed on some sort of regulation deal to oversee the UK press. I thought phone hacking was already punishable by law, seeing as how all those NoW hacks and others have been arrested and are up on charges, but I guess I just missed the fierce moral urgency of controlling Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the Tory Press.
I hope everyone realizes who benefits most from this: the BBC. And which lobbying group bullied the politicians into agreeing to this new deal? Hacked Off, which was co-founded by an ex-Beeboid and has another one as its communications director. The BBC’s fingerprints are all over this. They’re the only true beneficiaries of this whole mess.
Does anyone know if Hacked Off had any influence on the actual writing of the agreement? They sure as hell have been telling politicians which way to vote on it, so they must have some influence. Good thing they’re not Jews, I guess.
Nick Robinson reveals this:
I understand that a representative of the pressure group Hacked Off was in the room through the night when the deal on press regulation was agreed by all parties last night. Sources are refusing to say who it was but I am told that it was not one of the victims.
Amazing. A lobbyist is allowed in, but no press. If it wasn’t one of the victims, it may very well have been one of the ex-Beeboids. Imagine the outrage if this was about, say, offshore drilling and an oil lobbyist was there. I’ve taken a screenshot and I think it’s now archived at the Wayback Machine, just in case it goes down the memory hole.
“The BBC’s fingerprints are all over this. They’re the only true beneficiaries of this whole mess.”
Perhaps that’s why they just might have reported the non-involvement of the press , ‘inaccurately’…ie – told a bit of a fib…
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We would like to make it clear that, contrary to reports broadcast by the BBC this morning, no representative of the newspaper and magazine industry had any involvement in, or indeed any knowledge of, the cross-party talks on press regulation that took place on Sunday night.
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http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/03/newspapers-irritated-by-exclusion-from-leveson-talks/
According to this article, Hacked Off had four people present for the negotiations…the press, nil.
I’d bet money that two of them were ex-BBC.
Mark Mardell is following the President’s first visit to Israel. He says that The Obamessiah’s esteem in the Arab World has “plummeted” since 2009, but offers no speculation as to why. That’s interesting because Mardell is always offering his analysis on everything else. It’s probably not His fault.
Mardell also pushes the BBC and anti-Israel Narrative that the Israeli settlements are the obstacle to peace. Not one of the obstacle, not a major obstacle, but THE obstacle. He won’t be speculating as to why there was no peace back before there were any settlements, or why there has never been any movement on peace after any previous Israeli concessions. As always with the BBC, Israel is the sole villain of the piece.
Which also means the President is already blameless for anything that happens, or doesn’t happen. It’s not His fault, you see. Angry people may be disappointed that He won’t even try to get something going, but they’d be wrong to blame Him, according to the BBC’s US President editor.
So the only place momentum could come from is the US president. But he would be pushing against a door, tightly shut and triple locked by reality.
Why won’t anyone at the BBC ever ask if it would be possible to just let the Jews live in those settlements, but within the borders of a precious Palestinian State? I admit it’s a rhetorical question, because I already know the answer, I’m just wondering how they can be so dishonest.
At least he gets to remind everyone that his beloved Obamessiah is still viewed as a “rock star” somewhere in the world.
While the BBC’s US President is telling you that The Obamessiah is a “rock star” in Israel, the cheeky Jews did a poll themselves and came up with the following result:
According to the poll 82% of respondents want Obama to visit Israel. A smaller percentage, 63.5%, believe that Obama’s policies are in the interest of promoting the state of Israel, while a third of all respondents believe that his policies are anti-Israel.
41% of respondents came to a more general conclusion that Obama is simply not a friend of Israel, while a much smaller percentage, 22%, do think he is a friend of the Jewish state. 36% think he does not appreciate the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and 29% responded that he is a great leader of both the U.S and the world.
I could make a biblical reference about Jews spurning someone, but will leave it to your imagination. Of course, the heroic Palestinians are apparently even less favorable towards Him. This is probably proof to the BBC about just how much Israel controls US foreign policy, not that the Palestinians oppose Him due to racism.
Here’s the head of Hacked Off, Brian Cathcart, explaining how the new regulation he and the former head of the BBC College of Journalism got the political parties to agree on will have teeth because it’s underpinned by law.
