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  1. Mike_s says:
    July 20, 2014 at 6:54 am

    The bbc news website has also an other kind of bias. They try to hide articles which are favorable for the religion of the peace.
    article on the front page of the DW
    http://www.dw.de/islamic-ultimatum-to-christians-in-iraq-northern-city/a-17795408
    Article on the bbc is not mentioned on the front page or on the sub section for the middle east.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28381455

    Now they can always say that they did report it, but you would not be able to find it if you used the normal front page or even the regional front page.

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    • John Andersn says:
      July 20, 2014 at 7:20 am

      Some Radio 4 reports suggested that the Christians there had to convert to Islam or pay tax or leave. Added almost as an afterthought was that the rest would be “put to the sword”.

      Why could the BBC not have put it straight ? Christians in Mosul were put under a very sudden threat of DECAPITATION.

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      • chrisH says:
        July 20, 2014 at 9:11 am

        “Put to the sword” indeed!
        Only the likes of the BBC would use such a phrase…very Arthur and His Round Table crap.
        No-it`s an old Stanley knife, or a sharp short knife for picking stones out of sheeps hooves as far as I can see.
        And there is no excuse for the BBC downplaying what they actually do…these barbaric animals that commit these throat cuttings seem to have considered Google etc to be haram…for the bastards actually upload their atrocitites in a bid to outdo each other in being evil.
        Trust the BBC-as Orwell says-watch their language-and as Jesus says-by their fruits ye shall know them.
        BBC?…Islam?…evil,

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  2. Mike_s says:
    July 20, 2014 at 7:12 am

    The bbc news website has also an other kind of bias. They try to hide articles which aren’t favorable for the religion of the peace.
    article on the front page of the DW
    http://www.dw.de/islamic-ultimatum-to-christians-in-iraq-northern-city/a-17795408
    Article on the bbc is not mentioned on the front page or on the sub section for the middle east.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28381455

    Now they can always say that they did report it, but you would not be able to find it if you used the normal front page or even the regional front page.

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    • chrisH says:
      July 20, 2014 at 9:17 am

      Christians in the Holy Land eh?
      Is there a problem?
      I only ask because the Church of Scotland eejit on the Sunday Service earlier seemed to be praying for Nike, Adidas, cohesion, Glaxo Smith Kline, diversity and Indian women financial co-ops.
      Didn`t actually hear too much about Jesus and His message…that the likes of Commonwealths were Christian in concept, and that TRUE unity comes not through Olympic-type mockeries of religion…but through personal salvation in Christ Himself.
      Typical BBC puff job..and the useless Church more that happy to extend their gormless Thought For the Day for 45 mins.
      As for those Jewish and Christian victims?…those secular and moderate types?….don`t ask the Church in Glasgow for a prayer…they don`t know how to anymore, so it seems.

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  3. John Andersn says:
    July 20, 2014 at 7:36 am

    For many users – maybe most or all users ? – BBC iPlayer has been broken since about 10am yesterday. It is still not working, after nearly 24 hours.

    There is a single webpage about this major flop – it has not been updated for 12 hours.

    Brilliant.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28388585

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    • Turtle Power says:
      July 20, 2014 at 8:25 am

      Why brilliant? Iplayer has technical issues and the BBC have put up a page informing users about it. Why is this worthy of comment on a site dedicated to exposing bias?

      Feel free to not answer as it is a bit of a trick question because the answer is obviously ‘it isn’t’.

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      • John Andersn says:
        July 20, 2014 at 8:42 am

        I had to go to Google to find anything about what was happening – there was no announcement on the BBC main website pages about the duration, cause, spread etc of the breakdown of iPlayer.

        And no update since yesterday evening.

        Trolls like you do not come here to raise issues of BBC bias – so quit your hypocrisy.

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  4. richard D says:
    July 20, 2014 at 9:49 am

    Why do I just get the feeling that the small mound of flowers, which has apparently only appeared today, near the site of MH17 wreckage, is a belated attempt by some power in the background to react to the opprobrium being heaped on those ‘rebels’ in the area in the area for the behaviour exhibited so far in this mess. I know it’s Sunday, but can that possibly be the only reason ?
    Yesterday, photos showed locals (including women) wandering about the wreckage, seemingly at will, reports of pillage and pilfering, at a time when investigation officials could hardly get near. Today we have film of the local ladies and girls laying flowers.

