A fresh week and election fever is in the air. Can we rely on the BBC to provide the Nation with a balanced coverage of this most important of campaigns? Or might their left wing bias shine through? The floor is yours!
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The fracas involved assistant producer Oisin Tymon, and according to my information on BBC employees, Tymon is a 36 year old Irishman who lives at an address in Holland Park, London. So therefore, it’s a Racist incident.
Lead item on Today and the headlines at 6.00 a.m. is babies openly on sale in China. This is not on the World Service and is certainly not on the headlines on the website. Any suggestions as to what is going on?
Advert for BBC programme about babu abduction….
The BBC is fretting about why there has been “a surge in Muslim prisoners” (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31794599). Apparently Muslims make up about 5% of the general population but nearly 15% of the prison population, meaning they are over-represented by a factor of three. The usual, tired, discredited cliches are rolled out to ‘explain’ this including poverty, negative stereotypes, Islamaphobia (sic) ad nauseam. We discover that only a minority are inside for terrorism-related offences (any child rapists, though?). We hear from the ‘independent’ Barrow Cadbury Trust, an example of whose world view can be found here http://www.barrowcadbury.org.uk/migration/.
But our world class broadcaster has missed out one possible reason why there are a disproportionate number of Muslim prisoners. It’s a controversial theory, but perhaps – just perhaps – is it because they commit a lot of crimes?
Maybe… I don’t know… some kind of quota could be introduced that would circumvent reality but satisfy the BBC order of things? Danny Cohen could draw it up if not too busy, secretly of course. Jason Mamford would approve.