The BBC has no problem mentioning that “representatives” – presumably Cathcart and Kevin Marsh – were present at the negotiations the whole time. Nothing fishy about that? It amazes me that nobody is raising an eyebrow that a lobbying group has this much power.
And where is the “Who Are Hacked Off?” report explaining how it was founded by Cathcart (who worked for Reuters, then the Independent and New Statesmen, before moving to the Guardian), and the former head of Today and then the BBC College of Journalism, and how their communications director – the one who can put the pressure on their fellow travelers and politicians – is also an ex-Beeboid. Here’s Cathcart writing in the Guardian about how Cameron was undermining Leveson. This whole thing stinks to high heaven. I can well imagine why he thinks this new deal was “artfully crafted”.
The BBC Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/bbcnews on this is interesting, not least because it appears that what people were commenting didn’t suit and enjoyed an early taste of what one presumes few grasped is yet to come:
Jules Woodhell BBC News why did you delete all the previous comments? They were not controversial. It seems good censorship starts at home…
But a bit of fun also in the new batch currently there, well… while they last:
John Otf Drumonandon 60,000 Brits living in cyprus just got robbed by the parasitical banks.
“I’m furious,” said Chris Drake, a former Middle East correspondent for the BBC who lives in Cyprus. “There were plenty of opportunities to take our money out; we didn’t because we were promised it was a red line which would not be crossed.”
“I’ve lost several thousand,” he told Reuters.
The irony of a BBC propagandist believing propaganda from his same banking masters, priceless!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/17/us-cyprus-parliament-idUSBRE92G03I20130317
Capricious karma and her law of unintended consequences can sometimes remind the careless what they have wished for may not be always what is best.
Peston calls the theft of depositors money a levy. Nothing more illustrates just how the left regards personal wealth . Something to be seized if the occasion warrants.
I am reminded of Magna Carta and the 1689 Bill of Rights where it is made crystal clear that no man can be arbitarily deprived of possessions or freedom.
Now we can all see clearly the guiding principles of the EU. They have none. it is past time that we ended our association with these autocrats.
Only it isn’t the EU! This is a decision the Eurozone made, especially Germany and as Chancellor Merkel has pointed out why should German tax payers refund Russian crime bosses who have deposited laundered money in Cyprus?
The Banking sector in Cyprus is disproportionately large, thanks to foreign depositors and the government could not possibly afford to bail the banks out in full.
You might be reminded of Magna Carta & the Bill of rights but please explain how these have anything to do with Greece & Cyprus?
Here are three options please pick the one you feel is the correct outcome.
a) Cyprus allows the banks to fail and investors lose everything
b) Cyprus bails out the banks completely and bankrupts the state
c) The EU bails the country out and British tax payers are expected to pay the costs as well.
You have to recognise that the money has to come from somewhere, the Bill of Rights & Magna Carta, and don’t forget the Human rights act all say that “no man can be arbitarily deprived of possessions or freedom.” But I’m afraid this statute applies to the state not individuals & private companies.
The state is not seizing the money, the banks are, it might be presented the other way around, that the state is guaranteeing 93% of the savers assets
I guess you can make a case that it’s the German banks seizing the money, since that’s where a lot of it is going to end up in the end, but it wouldn’t be possible without State authorization.
I’d also add this to your list of options:
d) Cyprus freezes all assets suspected of being laundered money pending further investigation and adopts an FDIC-type model which guarantees 100% of savers’ assets below some (admittedly capricious) threshold, say $100,000. The alleged Russian money-launderers would still be punished, the Germans wouldn’t have to bail them out, and most ordinary people wouldn’t be harmed.
I am not concerned whether it is the state, in the guise of the Eurozone/ EU, or the banks seizes private assets. Nor am I concerned as to the nature of those assets. It is the principle of confiscation that concerns me. . The Banksters and the State will become one and the same. Looters of private wealth.
I made the point about Magna Carta/Bill of Rights to make clear that our traditions are very different from those of Europe. It is time to end our involvement . As much for their sake as ours.
