Apparently the boss of a cab firm has said some less than complimentary things about cyclists, giving outrage-hungry time-rich media luvvies today’s excuse to whip themselves into a frenzy on Twitter.
My question – what do you all make of this, impartiality-wise? Continue reading
An arson attack on a communications mast which disrupted BBC Radio Bristol’s service last week has been claimed by the Earth Liberation Front:
We take responsibility for the attack on the communications mast on Dundry hill on 11th April, that took out five communication services and took off air BBC Radio Bristol and Jack FM for more than 16 hours, as well as disrupting Avon and Somerset Police radio communications it seems (although they are refusing to comment on this).
They did it by burning tyres, which doesn’t sound very eco-friendly.
Isn’t BBC Bristol the place where they make all those environmental films pushing the climate alarmist agenda?
For a supposedly impartial journalist BBC News interactive’s business and technology editor Tim Weber likes to spin US news in a rather skewed direction (h/t Jeff Waters). I think it’s safe to say he’s not a fan of the Republican Party:
The BBC’s business section – spinning for Obama, along with the rest of the BBC.
The above quotes are taken from the Twitter feed of a guest on tomorrow’s edition of The Big Questions where one of the topics will be: “Is Britain too complacent about the far right?” The same guest also pondered a conspiracy at the highest level of French government following the recent Toulouse murders. The views of a wacky far-right nutter dug up by a BBC researcher?
No, not exactly. A friend of the presenter, actually.
With opinions like that he should be able to find some common ground with the EDL guest.
That would be the “poor soul” who murdered seven people, including three children, and filmed himself doing so.
Mo is very good at promoting himself as a go-to media Muslim, but he also has the added help of an unofficial publicist working on his behalf:
The Big Questions presenter even shares his more private opinions with Mr Ansar (for those unfamiliar with Twitter, “dm” = Direct Message, i.e. for the recipient’s eyes only) :
And it looks suspiciously like they’re coordinating ahead of tomorrow’s programme:
That doesn’t seem right (pardon the pun).
UPDATE. Nicky Campbell says he was just discussing “logistics” with Mo Ansar in his tweets today. Here are a couple more screengrabs – @rynascribe is Nick Ryan, author of a book on right-wing nationalists called Homeland. I get a sense something more was going on here than train times and hotel reservations.
(Note – when I first posted the tweet which begins “Yesterday reports were of a Neo Nazi…” I had cropped out the time when the tweet was sent. I’ve now updated it to include the time so it can be seen that the “Sarkozy knows no limits” tweet followed immediately after.)
Screengrabs from Justin Webb’s Twitter account: Continue reading
There’s a John Sweeney film on BBC2 tomorrow (plus accompanying BBC online article) about Mitt Romney’s Mormon background. The BBC has therefore already done more investigative digging into a guy who isn’t yet the official GOP choice than it has into the shenanigans of the Obama administration these past three-plus years. Fast and Furious, cronyism, green boondoggles, Corzine… just some of the things BBC journalists have shown no interest in investigating.
If Sweeney’s article is anything to go by I think the intent is to create the impression that the GOP frontrunner’s faith makes him somehow weird. It’ll be interesting to see if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) – a convert to the Mormon faith – gets a mention in Sweeney’s film. An interview with a powerful Democrat Mormon would be interesting, but might not fit the agenda. We’ll see.
And here are some tweets from the film’s director James Jones:
BBC News Pentagon producer Joan Soley responds to the sad news about Andrew Breitbart’s death:
I guess those of us who are deeply saddened by the death of “the Weiner guy” just don’t care about the fate of NATO troops. If only we could see the bigger picture, like a BBC journalist.
Are BBC hacks playing this game elsewhere? “Davey Jones? Big deal. What about the troops? #spotthedifference.” Hmm, I can’t recall reading anything like that.
Of course, it’s not really NATO deaths that concern Ms Soley – she just wants to score a political point against Breitbart and his followers, and if that means using dead troops to back her argument, so be it.
I see she’s not shy about declaring her views on Newt Gingrich, either:
BBC World News America – motto: “If you don’t hate conservatives, find a job elsewhere.”
Aw, look who DM’d Owen Jones after his Question Time appearance last night:
What do you suppose she said?
“You were awesome. We love you in the newsroom.”
“Agreed that left ideas don’t get enough hearing on BBC. Aiming for 95% left – 5% right. Fancy a fuck?”
“BBC looking for co-presenter for new Giles Fraser series. Interested?”
Further suggestions welcome.
Described on Twitter as “the most incestuous media love-in in history” and “an activists who’s who“, Paul Mason’s party to celebrate the launch of his new book “Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: the New Global Revolutions” ended in chaos last night.
SPLITTERS
Mason abandoned his own party and recommended that other factions do the same. An anarchic hardcore remained. Lefties, eh?
Here’s a flavour of the evening from the Guardian’s James Ball:
