Here’s a thoughtful reflection on the BBC’s recent adaption of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”…
A militaristic dictatorship replete with red and black insignia. Guards bearing uncanny resemblances to storm-troopers. A fascistic dictator who might just be a psychopath…
Welcome to the BBC’s version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Make sure you click the link and read the rest of this.
Here you go, a new Open Thread. Anyone catch former Labour MP and good pal of Sinn Fein Chris Mullins on the Today programme this morning insisting that relatives of those killed by the IRA in the Birmingham Pub bombings needed to “move on”? Charming. And no pro IRA bias, no way….
Remarkable…after all the BBC has done for him this is how Jeremy Corbyn responds (29 mins)….
“There is not one story on any election anywhere in the UK that the BBC will not spin into a problem for me. It’s obsessive beyond belief. They are obsessed with trying to damage the Labour Party, and unfortunately there are people in the Labour Party who play into that.”
It’s that right-wing BBC at work again.
This is the BBC that played down the anti-Semitism accusations, the BBC that has consistently seemed like the real opposition party when Labour was clearly failing to make headway under Miliband and as continued to provide that support as it pushes Labouresque arguments about the NHS or the economy, this is the BBC that seems reluctant to mention Corbyn’s huge U-turn on getting out of the EU…Tom Watson interviewed today…no challenge on Corbyn’s flip-flop despite the subject of Labour’s EU stance coming up, and this is the BBC that has failed to really challenge Corbyn on his core beliefs, his hard-left Marxist beliefs and the rabble of Trots and Marxists that he has gathered around him to run the Labour Party.
Nick Robinson warned BBC journos not to criticise Corbyn and they haven’t in any way that is effective or rigorous. It was only when the Asian, Muslim, Sadiq Khan came on the scene as newly elected Mayor of London and started positioning himself as potential Labour leader that the BBC’s reporting took on a negative tone. Whilst a Labour victory under any leader would have been good enough for the BBC an Asian Muslim would have been their wildest dreams coming true….the slow-witted Corbyn was always going to be merely the stand-in until someone better came along and for the BBC that man is Sadiq Khan…they hope.
I don’t think I have heard a single thing critical of Clinton on the BBC. I’m sure there must be the odd piece here and there that takes a serious look at her and yet that’s not the thrust of the BBC coverage which I suspect, if you were counting, would be found to think Trump was the only candidate for President. Trump has been treated with a massive contempt (not least by Cameron who has done a flip-flop and now loves Trump as well as the Islamist loving Sadiq Khan) and all we have heard is derision, scorn and mocking from the BBC’s finest. Which makes the following BBC analysis of the presidential campaign something of a condemnation of their own prejudiced coverage and approach that has been so stridently based upon attacking Trump so far…..and yet Clinton is as controversial a figure as the BBC believes Trump is……but that is by no means reflected in their reporting on her and the way presenters, and the usual comedians, make comments in passing during their programmes…..
I spoke to a large number of the bikers before we set out on the ride. And something struck me – yes, there were Trump diehards who think he will prove to be the saviour of a fallen nation that has lost its way.
But many others were much more nuanced. Many people said to us that he would be the lesser of two evils, the clear implication being that Hillary Clinton was the bigger evil.
One person, when I asked what he thought of Secretary Clinton, said: “She’s trash, she should be in prison.”
Another man told me that his views were simply unbroadcastable on television.
The polls say that both Trump and Clinton suffer big negatives and low approval ratings.
This election might come down to a question of who voters loathe the least.
My totally unscientific, random, non-adjusted focus group at Rolling Thunder suggests that might well be the case.
In a country of 320 million people, how did it come down to such an unappetising menu choice?
Do you want the dish with the listeria or the salmonella?
That was written by Jon Sopel who seems to have reverted to type in his latest report in which he seems very affronted that Trump dares to criticise the sainted Media...this seems as much a defence of Sopel than anything else…
Spoiler alert – before you read this you should understand that I am almost certainly disgusting, invariably dishonest and an inveterate liar. Well, that seems to be the considered view of Donald Trump on journalists.