The other option not mentioned is that Cyprus quits the Euro at once. Along with Spain etc. Then perhaps reality can be restored to the world.
dave s
Please don’t expect lefties to understand your point about fundamental freedoms, about protection of the individual from the exercise of arbitrary power.
Something tells me that Vladimir wouldn’t take that lying down, it might be Russian Crime bosses but unlike in the West they appear to have a deal of state backing.
Just to complicate matters this is an Island still at war notionally or not over the Turkish invasion and occupation, it’s not a simple matter to sort out.
They have staggered the ‘levy’ so poorer people pay less, which will keep the Russians paying more. The real problem of course is this countries closeness to Greece, every year at Eurovision Greece wins 10 points! The banks in Cyprus have lent heavily to prop up the Greek economy a policy approved of by the people. On that basis they should accept the mistake they’ve made.
Much as I hate to sound like some jumped-up union rep or clueless student in the audience on Question Time, why should the poorer people be forced to pay at all? Interesting point about the Greek connection, though. If only that bailout had actually worked, like “Two Eds” Flanders promised…..
why should the poorer people be forced to pay at all?
Come on David you must have heard the tales of the socialist republic of Greece where most paid little or no taxes, and workers retired at 50 or younger.
They joined the Euro got hold of the German credit card and spent like there was no tomorrow.
Cyprus was no different and the poor should pay because they’ve benefitted from the spending one way or another.
In addition they approved of the banks lending money to their friends in Greece.
You won’t hear any support of what the Greeks did from me. I know all about how joining the Euro enabled their profligacy, and how oboe players and hairdressers getting to retire at 49 on full state pension for working with “hazard materials”. I’m on record here saying as much ages and ages ago. And I know about the tax avoidance.
I just think there’s a better way to deal with the Cyprus situation, and was poking a little fun at “Two Eds” by suggesting that maybe if the Greek bailout had worked like she claimed, Cyprus banks wouldn’t have had to prop them up so much.
Yet another catastrophe caused by the stupidity of socialism.
Indeed.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell
As Guido points out, this new press regulation deal will also target bloggers. Guess who will be the easiest pickings if people like Nicked emus decide they want to shut somebody down. Hint: it won’t be somebody like Guido with deep pockets.
And Billy (Kebab Time) posted a tweet from Toynbee giving the game away about what supporters of this deal really want.
Sometimes I am astounded at how supine the UK public appears to be about this whole matter.
It reminds me of the Star Trek Next Generation episode The Game, where the crew is rendered suggestible by a video game, and I wonder just what subliminal signals must be getting sent with BBC programmes.
We may yet have to get you to host this blog across the pond, away from the reach of UK regulators.
The actress who played Ensign Leffer is currently prepping a run for Senate as a Democrat in Kentucky. She will have the full support of Hollywood and the mainstream media if she gets the nomination, as she’d be running against the Republican leader in the Senate. The messages will be both subliminal and overt.
I believe the blog is currently hosted in a safe place, but that won’t stop people like Nicked emus from trying to get someone arrested anyway.
I’ve always thought that deliberately getting the 5live girls trained to speak an octave lower than normal, because the target manual working class audience were not thought to be able to handle squeaky voiced women talking about sport, had a slightly sinister, subliminal aspect to it.
It’s all about making them sound like they’re more serious, with more gravitas, no? If anything you could make the case that it’s sexist to force women to speak differently. Not really sinister?
My impression is that it is a suggestibility thing – to get men who don’t like women muscling into their exclusive he-man world (particularly that of being a fan of the all-important football) to accept them, subliminally, as honorary men or, at least, very masculine women. It seems to belong to the same line of thinking that led to many breeds of sheepdog looking a bit like sheep.
I think we’re saying the same thing but in different ways.
‘Guess who will be the easiest pickings if people like Nicked emus decide they want to shut somebody down’
Luckily, no one in the BBC reads or cares.
We note you have chosen to make this private exchange public.
Oh. Seems they will soon be able to censor anything they choose outside their bubble soon.
Is that going to be another ‘unique’ we ‘enjoy’ with our media here in the UK too?
There’s a laugh-out-loud moment in the BBC’s Q&A about the regulation deal.
What does the press want?
