Category Archives: BBC bias

Last week we had three huge untruths from the BBC, three headlining heavyweight political stories that were fake…made up by the BBC for their own political purposes

That Trump had made a spectacular u-turn on Obamacare…when in fact he had made the same statement, that some parts of Obamacare were good and he would keep them, over a year ago and continued to make it openly on TV debates.

That the NHS was ‘secretly’ making reforms and hiding them from the public…based upon a report whose author smacked down Justin Webb for suggesting there was a ‘secret’ plot going on to hide bad news…and yet the BBC kept on reporting this as fact.

That there was a ‘leaked’ cabinet memo that damned the government over Brexit…turns out this was not commissioned nor solicited by government…it was a private exercise by a consultant company panhandling for work….and yet the BBC continued to report the memo as if it were fact even after admitting it was not a ‘cabinet memo’.

Today we had another doozy, from Emma Barnett….In an argument with John Whittingdale she insisted that there were no foodbanks before the evil Tories came to power in 2010…when pressed on the facts she suggested, after telling us she had done her research, that there might have been 3 foodbanks pre-2010.  Well apparently there were around 59, so spot on Emma!  Barnett was trying to claim that any economic problems were a result of the Tories economic policies completely failing to ‘remember’ they were in fact the result of Labour’s mess inherited by government post 2010.

Naturally the number of foodbanks,  or indeed the number of people using them, tells us nothing about the state of the economy especially as the Trussell Trust, which has most foodbanks and from whom the BBC gets most of its ‘facts’ about them, is run by a Labour Party supporter who uses the foodbanks as a political weapon to attack the Tories….his aim to get a foodbank in every town and city…so the increase in foodbank numbers and the rise in people using them is misleading because they hadn’t been there before, so there would naturally be a ‘rise’ in use as people go to this new set up, and they are being set up as a deliberate political ‘lightning rod’ in the knowledge that the media will use the foodbanks as a shorthand way to illustrate the evils of welfare reforms.

What else was the world’s finest news broadcaster caught out on this week?

Oh yes…on Wake Up to Money a leading City businesswomen insisted that low productivity  [that great ‘productivity puzzle’ the BBC refused to find the real answer to] was a result of a failure to invest in training and innovation and a failure to do R&D as a result of decisions by companies to take the easy option and import cheap labour from abroad instead.  The presenter really wanted to move on from that and not talk about it….cheap immigrant labour.

In another WUTM programme we had Digby Jones come on and slamdunk the Remainers who talked of ‘Soft Brexit’ as a viable option.  Jones said in no uncertain tones that they were lying [his word] and that there was no such thing as a ‘soft Brexit’…such a thing was in fact pretty much the status quo with us remaining in the EU.  The BBC of course peddles the myth of a Soft Brexit as a viable option without spelling out that it actually means a reversal of Brexit.

So again and again the BBC’s narrative and ‘analysis’ has been proved wrong….that’s what happens when you turn yourself into a campaign group, a political party, instead of a news source that people can rely on for honest, impartial and accurate news.

And then there’s their reporting on the budget….lol…all the fault of Brexit…we’re doomed, doomed I tell ya!!!

Well THIS is the least surprising thing I have seen on the BBC. A full on character assassination of those it calls the “Alt Right”. Apparently they are Nazis, anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers and racists. Personally, I think this is the BBC projecting yet again!

Time for a new one of these! This is where you detail the bias from the rancid BBC.

The site received this email and I am sure the author would like me to share. He is Jonathonharker@gmail.com The typos and grammar are not mine, btw 🙂

“So now that it has been established beyond a shadow of a doubt that Thomas Mair was ‘politically’ motivated, and the full details of her horrendous murder made clear. Along with his refusal to give evidence.

Are you going to apologise for your and your ‘audiences’ grostesque comments back when it happened?

Ive rarely seen people so despicable and so willing to try and justify and cover up their prejudices.

Its clear on some level you are deeply ashamed of yourself, elst you wouldnt be justifying it, but that you dont have the moral courage to admit it.

However awhile along when the history of this era is assesed your website and the record of your bigotry will be accounted for.

Shame on you, you utterly revolt me.”

A Biased BBC reader writes…

“We hear that Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has withdrawn a bill that pardons men convicted of sex with underage girls if they have married them.  There were lots of protests across Turkey which, in fairness, has been one of the more progressive Muslim-dominated societies (they even banned the burqa, which I guess makes them Islamaphobes).

