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  1. Aerfen says:
    January 21, 2015 at 11:53 am

    The BBC are VERY excited about the banning of page three girsl!
    Given the amount of ‘indecency’ they’ve promoted over the years, including depiction of homosexuality before the watershed, regular snide double entendre with sexual innuendo and sexual acts its rank hypocrisy to be so prudish about the exposure of the female body in a national newspaper.
    Does anyone care either way?

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    • Geoff says:
      January 21, 2015 at 12:54 pm

      Hypocrisy from the feminists, its not OK for an attractive woman to be willingly paid to display her assets in a publication that only those to choose to pay for it see, yet its OK for them to get them out to breastfeed anytime, anyplace, anywhere regardless if anyone wants to see them or not….

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    • Roland Deschain says:
      January 21, 2015 at 12:54 pm

      Nope, couldn’t care less. If I want to see bare breasts, I just need to Google it.

      However, one thing you can guarantee. It won’t be enough for the feminists, who will shriek that it doesn’t go far enough. Which is why you should never give in to these types, because they just go on to something else.

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    • pah says:
      January 21, 2015 at 2:25 pm

      Ah but you forget that a woman’s body is hers and hers alone. Even her unborn child is part of it and may be aborted without shame. She can tattoo it and pierce it where ever she likes, she can wrap it in a black shroud, she can even mutilate her own genitals.

      But god forbid she should give others pleasure by displaying it. The Whore!

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  2. noggin says:
    January 21, 2015 at 12:17 pm

    “Islamic State plans 24-hour jihad TV channel
    Why? … CNN, MSNBC and the BBC not enough for them? “
    The Islamic State Plans own TV Channel”

    Japanese PM:
    “Extremism and Islam are completely different things”
    The imam (Not-Quite-Honest Abe) joins his fellow imams Barack Obama, John Kerry, Joe Biden, David Cameron, Theresa May and others in explaining that what the Islamic State is doing has “nothing to do with Islam”
    R Spencer
    sheesh! (the puns are coming thick and fast this morning)

    Anyway … on the day that 800, 000 join protests, NOT protesting against the murder of twelve cartoonists for drawing Mohamhead. … protesting AGAINST the Mohamhead cartoons,
    Whilst in Niger: Muslim mobs torch 45 churches in Motoon riots

    And nothing but whining complaints after a letter asks Imams to “do more” about extremism, led by “offence monger central”
    Al BBC
    “Bradford mosques leader demands apology over terror letter”
    … erm Muslims and Demand, anyone see a pattern emerging?
    A prescient point indeed.

    What do we get as a phone in on BBC radio?
    by N “the offended” Campbell?.
    Birthpool experiences

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  3. Guest Who says:
    January 21, 2015 at 12:22 pm

    A few ‘in other news’ before the tail-end Charlie ‘weekend’ thread evolves:

    http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/conclave.html?

    Nice to see how what is ‘news’ and ‘not news’ gets decided, at least for one day. Sure the rest are just like that.

    http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/paid-listener.html?

    ‘listening post to radio services around the world, recording, transcribing, translating and analysing bulletins in search of intelligence’

    So, a filter in, and a filter out, serving the filter above. Not news to many students of BBC watertight oversight and editorial omission.

    Still, a picture is worth a thousand words:

    http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/labelling.html?

    ‘does anyone else feel a tad queasy that the murderous activities of Boko Haram have been graced with a corporate logo by BBC News – a nice clean branding better than anything these thugs could create ?’

    Endorsing the author’s point, not within the BBC clearly. And one is sure CECUTT will take a year to decide that they are cool with it too.

    Still, good propaganda has always involved neat graphics. Ask a T-shirt vendor near you. Or Cuba.

    http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/eleven-times-table.html

    ‘The BBC appears to be having some trouble counting the number of its staff working’

    There, fixed that for you, Mr. Rogers.

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  4. Guest Who says:
    January 21, 2015 at 12:31 pm

    OT other than as possible EBO (Editorial by Omission), but it will be interesting to see whether the goldfish in that bowl decided this was news or not (currently the UK home page feels ‘Kiss and ride’ is defo… ‘news’) given all the contacts the staff must have made as they grieved all over the shop…

    http://www.citypress.co.za/columnists/thanks-visit-things-work/

    ‘In Cape Town, the state does not exist to serve political parties.’

    Is there a state media by chance? Like here?

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  5. George R says:
    January 21, 2015 at 1:29 pm

    Labour Party (with Beeboid support) stop gas exploration in Lancashire.

    The next time they feign to complain about unemployment, and economic growth levels in North West England, they should be reminded of this:-

    “Cuadrilla Lancashire fracking application ‘should be refused'”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-30913269

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  6. noggin says:
    January 21, 2015 at 2:48 pm

    BBC news – “Tel Aviv bus passengers stabbed
    A Palestinian man is shot and injured by security officers
    after stabbing at least 10 people in an attack on a Tel Aviv bus”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30910956
    A… typical BBC headline, yet again.
    Miss out the third line.
    Tel Aviv bus passengers stabbed
    Palestinian man is shot and injured by security officers

    “The Islamic State has called for jihad attacks against Infidel civilians, and we see them increasingly, in Israel, Europe and the U.S.
    But authorities are content to wave their hands and insist it has nothing to do with Islam, which means they have no clue as to the motive of these attacks … and don’t want one.
    Which means there will be many more such attacks”
    R Spencer
    http://news.yahoo.com/police-shoot-man-stabbed-passengers-tel-aviv-bus-060800485.html

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/palestinian-stabs-12-in-tel-aviv-bus-jihad-attack

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  7. Ian Rushlow says:
    January 21, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    Have a good physique and coordination skills? Use those attributes to earn money as an athlete or tennis player? No problem!

    Have a good brain and fortunate enough to have a good education? Use those attributes to earn money as a MP or journalist? No problem!

    Have a pretty face and shapely figure? Use those attributes to earn money as a model? Never!

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