There is no single, unified point of view among the press on the deal that has been agreed – or on regulation in general.
Do tell, BBC. Do tell. The odds of the BBC pointing out that one can guess the viewpoint depending on which publication or website the press person being asked works for are slim and none.
which is why i posted this early this morning
bit of an “I” word perspective, on press restriction
well, the “fudge cake” result, could it,
possibly aid a ahem certain ideology, that is so used to using corrupt “lawfare” practices anyway,
deliberately orchestrated “victim” mentality,
organised erm so called “community” media outlets/committees,
have obviously got the foot in the door with outlets like the bbc, and others
could it,
(as has been proven on so many levels previously, not only here) be a lever to silence, used to even tighter restriction on fact/truth emerging … using premises like the old favourite “racism”?
don t forget these and the far left are tight bedfellows
do you think the likes of the MCB or the UAF, etc will get ahem perceived “grievance”, over inconsequential nonsense,s they are or course erm … “victims”. with an orchestrated “offence industry to back them up!
….. “there maybe trouble ahead, But while there’s music and moonlight and love and romance” …
“The problem with BBC comedy is not that it’s Left-wing, but that it’s too establishment”
By Ed West .
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100207622/?
The problem is that they have too damn many “topical” comedy panel shows featuring mostly the same people over and over again. The BBC likes to label these shows “alternative takes on the weeks’ news” or similar, but they all have the same views.
West does have a good point about the elitism on display, something which people here have been pointing out for years.
BBC website uses ambiguity for the purpose of deliberately obfuscating the nature of Lord Ahmed’s remarks about a ‘Jewish conspiracy’ to have him imprisoned.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2955/how_the_bbc_alters_the_debate_without_you_noticing
Where the Beeb’s agenda involves trying to get away with concealing the truth as far as they dare, Douglas Murray’s is more concerned with telling the truth, and in doing so reveals just how out of order the Beeb is being in seeking to protect the serial-liar Lord, in the above instance, to a limited extent by a rather petty little bit of trickery:
“Lord Ahmed: Disgrace to Britain, ”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3630/lord-ahmed
“Apart from his endless lies and extreme statements, Lord Ahmed has regularly hosted extremists, including people associated with terrorist groups, at the Houses of Parliament. Any panel invitation sent out at the behest of Lord Ahmed can be guaranteed to be a unique blend of conspiracy theorists, rabid anti-Semites and apologists for international terrorism”
lie after lie, a litany of extreme statement,
an absurd insistence he is a “victim”, even after killing someone … oh and jew hatred
hmmm what erm “religion” is he again?
any ideas?
no wonder the bbc obfuscate for him?
whats not to like 😀
bBC 5live report from Iraq
“here is a man we just happened upon”
turns out he had been an interpreter for the USA in Iraq
yeah, right…
these fekkers must think we came up the clyde on a bannana boat
Anniversaries are always nice.
It’s worth noting… celebrating… that it has been six weeks since the collected market rate Editors of the world’s largest, and most trusted media monopoly have felt able to say… anything.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/
Well I never…. another Beeboid is a lefty…
‘Robin Meltzer was chosen as the Liberal Democrats’ parliamentary candidate for Richmond Park, North Kingston and New Malden.’
http://www.libdemvoice.org/tag/robin-meltzer
Robin Meltzer? Who he, I hear you ask….
‘Robin was educated at Shenfield High School, a Brentwood comprehensive, before winning a place at Cambridge to read English. A year after graduating, Robin was working for the BBC where he ultimately became a Senior Producer for an international production department. Robin worked on some of the BBC’s most successful exports and worked with broadcasters in over 30 countries.’
‘Once Eastleigh is over, he’ll take the fight to the Tories and
Zac Goldsmith in Richmond Park’
Yep, just like his many colleagues at the BBC.
Not all of the LibDem troops are happy….
‘….It is also a huge mistake for the party to keep selecting ‘the best candidate’ by which is often meant the most experienced campaigner with most free time…’
Ouch!
A few Twitter highlights….
