Category Archives: BBC bias

A Biased BBC reader writes…

“A 98 per cent vote in favour of a referendum? That’s a landslide. Alas, for the BBC in its coverage of Hungary’s vote to decline the EU’s plan of handing them hundreds of Muslim migrants, the low turnout (43 per cent) “appeared to render it [the vote] invalid”.

Yes, like Brexit, the results have to be questioned. However, unlike the 48-52 per cent Brexit margin that was deemed too narrow to respect the will of the people, this time the narrative shifts to the “validity” of the vote as only 43 per cent of the Hungarian electorate voted. Apparently, this is short of the 50 per cent required to be “valid”.

This post is linked to the last in that it looks at the BBC’s hypocritical stance on hate crimes…those done by Muslims being swept under the carpet or excused as ‘justifiable’ in some shape or form…for instance the killing of Ahmadi shop keeper Asad Shah, we are told, was because he was a blasphemer and had offended ‘real’ Muslims by insulting Islam….his death was really his own fault.  Naturally no-one on the Left wanted to label this ‘terrorism’ unlike the murder of Jo Cox.  The BBC is also partial to excusing those whom we can be in no doubt are terrorists….the BBC ‘understands’ their grievances…they’re unemployed, or disenfranchised in some way or marginalised, allegedly, or they don’t like British foreign policy [the BBC of course doesn’t ask if they therefore consider themselves British…the BBC prefers the narrative that the vast majority of Muslims are proud to be British, more so than what you might call the ‘first nation’ Brits…when the evidence is that that isn’t true at all].

As the BBC peddles the myth of a Britain that is heading towards a neo-Nazi future with mass pogroms of foreigners it curiously, as with the Ahmadi community, downplays the violence and hatred coming from the ‘real’ Muslim community, for instance, towards ex-Muslims…

Young Muslims who quit the faith ‘live in fear of violent revenge’: Support group says some have been warned they will be killed if they abandon their religion  

ITV are broadcasting a programme on October 13 about this…what will be the BBC reaction?  To completely ignore it if its reaction to the shocking revelations on Dispatches ‘Undercover Mosque’ is anything to go by.  Perhaps the police will try to prosecute ITV for hate crimes for broadcasting such revelations.

Perhaps the BBC is wise to stay out of this as it would have to ask about the religious sanctioning of such violence towards ex-Muslims…the Islamic guidance being that people can leave Islam but if they criticise the religion, and that of course means explaining to anyone why they left, they can be killed.  This is Islamic law.

Whilst of course any violence towards Muslims should be condemned the BBC’s very one-sided narrative about racism and hate crimes is extremely damaging to society as it completely distorts the truth about what is happening and tries to shape and limit the political response to hate crimes by white people or that against Muslims alone.

The ‘white’ hate crimes are being politically linked to Brexit as part of the BBC’s campaign to undermine the referendum result in the hope that it will be overturned.  The BBC’s wilful blindness towards Mulsim hate crimes (including homophobic and anti-Semitic) is just its usual refusal to be open and honest about this and part of that is its line that it is in fact ‘Islamophobia’ that is the real problem and that that is driven in part by the government’s Prevent strategy…the BBC has long given much airtime to Muslim opponents of this programme…such as the dishonest Warsi and countless numbers of other Islamists from groups which are clearly extremist….Douglas Murray notes the betrayal by the liberal left in regard to this…

The ‘academics’ criticising the Prevent strategy are nothing of the sort

This is how the madness spreads. While some politicians of the left continue to pretend that the situation in the Labour party and on the British left in general is salvageable, they seem not to realise that all their sluices are up.

Take a piece in Thursday’s Guardian written by Alice Ross. The headline is ‘Academics criticise anti-radicalisation strategy in open letter.’ Of course only in the Guardian does an ‘open letter’ by such ‘academics’ as these merit a newspaper article. For only in the Guardian would the reporting be so piss-poor that the ‘academics’ in question would include people who are not even academics.

Murray is wrong about ‘only in the Guardian’ because of course the BBC is more than happy to give a platform to the same voices…again and again and again….to undermine the anti-terror programme.  Why does the BBC want to help do that?

It is striking that in the past the people who have sought most publicly for the policy to be scrapped are those who quite simply do not want Britain to have a counter-radicalisation strategy because they themselves favour the radicals or are radicals themselves. Only now that the left’s ability to exercise the most basic hygiene has reached its current level could a Labour shadow home secretary join such people.

The BBC updates what is happening in the Jo Cox murder trial…

Jo Cox MP death: Murder accused Thomas Mair refuses to enter pleas

Naturally they avoid mentioning that Mair had mental health issues whereas they mention it relentlessly as an excuse for Muslim killers.

The death of Jo Cox resulted in an outpouring of anguish about the state of political discourse and how Brexit had poisoned the delightful and warm atmosphere that had prevailed before the idea of a referendum raised its ugly head.