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  5. noggin says:
    July 20, 2014 at 10:04 am

    Resident Beebot Sian Lloyd
    Saleyha Ahsan: A&E doctor and presenter
    Ajmal Masroor: Imam and writer
    Angela Epstein: erm … Freelance? … Journalist
    yep! Sunday Morning Live
    Israel and the Palestinians? anyone? 😀
    any idea how its going to go? 😀
    one thing is certain
    the Brit public vote won t be on it 😀
    not after the recent islamophile BBC attempts

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    • noggin says:
      July 20, 2014 at 10:20 am

      oops! nearly forgot
      … “Fast Tales” next? …
      some Al BBC puff piece about Ramadan.
      well at least one side of Ramabomb …
      oops I mean Bombadan …
      I mean Ramadan is … booming (sorry)

      Ramadan Bombathon
      Terror Attacks 173, Suicide Bombings 21
      Dead Bodies 1511, Wounded 1113

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    • Pounce says:
      July 20, 2014 at 11:08 am

      Just walked in that program and I came in when the question was about having women leaders. When asked if he supported them at the end Ajmal Masroor, replied yes and then added “Lets pay women to stay at home”
      Mrs Pounce agreed with him, until I mentioned , That Islamic ideology demands women stay at home and that what was said was a very subtle attempt to subsume unacceptable Islamic mores into the British way of life.

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    • Pounce says:
      July 20, 2014 at 11:23 am

      From the next room, I heard the subject move onto Israel. Williams?? opened up with the huge civilian casualties and then handed over to Masroor. Well talk about a rant, according to him 70% were civilians and that the zionists (A term he used to refer to all Israeli) were evil and you can’t trust either the US or Uk.

      Well the slack cow in the chair allowed him to rabbit on, knowing full well the British public would feel sorry for the bBCs fav terrorists.
      A few points from me, Al Jaz keeps a death count on who has died have a look and notice how many of the dead are men aged from 16 to 50
      http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/07/gaza-under-seige-naming-dead-2014710105846549528.html
      From reading that I get the impression that the vast majority of dead are terrorists. But that’s just it, I have taken the time to look up the facts not arbitrary pick figures out of the air.

      This was followed by a spot on the wonders of…Ramadan. And the program itself was followed by a program on….Ramadan.
      Muslims are 2-4% of the population , why am I been fed a constant diet (which is illegal according to Islamic law during daylight hours) about..Ramadam.
      The bBC, the propganda outlet for Islam in the UK, paid for by you (96% of the non-Islamic population)

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      • Joshaw says:
        July 20, 2014 at 11:40 am

        Murnaghan’s treatment on Sky this morning was little better. However, the Israeli official (Minister?) gave a good account of himself but missed a trick after asking how we would react if missiles were targeted at the UK.

        They were – V1 and V2s, and we bombed the shit out of Germany.

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        • Mat says:
          July 20, 2014 at 6:17 pm

          Another thing the left wing want us to feel eternally guilty for ! but then we were bombing their mates in Germany!

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  6. George R says:
    July 20, 2014 at 11:11 am

    Islasm Not BBC (INBBC): censoring another Islamic jihad massacre in its headlines-

    “Kenya unrest: Seven killed in gun attack on Lamu bus”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28385445

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  7. AsISeeIt says:
    July 20, 2014 at 11:15 am

    I know that the BBC denies having an agenda – blame the NUJ or the left-liberal managment – but the proof is in what the BBC simply could never contemplate broadcasting.

    For example : Episode 5 of Channel 5’s Benefits Britain

    http://www.channel5.com/shows/benefits-britain-life-on-the-dole/episodes/episode-5-489

    Should be available on Demand 5 soon. Just read the blurb for now….

    ‘The programme follows Ion and five fellow immigrants as they travel to the UK in January 2014, just days after work restrictions on Romanians were lifted. Ion is shameless about why he’s moving to London. “I know it’s very, very easy to take benefits in England,” he says.

    He wants to make £40,000 from benefits to help him build a new house for his family back in the rural Romanian village where he grew up and thinks he can do so in one year, or perhaps two.

    Katarina, 43, is a larger-than-life Slovakian Roma. She has 11 children and 11 grandchildren living in and around an estate in Rotherham. “It’s very nice. Big family, yeah, Slovakia people! We have a good life here. We have everything that we want here,” she says.