As per usual, the BBC skips around and deliberately ignores the Islam angle, suggesting instead this is some weird quirk of Turkish culture. They even soften the horror by using sinister terms such as “statutory rape” rather than “rape” to imply that these children are all somehow consensual (imagine if they used that term with Jimmy Savile) in the process and “taking child brides”, making it sound almost romantic. “I married a 12-year old girl; she just really gets me on an emotional level…”

You will notice that the article has no mention of the history and rationale for this abhorrent practice of child rape and marriage. Where does it come from and why? The Beeb, of course, won’t tell us because it exposes the truth about the founder of Islam. To ironically misquote a popular acronym, WWMD? 

Muhammed married his child bride Aisha when she was six and consummated the marriage/raped her when she was nine. And he is meant to be the perfect human. This is the reason behind the proposed legislation – and many like it – but the BBC ignores that, mainly because it is probably just bigoted hate-speech (aka the truth).. 

I am glad to see al-Beeb is now expanding and fine-tuning its knowledge of lies and misinformation under sharia. We are used to their Taqiyya (the blatant lies) and now are seeing them learn the more refined aspects, such as Kitman techniques (lying by omission) as well as Tawriya (intentionally creating a false impression)”

As the Qur’an says to believe in the Gospel, perhaps John 8.44 is worth quoting: “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

A Biased BBC reader writes;

Here you go. this is where to detail the bias! Over to you!!!

“Three people check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realises that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn’t know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 as a tip for himself. Each guest got $1 back: so now each guest only paid $9; bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?”

The answer to that riddle lies in the fact that you are being misled…you are being asked to solve a riddle based upon a fallacy, information given to you that is intended to fool you into thinking something else is going on.  This is the tactic being used by the Left now as they seek to  make us believe that Trump only triumphed because of supposed lies he told and the misinformation from non MSM sources that fooled stupid and uneducated people.  Get you to believe that, get that narrative going so powerfully, and they will create an atmosphere that enables, gives licence to, politicians to close down or restrict certain news sites and control social media…we’ve already seen Facebook crumble under massive attack…not least from the BBC….an irony perhaps after the likes of Google and Facebook were attacked by these self-same liberal defenders of democracy when they submitted to the Chinese government’s demands.

Here’s the ‘liberal’ riddlers in operation as they try to create that message of a democratic system broken by the monsters on the internet and in the right-wing Press…..how right Apple was all those years ago…the computer and the internet is the nemesis of those who wish to impose 1984 upon us….and the BBC hates it…..

Trump triumphed and three men walked into a bar to drink themselves into oblivion.  A priest, a BBC journo and a gay, bitter, ex Tory-wet politician drank until they were senseless.  Then they went to work and bashed out their stream of conscious thought about Trump, Brexit and all that, pouring out their bile and venom toward a world that just doesn’t seem to care about them and their left-wing preachings anymore .  And it felt good.

The BBC’s David Sillito:

Donald Trump: How the media created the president

Donald J Trump was not popular with America’s newspapers. Of the 100 top circulation print newspapers, two endorsed him.

More than 200 newspapers supported Clinton, while Trump received the backing of fewer than 20.

And even some of this support was half-hearted, to say the least.

rump’s victory, then, was a brutal kick in the teeth for those loathed pundits, insiders and “righteous mongers”. But it was also a humiliation for the thousands of journalists who had spent months trying to warn the public about Donald J Trump.

This was one almighty, two-fingered salute to much of the “mainstream media”.

After painting that picture of a Trump under massive orchestrated Media attack Sillito comes up with this:

‘The failure of journalism’

Prof Jeff Jarvis – of the Tow-Knight Centre for entrepreneurial journalism, City University New York, and an enthusiastic and active supporter of Hillary Clinton – stated it simply.

“The mere fact of Donald Trump’s candidacy is evidence of the failure of journalism,” he believes.

He, like many other members of the liberal media class, feels Trump’s success is a sign that the media failed to communicate the truth with enough force…..In essence, it’s felt that print journalism failed to tell the real story – and that TV gave Trump a free pass.

Err…the BBC spent months doing nothing but call Trump a liar, a racist, a sexist, an Islamophobe who’d destroy the world economy and allow Russian tanks to roll across Europe….the New York Times took a deliberate policy decision to be biased against Trump because he ‘represented such a danger’ to the world which meant that journalistic principles should be put aside in order to stop him being elected…and clearly hundreds of other media outlets took the same view.  And yet we hear the media ‘failed to communicate with enough force’ their views…yep, their views, not necessarily the truth…which is where the BBC analysis falls down…here for example…..Sillito tells us….

What’s strange about Trump’s speeches is how much of what he says refers to issues and topics that are not part of the mainstream news agenda.