Strange than that the BBC has generally avoided any similar ‘outrage’ at the massive surge in hatred being spewed out by Corbyn’s supporters towards anyone who dares have different thoughts and the oh so usual visceral hatred towards Tories so often displayed by the Left…such hatred not being a recent occurence that the BBC can link to Brexit but something that the BBC itself has been part of ever since Thatcher took power.

The BBC is desperate to try and equate voting for Leave with racism and indeed reports uncritically this load of old tosh today:

Human rights report warns over ‘anti-foreigner sentiment’

Xenophobia in the UK has been stoked by “considerable intolerant political discourse”, a European human rights watchdog claims.

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance said racist violence had been “on the rise” in the UK.

There had been an increase in anti-Muslim violence since 2013 as well as record levels of anti-Semitic incidents in 2014, it said in a report.

Complete rubbish.

The BBC loves the attack on Farage (and fails to mention the death threats to him and his family from the pro-immigration extremists…all whipped up by the BBC anti-Farage reports?) and tells us…

The watchdog accused UKIP and “some Conservative MPs” of “large-scale scaremongering” over the lifting of EU restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian nationals’ access to the labour market.

Trouble is it wasn’t scaremongering…the figure of 50,000 a year was entirely accurate and probably an underestimate if anything.  The BBC don’t admit that.

Naturally Muslims get a good press from this ‘watchdog’ and the BBC doesn’t question it at all…

While it welcomed Mr Cameron’s £20m language fund to teach Muslim women to speak English, “it regrets that the prime minister associated it with countering ‘backward attitudes’ and extremism”.

The report also said:

                      Muslims were portrayed in “a negative light by certain politicians”

Muslims’ alleged lack of integration and opposition to “fundamental British values” was “a common theme adding to a climate of mistrust and fear of Muslims”

The government’s counter-terrorism strategy, Prevent, “may fuel discrimination”

Hate speech in some traditional media, particularly tabloid newspapers, “continues to be a problem”

Cameron’s action was about counteriing backward attitudes and extremism…stopping women being seen as second class chattels and allowing women to control their own lives and mix with a wider society…the BBC is constantly telling us that women are the key to steering children away from radicalisation….but apparently not when it doesn’t suit the narrative.

And Muslims just aren’t integrated and do oppose so many vital British liberal, democratic values….Trevor Phillips admits it himself…

Warning on ‘UK Muslim ghettoes’: Nation within a nation developing says former equalities watchdog

• Trevor Phillips says many Muslims hold ‘different values’ to rest of society

British Muslims are becoming a nation within a nation, the former equalities watchdog warns today.

Trevor Phillips says many hold very different values from the rest of society and want to lead separate lives.

Most worryingly, those with separatist views are far more likely to support terrorism.

A very one-sided narrative from the BBC and a highly political attack on Brexit voters as the BBC continues o try and smear them by labelling them as violent racists.

As reports continue to come in of businesses booming on the low pound the BBC had to think of a solution to the good news news after trying to terrify us with tales of how terrible the falling pound would be.  The BBC’s answer?  To warn us that the pound could go up as well….so don’t think the good times will last for ever.

So after having spent the last few months telling us how apocalyptic the fall of the pound would be the BBC has switched tack and is now warning how apocalyptic a rise in the pound could be.

And as the IMF backtracks and admits that the UK will have the fastest growing economy in Europe this year the BBC’s headline?

IMF says global economic recovery ‘weak and precarious’

Had the IMF’s verdict been that the UK was heading towards recession you can guarantee the BBC would have headlined that…but they sideline the good news.  Here is the BBC’s very low key line on the IMF’s report on the UK…

The IMF also warned that the Brexit decision will hit the UK economy as it halved its 2017 growth forecast to just 1.1%.

The Fund raised its 2016 forecast slightly as UK retail spending has held up better than expected after the June vote to leave the European Union.

What’s missing from that?  The BBC reports the IMF’s forecast that the economy will slow in 2017 but why has the BBC missed out the verdict for 2016…that the UK will have been the fastest growing economy in the world as reported by the Telegraph?

IMF crowns UK world’s fastest growing major economy, but hard Brexit fears push pound to 31-year low

The BBC prefers this heading in its latest update on the IMF report:

IMF warns of hit to UK economic growth

Maybe Boris is right about the BBC:

Boris blasts the BBC’s ‘shamelessly anti-Brexit’ reports: Foreign Secretary hits out at ‘infuriating’ coverage

Boris Johnson hit out at the BBC yesterday over its ‘shamelessly anti-Brexit’ coverage.

The Foreign Secretary told delegates at the Tory conference that the way the Corporation had reported on the EU referendum result was ‘infuriating’.