From the way the BBC has treated Trump maybe he has a point.
Sopel whinges on….
There’s the famous HL Mencken quote from decades ago when he said that the relationship between a journalist and a politician ought to be the same as a dog and a lamp post – and I have always hated it.
The presumption is that we are pure, and all politicians are venal and deserve the crap kicked out of them. Nearly all the politicians whom I have come to know have been motivated by a commitment to making the world a better place – yes, they may be ambitious, self-important people – but tell me one walk of life where you don’t find people like that.
It is our job to test our elected officials, to subject them to scrutiny, to ask the questions the public want answering and hopefully to be fearless in our pursuit of those questions. And to do so respectfully.
That is our job, and a free press able to do that is one of the cornerstones of a liberal democracy.
To rework the Mencken quote, Mr Trump seems to think that we are the lamp post.
Note this especially…’It is our job to test our elected officials, to subject them to scrutiny, to ask the questions the public want answering and hopefully to be fearless in our pursuit of those questions. And to do so respectfully.’ If that is the job description then Sopel and Co have failed miserably. Funny how thin skinned these journos are….they dish it out but can’t take it.
The BBC’s coverage and reporting from the Middle East, and closer to home on the subject of Islam, terrorism, radicalisation and the ‘clash of civilisations’, has been dishonest, deliberately misleading and dangerous. The BBC has devoted its reporting to defending and supporting extremists, to hiding the truth of what Muslim intentions are in the West, hiding the true nature of Islam as an ideology, and hiding events across Europe that illustrate the nature of Islam and the incompatibility of Islam with a Western, secular, democratic and liberal society. The BBC in contrast uses its enormous resources and influence to vilify and demonise Israel and gives a positive voice almost solely to the Palestinian narrative. We know that the BBC has a report, the Balen Report, that supposedly investigated the BBC’s reporting of the Middle East, a report that the BBC spent over £300,000 to prevent being published. Why? Does it show ‘BBC News kills Jews’? It wasn’t so long ago that a BBC reporter suggested that Jews in Europe were a justifiable target because of what Israel does in Gaza or the West Bank.
In fact we don’t need to see the Balen Report to uncover the BBC’s approved line in reporting on Islam and Israel. We have our own eyes and ears which tell us all we need to know…but beyond that we have the words of one of the people who seems to have had a huge influence on, not just the BBC’s coverage, but perhaps coverage from journalists around the world, Roger Hardy, in an extraordinarily revealing expose of the mindset of the BBC and how it approaches certain important and controversial subjects.
The most damning revelation by Hardy is that the BBC’s reporting on Israel is not led by journalistic integrity, a search for truth, a principled mission to ‘speak truth to power’, it is in fact led by what it perceives as public opinion. The ‘independent’ BBC has allowed its reporting to be hijacked by the massive propaganda campaigns led by the pro-Palestinian Islamists in combination with the Hard Left that has altered public perceptions of Israel, and rather than maintain a neutral stance and report the facts, the BBC adopted that pro-Palestinian narrative and has been central to it’s coverage ever since.
Hardy also, in a second talk [videos below], reveals that he believes we must surrender Europe to Muslims…’they’ are here and so we must adapt our society to fit in with their demands else they become alienated, angry and radicalised.
‘One lesson well understood in both Stalin’s Russia and Nazi Germany was that propaganda is most effective when it is backed by terror’
By coincidence Sue at ‘Is the BBC biased? posted this video of Col. Richard Kemp talking about the Media’s portrayal of Israel and revealing the two most salient facts about the conflict between Israel and the Muslim/Left axis….That the Palestinian leadership has not, and never has had, any intention of agreeing to a two-state solution, they want to wipe Israel off the map, and secondly that there has been one of the most powerful smear campaigns in history directed against Israel …a campaign of course that the BBC has been central to.
