Monthly Archives: September 2015

The BBC treated us to a ‘Migration Special’ today…not sure why it was ‘special’ as it seemed to be the same old unpleasant, emotive trickery rank with the odour of sanctimonious and completely unearned moral superiority that BBC journalists wrap themselves in.

The BBC mashed together as many of its old reports on the migrants that it could, the more emotive, the more sympathy inducing, the more guilt inducing the better.  This was pure propaganda designed to ‘change your mind’ should you have doubts about the wisdom of opening the borders in the way they have been to what can only be described as an invasion, one that seems to consist mostly of highly aggressive young men which can’t bode well for the future.

The BBC has three prongs to its attack…one, make you feel sympathy for the plight of the ‘refugees’, and we are constantly assured that they are refugees despite many coming from safe countries, second, to make you feel guilty that perhaps you are not being compassionate or humane enough, the BBC telling us we just don’t understand how these migrants/refugees must feel, third, failing all that they try to shame us by suggesting that anyone who doesn’t support the migration must be a Nazi…of course they don’t say this outright but they head off to Hungary or the Czech Republic, quote someone from there, make a sweeping conclusion from that one quote that the whole country is therefore packed full of racists and that you don’t really want to be seen to be like them…do you?  The BBC’s Rob Cameron claimed that East Europeans are a bit too white and a bit too culturally unenlightened…they haven’t learnt of the benefits of a multicultural society as we have in the UK…such as Rotherham, or the Trojan Horse scandal or bombs going off in London or a British soldier being almost beheaded in an English city.

As I say, nowt but propaganda.

And the BBC isn’t giving up….it’s not just the news being fabricated to fit the BBC agenda but they have started to use licence payers money to pump out dramas that are pure propaganda for the migrant cause.

Tonight we had a drama that must have been churned out as fast as possible in the hope that putting the plight of the migrants in a form that wasn’t ‘cold, hard news’, in a form that could be artistically embellished [to a greater extent than they have already achieved with the news] would increase the emotional manipulation and be more effective than ‘straight news’ that people might view less emotionally and more critically….and of course it allows the BBC to build ‘loveable’ characters and invent life stories and dramatic and perilous troubles that supposedly hook  the viewer and  link them to the characters and their situation, all intended to hopefully produce a feeling of personal connection and sympathy which will then translate into real life and how you feel about real refugees.

When the BBC churns out highly political messages dressed up as entertainment, as drama, then you have to think the BBC has stepped way over the line and has completely lost the plot as it moves from a supposedly impartial observer and reporter helping people understand the issues to an activist, an alarmist campaigner peddling its own views and attempting to label anyone who disagrees as inhumane nazis.

BBC news is shaped not to inform but to reform.  You are too uneducated or too prejudiced to be allowed to make your own decisions…the BBC will make them for you and if you don’t agree then it will publicly denounce you as a racist, a Nazi or as someone lacking compassion and humanity hoping to make it ‘socially unacceptable’ to express concerns about immigration.

The only light at the end of the tunnel is that despite all this mawkish and emotive propaganda from the BBC I have yet to meet anyone who thinks opening the borders is a good idea…or that helping British jihadis on their way to martyrdom is a bad thing….many would happily send the bill for the hellfire missile that ended their murderous lives to the families of the recently deceased seeing as how ready the jihadis and Co are to sue the British government.

A Biased BBC reader saw this and then posted me this…

“How benevolent of you to manage to draw Israel into the migrant crisis in Europe in your report. It appears that at every opportunity you have available you like to get the message across to viewers, listeners and readers that somewhere along the line the Jews have a responsibility. You could have gone to any of the other cities and towns to file your report but somehow following your instincts the Yarmouk “refugee” camp exactly suited you anti-Israel agenda and bias.

It is clear that to the average viewer/reader your filed report is accurate and to be relied upon but in essence it was distorted and far from honest. As BBC Mid East Editor since the Balen Report of 2004 your focus on Israel is beyond the realms of good honest journalism.

It is time you acknowledged you have a bias against Jews and Israel and desisted from taking every opportunity to bash us.”

Hear Hear….

For several days, the BBC ran the sob story that “Aylan Kurdi” ended up being drowned off the Turkish coast because his father, Abdullah, had to flee Islamic State in an act of desperation and nobility. On the basis of this story, the EU has opened up its borders to potentially millions of muslims. It is now clear that there are some serious holes in this story not LEAST the fact that his father was living in Turkey for 3 years before the drowning. Islamic State didn’t exist back then, so how could be be fleeing them? Isn’t this worth the BBC at least considering? Or was this all just a concerted effort to destroy even the fiction of EU borders to North Africa? The source is …The Guardian.