    In the seven years that she has been here, Katarina has worked only a handful of days. She lives with her out-of-work husband Peter and their four youngest kids – all teenagers. Everything is paid for by benefits – they receive £430 a week.

    Her husband did have a long-term job but has now been unemployed for two years. He maintains that he will never going back to his country now that he has seen everything that he can get for free in England – a house, 0medical care, free schooling for his children and benefits. Most of the couple’s grown-up children also rely on the welfare state.

    Viorel is possibly one of the most remarkable Gypsies who has come to live in Britain. The 25-year-old lost both legs in an accident when he was seven years old. Now, he gets around on a skateboard. In Romania, he had to beg to get by. In Nottingham, he is enjoying a much better life, thanks to the £750 a month he receives in benefits. ‘

    BBC: ‘A better life for all : except the English plebs’

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    • johnnythefish says:
      July 20, 2014 at 8:37 pm

      Isn’t it amazing how Nick and Margaret managed to miss these cases?

      Wonder why that was?

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  8. Geoff says:
    July 20, 2014 at 11:24 am

    Last year I invested in a personal DAB radio so I could listen to the Ashes, just as the endless ad’s that the BBC run tell me that I should be ‘investing in DAB’ and never miss a sporting event again.

    Yesterday, apart from listening to the cricket I thought I would like to listen to the German GP qualification (as the BBC aren’t showing the race after the ‘deal’ with Sky) I tuned from 5Live Sports xtra back to 5Live only to find (understandably) that the Open Golf was on, but I was told I could listen to the GP online, which was no use as I was out and about.

    Now I understand that frequencies are limited and correctly the Golf and Cricket take priority, but back in the good old days when the bBC showed cricket on TV it took priority over everything else in the schedule. My point being we have very minority national DAB channels (1xtra, The Asian Channel or even 6Music) or even the local DAB channels which could have been given over to the F1 for just that one hour, where no doubt the listening figures would have increased 10 fold by the millions of Formula One Sky-less fans.

    i don’t want through my licence fee to contribute to the above stations as it is, however in such circumstances it would be good if the majority were served.

    I bet if Williams woman test driver Suzie Wolf had been competing in her first GP, the BBC would have pulled out all the stops to cover the event ….

    Rant over!

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    • Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:
      July 20, 2014 at 5:33 pm

      Aha…..the natural assumption that DAB will be a leap forward into our digital future!

      First of all they have squeezed way to many channels into a limited bandwidth, meaning the quality on DAB is not even as good as FM.
      Then, until august of last year, even tho’ I live about as far West in Wales as it’s possible to get, there was no Radio Wales, or Radio Cymru (in Welsh).
      Did I get Asian Network on DAB. ? Errrr…yes…..
      Anyway, last August they added my Welsh stations to the Preseli transmitter, but reception is even now only possible having fitted an outside antenna.
      Progress ? Not to me !
      I will never forget an early digital lesson, when our ancient cable supplier urged us all to go digital, huge fanfare, in it came, the digital age……great. Day two I looked for ceefax, yes I know, youngsters wont know what that is, and nope…there was diddly squat, and nothing in its place.
      Another con…..yes it came later, but much much later.

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      • RJ says:
        July 20, 2014 at 7:26 pm

        I bought a DAB radio for Radio 4 Extra – then I discovered Planet Rock!!!!!!

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      • Arthur Penney says:
        July 20, 2014 at 7:49 pm

        And digital information is much slower than Ceefax and contains far less information per page and isn’t updated as quickly.

        Other than that it’s great!

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  9. George R says:
    July 20, 2014 at 12:38 pm

    TUNISIA today: home of the misguided INBBC’s ‘Arab Spring’:-

    “Tunisia: closed mosques and media”

    http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2014/07/20/97001-20140720FILWWW00017-tunisie-des-mosquees-et-medias-fermes.php

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  11. John Andersn says:
    July 20, 2014 at 12:47 pm

    I don’t suppose the BBC will be broadcasting that Hamas broke today’s brief ceasefire in the Shejaiya district of Gaza – where 10 tunnels were discovered last night. Or that Hamas is evidently preventing journalists from leaving Gaza.

    And of course the BBC never suggests that Hamas has minders for all the journalists.

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    • Deborah says:
      July 20, 2014 at 11:38 pm

      Lyse just went into the passive tense, telling us the ceasefire was broken, implying that the Israelis were equally to blame.