In this talk Roger Hardy looks at the BBC’s role in reporting on politics and how it acts in the ‘national interest’. He touches on Israel and Islam and he reveals that he is more sympathetic towards the Palestinians than the Israelis and , though originally not enamoured with Islam, since joining the BBC he has come to view it more positively and believes the problem is that the Media just doesn’t understand Islam and ‘we are paying a high price for our failure to understand it’…..when he says ‘understand’ he means be more sympathetic and make allowances for Muslim beliefs, concerns and grievances….so….terrorism, radicalisation…it’s the West’s fault.
In the videos below Hardy expands on what he sees as the Media’s failure to understand as it reports on Islam and the Muslim world and its interaction with the West. He claims that ‘Palestinian issues are at the heart of global issues and Islamic radicalisation’. So Israel is the problem not ‘Islam’.
Journalists just don’t understand Islam, Muslims and the Muslim world, they don’t understand the massive diversity of the Muslim world preferring easy stereotypes. That from Hardy, a self-professed expert on Islam, is highly dishonest as he knows that the whole point of Islam is that it is one religion, one set of rules no matter what culture you live in, Islam is meant to be the same everywhere…and he ignores the close connection between Muslims worldwide….the ‘Ummah’.
He tells us we had better get this right [our understanding of Islam] for the sake of our own growing multi-cultural society with ever-increasing Muslim populations.
Revealingly, tellingly, and scarily, his attitude is that ‘there is no Islam and the rest…’they’ are here and we have to adapt our societies to fit in with Islam and the demands of that Muslim population’….in other words we must Islamise our society in order that Muslims feel they fit in and don’t feel alienated and hence go on to become radicalised…..which brings to mind the Mirror’s editorial about Muslim blackmail backed with threats of ‘terror’ by angry Muslim communities not allowed to create mini-Pakistans in the UK…
WE MUST NOT GIVE IN TO MUSLIM BLACKMAIL – – Mirror Online
Hardy tells us that if we fail to understand Islam it is no wonder we don’t understand Islamism…hmmm…trouble is most people do understand Islam and don’t like it…it’s just the BBC that refuses to admit the truth and continues to peddle a dangerous lie about the compatibility, and the desire to integrate, of Islam and ‘Islamists’ with the West.
As millions of Muslims force their way into Europe to join the many millions already here it is evident that people like Hardy are ready to surrender their own culture, beliefs and values and that the BBC is applying its resources to aid and abet in that capitulation. Despite that it is clear that many others in Europe are actively opposed to this abandonment of European society and culture and are working to bring this Islamisation to an end.
It is fairly obvious that this can have only one result in the end as Europe ‘awakens’…a huge religious war across Europe with the inevitable endgame that Muslims are forced out of Europe but not before we have massive bloodletting and destruction visited upon us as was the result of Partition and the creation of Pakistan…the last time Muslims decided they needed to Islamise a land.
The BBC’s attempts to downplay the consequences of mass Muslim migration into Europe has the opposite effect to that intended. The BBC thinks that if it buries bad news this will keep the peace….but in the end it will result in far more savagery, death and destruction than may have happened had the mass migration been blocked originally and Islam ‘contained’.
The BBC’s utopian world is a dangerous and delusional dream.
Hardy starts at 5 mins 30secs in……and continues in part two….
Whoo whoooo!!! Top Gear’s back. Oh crap. Chris Evans is in charge….but Joey…not bad…an oversized American Hamster.
Top Gear’s on the road again and it’s pretty much the same…technically…but it’s heart and soul have gone AWOL. Production values and the elements that made up the original content are there…but the personality? Where’s it gone? At Top Gun school in the US, a German racing driver up against a Brit and Evans doesn’t even mention the Battle of Britain…come on!!!