Here you go, a new OPEN THREAD to detail the bias!

I listened to the BBC run yet ANOTHER sympathetic piece concerning the plight of all those poor “refugees” at the Jungle camp near Calais (7.30, Today programme) This time it’s about those noble caring leftists who send Aid to the illegal immigrants. Funny how the “world class” BBC talent misses THIS story…

“150kg of clothes sent to the Calais migrants in aid. they’ve just set fire to the lot”

Lovely people. Culturally enriching and full of gratitude.

Woke up this morning to the Today programme demanding to know why the UK had ..gasp…killed two Islamic Jihadists. This is the same Today programme that has been shrieking that we must accept those who flee Islamic State. I wonder do they ever sit down and examine the extreme cognitive dissonance that permeates their daily ‘coverage”?

The BBC doesn’t like the way you think.  You’re far too independent of mind and far too unwilling to bow to their superior intelligence, knowledge and heightened sense of morality…Hence the BBC feels justified in patronising and lecturing you with an endless stream of pro-immigration propaganda that is designed to counter your appalling prejudices, ignorance and inhumanity.

Think we shouldn’t let in so many culturally alien migrants?  That’s very sad says Mark Easton as he expresses his sorrow at our selfishness and unfeeling inhumanity.

Think that the migrants are mainly economic since they abandon the safe areas they have initially fled to?  Wrong…the situation is very confused….and poverty and loss of hope is a terrible burden that the West can alleviate….and you know what, the migrants only want to contribute to our economy…listen out for that one…it’s one of the phrases that seems to have been forged and passed on in the ‘memo’ for use against the doubters.

Think that Europe doesn’t need all these migrants?  Wrong...Germany is in desperate need of more workers as it’s population falls and ages….that of course is no solution as the migrants will age and they also bring with them their own cultural baggage….the Turks refuse to integrate and have been told not to by the Turkish government…..that is just storing up a lot of trouble for the future…..Merkel admits there’s trouble ahead…but still invites more in…‘Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the “breathtaking” flow of migrants into Germany will “occupy and change” the country in the coming years.’

Think that Hungary has the right approach to dealing with the swarms of migrants invading their territory?  Wrong…..The Hungarians are such hypocrites…having been ‘fed a diet of anti-migrant vitriol’ and having been migrants themselves…Migrant crisis: Hungary crossings echo 1989 and 1956…..though of course the Hungarians in the UK don’t set up parrallel societies , try to take over schools by stealth, call white women prostitutes, consider young white girls as trash and sexual playthings, they don’t try to bomb us, they don’t cut off soldiers heads in the streets of Britain, they don’t set up ‘Hungarian patrols’ to force people to live by their own laws…..just a few of the difficulties that ‘alien’cultures bring with them.

“Why these defendants focused their attention on white under-age girls is unexplained but I have no doubt vulnerability played a substantial part in it,” he said.

“If they pursued Asian under-age girls, they would have paid a heavy price in their community.”

Think that ISIL members might be hiding in amongst the migrants (along with many ‘normal’ criminals’)?  Wrong….it’s all propaganda from the anti-immigration brigade…This viral photo falsely claims to show an IS fighter posing as a refugee

The possibility of militants sneaking into Europe as part of the huge flow of migrants from Syria and other countries has long worried governments and experts, but one viral picture claiming to show proof of a “migrant” Islamic State fighter isn’t at all what it seems.

But if there are IS fighters posing as asylum seekers, this man is not one of them. In fact, for an asylum seeker, his identity is unusually well documented. His name is Laith Al Saleh, and last month he was the subject of a profile by the Associated Press news agency. He says that he was a Free Syrian Army commander, and that before the civil war he worked as a plasterer in his home city of Aleppo.

Note that ‘unusually well documented’….really?  By whom?  There’s only one report and that is based on the guy’s own word that he isn’t an ISIL member.  Why has he shaved off his beard?  He says he is one of the Free Syria groups….that could be ISIL, or it could be Al Nusra or any of the other hardline groups there…not at all certain who he is or his history….so not at all ‘unusually well documented’.

And note this that the BBC doesn’t quote from the same source..

