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  1. Geoff says:
    October 11, 2013 at 8:53 am

    Yes old episodes of Dr Who have indeed been found, episodes paid for by the BBC licence payer, but these were found a year or so ago, why the embargo?

    Because the BBC would rather create maximum exposure prior to the release on ITunes at £2.49 a pop. Not much but with the endless fans out there (not me) and a DVD release to follow and after being restored (at our cost) they would rather do a deal with an American company to maximize profits. There are no plans for them to be broadcast.

    The BBC are funded in a unique way (us, the UK licence payer) yet it seems we have to pay twice to watch such programs.

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    • Joshaw says:
      October 11, 2013 at 10:58 am

      Of course, totally unscrupulous people with no regard for the law will probably download the files illegally, when available, using the excuse that they are licence payers and have already paid for them.

      I would never dream of doing such a thing, but others might.

      Shocking.

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      • Roland Deschain says:
        October 11, 2013 at 1:17 pm

        Fortunately, this temptation has been put out of my reach due to The Pirate Bay being so effectively blocked by all the ISPs.

        Except via the Pirate Bay app on my tablet, so I’m told.

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  2. George R says:
    October 11, 2013 at 9:12 am

    SYRIA.

    Two headlines:-

    1.) CBC-

    “Jihadi-led rebels accused of war crime in Syria attacks.
    At least 190 civilians slain, 200 more abducted in recent attacks on pro-regime villages.”

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jihadi-led-rebels-accused-of-war-crime-in-syria-attacks-1.1974704?cmp=rss

    2.) INBBC:-

    “Syria rebels executed civilians, says Human Rights Watch”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24486627

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  3. George R says:
    October 11, 2013 at 9:25 am

    Turkey.

    Is BBC-NUJ supporting victimised journalists in Erdogan’s Islamising Turkey?

    Surely BBC-NUJ has no ulterior political motive for not reporting this, such as wanting Islamising Turkey in E.U?

    “Fears of media self-censorship in Turkey”

    http://www.france24.com/en/20131009-fears-media-self-censorship-turkey

    And will BBC-NUJ gives all support necessary to this Turkish TV presenter?:-

    “Turkish TV presenter Gozde Kansu fired over cleavage revealing dress”

    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/turkish-tv-presenter-gozde-kansu-fired-over-cleavage-revealing-dress-29651764.html

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    • Dave s says:
      October 11, 2013 at 10:34 am

      Media self censorship. Coming to British TV and newspapers very soon.
      Ok so with the BBC and the Guardian it is already here.
      Unless it is a matter hostile to British interests then it’s all systems go.

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  4. George R says:
    October 11, 2013 at 9:43 am

    KENYA.

    While INBBC describes a Somali Islamic jihadist as ‘Norwegian’-

    “Norwegian suspected of role in Kenya’s Westgate attack”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24480609

    ‘Sky News’ has this:-

    “‘White Widow’ Lewthwaite ‘Key’ In Al Shabaab.
    An intelligence report obtained by Sky News suggests Samantha Lewthwaite is a key figure in the al Shabaab terror group.”

    By Alex Crawford.

    (inv video clip)

    http://news.sky.com/story/1152971/white-widow-lewthwaite-key-in-al-shabaab

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  5. Guest Who says:
    October 11, 2013 at 10:15 am

    Arf.
    Seems the BBC decided to do a ‘word cloud’ on all the comments on FaceBook they ran through the filter to puff themselves up some more and, channelling their inner Sally Field, it seems ‘we’ like them… we really ‘like’ them!
    BBC World News
    Hi everyone,

    Yesterday we asked you to give us feedback on an increase to our Facebook posts last week.

    Here’s a word cloud of your comments. Thanks again for letting us know what you think.
    Sadly for the BBC, outside the unique, secret, FoI exempted control of the edit suite within the BBC, the comments so far to the post seem less…. sycophantic.
    I wonder which will be trumpeted to gullible Trust munchkins and credulous MPs come Charter Review?

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  6. Anders Thomasson says:
    October 11, 2013 at 10:18 am

    Poor BBC, their little Muslim darling shoo-in for the Nobel Prize turned out not to be.

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    • noggin says:
      October 11, 2013 at 10:53 am

      pass out black armbands, extra lattes all round, twice the amount of pontificating, with the sizeable ethnic bbc community, even more aimless wandering (if that s possible) about in the “fishbowl” eh!
      “Viewers have taken issue with staff members – picking their noses, – yawning, – chatting between each other,
      eating and reportedly using umbrellas as light-sabres”

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        • Justin Casey says:
          October 11, 2013 at 1:02 pm

          Funny how they managed to win yet still haven`t found the five drums of depleted uranium which went missing from Gaddafis underground weapons dump though…. The five drums were actually due to be handed over to a joint UN / NATO inspectorate about a month later as part of the agreement with the new trade deals and lifting of all embargos restricting Libyan trade with the west which had been in place since the Reagon era… also most of the biological and chemical hardware etc and his best tactical weapons and missile tech went too…. but they did find some gas masks and a few files in Korean and Urdu mentioning the word Sarin and a badly reaped goat with a broken pelvis and an arse like a `wizards sleeve` named Colonel Mahmoud behind some empty filing cabinets… I suppose depleted uranium isnt classed as a chemical by these fucktards …. theyre all too busy high fiving each other in between fist bumping society in the face with a boxing glove smeared in shit and wondering why we aren`t all smiling too!!! Wankers… another nobel prize for another meaningless and useless EU elite!! I`m made up I really am…

