Heffer has some good insight on the BBC here….
Most significantly, a drastically reduced BBC would eliminate much of the Leftist influence that dominates it. Socialist dramatists, reporters, editors and presenters could take their chances in the private sector. Oddly enough, I suspect that might be the last we would hear of them: which is precisely why the BBC will fight like a hellcat to retain as much of its present functions as it can.
Did anyone catch children’s Question Time on BBC 3? A biased BBC reader writes…
“First of all, I’ve not watched the whole of this (too painful), but from watching a fair chunk of it, it seems like a propaganda excercise for the Labour Party. As usual, the ‘impartial’ BBC was far from impartial… the panel consisted of…
– David Lammy MP (Labour party)
– Jeremy Hunt MP (Conservative party)
– Julia Goldsworthy MP (Lib dems, i.e.the Labour Party in yellow)
– Rory Bremner (presumably there to add some ‘balance’? but renowned Lefty)
– Tim Campbell (works for Alan Sugar who is a massive supporter of the Labour party and has made many donations to them)
– Jamelia (if you listened to her comments, she is clearly pro-Labour)
… so as you can see HEAVY bias towards the Labour party.
Didn’t appreciate the (racist?) anti-white comments from David Lammy when he said:
“Parliament is full of old white people”
The most important fact to remember though is that the BBC will stop at nothing to push their socialist-communist propaganda forward even to steep as low as brainwashing young kids.
It’s an odd thing to see yourself the subject of a BBC post. As you can see, I have been selected to fight the East Belfast constituency at the forthcoming general election. The First Minister of the NI Assembly, Peter Robinson, is the sitting MP and has been so for 30 years (Same length of time that Mugabe has been in power) This will mean I have less time to blog here as the pressures would be too great but I can assure you that I still will be posting but maybe not just as prolific!
Must have been some sort of oversight but the BBC seems oddly subdued about the fantastic gains Geert Wilders has made in the local elections in the Netherlands. One might have thought this merited some prime time discussion ahead of weighty topics such as “political protest songs” but apparently not. Ah well – the BBC has tough editorial decisions to make all the time…..
BBC world affairs correspondent Peter Biles says Mr Zuma – a polygamist who has married at least five times – is renowned for his charm.
So, here is the “charming” Zuma sharing some of his thoughts on Blighty in the Indie….
“I am very clear on these issues,” he said. “I’ve not looked down upon any culture of anyone, and no one has been given an authority to judge others. The British have done that before, as they colonised us, and they continue to do this, and it’s an unfortunate thing.”
The BBC seemed curiously reticent to explore Zuma’s political personality in any depth, but perhaps like Peter Biles they were just simply charmed off their feet?
Mid-week, and a new open thread….
I see the BBC has opened up a new front in Iraq by claiming that those bad Americans are responsible for a rise in the number of birth defects amongst the children born in Fallujah. Yes, John Simpson has been spearheading this investigation and we all know John is a very unbiased kind of guy. This is a great story that the BBC has created since it will then disseminate these unfounded allegations until they become presented as being fact. I look forward to future questions of Question Time when learned members of the audience shout out “What about the Fallujah deformities.” The BBC – always keen to attack US Armed forces.
I’m just hoping that the BBC will afford Lady Thatcher the same warmth of tribute as that afforded to Michael Foot, who, as you know, has passed away aged 96. Today has been running a series of tributes to him this morning and whilst I fully understand that it is civilised to not speak ill of the dead, I look forward to the same standard being applied to the former Conservative leader when that sad moment arrives. That would be fair, wouldn’t it?
OK folks, a new week and a new Open thread…
Quite a good take on the BBC here…
“…the public has realised that there is also another BBC: a corporation that purports to be a public service but pays its Director-General a whopping £816,000 and its head of personnel more than the Prime Minister. It is an empire that schedules TV programmes to wrong-foot its rivals. Proposals seen by The Timeslook like a welcome recognition that the empire has gone too far, and should focus back on quality programming. But they actually constitute an evasive and artful strategy designed to keep the next government from intervening, while in reality changing very little.
In proposing to axe the BBC’s UK magazines, relinquish its hold on the teenage market, halve the size of its website and cut two radio stations, Director-General Mark Thompson presumably hopes to give the impression of embarking on a path of serious reform. But if he is serious about reform, he needs to do much more than axe a few radio stations that no one has ever listened to and websites that few have ever visited. The real giveaway in the proposals is that the BBC seems to have no plans to give anything back to licence-fee payers”