Robin Meltzer @robinmeltzer
Sad to see this confirmed. I loved working in that building. RT @mediaguardian: BBC sells Television Centre for £200m http://gu.com/p/393dm/tf
Robin Meltzer @robinmeltzer
Every member of #bbcqt audience is model citizen who’s done something remarkable for their community, makes panel look bit underwhelming!
Robin Meltzer @robinmeltzer
Wish I could stay at home and watch Murdoch evidence today. It’s even better daytime telly than Loose Women.
Are the posts vanishing? I posted a small one on the Cyprus issue. Gone.Not very contentious just a small point. Maybe the PTB are active on this blog as well as other places.
I don’t see anything from you in the Trash or Spam box. But I did find one of my comments in the Trash, which is news to me. Please try again.
Melanie Philips inveighs against the proposed regime of press regulation as the final move in a left wing campaign to nobble British institutions, and includes a sideswipe at the Beeb:
“And through the BBC, that state-licensed media behemoth dominating public debate with its Guardian ‘group think’ on every issue under the sun, they have managed to shunt the very centre of political gravity onto their own ground.”
http://melaniephillips.com/the-press-has-been-the-last-bastion-of-a-free-society-until-now
She noticed that Hacked Off is getting advice from Tony Blair’s old minions, but doesn’t mention the ex-Beeboids actually involved with it. Do people really not know about this close connection?
Following Mr. Robinson’s addendum that HackedOff had a mystery invigilator at the Leveson SNAFU, I’m now hearing that they had four lurking in the shadows, whilst the newspaper industry had…. None.
Is there any info on the veracity of this?
If one of these new policy guardians was the ex-BBC chappie, it would seem control of the country has passed into some even more unaccountable places than before.
Not sure that’s healthy at all.
Does anyone know how to contact Peter Hitchens, aside from Twitter?
Not sure if this correct, but there’s an e-mail address here…
http://journalisted.com/peter-hitchens#tab-contact
Actually – seems legit – it’s at the bottom of this Guardian article too…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/may/29/comment.politics
peter.hitchens@mailonsunday.co.uk
Thanks.
Listening to some radio 4 crap about intersex categories…why, Australia lets `em put an X as opposed to male/female…splendid!
Oh…and why we should all be eating insects coming up on BBC telly soon.
Don`t you just “lurve” this world that the BBC is desperately nudging us to “embrace”…imagine all the people, no gender with stick insects in their gobs!
Lay down you prejudices and sniff Saviles old jockstraps, you little bigots of Britz!
Who decides if I’m a woman?
Duration: 30 minutes
First broadcast:Monday 18 March 2013A spat between feminist Suzanne Moore and transgender rights activists played out on social networking sites, and then hit the headlines when journalist Julie Burchill joined in too.
Jo Fidgen explores the underlying ideas which cause so much tension between radical feminists and transgender campaigners, and discovers why recent changes in the law and advances in science are fuelling debate.
It sounds much more interesting ! This is a classic clash of the ‘isms’ and one of the reasons policial correctness can never work.
I wonder if next week they’ll have a more challenging subject like the tension between Islam & Gays , Jews, infidels, women, daughters who impune their honour, well everyone really !
This feature says a lot about Beeboid personal interests and preferences, which are, of course, self-indulgently imposed on licence payers.
“Richard O’Brien: ‘I’m 70% man'”
By Jo Fidgen,
Radio 4’s Analysis.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21788238
See blog above for the Radio 4 program this is about. Also the earlier thread.
It isn’t about someone being unsure of their gender it’s about a clash of isms although that is avoided in the news article.
I suppose the 70% is responsible his baldness.
Now this is a comedian that should be on Radio 4, though listening to his act I’m not surprised I’ve never heard nor seen him again on the BBC. One of the funniest things I’ve heard, especially the restaurant bit, but they’re not going to allow an attack on PC no matter what colour you are.
I like Reginald D Hunter. Yes, some of his humour is political and some offends some groups, but he takes a different slant and attacks anyone and everyone.
Agreed – he’s genuinely funny, unlike most of the charmless BBC type ‘comedians’.
I’m a little late but no one has noted that the BBC called on Gilad Atzmon to contribute to a program Hear My Country He is introduced as Tel Aviv-born writer and jazz saxophonist and his hatred for his country and activities seeking to discredit and destroy it are not even suggested.