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  12. Mr Thikas Toosh Ortplanks says:
    July 20, 2014 at 12:54 pm

    Yet again, I risk blood pressure and a pleasant mood by dipping my toe into the foul waters of Sunday Morning Live only to be met with yet another Muslim topic for debate. Aren’t they a minority in this country? 4pc of the population or something? Yet, they’re on the BBC whining all the time… incessant Muslim coverage. Just think what it’ll be like when their numbers vastly increase (which if their procreation skills are anything to go by is a near certainty).

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  13. Old Goat says:
    July 20, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    The BBC, who really love Lord Lawson, honestly – cross-our-hearts-and-hope-to-die (but not yet…), back pedalling a little?

    http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2014/7/20/bbc-and-nigel-lawson.html

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  14. Roy Tobot says:
    July 20, 2014 at 4:01 pm

    Just a few years after being found guilty of ‘Age Discrimination’ the BBC has done it again. Divesting themselves of Country Files’ Julia Bradbury, presumably because she is over forty. Her replacement is a blonde bimbo better suited to Blue Peter or some such childrens programme. Thank goodness Adam Hanson is still around.

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    • Scott says:
      July 20, 2014 at 4:32 pm

      Alternatively, Bradbury left of her own accord in an exclusive deal with ITV that will see her present at least one show that she has helped to devise.

      Damn that pesky BBC, allowing presenters to make their own contractual decisions!

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      • GaysAgainstScott says:
        July 20, 2014 at 5:16 pm

        On behalf of the gay community, i would like to appologise for Scotts rantings, he does not know what he is talking about.

        It is commonly know, and legally proved, that Country File discriminates on the basis of age

        http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jan/11/countryfile-miriam-oreilly-tribunal

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        • Scott says:
          July 20, 2014 at 5:28 pm

          An intelligent person will recognise that a successful 2011 case doesn’t automatically mean that the same thing has happened here, especially when the presenter has gone on record about her new TV jobs and her happiness with her decision.

          But then, intelligent people aren’t welcome on Biased BBC. They get in the way of the deceit and the hypocrisy from the usual suspects, don’t they?

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          • Old Goat says:
            July 20, 2014 at 5:59 pm

            Intelligent people (and goats), Scott, draw their own conclusions., It would appear that many have drawn their own about you. Can it be that they’re all wrong?

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    • Deborah says:
      July 20, 2014 at 8:02 pm

      I have just switched off Countyfile as we are having John Craven love-in as he has been on the programme for 25 years. As guest editor we saw him with the production team sunning themselves as they discussed the programme. (I gave up sitting in the sun when I was supposed to be working when I left primary school). Production team consisted of 2 men and about 10 women (they moved the camera so quickly it was difficult to count). I guess all the women were between 27-35 and all were white. Nearly all were blonde and all wearing similar expensive looking sunglasses. Ie they were clones of each other and were not the male majority Lord Hall tells us the BBC is and the reason we have to include more women. I have to add as I live in the rural community none of the women looked as though they might have the knowledge to walk safely through a field of cows.

      In addition our local weather has just assured us of a dry night (it is harvest time and a few dry days would be greatly appreciated) and the sky has turned so black I am having to switch on the lights. When will the BBC understand their rural viewers?

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  15. George R says:
    July 20, 2014 at 5:31 pm

    Big news for political ‘left’ apparently, including Beeboids:-

    “Chelsea Manning to receive military ‘gender treatment'”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28360034

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  16. adam says:
    July 20, 2014 at 5:47 pm

    Why are there essentially no exemptions to the Tv Licence.

    What about the poor, why are they not exempt?
    The dispossessed.
    The discriminated against.
    The Immigrants. Legal and illegal.
    Homosexuals.
    Women
    Etc.

    All the other vulnerable exploited groups.

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    • uncle bup says:
      July 20, 2014 at 7:48 pm

      I caught the tail-end yesterday of someone suggesting television-licence banks to run along-side food banks.

      Trussel (sp?) Trust – over to you.

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  17. Fred Bloggs says:
    July 20, 2014 at 8:53 pm

    Sorry if this has already been commented, I thoroughly enjoyed watching MP Philip Davies tearing Lord Hall an extra orifice. Showing him up by appointing Purnell without competition, suggesting one of them should give up their job for the sake of equality.

