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“Only 34 locals given jobs at BBC Salford exploding claim that move would create work for local people.
“Just 1.5% of 2,300 workforce are from the city.
“The BBC have managed to recruit just 10 extra people from Salford in the last year.
“11,400 people are currently out of work in the area.”
By JAMES TOZER and MILES GOSLETT
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305558/Only-34-locals-given-jobs-BBC-Salford-exploding-claim-create-work-local-people.html#ixzz2Ps4hEiTL
“Open up the books, Tories tell BBC boss”
By ANDREW PIERCE.
[Excerpt]:-
“One week into his job as director general of the BBC and Lord Hall’s problems are mounting.
“Industrial action is threatened over compulsory redundancies at the bloated corporation; the Jimmy Savile scandal refuses to die down; and Tories are increasingly angry at the continuing Left-wing bias in the Corporation’s news coverage.
“The party was appalled that one of Hall’s first acts was to appoint former Labour Cabinet minister James Purnell as the £295,000 director of strategy. Now they are out for revenge.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2305458/Open-books-Tories-tell-BBC-boss.html#ixzz2Ps5gXb00
Beeboids’ top news on Africa: –
daily medical bulletins on condition of its Afromessiah, Mandela.
Ex-PM Margaret Thatcher dies.
Will Beeboids be able to restrain their feelings?
And the headline from the “newspaper” you continually reference currently is:
“Harry and the shopgirl: He’s tipped to wed his latest blue-blooded blonde. But one of the first girls to catch Harry’s eye was a humble grocery assistant who’s never spoken of their secret dates…until now”
Ed Miliband calls Margaret Thatcher ‘unique’
Oh dear, that’s the BBC’s favourite word for themselves.
That’s cheered me up on an otherwise rather sad day.
guido fawkes has Margaret Thatcher Dies.
bbc.co.uk nothing.
Margaret Thatcher is dead. Watch BBC closely for bias
Well the inevitable has happened.
RIP Margaret Thatcher.
BBC, we are watching…
The vile Leftist sickos at the comedy department are already planning their “tribute” no doubt.
A sad day. But important to take notes to compare with how the BBC treats the also inevitable passing of Nelson Mandela. Particularly with regard to whom it invites on to speak about it, I’d suggest.
No doubt the Bollinger order is in already, and delivery under way…
Baroness Thatcher has died and Nick Robinson is straight in:
tweets: The dominant figure of post-war British politics is dead. Love her or loathe her, Margaret Thatcher shaped this country as few others did.
Robinson’s tweet seems both accurate and fair or are you suggesting he is biased by not asserting she was universally loved?
first few of words right out of Robbo’s gob @ 5 past one – “a divided country”
’nuff said already, at least Sky had the decency to show some respect.
I would have missed the ‘Love her or loathe her’ part as the subtext is clear.
‘Seems’… the comfort pillow of many a CECUTT Director.
Actually, I’ll give you ‘accurate’ factually, but fairness already strays into opinion.
And that is what our MSM, and the BBC in particular, is now set to wallow in, for good or ill, for a while.
Reporting will be a very distant afterthought.
I neither loved nor loathed the lady. She was a politician. Hence I did not find her very likeable either. But, as the current crop of gurning lightweights have yet to discover, as my PM that was not a trait I found necessary in a leader. She inspired respect, and this country seemed to be treated pretty well when she was at its head. Hard to imagine that with Dave, Nick or Ed at the helm now or any time soon.
Here’s what Ch4’s email had to say:
‘Tonight’s edition of Channel 4 News will be dominated by the news that Margaret Thatcher, arguably the most influential and divisive prime minister of recent times, has died.’
They appear to be playing the policies rather than the person, rather highlighting what the BBC and its kindergarden class talents appear to find suits their way of handling anything.
Pretty sure Hugs will be trying to damp down a few twitter-based ‘nothing to do with us’ employee tweets before the day is out. I wonder how many will be able to remember a person died and a family lost a loved one as they hit the e-ther to ’emote’ to the crowd.
“Actually, I’ll give you ‘accurate’ factually, but fairness already strays into opinion.”……………a bit like “bias” then?
To my surprise, there is one Beeboid so far who said just that: Jim Hawkins, of all people.
And this from BBC Parliament correspondent Ros Ball could be a giveaway:
What a coincidence.
Incredibly sad day for the country. Baroness Thatcher, The Iron Lady, easily our best and toughest PM since Churchill, passed away this morning from a stroke.