Would the BBC invite Nick Griffin to present three songs to represent Britain? I doubt it.
Compare and contrast the level of detail on display –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-21837014
versus
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/women-charged-election-fraud-following-city-vote/story-18460292-detail/story.html#axzz2NyAE5eCl
(apologies if this is old ground)
If they have been charged there was no reason why the Beeb shouldn’t have given these women’s names – unless, of course, they didn’t want people to spot, immediately, that they were were all those of adherents of the good old RoP. Why would the beeb want o do a thing like that?
The US Powerline blog has run a caustic series of posts about the BBC being a tool or puppet of terrorists when running stories like the death of the young son of one of its ASrab cameramen. The BBC lied in attrubuting the death to an Israeli strike – even the UN now says that the hit on the house in Gaza was by a misfiring Hamas rocket. But still the BBC does not apologise for its lies that were picked up by other media around the world..
Today Powerline reports on another casualty, a two-year-old girl who is fighting for her life. This has evidently been a big story out there since last Thursday. But I cannot find any mention of the child on the BBC website.
Is it because she is Jewish – and the attack was by Arabs?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/03/not-an-international-sensation.php
(PS – it is worth tracking back through the recent Powerline posts to see how savagely they have been criticising Danahar and Donnison at the BBC. This was Part 5 of their series of posts on the BBC :
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/03/tools-of-jihad-part-5.php
Legitimate target, according to the BBC producer who used to comment here under the name ‘John Reith’. Nothing to see here.
From Guido. Sound familiar?:
“Former Cabinet Secretary Gus O’Donnell told the Daily Politics last week that “we need to be proud of our Civil Service – it’s impartial, it’s objective, it’s honest”.
Presumably… because he says so?
Luckily, he has provided this #beliefasfact via the one medium who shares such faith-based reporting:
“Gus reassured the BBC….”
One is sure the BBC was.
Humphries on Today talking about child care, might as well have been a Liebour MP! Would not accept the answers given and kept repeating it was all about the rich being given state money. If the Tories weren’t led by a socialist they might have been instructed to bite back.
BBC 5 Live find something they like about Catholicism.
The crowd gathered to see the Papal Inauguration are waving ‘the flags of many nations’. Yeh…. just like Glasto!
Nicky campbell is showing his age….
‘Reminds me of the Radio One Road Show’
I could make the nasty comment: Yeah, with not so much child abuse.
Meanwhile Nicky Campbell talks to old BBC stalwart John Simpson in Baghdad. It’s some anniversary of the Iraq War – or so the BBC reckon. Phone-in this morning: ‘Iraq, was it worth it?’ Yeh pacifists…. Grrr Tony Blair….. Grr Iraq War.
Meanwhile here are some past conflicts that will not be celebrated by the BBC:
Biafran War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War
Bangaledesh Liberation War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War
Sudanese Civil War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War
“I could make the nasty comment: Yeah, with not so much child abuse.”
What !!! we’re talking about the Catholic church here !
That is an even nastier comment, thoughtful. How about child abuse in secular institutions and among Muslims ?
The MSM have a policy of reporting every ALLEGATION of abuse as a fact, because it bolsters up their secularist agenda. Also, if any allegations prove groundless, they scream “cover-up” !
His dimwit sidekick Rachel Burden stopped talking about ‘my husband and my children’ for a moment and went all scene-settery in a hushed voice …
‘The sky is blue, the sun is shining, there’s lots of flags and the Holy Father is about to speak…………………….. tumbleweed…………… horse skulls bleaching ………….. dried water holes…… more tumbleweed…… ‘Ok we’re not getting any sound at the moment.’
F**** me, I turned over to Sky where they had professional broadcasters covering it.
This is almost as annoying as the bias – they get paid six figure salaries to do their ‘news light’ but they’re not remotely interested. She, and Gameshow, could have invested a few hours over the weekend, minutes even, actually boning up on their subject. But why bother, when you’re in a job for life irrespective of how shite you are (and they are), and you can just spend your air-time winging it, corpsing over yer own jokes, and thinking that somehow you’re an entertainer.
Absolute dross.