The Old Top Gear was all about the three knobheads mucking about and how they pissed each other off in a matey way. Evans just doesn’t fit the profile…he’s a schoolboy who made a million selling his internet app….all geek and way too unique…
The BBC doesn’t understand what made Top Gear Top Gear…the three man team that bounced off each other…two teaming up against one, the insults, banter and knockabout. A two presenter team just doesn’t work like that and Evans and Joey are ill-matched anyway. The BBC has gone for Stars and the same old Top Gear format which even under Clarkson and Co needed a refit. The Reliant race to Blackpool? What was that? Anti-climactic to say the least…why didn’t Evans just abandon Joey at the roadside as is traditional? Stars in a reasonably priced car was past its sell-by date long ago and the slightly re-jigged effort with a ‘rally’ car and a stretch across a field doesn’t do anything to reinvent it….a more interesting car (the Ariel Nomad for instance) and an all rally track would have thrust a bit of nitro up its smoking backside.
Evans lacks the blokeiness or just the massive sized belly of Clarkson to carry it off….get rid of the glasses, grow a beard, man up Evans!
Oh….he’s had ago….
Nah…he’ll have to go, he just doesn’t cut it.
Who does? Back in the ghetto where the diverse BBC have sidelined the black guy (Rory Reid) and the asian guy (Chris Harris) on Top Gear: Extra Gear we get the real Top Gear, the Old Top Gear with a bit of genuinely funny interaction and grab your attention TV….add in Sabine Schmitz, or comedian Chris Ramsay, and you’ve got a programme that is natural and watchable….Joey and Evans?…not so much.
Reid’d grow into the Clarkson part as he matures and makes the programme his own…..The BBC seem to have tamed Reid a bit…he is capable of a more Clarksonesque approach as his promo video shows. Playing it safe on his first big break? Harris is already there….James May but less floral…and Sabine Schmitz….strong, funny chararcter….almost too much character.
The BBC have got it wrong on the presenters…dump Evans and put these three in charge of the big show.
Here you go, a brand NEW Open Thread to detail the bias and start the week. The floor is yours – use it.
Fed up with the PC pap that the millionaire comics of the BBC serve up to you? Fed up being lectured on poverty and austerity by the Hampstead millionaire militants whose most traumatic life experience was finding out that Waitrose had run out of Houmous? Fed up with smart-arse middle-class righteous radicals whose whole comic routine consists solely of shouting ‘Trump’ and sniggering with a sneer at the irony of the foreign named ‘Faradge’?
Fed up with all that smarmy smugness and self-righteous cleverness?
Get your fill of Redneck humour at BBTV…..it’s the real deal….Here’s Mat Best, taken his show on tour to Iraq and Afghanistan, been there, done that, not just read about it in the Guardian and the Notting Hill Gazette…..
Real comedy for real men….If you’re easily offended by hot chicks, guns and liberal tears…lie back, shut your eyes and think of Brussels…….
The Bikini Snap? If only it were true……
It has been brought to my attention that we have been wasting our time on this site. BBC bias? Nonsense! What bias? We have been cherry-picking selective examples of bias whilst ignoring the proliferation of good, unbiased journalism and programming that the BBC broadcasts so regularly. The most recent evidence for this is a controversial programme broadcast recently called ‘Last Whites of the East End’. This programme was Alf Garnet, Enoch Powell and Hitler-loving Boris Johnson all rolled into one large racist tract that polluted the airwaves with its toxic message of hate. The BBC should be ashamed of itself.
So the BBC has become the propaganda arm of the BNP…the proof of that? The outraged outpourings of demented Twitterati who have declared that the programme was racist…apparently it was “white supremacist propaganda”. Not sure how they came to that conclusion as the whites were fleeing London. Doesn’t seem like much of a plan for a budding empire builder does it? I have to think that it is not wise to confuse the frenzied zealotry of the Lefty Twitterati with reality and can only conclude that some people have not actually watched the programme before commenting, or haven’t actually understood what was going on, or are being disingenuous and trying a bit too hard to be clever.
If they had watched the programme, and I have, they would have seen that it is standard BBC fare, not dissimilar to the last programme that the BBC broadcast on the same subject when one of their own Asian reporters felt the need to condemn the BBC’s anti-White prejudice…
Sarah Mukherjee, the environment correspondent, who grew up on a predominantly white council estate in Essex, said that BBC2’s White season risked reinforcing the stereotype of the white working class as violent and racist alcoholics who live on benefits.
