Amused to see Robert Peston complaining about Press freedom:
Why has Google cast me into oblivion?
This is coming from a man employed by an organisation that tried to shut down a ‘right wing’ news organisation that was a commercial and political opponent of the BBC.
It also comes on a day when the National Audit Office slams the BBC for its secretive ways:
Imagine that: the BBC is more secretive than anybody
The BBC is more prone to hiding behind commercial secrecy to withhold embarrassing evidence than almost any other organisation, according to public spending watchdogs investigating its costly failures.
The BBC’s willingness to deploy commercial confidentiality and individual privacy as reasons to keep back information put it in a league of its own, the head of the National Audit Office (NAO) said.
An organisation that spends £300,000 hiding a report into its activities in the Middle East perhaps has reasons to be secretive.
One thing to note…I have noticed that searching for BBC reports, even ones from a few days earlier, is becoming harder….BBC articles used to top the search pile but more often than not the Guardian seems to top the list and the BBC often isn’t there leaving you to alter the search terms until you hopefully dig something up….or go back through your history to connect directly to the link if you’ve read the article before. Is that Google having a different priority for the BBC, or the BBC changing how articles can be linked to, or my own limited ability on the internet?
The BBC also seems to block access to older versions of reports…every time I have tried to use internet archives there is no link to anything but the most current version….meaning all those ‘mistakes’ and inappropriate interpretations of events are ‘vanished’.
Whatever the reasons, a technical glitch or the BBC ‘managing’ its news archives, it does seem harder to dig up ‘old news’ from the BBC.
“Open And Transparent” like admitting the attendees at the 28-Gate propaganda policy seminar?
When you see a particular article, do a screen capture – then you have it for posterity.
If they were open and transparent perhaps they would pay attention to the likes of this in order to balance their present biased Islamophilia output:
Ramadan Bombathon 2014 Scorecard
Day 5 of Ramadan, results in so far:
In the name of The Religion of Peace:
Terror Attacks = 33
Suicide Bombings = 1
Dead Bodies = 245
Wounded = 353
In the name of ANY Other Religion:
Terror Attacks = 0
Suicide Bombings = 0
Dead Bodies = 0
Wounded = 0
By “Islamo-Phobes”:
Terror Attacks = 0
Suicide Bombings = 0
Dead Bodies = 0
Wounded = 0
If you think all religions are the same, then you haven’t been paying attention.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks
As a follow-up to my own post, which I know is frowned upon, I would just wonder why *NOT A SINGLE MSM SOURCE* has gone to our beloved leaders, Cameron, Miliband and Clegg, and asked a follow-up question to them, viz:
“In view of all your sycophantic praise concerning Islam and Muslims and Ramadan in your broadcasts, do you now have any comments on the multi-murder atorcities happening all around the world during these Holy Days of Ramadan? Only five days gone and a great chance of a record score by the Religion of Peace, eh?”
No? Thought not! Carry on chaps!
2 enriching stories to fill your hearts with joy:
This one, i can’t find on the BBC’s website, but it is probably hidden in plain sight:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2679587/Racist-thugs-jailed-battering-two-men-death-baseball-bats-werent-Muslim.html
This appeared on the BBC a full 3 hours after the incident:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2679305/Man-shot-dead-two-injured-gun-knife-attack-violent-outbreak-involving-hundreds-people-streets-Birmingham.html
Look at those lovely, diverse residents…
Sleep tight boys & girls, as Jimmy, Rolf, Stewart….ect would say.
You won’t find the first one on the BBC because it is “not newsworthy” in BBC parlance or more probably they have an embargo on reporting real news stories that show muslims in a less than flattering light.
Remember what the BBC used to with stories about the NHS.
Story good – show black staff
Story bad – show white staff
Only in this case there is no way you can disguise the fact that the ringleader and his accomplices are not white and are muslims.
Interestingly though, if you dig back further you will find this from the BBC about the ringleader.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5112388.stm
What a nasty piece of muslim filth this vermin is, planning to murder Cpl Mark Byles who was awarded the Military Cross in Iraq for outstanding bravery
This below seems to be from the investigation into the BBC for the benefit of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s inquiry into the Future of the BBC, but maybe this could help with further investigations into the BBC.
