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Ex Guardian editor, Peter Preston, tells us that ‘the most vehement critics of the press are academics and campaigners who’ve long held the BBC as their news chronicler of choice (people who wish that grubby old print could match the loftier aspirations of Broadcasting House).
Ironically the trouble is that it is the BBC’s single minded commitment to those very ‘lofty aspirations’ that corrupts the BBC and tarnishes its fine ideals. It deems those ‘fine ideals‘ so self-evident that it cannot countenance any other way of looking at the world and ‘manages’ its news output to ensure that its own ideological world view predominates. How it reports climate change is the classic example of this, its environmental reporters no longer to be trusted as independent, impartial journalists, but more often than not looking like campaigners for a cause….and all backed up by the BBC Trust.
Preston goes on to talk of the BBC chair of that Trust and suggests that if Tory Lord Coe gets the position ‘there ought to be a monstrous howl from everyone who values media freedom.’
Curiously he has nothing to say about all those Guardian journo’s and Labour politicians taking the BBC shilling….though rumour is that James Harding may be heading back to the FT…a suitably pink rag.
Those academics with contacts with the BBC are the unemployable social parasites appointed to university administrative political duties because they are no longer academically productive, but are used as useful idiots to leach of society by lobbying for funding from government and assisting the environmental activists at the BBC, who use their opinions, as an excuse to censor the science, scientists and scientific debate.
For the sake of a freely funded, free press and free media, the BBC as with these academics and environmental activists need to be swept away, as all these people are funded by an immoral way, which also motivates them all to remain social parasites, by pleading for stolen money, to solve problems that do not exist.
Maybe this could help with further investigations into the social parasites at the BBC.
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).
430 people just for complaints! …something to complain about!
It’s more 429 people to sit on things for several months before cutting and pasting a ‘we apologise for the delay, but we got it right and there’s no point this going outside the file in the basement with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard’ cookie cutter.
And one to tell Lord Pantone and the Trust each month that they are all doing very well (young Mr. Grace style), nothing to see here or worry about.
It’s all still their little secret.
Also:-
“Nick Pollard: ‘Sky News is always more inventive and energetic than BBC News.’”
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/06/nick-pollard-sky-news-bbc-news?
*Libel alert*
Have people got such short memories that they have already forgotten about the McAlpine allegations? “Rumours” about Lord McAlpine – which turned out to be entirely unsubstantiated – circulated on the net. Those who helped spread these unfounded allegations found themselves – quite rightly, in my opinion – being sued for libel.
Quite so. It seems some are, BBC style, happy to believe these rumours because they don’t like the people concerned.