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  18. Virgin queen says:
    July 20, 2014 at 9:04 pm

    Golf- Rory McIlroy is a fantastic golfer but he has opted to play golf for the republic of Ireland at the Rio Olympics in 2016 therefore by definition he is Irish and not British – BBC commentators please amend your commentary accordingly

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  19. John Andersn says:
    July 20, 2014 at 9:04 pm

    BBC iPlayer is still down for many/most users, so is the main BBC Homepage. The trouble has run for 36 hours now ! With the BBC releasing virtually nil information to the tech press and other media.

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  20. AsISeeIt says:
    July 20, 2014 at 9:17 pm

    It is becoming apparent that ‘the West’ – ie the Obama/EU/cast-iron-Dave liberals – hope to deploy ‘public opinion’ in a way that our former leaders relied on those rather more tangible dipolmatic assets : gunboats or nuclear warheads.

    Small wonder then that the BBC is at the forefront of finding, reporting on and indeed whipping up ‘anger’ on demand.

    Other posters have already drawn attention to the Beeboids showing evident disappointment at Dutch reserve in such matters. One female reporter explained away the Hollandish lack of outpouring with ‘it’s a conservative country’ – the BBC never do seem to nail the proper dictionary meaning of that ‘c-word’ do they?

    Watch this space said Clive Myrie at the airport, the premier is about to speak to the press, so we may have some anger for you – or words to that effect.

    What I ask myself is why were we pretending there was no war going on down there?

    When Putin bloodlessly annexed the Crimea it was all systems go at the BBC – outrage!

    When the pro-Ruskies stormed the police stations it was panic stations.

    But since the Ukraine army began the couter-offensive taking back territory it has been a case of – don’t worry, look elsewhere. No need to worry at all really – indeed no need to reschedule those holiday air routes. Normal service will soon be resumed.

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  21. AsISeeIt says:
    July 20, 2014 at 9:35 pm

    I thought the BBC was all about reintegrating former offenders, forgive and forget, second chances and all that?

    Not when it comes to thought criminals it’s not.

    BBC 5 Live producer Nick Smith….

    Nick Smith ‏@producernick
    Just watching FA Cup highlights from yesterday…Andy Gray seems to have sneaked back onto our screens without much fuss…
    Salford

    Clearly his right-on Tweet solicits at least one appropriate and right-thinking right-on response….

    David Jerman ‏@davidjerman Jan 26
    @producernick Urgh, was disgusted at this yesterday. Was doing the Everton game.

    BBC : there’s a culture war on, you know – take no prisoners!

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  22. thoughtful says:
    July 20, 2014 at 10:19 pm

    http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/dame-jenni-murray-dogs-travel-7461972

    Yet another scandalous waste of TV tax payers money on one of the most vociferous left wing fascists they employ. I wonder why the lefties enjoy telling us lot what to do whilst having not the slightest intention of doing the same thing themselves.

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  23. Dazed & Confused says:
    July 20, 2014 at 10:40 pm

    UKIP film that the BBC will truly detest..

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  24. Arthur Penney says:
    July 20, 2014 at 10:42 pm

    Probably the sickest newspaper article you will find around and yet more proof that the left love paediastry.

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  25. Teddy Bear says:
    July 20, 2014 at 11:03 pm

    I might be wrong but there’s something very fishy about this.
    A retired BBC worker has told the Daily Star that murdered BBC Crimewatch presenter, Jill Dando, was notified of a paedophile ring of ‘big names’ inside the BBC. She handed a file to management and reported it to her bosses ‘but nobody wanted to know’.

    That doesn’t surprise me at all given what we’ve seen with the cover up of Savile’s deeds by the BBC. The only question is how far would the BBC go to silence her?

    Miss Dando, 37, was gunned down outside her home in Fulham, west London, on April 26, 1999, moments after stepping out of her car.

    Dando was killed with a single muffled bullet to the skull and neighbours found her in a pool of blood on her doorstep in a crime that shocked Britain.

    Her killer has never been found.

    I wouldn’t put it past these insidious pieces of excrement.

    Murdered Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando ‘tried to get bosses to investigate alleged paeodphile ring inside the BBC but no one wanted to know’

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  26. noggin says:
    July 20, 2014 at 11:44 pm

    Anyone catch BBC News-watch? …
    about all the complaints, that the BBCs received, that it is showing far too much bias IN FAVOUR of Israel ?!*!?
    … (must have come from Hamas and Al Jazeera) …
    Oh! and after its non reporting on an upheld Burkha ban in France … any chance this will get an airing
    UK Imam calls for burka ban

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