The reporter, who is Asian, made the comments after Richard Klein, the BBC’s commissioning editor for documentaries, said that the corporation had been “brave” to make a series of programmes about the “prejudices, alienation, fears and confusion” of the white working class….Mukherjee said “listening to the patronising conversations in some newsrooms you’d think white, working-class Britain is one step away from anarchy, drinking themselves senseless and pausing only to draw benefits and beat up a few Asian and black people.”
This recent programme was no different…it zoomed in on white people making ‘racist’ comments, it had a man who didn’t want his daughter to go to a predominantly Muslim school, but, married to a Romanian immigrant, he welcomed immigrants from the EU, and then we had a Muslim…proud to be British and hated the Islamic State.
The BBC ticked all the boxes for its concerns…..racist whites, a man who doesn’t like Islam (therefore proving that Muslims are ‘under siege’) but, a double bonus for the BBC, he supports immigration from Europe, and then we have the proud-to-be-a-Brit Muslim who hates ISIS and says they are not Muslims, thus proving Muslims are patriotic Brits and Islam has nothing to do with radicalisation and the Islamic State.
Far from being an example of BBC balance and right-wingery this was classic lefty messaging from the BBC….horrible racist whites who want to be with their ‘own kind of people’, Islamophobes and Europhiles, and loveable ‘cockney’ Muslims.
Yes the programme was racist…in that it targeted white people and a mixed race man who didn’t like Islam….where is the exploration of the Muslim community?…The beardless Muslim man they chose was hardly representative of the East London Muslim community that we know and have serious reservations about. Let’s hear some openly ‘conservative’ Muslims speaking about Whites and non-Muslims….perhaps not….the BBC doesn’t want to be accused of racism and have the police come round as they did to the Dispatches team. We heard that there was now no respect, no manners and Christian values had gone from the area….where was the BBC investigation of that claim? The programme was very one-sided and refused to open up the pandora’s box that was in front of them.
Cameron resorted to wild-eyed rhetoric exclaiming that voting to leave the EU will result in another world war and despite being widely ridiculed for his stupid, divisive and wrong hyperbole the BBC has quietly taken to promoting his pro-EU propaganda that war will be the inevitable result of a leave vote.
A story about the Battle of Verdun in WWI has been hijacked by the BBC and has been presented to us as symbol of EU solidarity and the importance of unity ending the report with this…
Verdun also became the symbol of European reconciliation. Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Francois Mitterrand held hands there in 1984 and on Sunday, Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel will speak again of their shared European vision.
For the UK, the Somme centenary on 1 July will be this year’s main World War One moment. For British, Irish and Commonwealth families, it is the Thiepval memorial and the poppy fields that captured the collective memory.
In both countries, the need for a single transcendent focus has obscured wider appreciation of the history of the war.
But 100 years on, there is still much to learn.
Yep, much to learn…such as the Germans have long had a dream of a shared Europe..under their leadership…even now they seek to head the secret EU army that is being created and they already control the EU economy…just ask Greece and Ireland…but the BBC hasn’t, as we’ve noted in the previous post, bothered to report such significant events.
Why does the BBC choose to report things that present a rosy picture of the EU but not those that illustrate the truth about its political ambitions and empire building?
Did it for instance report the arrogant Juncker’s threatening words?...
‘Deserters will not be welcomed with open arms’: Brussels chief issues stark threat that EU will punish Britain if we vote to leave
Britain will be treated like a ‘deserter’ by the EU if it votes to leave, the president of the European Commission has said.
Jean-Claude Juncker warned that Germany, France and other states would not ‘bend over backwards’ to help if the UK abandoned the union.
It is the latest bloodcurdling threat about the consequences of cutting ties with Brussels.
The French finance minister previously sparked fury by insisting the UK would be ‘killed’ by its former partners in negotiations over a post-Brexit trade deal.
Why would any country wish to be ruled by such an egotistical and imperious, jackbooted dictator? Nice to have the choice though…the choice the BBC doesn’t want you to have as it covers up Juncker’s revealing comments.
