Author Archives: David Vance

Tomorrow sees the Government publish the Royal Charter for the BBC, following May’s white paper. Any thoughts, hopes or expectations? Detail here.

Here you go, a NEW Open thread on which to detail the bias. Over to you….

And so, just a few days after the 15th anniversary of 9/11, the BBC pounces on a story in New York that places a muslim as a victim.

A British woman’s traditional Muslim clothing was set on fire on Fifth Avenue, New York police have said. The woman, who had been staying in a Manhattan hotel, was returning from sightseeing when she felt a warm spot on her arm, an officer told the BBC. She turned and saw her arm on fire and a man with a cigarette lighter. She was able to pat out the fire with her hands and did not suffer any injury. The attack at the weekend is being investigated as a possible hate crime. A police source confirmed to the BBC the woman is Scottish but would not confirm local reports she is a dentist from Glasgow.

Is it now “traditional” for “British” women to wear “Muslim clothing”? No one wants to see anyone suffer any violence to their person, or even their clothing but this strikes me as the BBC going out of their way to hype up this non-story. They give it as much space on their news portal as they did 9/11 a few days ago.

Following yesterday’s post, a Biased BBC reader says…

“A previously issued press release written by sister Patricia – which suggested that Arquette returned to using male pronouns by the time of death – read: “He died as he lived, on his own terms. Our brother Robert, who became our brother Alexis, who became our sister Alexis, who became our brother Alexis, passed this morning September 11, at 12:32 am.“”He was surrounded by all of his brothers and sisters, one of his nieces and several other loved ones. We were playing music for him and he passed during David Bowie’s ‘Starman’. As per his wishes, we cheered at the moment that he transitioned to another dimension.” This is from NME.com so not the most reliable of sources, but it’s quoting the press release by Patricia Arquette.

Even more interesting now that the BBC referred to Alexis as an actress…

An eagle eyed B-BBC observes;

“The BBC has long since dispensed with the gender specific term actress, yet today we have this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37336973

Refusing to use the term actress created all kinds of funny situations, including a headline that stated that Francois Holland was having an affair with an actor (who turned out to be an actress). But suddenly Alexis Arquette (who he/she?)…”

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Well, at long last the BBC has been forced to cover a topic which up until now it has declared to be simply an obsession of “right wing extremists and conspiracy theorists”. I refer to Hillary Clinton’s health. Her collapse in New York yesterday was captured on camera and so could not be denied (the Clinton’s camp preferred modus operandi) This morning we awake to the news that despite being told that the collapse was due to her “overheating” (on the coolest day in NYC this month) turns out she pneumonia, diagnosed on Friday past. BBC instantly accept this. Pneumonia is a serious illness that requires much more than 48 hours rest. We are being played by the Clinton camp and yet the BBC gratefully grasps any straws they throw. Funny how the world class journalists at the BBC never thought to investigate why Clinton was wearing BLUE glasses as she left her daughter’s apartment? They are anti-seizure lens she had in – but the BBC couldn’t be bothered to wonder why someone with “pneumonia” is wearing such. If you want REAL news, best ignore the BBC.

In true form, BBC Radio 4 Today starts the week with a gentle interview of Rabbi Julia Neuberger who is part of a group actively campaigning for the UK to let in “tens, if not hundreds of thousands of “refugees’ This desire to more closely emulate Germany and flood the UK with North African Muslims is a core BBC belief so when they bring on a fellow soulmate such as Neuberger on this issue there is a suspension of critical examination. Repulsive stuff.

Here you go, a new OPEN thread to start the new week. Here is where to detail the bias!

Hilarious stuff from Corbyn’s Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry earlier today. Her stunning ignorance of her political brief  is profoundly exposed by Dermot Murnaghan and she responds by accusing him of “sexism” – a claim the BBC repeats in this story.

“The shadow foreign secretary has accused a TV interviewer of “sexism” after he asked her to name the French foreign minister. Emily Thornberry criticised Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan for “pub-quizzing” her as they discussed Brexit talks, saying it was “patronising”.

The Labour MP declined to name French minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, adding: “Can we talk about some serious stuff?” Mr Murnaghan said he had asked male politicians similar questions. He went on to refer to the time in 2011 when he asked the then shadow chancellor Alan Johnson about national insurance rates – a question the Labour MP was unable to answer. Ms Thornberry was asked if she had taken part in any Brexit talks with her would-be counterparts in Germany and France, and then if she knew the name of the French foreign minister.

“Don’t start pub quizzing me, Dermot,” she said. She was then asked again if she was able to name the minister. Ms Thornberry said: “No and I’m not going to start answering your questions on this.”

Well the reason she can’t start answering questions is because she doesn’t know the answer. Plainly ignorant of that she SHOULD know she retreats to the hollow charge of “sexism”  The BBC wallows in the notions that outside their echo bubble all men are sexist so it seeks to align somewhat with Thornberry even if it knows she is – like her boss – a figure of ridicule.