Category Archives: BBC bias

The BBC’s coverage of the police failure to get any evidence against Ted Heath seems somewhat careless with its innuendo leaving you with the impression the BBC is declaring Heath guilty...their major narrative all day has been that …

Sir Edward Heath ‘would have been questioned’ over abuse claims

The over emphasis on this and manner it is pronounced as if somehow massively legally meaningful suggests guilt despite this being a standard procedure and that absolutely no evidence has been found to back up any claims and indeed out of 118 claims 112 were thrown out almost instantly.

One BBC journalist ‘analysing’ the issues told us that there ‘was a big question mark as Edward Heath is not alive to defend himself’ [Didn’t stop investigations and judgement on Savile]…no, there is a big question mark as the case against him seems to be based upon a large number of false claims…that doesn’t stop the BBC gratuitously listing in lurid detail the attacks Heath is supposed to have done.  Why do that unless you want to try and disgust people and, despite no evidence, still associate this to Tory Heath….mud slinging and some sticks?….and as you may think from this quote the BBC looks as if it is still intent on creating that cloud of suspicion…

Operation Conifer has gathered a vast amount of evidence – pursuing a total of 1,580 lines of inquiry and it has made public the most serious allegations against the former prime minister, but it can’t tell us whether they are true.

More than anything else, this report prompts more questions than it answers

Hmmm….so an enormous amount of, er, ‘evidence’, and yet they cannot make a single thing stick?  Never mind, the BBC can make the mud stick.

During the EU referendum the BBC studiously ignored the negatives of staying in the EU preferring to extol its supposed virtues, though even those are somewhat dubious.  One of the major problems with the EU is its intention to create the EU superstate with complete financial, political, economic, industrial and military powers taken over from the individual states thus destroying their status as individual, sovereign nations with all that that entails including of course the EU giving itself the ability to redistribute money from rich areas to less prospeperous areas.  This of course is already done but the scope for a massive increase in this will be handed to the EU.   This naturally would be unwelcome for us [but we’re leaving hurrah!] but Germany would be in line to be the main milchcow to be drained of its wealth.  Putin’s once colleague, Merkel, would no doubt be happy to take yet another chance to emasculate Germany after having set out to destroy its society and culture, now perhaps she will look to reduce its financial clout in the world by emptying the coffers and frittering away the money on white elephant projects in southern Europe, on farm subsidies to the mafia and a growing EU bureaucracy paying itself billions. Look at what is happening in Spain where one reason Catalonia wants independence is that it is fed up, as a rich region, of subsidising the rest of Spain.

Will the Catalans, resentful of subsidising farmers in Andalusia, quietly have no problem with subsidising Polish peasants in Lower Silesia?

Look at the EU’s response as Druncker ‘warned the Catalans against “separatist adventures” prior to the vote, asserting that “regional traditions” should not “set themselves as elements of separatism and fragmentation of Europe” and another EU politician stated that this was ‘a nationalistic propaganda act, undemocratic; a coup attempt against Spanish democracy, and so a coup against Europe’. The BBC’s response has been very muted and of course conflicted as it supports these little revolts against the nation state but also sees it as a threat to the EU...hence when an MEP states that the Catalan crisis is a ‘bigger threat to EU than Brexit’ the BBC prefers to talk about May’s coughing fit yesterday and today.

The BBC didn’t dwell much if at all on such important negatives of staying in the EU, never mind the basic one of loss of sovereignty to jumped up little jackasses like Druncker and Barnum but Guido shows that such things should have been, and should still be, considered as the referendum still seems to be ongoing with the BBC putting it about that Brexit is still undecided as Stout Remainer, Stanley Johnson, father of Boris, recants….

For me the critical moment came a couple of weeks ago when EU Commission President Juncker gave his State of the Union address to the European Parliament. The vision he presented of an EU with a single government, and with directly-elected EU ministers with EU-wide responsibilities, including finance and defence, was quite simply – it seemed to me – totally over the top.