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  7. noggin says:
    October 11, 2013 at 12:30 pm

    “Caught last few minutes of the afternoon chimp, R Bacon on BBC 5live, absolutely insufferable with a couple of braincell singular twittery libtard”guests”. and the erm “chart the week”? – pass the gag bag
    there was no link at the time,
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b03c45py/
    1hr 55 mins

    the fleet street erm fox? (yawn!) –
    john ashmore, (polititwat) –
    and the chimp.
    get all “right on” “tut tut”,
    and squeal “waycist” to each other.

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  8. Guest Who says:
    October 11, 2013 at 12:50 pm

    http://order-order.com/2013/10/11/guardians-bid-for-smear-of-the-year/
    The reaction of the BBC to what may be described as a ‘gaffe’ by their favourite green room daughter will be interesting, along with their week-long staff twitter campaign in support of Mr. Gove against what appears to be a slip in professional editorial oversight at senior level within the Graun at the very least.
    Mr. Katz of Newsnight no doubt already trying to find anyone he hasn’t stabbed in the back to come and comment tonight? Assuming factually inaccurate smears of ideological foes, and the fallout, isn’t a bit sensitive there still.
    Or will we be treated to a now less outraged Prescoot/Campbell combo again going for a ‘Polly just being Polly’/’It was the right kind of smear on the line, so no harm no foul’ bit of ‘moving on?
    So much inaccuracy. So many standards.

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    • Guest Who says:
      October 11, 2013 at 1:07 pm

      On a related note:
      http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/the-29-stages-of-a-twitterstorm
      Only I think with the BBC involved, a few ‘editors’ are already ‘helping’ by about number eight, especially ‘looking for’ outraged petitions and/or campaigns to promo… ‘report’ upon, with 8,000 floral ‘journalists’ but an intranet away to kick things off externally… ‘views not the BBC’s’.
      £4Bpa can can have quite an impact if in the sole hands of the unaccountable at a media monopoly.
      Maybe something all those ‘reviews’ of plurality and charters may like to bear in mind.

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    • Flawedlogic says:
      October 11, 2013 at 5:57 pm

      The disgraceful attempt to smear Mr Gove is far worse than the behaviour of the Daily Mail.

      The fact that Tonybee accused Gove of being responsible for the deaths of Baby P and Hamzah Khan is a disgrace, it is even more so when you consider that the deaths occurred during the last Labour government.

      What should be a main BBC news item has not even surfaced on its website, when you compare this with the wall to wall coverage given to Milliband and his father this is completely outrageous.

      Finally, why are no other Biased BBC commentators picking up on this clear example of bias?

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  9. richard D says:
    October 11, 2013 at 1:00 pm

    With all the political finger-pointing by Mr Mardell and other BBC types, surely we can expect this in all issues raised about any financial crisis in the USA…. right ?

    Wrong….. the gentleman who was mayor of Detroit during a significant part of its steep decline into bankruptcy, who managed to line his pockets to the tune of the best part of $1 million in the process (that is known of), and only resigned after being found guilty of lying under oath in a lawsuit, and approving the funding of an $8.4 million settlement to cover this up, amongst many other criminal acts, is clearly identified by the BBC as (politically) being a ……..

    Well, you won’t find out from the BBC report below, but that probably points out to those who frequent this site, exactly which political party he represents (which other news sources do NOT hesitate to publish).

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24485162

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  10. flexdream says:
    October 11, 2013 at 1:23 pm

    What’s wrong with the Nobel Committee? Don’t they watch the BBC? They’ve awarded the Peace Prize to a group which is working to remove chemical weapons. While as the BBC reminds me on the radio and web they were expected to pick Malala!

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  11. Justin Casey says:
    October 11, 2013 at 2:59 pm

    Or maybe Mo Farah??? For his overseas service representing us whilst he lives in the US practising the fuckin mobot…

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  12. Guest Who says:
    October 11, 2013 at 4:08 pm

    http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4257/oops_palestinian_leader_caught_lying_one_version_to_the_un_another_to_palestinian_tv
    Always dangerous to claim that ‘it’s not on the BBC’ as that leaves a semantic goal open a mile wide.
    So one is sure that it is there, somewhere, if possibly in different sections that need to be recombined like an ancient talisman to make the true meaning obvious.
    However, given this is the head honcho of a bunch of folk rather noted for getting the rest of the world all het up, especially with claims of varying veracity or accuracy, one might think it would require a certain level of coverage to match?
    Or are the uniques why not being assessed, FoI exempted, as we speak?

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    • noggin says:
      October 11, 2013 at 4:43 pm

      what? … a muslim group, muslim official … lying?
      being deceitful? one story to the world, another to muslims? …
      I ve never heard of that before erm … no wait 😀

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  13. Alex says:
    October 11, 2013 at 6:05 pm

    Strange that news such as this fails to make the headlines on the BBC news… I wonder why?

    http://news.sky.com/story/1153141/syria-rebels-parade-child-hostages-on-youtube

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