‘Kos held a more sinister encounter for him — a man he recognized as a Syrian enemy. “Two days ago, I saw a sniper for the government forces,” he said. “I didn’t talk to him, but I am still very angry.”

So that’s an alleged ‘Free Syria’ rebel and an Assad sniper mingling with the crowds…any chance that there are plenty of ISIL amongst them too?

Think that most of the migrants are fit, healthy young men of an aggressive nature?  No you’d be wrong as the BBC fills the screens and its reports with photos of women and children and we hear heart rending tales of perilous jourmeys against the odds….even though I did hear James Mates admit this morning that most of the migrants are in fact young, fit males who are in fact dodging conscription into the Syrian army or one of the rebel groups….odd how that isn’t reflected in the vast majority of the BBC’s reporting and their TV pictures and web photos.

The BBC is very definitely running a campaign to ‘change your mind’ on immigration.  So much for it being ‘your’ BBC.

Who needs a charter review if the BBC is closed down as perhaps it should be?…It is now completely out of control and unaccountable it seems.

Two down…many more to go!

One strike in Syria – what next?

Just a couple of weeks ago, an unmanned British Reaper drone did drop a missile on a group of so-called IS fighters in Syria that killed two British citizens.

One, the target, Reyaad Khan, was according to David Cameron involved in plotting a barbaric attack on British soil. In the PM’s view and, he says, the view of the government’s most senior lawyer – the attorney general – that made the attack entirely proper and legal.

“There was a terrorist directing murder on our streets and no other means to stop him,” the PM said. Although we’ve been told repeatedly British drones have been flying over Syria to carry out surveillance, in the small print the government always retained the right to act in extremis without specific permission from MPs.

But you know what….you can’t be sure this strike was in any way justified…the BBC has many questions to ask…

As the operation appears to have been led by intelligence the truth is we may never know what really happened, what the precise circumstances were.

As have the family…and the BBC is all too willing to provide a platform for them.

The ‘barbaric’ Khan is dead…but the BBC has already warmed up the seats in the studios for the lengthy series of chats they are looking forward to having with the family…the real  ‘victims’….

Family ‘devastated and broken’ over RAF strike death

A friend of the Khan family says they are “devastated” over the death of Reyaad Khan in Syria.

After much skirmishing Tony Hall has finally fired the opening salvo in the Charter Wars and set out his initial gameplan for the BBC march to victory.

It is a gameplan with imperial ambitions.  Less is definitely more in Tony Hall’s world it seems.  That world is to be seen by more and more people but filtered more and more through the BBC lens…if Hall has his way. This is a huge, ambitious power grab to make the BBC the king maker, the interpreter of world events that everyone turns to whether they realise it or not as the BBC feeds its news into other ‘independent’ outlets and controls how that news is interpreted and perceived.

However we must remember that ‘this is not an expansionist BBC.’  And Russian troops are not in the Ukraine.

Let’s look at some of the detail……

He tells us, as usual, that we all love the BBC..

The BBC has a very simple purpose. We’re here to make great programmes and services. That’s why people love the BBC. That’s why they enjoy it. That’s why they trust it. That’s why they value it.

The BBC makes great programmes…that’s why he says…they enjoy it…they love it….they trust it…they value it.

Just one thing missing from that of course….here’s how the sentence ended….’That’s what they pay us to do.’

If Hall really was so sure that the people loved the BBC, trusted and enjoyed it, he would have said ‘That’s why they pay us to do it’  Of course he couldn’t say that because the audience doesn’t have the choice as to whether they can make that ultimate signal of approval by paying hard cash for something.

When Hall puts his confidence in his own genius to the test and starts to ask how many people will pay for this service, and how much, we might start to believe him.

And let’s also start with a bit of truth…Hall claims that  ‘The iPlayer helped create a market, and others followed with successful players of their own.’

Really?  YouTube went live in 2005….Channel 4’s 4OD in 2006:

Channel 4 Launches 4oD Video-On-Demand Service

16 Nov 2006 News Releases

Channel 4 today announces the launch of 4oD, its own-brand video-on-demand service, making it the first UK broadcaster to make all its home-grown programming available on an on demand basis. 

The iPlayer?  2007…

BBC iPlayer launched

Dec 27th 2007, 00:00

Christmas Day saw the official launch of the BBC’s much anticipated online iPlayer, with television adverts pushing the playback service to viewers.