Up until then, I was still ready to argue that if you wanted to steer the ship in a different direction, the best thing surely was to stay on board and try to seize control of the steering wheel. In other words, fight from within for change.

But the ship metaphor doesn’t really work. The train metaphor is a better reflection of reality. Mr Juncker’s Federal Express is heading down the track at an ever-increasing speed in a direction we really don’t want to go. Even if Britain stayed on board, I doubt if we would be able to change the points on the track ahead, or even slow the train down.

Boris, I have to say (but I would, wouldn’t I?), wrote a brilliant 4,200-word article in the Daily Telegraph pointing all this out at more or less the same time that Mr Juncker was giving that unfortunate speech. Boris argued that for 40 years Britain has been trying to nudge the EU towards a different destiny and on the whole we have not had much luck.

The time has come to bail out, he asserted. I agree. We may argue about the length of the transition or ‘implementation’ period but there cannot surely be any longer any doubt what the ‘end-state’must be.

The bias is endless. They are shameless. Here is where you detail it!

A new week of bias from the dinosaur BBC and here is where YOU capture the bias!

What we always knew about the BBC attitude…..catch ’em young and keep ’em hooked for life…hence any attempts to criticise the BBC will be met with blinkered, adoring, mindless love for it or indifference to the BBC’s faults…..after all isn’t ‘uncle’ Attenborough so friendly and the animals so cuddly…how’d we cope without the BBC’s warm embrace…never mind the dodgy news and left-wing bigotry, we just love Attenborough….

There’s stiff pressure from the BBC Trust to fulfil its remit of reducing that audience’s age from today’s average of 33 (though he points out the most common age of listener is 23) into the intended 15-24 demographic – the idea being a Radio 1 disciple will stay true to the BBC for life.

Horror!!  Nasty nationalist little Catalonians, those bigoted, racist little Catalonians who want to go it alone and declare independence!!!  Their referendum will surely give licence to the racists to start attacking ‘foreigners’ in Catalonia and will certainly encourage those wishing to relive the Franco era to come out from under their stones.

Oh…hang on…that’s the BBC message about Brexit not Catalan…Catalonians are brave resisters who are fighting the Fascist, Franco state with a demonstration of people power…

In a demonstration of people power, hundreds braved a hail of rubber bullets, batons and riot shields to force a retreat by the police. It was an unforgettable sight on a day full of unexpected violence.

Daniel Sanchez told us he’d arrived at 01:00. “My grandfather would be proud,” he said. He went on to draw a comparison between the Spanish state of today and the Franco era. It was a common refrain.

When we spoke to former regional leader Artur Mas after he cast his vote, he crystallised what many here are thinking: “Everywhere there are peaceful people who are trying to cast their vote – and there is a violent Spanish state that is trying to prevent people from voting.”

So the Catalan independence protestors are brave and principled whilst the Spanish state in trying to stop an illegal referendum and secession from Spain is acting like Franco and oppressing the people… the bête noir of the Left and so the obvious figure for the BBC to compare things to.

Shame the BBC doesn’t show so much concern for the result of a legal referendum and ‘people power’ back in the UK which the Left are trying to undermine and stop using whatever means they can.

Deep joy….on the same day….from the BBC:

and

Edmonton: Five injured in Canada ‘terror’ incidents

Canadian police have confirmed they are investigating possible acts of terrorism after multiple incidents in Edmonton, Alberta, on Saturday night.

They said a police officer controlling traffic at a Canadian Football League game was struck by a car at high speed and then attacked with a knife.

A man driving a van went on to hit at least four pedestrians and was arrested two hours later after a police chase.

Police said an Islamic State (IS) group flag was found in one of the vehicles.

Trump has come under a torrent of criticism and abuse because he dared to defend himself, the massive relief effort and all the workers participating in it to help Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.  He was originally savagely criticised by the mayor of San Juan, a local Democrat, who stated that Trump’s neglect in essence was going to result in a genocide.  Any wonder he responded to that claim?

“Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help”.

He went on: “They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.”