Sorry what?  Immigration, Islam, the economy?  Not mainstream news agenda?  Well..actually, I suppose not….or not the truth about those issues.

Sillito seems to lose track of what he is saying…claiming TV is still the most powerful media force…

TV is still the most powerful medium….[this] seems to be truer than many of the digital evangelists would have you believe.

He then goes onto say how CNN broadcast a powerful critique of Trump…and yet oddly he still triumphed despite the all powerful TV…and then Sillito says it was in fact the new digital media that enabled Trump’s election….before then claiming Trump is nothing but a showman, a charlatan who beguiled the Public into voting for him just as the websites get people to click on their ‘clickbait’ news stories.

Trump was giving people more to talk about and saying it in a way that resonated. When it came to “share of voice” online, he was winning.

The need for headlines that bring clicks and stories that get shared has changed everything. Dull, balanced articles (like this one) don’t provoke fury, laughter or much in the way of emotion.

Trump was simply more entertaining and generating more passion. In a news environment moving from a world of subscriptions and long-term appointments-to-view to the vagaries of clicks, friends’ recommendations and Facebook news streams, that makes him a winner.

[Ironically this is of course exactly how the BBC operates…it gets you from a young age…grooming you to love ‘Auntie’ with entertaining children’s programmes and ever onwards as you progress to Uncle Attenborough and all those lovely animal programmes, Bake Offs and Strictly…entertaining you, forming a ‘warm’ relationship with you, before slipping in the political messages that it hopes you won’t notice the nature of or if you do, that you will shrug your shoulders as you lap up the ‘fun’ that the BBC spoon feeds you to keep you quietly content with the world.]

So….Trump’s a fraud, a showman fooling the voters with online fantasy and illusion.  Curiously the exact same conclusion by our priest…the good Rowan Williams…who has the grace to admit the Elites have failed us but insists that Trump is the Devilish pied-piper leading us to Hell…

Mass democracy has failed – it’s time to seek a humane alternative

Trump’s real aim was not to do anything as president but simply to be president, to be the most important man in the Western world. This election represents a divorce between the electoral process and the business of political decision-making. It is the ersatz politics of mass theatre, in which what matters most is the declaration of victory.

As such, it is the most cynical betrayal of those who are disenfranchised. It confirms that they have no part in real political processes; they can only choose their monarch.

The politics of mass democracy has failed. It has been narrowed down to a mechanism for managing large-scale interests in response to explicit and implicit lobbying by fabulously well-resourced commercial and financial concerns.  The effect has been a growing assumption that what goes on in public political debate does not represent any voices other than the privileged and self-interested. And so, for significant parts of a population, “theatrical” politics comes to look like the only option: a dramatic articulation of the problems of powerlessness, for which the exact details of economic or social reality are irrelevant. This delivers people into the hands of another kind of dishonest politics: the fact-free manipulation of emotion by populist adventurers.

Hmmm…about what was Trump not telling the truth exactly?  Williams fails to mention precisely his concerns on that.  Kind of important as the whole of his theory of a ‘theatrical Trump’ intent only on taking the ‘throne’ rests solely upon that claim.

Ahh…it matters not that Trump lied, or spelling out those ‘lies’…because the people can’t tell whether he did or not…they’re too uneducated and ignorant….

There is an issue here about education. Yet this can become another hostage to fortune if all it is saying is that a benighted populace should be educated out of false consciousness by those who know better.

William’s conclusion?  Power to the People…but only the people who have been properly educated to seek the right answers by er….the Elite…

How politics can be set free from the deadly polarity between empty theatrics and corrupt, complacent pluto­cracy. What will it take to reacquaint people with control over their communities, shared and realistic values, patience with difference and confidence in their capacity for intelligent negotiation?

The leviathans of the party system will sooner or later have to look at their structures and accountability – not as a step to plebiscite populism, but in terms of what they can do to nurture discussion and decision in the actual communities to which people (not The People) belong.

Ahh yes…those who voted for Trump had no idea what they were voing for or why….they had somehow failed to discuss the issues with the right people….all those online forums and debates that the BBC is so concerned may have misled voters clearly aren’t the way ahead though for imparting the correct message.  Yes people are talking but about the wrong things and coming to the wrong conclusions….perhaps the answer is a man, perhaps we can call him a ‘commissar’, in every village, town and community, who is there to ensure people have the correct information and appropriate mental attitude.  Yes.  I’m sure that’d work.