BBC 10 O’Clock News last night and Nick Robinson tells us that we should understand that the press regulation deal was a victory for Miliband. You see the BBC wants us to see Miliband as the new ‘….leader of the coaltion’ Here we are in BBC wet dream 2015 already.
Well if it was a victory for Miliband it was handed to him on a plate after months of hard work by the BBC/Guardian. Go on BBC, give yourselves a pat on the back.
It looks like it was a victory of sort for Millipede, but I would suggest it was another deliberate act by Cameron to drive the Tory ship further onto the rocks.
It seems that the press are preparing to launch legal action against the government after they spent many hours listening to the hacked off group, but not a single minute consulting the press. The greedy weasels will be rubbing their hands together, expect several appeals and tens of millions in legal costs.
And to celebrate what is a victory for the hard left (a double one actually – the BBC not impeded at all by the new Charter’s requirement for ‘accuracy and the need to avoid misrepresentation’), no doubt they’ll have Billy Bragg along anytime soon to sing a few stirring songs of victory and solidarity.
Funny you should say that, #88. Billy Bragg is live with Richard Bacon this afternoon, and singing too. Does life get any better than that?
Enjoy your champagne and hangover, then !
I hope it wasn’t something that I’d said!
Needless to say, I won’t be listening to the tuneless oaf (am I allowed to say that now?).
PS: Does the millionaire socialist with a big house in Dorset ever appear live on any other broadcast station? (am I allowed to ask that now?)
PPS:
I think that it’s time to examine just how far to the left the BBC has now swung (am I allowed to think that now?).
Did we expect anything else from a Cameron led junta.?
This blog is on borrowed time now .
Freedom will be replaced by liberty. And liberty is always at the whim of the state or the dictator
Hard work by the ex-BBC co-founder and communications director of Hacked Off, you mean, who directed the entire farce.
BBC producer under investigation for disturbing polar bears
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9939446/BBC-producer-under-investigation-for-disturbing-polar-bears.html#.UUhQ2SssZRs.twitter
You’d need a heart of stone not to feel karma and her law of unintended consequences was not a bit of a tease.
Then again, it appears the fi… levy… will of course get borne by guess who?
That’s it, I’m resigning from the NUJ
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100207784/thats-it-im-resigning-from-the-nuj/#.UUhSxPziG2c.twitter
Interesting. Especially who, from which media groups, stay on.
It’s possible certain pols, and the tribal media they attract, may yet find themselves on the wrong end of this one.
Like this:
It is a sad moment, but today I have decided to resign from the National Union of Journalists. It is the second time I have done so. The first was in the mid 1980s when (as a young journalist who was very proud to be an NUJ member) I was appalled to read in the NUJ newspaper an account of a trip by some union officials to Moscow. They favourably compared free speech in Soviet Russia to free speech in Britain. It was sickening, and showed a catastrophic failure to understand free speech and why it matters. I felt it was morally wrong to remain a member of such an organisation, so I quit.
The way you were (are), lefties.
http://freebeacon.com/obamas-middle-east-map-erases-israeli-territory/
Obama will not bring peace plan because Israel is not interested?
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2013/03/17/Preparations-under-way-ahead-of-Obama-s-official-visit.html
“It is shocking to think that you can disqualify students just because they learn in the West Bank. I do not understand how President Obama wants to conduct a dialogue with the Israeli public when he is consciously excluding part of it
http://www.timesofisrael.com/labor-mk-calls-on-students-to-boycott-obama-speech/
anyone see a pattern emerging?
oh and bbc news? … jerusalem voices?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21831396
al bbc too busy making a big a”anti colonialism” noise over iraq i suppose.
That’s the exact opposite of how Mardell is reporting it. He says that it’s the Israelis who don’t want peace, and not even The Obamessiah can do anything about it.
BBC accused of ‘self-indulgence’ over Television Centre farewellhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9938520/BBC-accused-of-self-indulgence-over-Television-Centre-farewell.html#.UUhVcjzxG9U.twitter
Always fun to see the BBC served its own ‘accused’ line.
Better yet when they get an anonymous ‘spokesperson’ to issue a sniffy dismissal.