From the Guardian which has run a huge amount of space attacking Trump for essentially that one message he Tweeted out in response to this….

The mayor of San Juan lashed out at Trump administration on Friday, decrying its relief effort in the wake of hurricanes Jose and Maria and saying if it doesn’t solve the logistics “what we we are going to see is something close to a genocide”.

“We are dying here,” Carmen Yulín Cruz said at a press conference, speaking with tears in her eyes. “I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out the logistics for a small island of 100 miles by 35 miles. So, mayday, we are in trouble.”

Cruz appealed directly to the president, saying: “So, Mr Trump, I am begging you to take charge and save lives. After all, that is one of the founding principles of the United States of … America. If not, the world will see how we are treated not as second-class citizens but as animals that can be disposed of. Enough is enough.”

So the mayor ‘lashed out’ and said Trump was treating Puerto Ricans like animals and that genocide would be the result…and yet Trump is wrong to answer back?

Trump, having responded well to tackle Irma and Harvey, has sent 10,000 US personnel to help put Puerto Rico back in  working order along with huge amounts of supplies including generators to provide at least some power…the Guardian mentions these but not where they came from….

The electric grid was badly damaged by the two storms, leaving many without power and reliant on gas-powered generators.

The BBC of course has decided that it is Trump who is ‘lashing out’…no idea that it was the mayor who made completely sensationalist and incendiary comments about Trump…

Puerto Rico: Trump lashes out at San Juan mayor over Maria response

We have this obvious porkie from the mayor reported straight-faced by the BBC…

Responding to Trump’s tweets in an interview the mayor said: “I was asking for help. I wasn’t saying anything nasty about the president.”

Listening to 5 Live earlier discussing this issue and it was more a chat down the wine bar with like-minded souls who all despise Trump, Jane Garvey tut-tutting at Trump’s alleged callousness and indifference to the disaster.  It was utter rubbish, ill-informed and prejudiced.

At present the US is putting $6.7 billion towards the relief efforts going to Harvey, Irma and Maria as well as massive amounts of other resources.  Trump was criticised for mentioning the huge debts Puerto Rico has [£72 billion…for a small island economy]…..

Trump again referred to the island’s debt crisis, saying it would have to work with federal authorities to determine how to pay for a massive recovery effort compounded by “the tremendous amount of existing debt already on the island”.

He tweeted earlier: “The fact is that Puerto Rico has been destroyed by two hurricanes. Big decisions will have to be made as to the cost of its rebuilding!”

But once again Trump is right….the debt is a big issue and as Trump says ‘must be dealt with’…meaning taken into account when working out how to rebuild Puerto Rico…

The hurricane has raised questions about how much of a role the federal government plays in solving Puerto Rico’s crisis and whether creditors would give any relief to the island, weighed down by $72 billion in debt.  Any bailout of bondholders or moves toward debt forgiveness looks unlikely, experts said. The more likely scenario is that bondholders wait for a federal package while they continue to try and work out their own situation through the bankruptcy process – which is currently on hold.

There are attempts to portray this as a Katrina-like repeat of Federal neglect, incompetence and indifference….

Critics have warned that Maria threatens to become “Trump’s Katrina” – a reference to the 2005 hurricane that smashed New Orleans and became a defining failure of George W Bush’s presidency.

Yeah, those ‘critics’ again….Democrats and the likes of the NYT and WashPo media…..but who was really at fault in New Orleans, and who did the likes of the BBC ignore when dishing out the blame…the Mayor, Ray Nagin…now in prison….

In 2014, Nagin was convicted on twenty of twenty-one charges of wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering related to bribes from city contractors before and after Katrina and was sentenced to ten years in federal prison.

It was Nagin’s failure to put into action any effective emergency response that resulted in so much disorder, ignoring state and federal offers of help and advice to evacuate the city…nothing to do with Bush…and yet it was Bush whom the BBC laid all the blame on…one of its finest shaking with anger as he berated Bush for his apparent failures and ‘racism’.  They even tried to blame the Iraq war…if only Bush hadn’t gone to war there would have been more troops to help on the ground.  A bizarre attempt to bring the hated Iraq war into the debate and thus double up the criticism of Bush.  The BBC never misses an opportunity nor a trick.