Hall is trying to create the idea that the BBC is at the centre of creativity and the new digital world…clearly they are in fact behind the curve on this not leading from the front.  Sky, and Alan Sugar, were the pioneers of innovative digital technology not the BBC….the BBC which spent £100 million on a digital management system that never got off the ground….Youtube cost a couple of million to start up….where did the BBC go so wrong?

Hilariously Hall says…‘We intend to put our technology and digital capabilities at the service of our partners and the wider industry – bringing us closer together for the good of the country – to deliver the very best to audiences.’  I’m sure they are all very grateful…but going backwards probably isn’t in their own gameplans.

Onto the meat of the speech and we get to Hall’s over-inflated, high flown bombast that pumps out the self-adoring flattery of the BBC…he tells us that the essence of the BBC is “excellence without arrogance” and then goes on to say that not only does he want the BBC to be ‘a BBC that is a creative powerhouse for the whole of the United Kingdom’ but that it already is that powerhouse….’We are the cornerstone of one of the most successful media industries of the world.’  No bloated self-regard and arrogance there then.

Many might quibble with his claim as there are many more broadcasters and creative movers and shakers out there….and essentially the BBC is in its position purely because it is in its position…it is too big to fail…and as Stalin said ‘Quantity has a quality all of its own’.  The BBC maybe a big player in the media industry but that is only because of its unique, abundant and risk free funding rather than any other innate talent or quality that only the BBC possesses….it has relatively vast amounts of money, it spends it, therefore it dominates…possibly an argument against the license fee rather than for it, especially when you consider how the BBC uses that power to disseminate highly political messages within its programmes which kind of makes a mockery of Halls ‘watchwords’….‘Creative freedom. Universal reach. Trust and consent. These are the watchwords of the BBC.’

What of that freedom to be as creative as they like?….

We want the BBC in the next decade to be a magnet for creativity – the place people come to make brilliant programmes, programmes of distinction. For producers, directors, writers, artists to have the creative freedom to do things they would find it harder to do elsewhere.

And, by the way, that isn’t just coming from me. It’s what Peter Kosminsky, who directed Wolf Hall for us, Hugo Blick, and other extraordinarily gifted people – it’s what they tell me.

That’ll be the BBC that carefully ‘manages’ what can be said about climate change, which even now is ‘managing’ how we are meant to perceive the immigration crisis…how many times have you heard a  BBC presenter ask ‘Have you changed your mind yet on how we should treat refugees?’?  Clearly we are supposed to listen and learn……as I type Craig at Is the BBC Biased? (Hell yes!)  brings us this from Mark Easton…

Our conscience has been pricked, our hearts have been softened. The tragic image of little Alan Kurdi lying dead on Europe’s shoreline has, we are told, awakened Britain’s generous nature….But I’m afraid I don’t believe it.

No, ‘fraid not Mark.

This is the BBC which refuses to publish the truth about Islam and has censored its own programmes to hide uncomfortable truths…for example about the causes of radicalisation…the BBC’s preferred cause being Western foreign policy…when the truth came out that it was due to the increasing identification with Islam by young Muslims the BBC suddenly shelved the film that they had commissioned in search of the answer…an answer they didn’t want to find.

And as for Hugo Blick…the man who brought us ‘The Honourable Woman’…a highly, highly politicised anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian tract that wasn’t even particularly good TV.  Freedom to be creative?  God help us.

What else?  Oh yes…

Our aim, as we set out in the paper we’re publishing today, is to create a BBC that is more distinctive than ever – and clearly distinguishable from the market.

That’ll be Strictly, Doctors, The Voice and a few historical bodice rippers.   Very distinguished.

Then we have….

The BBC’s mission was set nearly a century ago by its founding father, Lord Reith. It was to inform, to educate and to entertain. That mission is as pertinent today as it was then. And as necessary in the future as it is now.

The BBC doesn’t ‘educate’ and ‘inform’…it provides us with very subjective material that provides a very one-sided view of the world….as with immigration.

Which brings us onto this…Trust….

The internet strengthens the case for the BBC and its enduring role in serving the public.

In the internet era, it is easier to find information but harder to know whether to trust it. In the internet age our mission is simple: great British programmes and a trusted guide for every one of us.

‘Trust’ the BBC?  You are kidding.

However if you do trust the BBC you can provide them with all your personal data that enables them to personalise its service to you…

Mobile also provides the best opportunity to deliver a more personalised news service and to inform audiences in new ways – the relevant data, context and information that everyone needs, delivered to suit their requirements.

