Author Archives: David Vance

A CURIOUS BIAS

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BBC Northern Ireland has been running a story today concerning the news that “Former Sinn Fein councillor Mairtin O’Muilleoir is to re-enter politics as a party representative on Belfast City Council” There are a few problems with this. First of all, WHY does the BBC assume that O’Muilleoir will win a seat in a ward that does not currently have a Sinn Fein representative?!! Did they just take a Sinn Fein press release and run it as news without using that vast resource they have at our expense to ascertain the accuracy of what was being claimed? Further, O’Muilleoir is on record stating that he wanted to leave politics in order “to concentrate on being Managing Director” of the Belfast Media Group. The BBC avoids all reference to this and the contradiction it contains. Bias by omission is as egregious a broadcasting sin as any other form of bias and given the fact that the BBC in Northern Ireland dominates local media, shouldn’t someone somewhere be asking why such lazy journalism is permitted here? Hat-tip to Pete Baker @ Slugger O’Toole

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WICKEDLEAKS…

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Well, another day and another set of Wikileaks. Is it me or do you sense that the BBC delights in trawling through these illegal leaks that are now quite obviously aimed at embarrassing and undermining the United States? I suppose there is a natural resonance between Assange’s visceral hatred of the United States and the BBC’s default position of liking anything that seeks to undermine the USA? Tough call for the State Broacaster – Obama or Assange. I think the latter wins?

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SOCIAL ENGINEERING

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If there is one thing that the BBC likes, it is social engineering. So it was interesting to listen to an interview with Conservative MP Dominic Raab (8.42am Today) who objects to the attempts by former Saint Vince Cable to further mangle employment legislation. I thought that Raab exposed the naiveness in the BBC view rather deftly but it was obvious that BBC sympathies lie with Cable and the rest of the “equality” industry as they seek to further undermine the meritocratic principle.

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IS LABOUR STILL IN POWER?

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Listening to the BBC, one could be forgiven for thinking that Labour is still in Government. Yesterday, I was rather surprised to hear Yvette Cooper being given the lead response to the “Russian Spy” story on Radio 4 news. This morrning there was a discussion on R4 “Today” concerning the blockade of High Street shops by left wing street rabble and we had Tom Harris (Labour) and Neal Lawson of protest group Compass on to debate it. Again, no sign of the Government being afforded a presence. It’s remarkable to witness the BBC continuing to behave as if Labour was still in power whilst simultaneously pretending that our current economic woes have nothing to do with more than a decade of poor socialist governance.

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HORRIBLE HISTORIES GO LARGE

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Interesting to read that BBC’s “Horrible Histories” is to be remade and put out in prime-time slots. As regular readers of Biased BBC know we have exposed the OUTRAGEOUS bias of this series here, and here, and here, and so on. It shows how ruthless the BBC is to ensure that history is re-written and propagandised to ensure it fist in with their liberal western hating Islam loving mindset. Another colossal waste of license-tax money.

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THINGS ARE NOT LOOKING UP – EVEN WHEN THEY ARE!

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I am sure the BBC must have been gutted with headlines such as “Economy recovering better than expected” as the UK defied many of the “experts” and posted decent growth. However it is vital that people don’t get the impression that after a decade of socialism we are now on the right path to recovery and so the BBC runs the story today that “UK Economy to slow in 2011.”  The BBC is looking forward to waging war on the Coalition next year and it will use every opportunity to convey the impression that things can only improve if we allow Labour back in!

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SETTING THE AGENDA….

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The ever reliable BBC Magazine always gives us the low down on what they really think:

“The thing about news is that it has to be unusual, otherwise it’s not news, it’s just life. That’s one theory at least. But it presents all sorts of problems, says Michael Blastland in his regular column. But is this fiction, or real? Enter the strange media world of Harrabin’s Law, and decide for yourself. The media does sometimes seem to be a place where what you hear most is often what happens least.I’ve named the phenomenon after the BBC’s Roger Harrabin, who puts it like this: “When considering societal problems over the long term, news-worthiness is often in inverse proportion to frequency. If problems become commonplace, they are not new – so do not qualify as ‘news’. This means the media often guides politicians to focus on less serious acute problems at the expense of more serious systemic problems.”  There is often a perverse pressure on politicians through the media to act on issues which appear more immediate but are ultimately of lesser public significance”

Can he be talking about climate change?

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RATIO KILLED THE BBC STAR…

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Been very busy so less blogging than desirable BUT I did listen to this hilarious exchange on Today this morning. It all concerns a report by Will Hutton (Be still, BBC beating hearts!) that public sector pay ratios should be capped at around 20;1. There is a wonderfully surreal socialist conversation (At the end of which Humphrys suggested sacking top private sector bosses, who are, as we all know, evil) and I couldn’t help but wonder why no one brought up the ratio between what some BBC assistanbt researcher might earm per annum compared to, oh I dunno, say a Radio 4 and BBC Mastermind presenter? To the nearest %.  

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STUDENT GRANT ON THE RAMPAGE…

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I thought Nick Robinson’s coverage of the student thuggery in London was a disgrace. At every opportunity he did his best to excuse the thugs and you know why? Because the BBC loves the set to with the Coalition. Did you see it? Thoughts? Rather than focus on the students violence, it’s all about the Lib-Dems breaking promises. Undermining the Coalition is the BBC meme.

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