Essentially Trump is right and the BBC, Guardian and mayor of San Juan are politically motivated anti-Trump voices more intent on attacking Trump than seeing Puerto Rico back on its feet.

The Governor of Puerto Rico thinks the Federal help is spot on…why is the BBC not concentrating on that and on the massive relief effort instead of agit-prop from the mayor of San Juan?

Puerto Rico governor: More needed, but feds have answered our calls

Much more work must be done to meet Puerto Rico’s critical humanitarian needs after Hurricane Maria, the US territory’s top official said Saturday, while also emphasizing that the federal government is fulfilling his every request — striking a conciliatory tone minutes after President Donald Trump lambasted a mayor who criticized Washington’s response.

“We need to do a lot more in order for us to get out of the emergency,” Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said in San Juan. “But the other thing that’s also true is that the administration has answered and has complied with our petitions in an expedited manner.”

‘The alleged murderer was clearly a Muslim, but there is very little to suggest that he adhered to a hard-line interpretation of his religion or that he had political or religious motives.

Still, searching for patterns and for answers is part of what it is to be human. I loathe cliche, but perhaps, for once, this is a “senseless tragedy”, devoid of deeper meaning.’

The BBC is still downplaying the ‘racist’ attack on a 14 year old boy outside a mosque….why?  Because they are pretty sure it was an attack by another Muslim, probably Sunni against Shia.  No sensationalist headlines shouting about ‘racism’ or ‘hate’….just a boring, undramatic, low key heading as they update the report…

More time to quiz man over boy’s stabbing near mosque

So who’s the man arrested?  Any clues?  Any religion or ethnicity?  They obviously know because we get this oblique statement..

Echoing the police that the motive for the attack was not yet clear, he added: “Background checks so far have not associated the suspect with any particular mosque or community.”

So good probability he is Muslim.  Note the BBC does not mention that the boy attacked was a Shia Muslim….possibly very relevant to the story…one clue too many for the BBC to give away?  Then we get this…..

“The board of trustees emphasises that whatever the motive behind this attack, it should not be sensationalised and neither used as a justification to spread hatred or incite violence.”

The BBC has no problem sensationalising and indeed faking news that labels an attack as a racist hate crime when it thinks it was done by a white person but when the possibility is that an attack was by one Muslim upon another this needs to be covered up and downplayed so that it isn’t ‘sensationalised’ and ‘someone’ doesn’t use it to spread hate and incite violence even if the story is true?….but it’s OK to spread hate and incite violence then against white non-Muslims in the BBC’s eyes and do so with a false news story?

The BBC reports that little quote from Mosque officials but fails to report this from yesterday….

The founding member of the Shia mosque, who asked not to be named, believes the attack was ‘inspired by Daesh’ – the Arabic nickname for ISIS.

He said: ‘There is no doubt that this was a targeted attack.

‘The victim might have been random, but in my mind it is clear that these people are from Daesh, and wanted to kill a Shia Muslim based on the belief that they would go to heaven.’ 

‘The West thinks the animosity with Daesh is a new thing, but we’ve been dealing with this for 1,400 years.

If it had been a quote about the Far Right the BBC would absolutely have printed it and broadcast it widely, loudly and often.

The BBC clearly hasn’t learnt a thing since Rotherham and Rochdale and still censors ‘bad news’ about Muslims that paints them or their ideology in a negative light.

Perhaps an irony that just days ago the BBC’s Nick Robinson said this...

We must learn from our past, when the BBC has been slow to challenge the conventional wisdom of the day. Churchill’s pre-War warnings about the dangers of German rearmament were heard by radio listeners not in his own country, but in the US.

The way Churchill was handled is a powerful warning of the dangers of the BBC believing it is being balanced by silencing the voices of those who do not represent conventional wisdom.