I wonder why no one does the same to the BBC when they trot out a vague ‘Critics are saying…’ attack?
I guess demanding answers from named representatives is something the BBC expects of others but uniquely gets excluded from itself?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100207810/the-bbc-just-cannot-accept-that-iraq-is-a-better-place-without-saddam-hussein/
Interestingly, pretty mixed views in comments thus far.
I wonder if all those who feel that Saddam was just being Saddam would also be as in favour of his fun ways with freedom of speech as they appear to support the BBC’s heroes at Hacked Off?
Going very quiet isn’t it. Vance at last realises his home is on the line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came…
Careful what you crow about.
“Going very quiet isn’t it” …
do i hear misguided sniggering
SILENCE! … I KILL YOU
Quite?? This thread has nearly 350 comments!
‘Quiet’
What clapbutz mean is there is sod all he/she/it [remember no value judgements lol] can attack so is bored in Salford the poor wretch !
colditz, I’m surprised you can even show your digital face here. Have you no shame at all for what you’ve said lately?
The bBBC has just thrown another £80million of our money down the drain.
BBC Worldwide sells Lonely Planet business at £80m loss
The BBC Trust has approved the $50m sale, following criticism of the £130m acquisition of Lonely Planet in 2007. (They mean £50m, but what does it matter if it’s million dollars or million pounds of someone else’s money?)
In 2009, a Culture Media and Sport Select Committee said the purchase expanded an area “where the BBC has no, or very limited existing interests”.
The Trust has ordered the BBC Executive board to review “lessons learnt”.
One presumes that once these lessons are again not learned, under new laws the whole thing can be quietly redacted and media reporting banned?
This series of ‘uniques’ seem to be growing… not in a good way.
I guess all those promotional spots disguised as feature articles and “bespoke” video magazine pieces didn’t work very well. Another aspect of Mark Thompson’s legacy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295543/BBC-digital-radio-station-censors-lyric-Elvis-Costello-hit-Olivers-Army.html#
Is this REALLY true? What sort of sad, politically correct planet are the fuckin’ BBC living on?
It’s a bit rich for Mike Read to complain about it. Didn’t he ban Frankie’s Relax, thus ensuring number one status for a pretty crap song?
This reminds me of the time in the 90s, at the outset of the first Iraq war, when BBC Radio DJs were issued with instructions to introduce any song by ‘Massive Attack’ as just by ‘Massive’.
Including the full title was supposedly…’insensitive’ ?!!
Ageing agitprop rocker Billy Bragg will always find a platform on the BBC. He is more than happy to tell Richard Bacon all about the songs wot he wrote.
What he he got to say about politics? The Bard of Barking refers to a Labour MP who had her mobile phone ‘hacked’.
Seems our Billy would like to see more journalists behind bars – right on Comrade!
i briefly tuned in to have the unfortunate experience
of billy bland … i mean bragg,
and bacon in full dribbling sycophant mode, (gag).
some grating “this is the end” drone …
give me strenf .. eh bill
Bacon gave Bragg what a poster named Martin used to call a blow job of an interview. Bragg sang a couple of songs. The singing was as dire as we expect from Billy and the lyrics were puerile. After the second song, Bacon’s verdict on it was “a triumph”. Billy was there to plug his new album and the BBC and Bacon obliged. What stop next for Billy? Radio 4, 6 Music, BBC 2 or some other BBC outlet?
Whatever did happen to Martin? Was his parole revoked?
“the lyrics were puerile”
Stop playing with yourselves
In hard currency hotels
I look like Robert DeNiro
I drive a Mitsubishi Zero
…Sec-shoo-alla-tee
Yep. Crap.
http://www.songlyrics.com/billy-bragg/sexuality-lyrics/
View at your peril…
http://tinyurl.com/d4qa756
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21757595
Was this written by a Labour party spokes person or someone even further to the left?
Mind you with a further £2.5 billion cuts expected in the budget I think we see further attempts to destroy the Tory party.
“Press regulation: Internet concerns expressed ”
Under the illustration is the caption:
“Some bloggers have expressed concern about the remit of the new press regulatory body.” – don’t they mean every blogger not actually engaged in shilling for some group of professional ‘victims.’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21845555