Just a note to the BBC that seems entirely unaware that Corbyn is not Churchill……
Massed cheerleading from the hard-core believers is not the same as mass popularity.
On another note…try replacing Black Cabs (BC) with BBC in the narrative in this video and see if the sentiments are the same….a group that doesn’t want competition ...’it’s just protectionism…the last closed shop’…and ‘is it not always going to be the way that the ones who had the monoploy in the past are the ones who are going to resist…there’s never going to be a moment when you’d welcome [change and competition]?’
Sounds familiar. Roll on Charter Review.
Roll on Charter Review, yes but given the example of Boy Dave’s non-review of our subservient relationship with the EU and continuing diffidence with regard to Al Beeb’s leftward bias, I don’t hold out much hope for change.
Perhaps the Charter Review won’t be as toothless (and cojones-less) as I had always thought it would be –
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/05/john-whittingdale-bbc-allegations-political-bias-coverage-tory-conference
It just might be a start. (Sorry if I offend anyone by linking to the arse-wipe Grauniad.)
We’ll see.
The BBC shrieking that the BBC no longer deciding the BBC gets it about right will dimiish them is comedy gold. Just not sure if OFCOM will be any different.
The comments are mostly as deranged as one might expect.
I did like this exchange:
“The only bias present in the BBC is towards the right.”
“Is that why the Tories are so keen to weaken it?”
Quite how they delude themselves that there is not an impartiality problem given who is desperate to retain the BBC in all its unaccountable glory vs. simply seeking the choice to avoid their propaganda unforced to uniquely fund it, is beyond me.
It will be fun to watch the gyrations of the BBC over the next year or two, as Corbyn’s year zero project flounders. I imagine they will be pushing hard for their soft left, pro-EU mates in Labour and the remnants of the Lib Dims, but the electorate won’t be buying Chukka, Tim Farron etc. any time soon.
I think the comparison is very unfair…..on Uber. At least Uber do not demand a yearly “fee”, even if you only use alternative providers.
From the Daily Telegraph (3/10/2015):
” ‘Shocking’ report into BBC and Savile scandal”
“The inquiry into the BBC’s handling of the Jimmy Savile scandal contains ‘shocking’ revelations, the Culture Secretary has said. Dame Janet Smith’s report, still awaiting publication, will reveal a culture which allowed ‘things which should never have been tolerated’, John Whittingdale told the Evening Standard.”
Remember that Alan Yentob described the investigating journalists Liz MacKean (a reporter) and Meirion Jones (a producer on ‘Newsnight’), whose story was mysteriously dropped by ‘Newsnight’ editor Peter Rippon in 2011, as traitors to the BBC. Circle the wagons, BBC, and whatever you do, never ever allow something as trivial as the objective truth about Savile to harm your own self-interest.
I just read this as well. Is there any way the BBC can prevent publication of the report ? If not, it is going to be dynamite !
I have just checked the official website for the report. It says the only reason for the delay in publication is because the police say it may prejudice any prosecutions. We all know that the police and the BBC have a very cosy relationship. And the police are implicated in the BBC/ abuse cover-up. I am willing to bet that this report is never published.
The Balen Report was ready in 2004.
I wonder what it says?
Just like the Chilcot report on the illegal Iraq invasion by Bliar there will be delay and prevarication and eventually much censoring. Any report/inquiry fostered by the Leftoids, however, like Leveson’s, will be rushed through and campaigns mounted to attack ‘the Murdoch press’.
Still, some of FaTWATson’s campaigns seem to be falling apart for the time being –
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3258579/Man-said-abused-VIP-paedophile-ring-claims-manipulated-news-website-led-crusade-against-politicians.html
I guess that TWATson will resurrect it or start another smear against Tories the next time something damaging might be about to emerge about the Left.
Black cabs and politics… The Daily Politics on BBC2 around lunchtime put the two together yesterday. (I saw it by accident, as I have had to stop myself watching and hearing most of the BBC’s output – too rarely free of blatant propaganda for their naive worldview. The quality of the so-called journalism is risible, which depresses me beyond belief as I am old enough to tell the difference. If it weren’t for this site, I’d think I was going mad.)
The DP had a segment with their “reporter” in a black cab with a man we were told was an artist, who ranted at passengers and filmed the results. The point the artist was making was that there were many more voices out there than heard on the BBC and other news channels: the “people” were speaking and we should listen to all spectrums of political opinion. Interesting, I thought. Could the Daily Politics finally have cottoned on that more and more people are seeing through the BBC? But as the cabbie-artist blithered on, it soon became apparent that he was thinking more of the excitement of Scottish Nats and the vocal Corbynites coming to the fore and needing to be heard than your average Southerner in a cab. He said that he cried at dawn outside the Houses of Parliament on the day after the last election because the Tories had got in. The magnificent irony, or perhaps this is the hilarious point, being that London cabbies – and they always seem to start conversations with me – are far more likely to be centre-right thinking with a seething resentment of both Ken and Boris’s transport policies in the capital.
So there we have it: The BBC purports to open up the debate, but only looks further to the left. Even cleverer, or so they think, they find someone who has criticised the BBC in the past (I googled the Artist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_McGowan_(performance_artist) so they can say with a straight face that they don’t always have guests who agree with them. It doesn’t take a genius to work out there will be a lot more of this to come.
PS. Just occurred to me: is it possible that the Artist really was having a laugh and telling the credulous BBC exactly what they wanted to hear in order to get his face on telly? I suppose so…but not holding my breath here.
That hits the mark. The BBC’s idea of criticism of the status quo is always to look further Left. I cannot recall the last time I heard a conservative opinion on the BBC that wasn’t there to be either ridiculed or buried.
“The BBC’s idea of criticism of the status quo is always to look further Left.”
I’ve never really thought about that before, but you really are bang on the money with that statement.
Well said!
England as hosts to the Rugby World Cup have now been beaten by Australia and will take no further part.
The BBC will now feed on the corpse.
Rugby in their eyes is a white man’s game without women.
My wife used to play rugby but prefers rugby being played by men as it’s faster and more entertaining. That’s what she said. Jo Brand may differ in her opinion as she prefers cake.
Also, why does Corbyn applaud his own presence by clapping along with the audience? Isn’t that a Communist Russia trait from the past?
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Dover, and the BBC see Rugby as a Public School boy game ! I wonder how they account for Fiji !