A new week dawns and a new Open Thread for your attention. Please detail the bias here!

The BBC loves to use the phrase ‘Male, pale and stale’, they laugh at how witty and right-on they are as they so casually use a phrase that is obviously a racist, sexist and ageist stereotype.  They wouldn’t after all use a phrase such as ‘Black, slack and on crack’ would they?

They would however sack you if you are hideously white….

BBC sacked me for being a white man… even though I work in radio: The Now Show comic was told he was being axed to make way for more women and diversity

Even Trevor Phillips isn’t impressed (Good old Lenny probably loves it though)…

Mr Phillips – former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission – branded the decision to drop Mr Holmes on the grounds of positive discrimination ‘idiotic’.

It’s unbelievable – we’re talking about a person who has done some of the best work on radio  

He said: ‘They are misunderstanding what the point of the diversity drive was about. This sounds like somebody who is basically climbing their way up the greasy ladder and they think hiring black and Asian talent is part of what they have got to do to look good. 

‘But they don’t genuinely believe black or Asian people are as good as white people.’

Feel sorry for any Black, Asian or female offered a role on the Not Now Show….clearly people will think they are only there because of the BBC’s tick-box diversity project…there because of colour or sex not talent.

Orphaned baby is rescued from Aleppo rubble – leaving BBC presenter Kate Silverton in tears as she presents news

Heartwarming and touching isn’t it?  A BBC news presenter cries on air as a baby is pulled from the rubble in Aleppo.

Trouble is that baby wouldn’t have had to be pulled from the rubble if it weren’t for people like Silverton who mount massive anti-war campaigns whenever the sabres are rattling however just the cause and the result is Syria where Assad has been allowed to run riot, ISIS were literally set free by him to do their Islamic thing and Putin was given the chance to take control.

Not just the BBC of course…there’s Ed Miliband’s betrayal of the Syrians and refusal to do what he said he would back in 2013 and back military action has meant a war that could have been contained has spun out of control. The BBC’s refusal to broadcast the bombing of a school in Syria prior to the vote in Parliament was clearly political and a move designed to stop the vote being swayed by bloody facts on the ground…and now the same people who suppressed that news are crying at the result years on and millions of refugees later…including Aylan Kurdi who would still be alive now in all likelihood had it not been for the anti-war brigade…..Miliband runs for cover, provided by the likes of the BBC which has run a campaign against the Iraq War and piled on the pressure onto politicians for over a decade, as he tries to excuse his betrayal…

Labour leader Ed Miliband has said that ”Britain is learning the lessons of our past, including the lessons of Iraq.”

Yes lesson learned……

Had a no-fly zone been enforced and Assad’s tanks been kept in their barracks Assad would have been forced to negotiate and possibly made to step down, at the very least the aerial bombardment of civilians and the mass exodus would have been prevented.

“You do well to weep like a woman for what you failed to defend like a man.”

The BBC likes nothing better than any propagandist story that urges the UK to take more of the denizens of the Calais Jungle. Such reports are always given the kid gloves treatment as is the case with this one.

Calais camp: Unicef urges UK to transfer refugee children

At no point does the BBC ask why the UK would want to give “sanctuary” to those already afforded such by France. Nor does it deal with the almost certainty that once they get these “children” here, the rest of the family will then claim a right to be with them so exponentially increasing numbers.

To add their own twist to the emotional blackmail being deployed by Unicef, the BBC throw in Raheemullah’s story.

Andrew Neil is my favourite BBC political presenter. He is usually fair and even handed and he is one of the “talent” that deserves his salary. So that made last night’s BBC THIS WEEK opening item on the US Presidential race all the more disappointing. Neil invited the openly partisan “financial guru” Alvin Hall  to provide the commentary and the gist was that Trump is ..yawns — appealing to angry racists and “has no plan” for being President. A discreet veil was drawn across the deplorable Clinton track record. The BBC want Clinton to win just as they wanted us to vote to Remain in the EU, just like they wanted a hung Parliament in 2015. So far the people have denied them their will and I sincerely hope that in November the BBC will be confounded with the defeat of Hillary Clinton and the successful election of Donald Trump. Andrew Neil should be ashamed of himself for playing along with the “nudge nudge wink wink” race baiting that was broadcast last night.

They move so effortlessly from Labour into the BBC. 

Former Labour culture secretary James Purnell has been chosen as the BBC’s new director of radio in a ‘highly unusual’ appointment say Conservative MPs. Replacing the incumbent Helen Boaden, Purnell is set to be unveiled as the next radio chief on Friday.

So we can look forward to the already horrifically biased BBC radio deepening its bias under the gaze of the former Labour Culture Secretary.  This is why I believe the BBC is way beyond the point of any possible reform. It extorts cash from us and then uses these billions to deploy those with an OBVIOUS political bias to direct its output. Labour and the BBC….