A bespoke BBC News, made to measure for you, wherever you are.

Big Brother is watching and taking notes of everything you do.

Then there are those imperial ambitions…to take on the world….curiously India is counted as amongst those nations in need of the BBC’s help in democratising itself…alongside those other paragons of virtue…Russia and the Middle Eastern states….just another example of the BBC’s anti-Hindu stance that is all too apparent at the moment?…

It’ll also be the backbone of our global news operation helping us to reach 500m people, building on the unique power and brand of the World Service – one of our country’s greatest assets abroad.

This is a service we want to strengthen and expand through new proposals we are also publishing today. My own strong view is that this is one area where this country’s voice could be much stronger – especially in the Middle East, India and Russia and the states that used to make up the Soviet Union.

And then there is the local news…Janet Daley isn’t impressed and nor are local newsmen…here’s Hall blowing smoke up their backsides….

Local democracy really interests me. I’ve seen for myself how important our local radio stations are, and I’m really proud of the way they serve their communities. But I now want us to go further.

So, in future, The BBC would set aside licence fee funding to invest in a service that reports on Councils, courts and public services. And we would make available our regional video and local audio for immediate use on the internet services of local and regional news organisations.

In my view, that’s good for audiences, good for the industry but we look forward to hearing the views of others.

So having the BBC provide independent news outlets with news is good for democracy?  It sounds more like something Stalin would have been overjoyed about as the local press seem to suggest:

The BBC’s plans for “a network of 100 public service reporters across the country” did not find favour with the Scottish Newspaper Society, who labelled the proposal “a Trojan horse which will undermine long-established publications and destroy local news agencies”.

“Instead of helping local news publishers, it would make the BBC even more powerful and would further concentrate coverage of news in the hands of the state-funded broadcaster,” said its director John McLellan.

“Under the guise of being helpful, the BBC would end up replacing independent local news services,” he told Radio 4’s The World at One, calling the plan “a further expansion of the BBC’s encroachment”.

The BBC disagrees…

This accusation was rejected by James Purnell, the BBC’s director of strategy, who told the same programme it was “very much not the goal” for the BBC to “take over all local journalism”.

Then we get onto another brick in the Berlin Wall that the BBC seems to want to build to annex off the media world as its own little kingdom…the ‘Ideas Service’…..a ‘gift to the world’….like Communism no doubt……

In the 20th century, Britain created the World Service, a democratic gift to the world. In this century, building on the wealth of British knowledge and culture, we want to offer another gift: the Ideas Service.

It is a core part of our vision for an Open BBC.

The Ideas Service will be a platform for the ideas that matter and for the people who want to explore them. An open online platform.

The Service will host the best content from the BBC but also from some of our country’s leading cultural institutions: from the British Museum to the Royal Shakespeare Company, from the Edinburgh Festivals to the Liverpool Biennial, from this amazing institution – the Science Museum – to the University of Manchester.

Our new, Open BBC will act as a curator bringing the best from Britain’s great cultural institutions and thinkers to everyone. Britain has some of the greatest cultural forces in the world. We want to join with them, working alongside them, to make Britain the greatest cultural force in the world.

So the BBC will be the ‘curator’ of these ‘ideas’?…it will file, manage, analyse and interpret and then disseminate….everything once again filtered through the BBC lens.  No area of life is to be free from the BBC thought police it seems.

As Hall admits…others may bring you the news but the BBC will help you to ‘understand’ it….all coloured by its own particular and very prejudiced way of thinking.

We are extremely ambitious for this new service.

Where Google’s mission is to organise the world’s information, ours, in a smaller way, would be to understand it.

It’s a brave new world out there.

And there’s more of this to come…

Today’s paper is the first in a series of four key moments. The second paper, which will be published at the Royal Television Society conference later this month, sets out our proposals on the future of BBC production and Worldwide. The third, which will be published in early October, will be the BBC’s direct response to the Government’s questions set out in their Green Paper. The fourth moment, later in the year, will set out the BBC’s money saving proposals.

Here we go, a new Open Thread for you to detail the bias. The BBC has become a prime cheerleader for Open Borders and the UK accepting as many “Syrian Refugees” as you can shake a stick at. Each morning we are presented with ever so cuddly tales of grateful smiling Mums and cute kids. Just don’t mention the vast number of fighting age men….anyway, the floor belongs to you.