What can you say about such a reforming and absolutely massively world respected true leader?…
Just gutted. dreaded this day.
R.I.P
Never be forgotten.
She was better than Churchill, if it hadn’t been for the war propaganda the truth would have been allowed to come out about him and the disastrous way he ran the war.
She was twice the man he was !
RIP Thatcher
Doesn’t take the bBC long does it? Mrs Thatcher’s death means that the bBC need to get Billy Bragg wheeled out again with his hate filled bile & anger at someone who doesn’t share his mad views.
Billy Bragg = Oxygen Thief
Margaret Thatcher has died. I wonder what Richard Bacon is going to say ? I’m not looking forward to this.
Didn’t take long……..
And he’s getting a right old pasting for it. Good, the poisonous pixie deserves all he gets!
Good catch. One for the list. I bet Davis doesn’t even realize what he’s done.
I’ve been checking through other Beeboid accounts, and was starting to wonder if a memo got sent round recently because the silence, other than tweeting links to BBC reports, is deafening. No praise, no snark, no nothing. The only commentary I’ve seen is a couple people (including Martin Belam, ex-BBC and lead developer of the iPlayer, among other things) retweeting something about what Twitter will look like when Thatcher dies. The prevailing message from them is: Thatcher was controversial, lots of people hated her.
We’ll see how it goes for the rest of the day, then watch for slip-ups tomorrow when they’re hung over from the party. After that it will be compare-and-contrast time when St. Nelson passes away.
There will also be plenty of pointers to which is truly ‘the nasty party’.
I see that he is trying to slither out of it…a view of her in 1948…agreeing that she went on to better things…ICI’s loss.
It doesn’t wash.
BBC can’t help themselves…
Margaret Thatcher dies following a strike..
The best mistake Thatcher made was not taking down the BBC when she had the chance.
Hopefully we will get another politician like her who will take down the BBC.
I mean biggest.
People were openly calling the bBC biased in the Thatcher years, but it was nowhere near as bad as it is now. Years of Blairism has emboldened the left to go completely overt without check and the fact we have another leftie as Prime Minister isn’t helping.
Exactly it was not as bad then as it is now. That’s not rose tinted glasses. I was in the civil service through the 1980’s and 90’s. I remember some of my colleagues praising Labour coming into power. But it wasn’t Thatcher that destroyed the civil service it was Labour. It wasn’t Thatcher that flooded the country with migrants it was labour. Let’s just remember what really happened in our recent history.
I did also notice North West Tonight managed to drag out Derrick Hatton to make a comment.
Ex-P.M Margaret Thatcher.
It is reported that P.M David Cameron is flying back to London from state business in the Eurozone, because of her demise.
Will Beeboids report whether Deputy P.M Nick Clegg will cut short his vacation at the family Chateau in Europe?
“Some ordinary northerner! How Nick Clegg is really a man of extraordinary privilege whose family own a chateau.”
By TOM RAWSTORNE (2010).
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268436/Some-ordinary-northerner-How-Nick-Clegg-really-man-extraordinary-privilege-family-chateau.html#ixzz2PsRKu6cK
What has a report in the Daily Mail about Cameron got to do with the BBC and what they may or may not report about Clegg?
Miliband’s half-hearted tribute to Thatcher:
Labour leader Ed Miliband today said Baroness Thatcher would be remembered as “a unique figure”, adding: “She reshaped the politics of a whole generation. “She also defined the politics of the 1980s. David Cameron, Nick Clegg and I all grew up in a politics shaped by Lady Thatcher. We took different paths but with her as the crucial figure of that era. “She coped with her final, difficult years with dignity and courage. Critics and supporters will remember her in her prime.”
Miliband’s more fulsome tribute to the evil Eric Hobsbawm, Marxist and apologist for the mass murderer, Stalin:
”Eric Hobsbawm was an extraordinary historian, a man passionate about his politics and a great friend of my family.
”His historical works brought hundreds of years of British history to hundreds of thousands of people. He brought history out of the ivory tower and into people’s lives.
”But he was not simply an academic, he cared deeply about the political direction of the country. Indeed he was one of the first people to recognise the challenges to Labour in the late 1970s and 1980s from the changing nature of our society”.