Our final tipsy typist is the Grand Dame of the political panto…Matthew Parris…who thinks the problem is too much communication, too much information, too much thought and too much freedom to decide for ourselves how to vote…..there’s just too damned much democracy at the moment….or as he prefers to call it…mob rule…

After Trump, I’m losing faith in democracy

The reason I am beginning to question democracy is that it is producing results I profoundly dislike.

I believed in the wisdom of crowds but not mobs. Democracy was of course about inviting the considered view of the crowd but it was just as much about keeping the mob from the gates.

The crowd — ‘true democracy’ — could be wise where a mob might be foolish, because we weren’t governed by the mob, real or virtual. There was no internet, no Facebook, no Twitter, no social media. The closest you got to the mob was radio phone-ins. Opinion polling was in its infancy, and the remark that election day offered ‘the only vote that counts’ dignified the act of voting and distinguished it from a pollster’s clipboard. The phrase ‘the privacy of the polling booth’ meant more than plywood and curtain: it meant quiet reflection, away from the noise of others’ opinions. ‘The crowd’ was a collective noun for millions of individuals, often conferring but finally thinking alone. That was what elections — general, presidential — were for.

Yes…the voter ‘alone’ with his thoughts…thoughts then of course guided and shaped by the all powerful Media and the gifted elite…now shaped by a ‘free Press’ on the internet, mass information and the ability to readily communicate with so many others with their own thoughts, ideas and reasonings…how very undemocratic and inconvenient for those who wish to keep their stranglehold on information and power….we musn’t let ‘ignorant hooligans’ have their say…

Now we can so easily discover what a ‘majority’ think they want at any one moment, and — worse — ignorant hooligans can discover with a click on a keyboard that there are millions like them out there — our faith in democracy, our faith in the ‘government by the people’ part of the trio, is being tested to its logical limit.

As with Sillito and Williams Parris has decided that the unwashed, ignorant plebs on social media must not be allowed to vote without restraint by those who know better…we must apparently find a way of limiting the damage such uneducated, misinformed and less considered manifestations of public thought can wrought once inside the voting booth….

Unless we find a way to fold the popular will into many other and sometimes opposing considerations that make for good government, and unless we find procedures for distinguishing between the evanescent and the more considered manifestations of public opinion, the Trumps and Farages of our age will kill our faith in democracy.

The answer for the Left is to close down those internet sites, newspapers and broadcasters [such as Fox] it finds don’t peddle the approved messages.  The BBC and its ilk will become the arbiters of truth, deciding what is news, what is true and what is ‘morally and ethically’ right to reveal to the public…and then they will decide, after having assessed you character, mental capacity, moral uprightness and your politics, whether you will be allowed the right to vote.

1984 is fast approaching.

Hmmmm….

Employment rising

Inflation down

Manufacturing up

Consumer spending up

Investment in Britain up….massive investments.

How’s the BBC analysis of the ‘Brexit effect’ going?  And how about their nose for  geo-political world currents?….

What of the rise of the dreaded Far Right that the BBC warns us of?  Er…did they mean the Left…….Greece?  Italy?  Portugal? Or indeed in Britain…Corbyn and Co.  Odd how the BBC is unconcerned about the rise of the ‘Far Left’ across Europe…the Left being the people who have killed millions upon millions across the world in the last century and who now back the Islamist terrorists and agitators intent on creating a new world order….based on Islam of course.  The BBC actually seems to support that and looks back fondly on the supposed Golden Age of Muslim empire as an example for us all.  Oddly many of these supposed right-wing groups denounced by the BBC are actually politically left-wing…it’s just that they want to control immmigration that gets them labelled ‘right-wing’ by the BBC.

Reality has yet to intrude upon the BBC world narrative but maybe one day….just as Trump, Farage, Le Pen and the AFD all in their own ways are smashing the political elite’s grip on the narrative the internet, the bloggers and news sites, the new production companies that produce stunning and brilliant TV, are crashing through the barricades set up by the likes of the BBC and other mainstream media and are bringing a true, or truer, democracy to the shut off media environment giving a much bigger voice to the audience….who are often the producers now as well.

And just one other thing…the BBC keeps telling us this new media climate has resulted in the end of the ‘water-cooler’ moment where people gather to talk about the latest hot TV programme….this just isn’t true….people may not all watch the same thing at the same time but they watch something, tell someone else they’ve watched that thing and that it’s ‘great’ who then watch it and they talk about it….as usual the BBC is wrong…just as they were wrong about the end of the ‘supermarket’…apparently we are all supposed to be shopping at Tesco Express and other convenience stores now…it’s the new thing.  Not.

BBC analysis?  Who needs it.