The investigation found that the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit received about a quarter of a million complaints in 2013. All the complaints were sent to a team of around 400 people in Belfast, the more serious complaints were passed on to around 30 people at the Units HQ in London. Some of the Units senior staff are named below:
Fraser Steel, BBC, Editorial Complaints Unit, Head
Colin Tregear, BBC, Editorial Complaints Unit, Director
Alison Wilson, BBC, Editorial Complaints Unit, Complaints Manager
Other Senior ECU staff include David Woods, Michelle Wiggins and Paul Hunter
Other BBC staff who deal with complaints are:
Jessica Cecil, BBC, Chief Complaints Editor
David Jordan, BBC, Editorial Policy and Standards Director
Claire Powell, BBC, Editorial Policy, Chief Adviser
Paul Smith, BBC, Head of Editorial Standards for Audio and Music
Michael Fadda, BBC Worldwide, Editorial Standards Manager
Stephanie Harris, BBC News, Head of Editorial Compliance and Accountability
Lucy Tristram, BBC Trust, Complaints Adviser
Fran O’Brien, BBC Trust, Head of Editorial Standards
Bruce Vander, BBC Trust, Editorial Standards Committee Secretary
The BBC Trust Editorial Standards Committee members are: Alison Hastings (chair), Richard Ayre, David Liddiment, Sonita Alleyne, Bill Matthews and Nick Prettejohn. With Elan Closs Stephens, Anthony Fry, Rotha Johnston and Mehmuda Mian being former members of this committee.
The Complaints and Appeals Board members include Richard Ayre (chair) and Bill Matthews (deputy).
This shower of shite sound ‘hideously white’ and not very ‘diverse’
Only the BBC could employ 400 people to send out the standard “up-yours” email to complaints. They might as well all be replaced by an app for the good they do.
‘The investigation found that the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit received about a quarter of a million complaints in 2013. All the complaints were sent to a team of around 400 people in Belfast, the more serious complaints were passed on to around 30 people at the Units HQ in London. ‘
I don’t know where this comes from but its not accurate.
I doubt the ECU gets that many complaints, and they aren’t based in Belfast.
There aren’t 400 staff and I suspect the 30 figure doesn’t apply to the ECU either.
Explained here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/handle-complaint/
Our posts crossed, but thank you.
I note this is a BBC source.
‘Over 250,000 can be complaints’
It seems the BBC leaves room for the number to actually be anything one likes more, up to 1 million.
That must ease your doubts. It seems to confirm the figure first cited.
I don’t see anything else (video content does not seem to be working) that clarifies the location and staffing data.
‘I don’t know where this comes from but its not accurate.
I doubt the ECU gets that many complaints, and they aren’t based in Belfast.
There aren’t 400 staff and I suspect the 30 figure doesn’t apply to the ECU either.’
Mr. Pinder doesn’t cite a URL so confirming without his help will be tricky.
Seems unlikely that such a cut and paste was not originated from some official source, such as that cited.
As you appear to know (at least enough to cast doubt), please clarify how many complaints the ECU actually gets, where they are based, how many staff there are and what the correct number is for the Unit HQ, one presumes confirmed in London.
Plus source.
Unless this data is all excluded?
just heard sarah montague blathering on about how unfair this all was to some legal chap from google.
he agreed with her that it was a big headache. she repeatedly failed to understand that this is an EU court ruling.
at the end of the interview she said this “needs to be revisited”.
you stupid posh idiot – you cannot appeal this judgement – this is the last word on the subject.
it turns out a commentator on peston’s stan o’neal piece is the one who complained to google – not stan o’neal himself.
verdict
peston – wrong to blame stan o’neal on no evidence and waste everyone’s time on this
montague – posh left wing idiot air head
Just read on Reuters it’s ‘as you were’.
Seems the wrong kind of folk were getting their retroactive censorship in first, and the luvvies didn’t like it applying equally (that and it was a logistical & legal nightmare anyway).
Sometimes the law of unintended consequences can prove… amusingly capricious.
Names you are unlikely to hear on the BBC
Ahmed Huber A Swiss Muslim convert and supporter of Adolf Hitler & Al Qaeda.
Haj Amin al-Husseini Palestinian leader & Grand Mufti of Jerusalem – friend and ardent supporter of Adolf Hitler, he recruited tens of thousands of Yugoslavian Muslims to the SS, sparking the recent Balkan crisis, which the BBC blamed on the nasty white people.
Yahya Hammuda Chairman of the PLO and grand mufti of Jeruslam appointed by Yasser Arrafat.
Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa
Well you might hear of him from time to time, but only in reverential terms as an exhumation into the issue of whether he was poisoned is carried out.