On the other hand Blair describes Thatcher as, ‘A towering figure’ Perhaps the BBC might get round to challenging Miliband. But as someone who had a hand in defeating Communism, perhaps not
Just at the ex-mayor of Manchester council (during the Thatcher period) on North west tonight. He’s implying that the late 1970swere not as bad as they were made out to be.
Now I’m probably not the biggest fan Of the late Baroness, however I do know a re-write of history when I see it, especially a period I’ve lived through.
Will INBBC report this gross Islamic intolerance?;-
“Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia: there should be no churches in Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/04/grand-mufti-of-saudi-arabia-there-should-be-no-churches-in-kuwait-oman-yemen-bahrain-qatar-and-the-u.html
No tolerance of the intolerant; and no immigration from those countries into the UK. ‘Mutual reciprocity’.
Just listened to Chris Evans, and lo and behold, on the News, there is another unvalidated prediction apparently worthy of BBC reporting, that those on transatlantic flights will suffer more turbulance due to global warming.
More unvalidated scaremongering.
Yes, that was on the News during “Toady”, too – it motivated me to write a comment in the Daily Telegraph article on the subject:
That’ll be today’s climate change scare story, then.
Guess what? It’s all based on “models” (for which Reading University have previous). Those same “models” which have been predicting catastrophic global warming for the last sixteen years, or so, and which has failed to materialise. The same “models” which prod the Met Office into issuing predictions of doom, and drought where there are floods, heat where there is cold, dangerously high sea levels which aren’t rising noticeably, ice-melt where ice is increasing, and a ‘Mediterranean Climate’ for the good old Former UK in, say, 50, 100, 500, years (you guess, it makes no difference in the end).
It’s all the usual bollox that we have sagely come to ignore, but they don’t get the message, they keep producing it. I suppose it’s necessary to mention “climate change” in any quest for funding, then produce a “scary report” to guarantee the next instalment.
Have they nothing better to do?
Also posted here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…
Would anyone on here be satisfied with a response to a complaint like this:
Thank you for contacting us regarding BBC News.
I understand you believe you’re concerned by the content of our recent coverage of XXXXXXX.
We know that not everyone will agree with our choices on which stories to cover, and the information included therein. These are subjective decisions made by our news editors, and we accept that not everyone will think that we are correct on each occasion. These decisions are always judgement calls rather than an exact science, but we appreciate the feedback that our viewers and listeners give us when they feel a story has been handled poorly.
I’ve included a link below to our online coverage:
“I understand you believe you’re concerned ” really, so you do think I actually am concerned then?
This is just a standard fob off letter which does nothing to address the complaint what so ever.
‘This is just a standard fob off letter which does nothing to address the complaint what so ever.’
All based on a great deal of ‘belief’, too.
Job done then.
Box ticked.
No mention of them valuing input, with it all popped in a no-record file and flushed to the sound of hysterical laughter, thus ensuring their 110% rectitude record stands when showing rigged stats to idiot committees ?
Alister will doubtless be back here soon as his day’s job has been completed cut and pasting that masterpiece out and sending it.
‘You…. yooou…. no point person you… !’
Just out of interest, has anyone posting here received, or know of anyone who has received a letter from the BBC admitting that they got it wrong? I’ve never heard of anyone!
Before a Flokker swoops, happy to oblige:
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/trust-upholds-complaint-against-bbc-news-over-inaccurate-tweet
Though to be fair to your question, ‘the BBC’ in such cases (and there are more than one, though you’d have more chance locating hen’s teeth) will suddenly split like an amoeba into a variety of now separate entities, with one not so much accusing the other of getting anything wrong, but grudgingly conceding the months of denial and obfuscation have run out of excuses and, well, yes, the complaint was actually valid from the outset when a lot of people spent a lot of time, and hours, and licence fee payer money trying to swear blind it wasn’t.
‘The director of the BBC’s Editorial Complaints Unit later said that “he did not accept that those who only read the headline would have been left with a materially misleading impression…
“The BBC’s view was not accepted by the Committee”
Close enough, but not quite a cigar.
And given they have basically admitted the bare-faced, two-faced attrition they will subject any complaint to in hope of causing a complainant to give up, the BBC stands accused of pure censorship, using its own internal, secret Star Chambers, on the vast number that founder though their ‘Beware of the Leopard’ techniques.
And hence never get counted, no matter how valid.
Yes, although they tried to lie and squirm first.
And here:
The above two are about violations of social media policy, but this one is about something disgraceful on the BBC website: