Category Archives: BBC bias

H/T  Dave S in the comments….

The BBC’s a winner….

The 2015 Dishonest Reporter of the Year: Why the BBC Won

When we looked back over our 2015 archives, it was clear which media outlet deserved this year’s Dishonest Reporter Award. The honor goes to perennial contender, BBC News.

At any given time, the insidious nature of the BBC’s anti-Israel bias is its constant drip, drip effect. But this year, the pipes burst with some genuinely shocking moments of coverage that generated a huge amount of anger and offense.

Not one the BBC will be trumpeting from the rooftops as they normally do when they win an award for their journalism.

Well folks, welcome to 2016 and here is your starter open thread for 10! Detail the bias here.

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Turkey’s Islamist president has been praising Hitler’s Germany and looking towards a political system that brought Hitler to power…from the Telegraph…

Turkey’s president says all he wants is same powers as Hitler

The BBC doesn’t bring you this disturbing news…or rather does but doesn’t prefering to downplay the rise and rise of the fascist Islamic fundamentalist leading Turkey by saying he doesn’t really understand English very well and doesn’t know anything about European history….well he’s speaking Turkish and seems pretty well versed in European history.

Wonder why the BBC would seek to hide this story away…you have to Google it to find a BBC report [on iPlayer] as it’s not openly on the website despite being a prominent story today.

The BBC reports:

French soldiers shoot car attacker outside mosque

The motive for the attack, which occurred between prayer sessions when many people were outside, is not known.

Police say the man drove twice at the soldiers. They shot him when he reversed his car and came at them again after the first attempt, AFP reports.

The driver is said to be 29 years old and from Lyon, an hour away from Valence.

Motive unknown…but importantly we know the attacker lives an hour from the scene of the crime.

However the motive might be guessed at if the BBC provided all the information…

France: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” tries to run down soldiers guarding mosque

One man of North African origin, aged about thirty years, was driving. He twice rushed his car at the soldiers, and according to several witnesses, was shouting “Allah akbar.”

The driver acted alone. “We have seen this person, he is of North African origin,” one of the imams of the mosque, Abdullah Dliouah, told AFP.

The BBC isn’t as bad as the Independent however.  The BBC merely leaves you guessing and asuming this was an attack on the mosque…the Independent claims it was one…despite not providing any further evidence of this in the actual article….

France mosque attack: Soldiers open fire on car ‘attempting to ram mosque’

The Guest Editors on the Today programme have been the ‘usual suspects’, even the supposedly right-leaning’ ones carefully selected to be sure they present the correct meassage.

We’ve had the actor who was a socialist, anti-Tory and pro foreign aid spending, a cyclist who voted for Gordon Brown and gave us a broadcast on behalf of the Corbyn fellow, an immigrant wife of someone famous who preached immigration, a disabled person who filled Today with stories of disabled people and a black person who couldn’t get over slavery…..and tomorrow a ‘famously gay’ oil businessman….I imagine he will not surprise us with tales from the left bank.

Oh yes, not forgetting one of Osborne’s advisors, so putatively right-wing, Rohan Silva, who was invisibly low profile  in the background all week as the Today programme’s business editor…did anyone notice?

Let’s take a look at the ‘right wing’ Silva…..

So first off he ticks the ‘ethnic’ box…his immigrant parents came to the UK from Sri Lanka.

And just how influential is he in government and what policies does he espouse?

Funnily enough, just why did the BBC choose him?, he’s big on progressive policies…on open data, aid spending and he’s big on visa’s for people with ‘exceptional talent’…so immigration likely to be a subject he talked about.

All things the BBC will look approvingly upon.

Oh but one other thing….to undermine the BBC’s and Labour’s narrative about the Tories and race [Possibly timely given the ‘outrage’ about Letwin’s comments]….

It is a curiosity of the present generation that despite the Coalition being derided as out of touch, or dominated by Old Etonians, the two advisers spoken of as being the most influential within No 10 have brown skin and didn’t grow up in London.

One is Ameet Gill, protégé of Niall Ferguson, who partly through the historian’s executive TV producer Melanie Fall — twin sister of Prime Ministerial aide Kate Fall — caught the eye of the Cameron coterie. The other is Rohan Silva.

For the past five or six years, if you asked late twentysomethings in the Westminster milieu which young adviser had the most impact on policy, the answer was often reliably “Silva”.

The Guest Editors were just the BBC on steroids giving us the usual left-wing fare with an excuse to be particularly partial as guest editors, choosing subjects that I suspect didn’t surprise anyone, least of all those in the BBC who chose this dull, tokenistic, backward looking, jaded bunch knowing full well that they would load the programme with ‘right-on’ left-wing kitsch.

Proud Iraqi soldier waves the Iraqi flag as Ramadi is recaptured

The Iraqi Army, that is the Iraqi National Army, has recaptured Ramadi from ISIS, with the help of Sunni tribal militia.

The BBC’s ME correspondents must be distraught, this news having undermined their carefully crafted campaign and narrative about the Middle East that gloated about the rise of ISIS and the ‘fall’ of the ‘indiscriminately drawn borders’ that were imposed when Britain and France ‘carved up the Middle East’ with the ‘secret Sykes Picot’ agreement….and that no Sunni would support the Shia majority government of Iraq anymore.

Trouble is the BBC’s narrative is complete and dangerous tosh…a deliberate deception and misreporting of history with the usual aim of painting Britain or the West as the villains in the piece.

The problem with the BBC narrative of an Imperial Britain imposing its will is that Arab forces were united with Britain to end the rule of the Caliphate, that is, the Ottoman Empire, they also welcomed Britain remaining in the area to help them establish their countries which fairly quickly gained independence.  Sykes Picot was not an agreement drawn up in secret and imposed upon the Arabs…the Arab leaders were deeply involved in negotiations and there were many debates and arguments about the borders…they were not just drawn up with a random stroke of a pencil along a ruler.  As for an unworkable nation state composed of different ethnic groups? [Where now the BBC’s love of multiculturalism?]  It was Turkey that insisted the Kurdish area become part of Iraq…they didn’t want an independent Kurdish state….the Kurds also had most of the oil in their region and it was thought that Iraq would prosper as a whole with that source of revenue.

There was nothing secret or random about the creation of Iraq and other Arab states.  They were the result of long drawn out negotiations between many states and groups all with vested interests.  The BBC’s journalists paint a picture that is so untrue that it is obvious that it is designed purely to attack Britain and give credence to the Muslim grievance narrative that feeds into the Terrorist narrative and serves to draw in more unjustly disgruntled Muslims as recruits.

Lord Hall Hall’s news organisation is as much responsible for creating the anti-Western narrative that portrays Muslims as victims of the West as any Jihadi social media propaganda.

About time politicians and the security services sat up and took note of what one of the world’s most powerful and influential news services is doing.

I am sure that you, like me, were devastated to learn that the BBC’s websites all crashed earlier today. How dreadful to be spared their poison for a short while! Anyway, I just wanted to take a moment to wish you all a VERY Happy New Year, thank you all for sticking with this site and making such a massive contribution to it. I wanted to extend a special thank you to Alan for ALL his efforts, without him it would be so much quieter!

As we exit 2015, I can’t honestly say I believe the BBC is any less biased but I can say with some certainly that such bias is picked up by all of you out there and eviscerated as it well deserves to be.

My very best to you all and here’s to exposing MORE rancid bias in 2016. My axe is sharpened.

Blair blames spate of murders on black culture

Tony Blair yesterday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture. His remarks angered community leaders, who accused him of ignorance and failing to provide support for black-led efforts to tackle the problem.

One accused him of misunderstanding the advice he had been given on the issue at a Downing Street summit.

Black community leaders reacted after Mr Blair said the recent violence should not be treated as part of a general crime wave, but as specific to black youth. He said people had to drop their political correctness and recognise that the violence would not be stopped “by pretending it is not young black kids doing it”.

Oliver Letwin is in Labour’s sights as they martial all the indignant outrage they can muster and bluster…the BBC giving them every chance to pillory Letwin as a racist.

Right from the off the BBC deliberately misled people as to what Letwin actually said.  Justin Webb on the Today programme(07:09) stated that Letwin ‘believed that black Britons had bad moral attitudes’….implying Letwin thought all black Britons had bad moral problems.  The BBC news and various programmes that followed up on this ‘important’ story  about a small memo from 1985 all took the same narrative and chose not to tell us what Letwin actually said in full….which is…

“The root of social malaise is not poor housing, or youth ‘alienation’, or the lack of a middle class.  Lower-class, unemployed white people lived for years in appalling slums without a breakdown of public order on anything like the present scale; in the midst of the depression, people in Brixton went out, leaving their grocery money in a bag at the front door, and expecting to see groceries there when they got back.

“Riots, criminality and social disintegration are caused solely by individual characters and attitudes. So long as bad moral attitudes remain, all efforts to improve the inner cities will founder.”

Did Letwin casually assert that the whole Black community was predisposed to be criminals due to their inherent bad moral attitudes?  No he didn’t.  You don’t have to read that at all carefully to see exactly what he meant….I’m sure the many English graduates with gainful employment at the BBC can explain what ‘individual’ means…..seems some just don’t want to know what Letwin actually said….nor were they at all bothered about mentioning PC Keith Blakelock, beaten and stabbed 40 times, almost beheaded by Black rioters as they shouted ‘kill the pig’, nor did the BBC bother to mention Labour man Bernie Grant saying the police got ‘a bloody good hiding’.  Curious how unbalanced the BBC can be, dodging the inconvenient ‘context’ that might distract from their own narrative.

All Letwin said was that certain individuals who commit these crimes or who riot do so because they, individually, have bad moral attitudes…he did not make a broad, sweeping statement condemning the whole Black community.

When Lammy, Watson, Umunna and Phillips and all the rest assert he was wrong are they saying that the criminals and rioters were morally right to be acting in that way?  It does look that way.

The BBC quoted Trevor Phillips all day telling us he thought Letwin’s words were outrageous and racist and that basically all white people thought like that back in 1985.  Trouble is Phillips, whilst saying that the comments were outrageous, [no, they weren’t…see above] actually went on to say he wasn’t interested in dragging over something from 30 years ago when Letwin, whom he knew well, didn’t have such an attitude now.  Justin Webb ignored that and demanded to know if Phillips thought Letwin should resign…clearly not understanding a word Phillips had said, or blatantly ignoring it in the hunt for a Tory scalp.

And anyway….this is a Labour attack….desperate as they are to fling mud at the Tories after being nailed as Terrorist sympathisers.  Shame the BBC didn’t spend half as much time on the allegations against Labour as they do with Letwin.

Let’s look back at some Labour history on race and culture….Jack Straw in 2007…

Gang crime ‘due to absent dads’

The “continuing problem” of gang violence is due to the absence of fathers in black communities, Justice Secretary Jack Straw says.

He said young black men needed their fathers as role models, otherwise their development suffered.

He was responding to US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson who said inner city violence was an economic problem.

“Gang violence is rooted in the economics of desperation,” said Rev Jackson, adding that some people were “profiting” from providing guns to deprived areas.

But Mr Straw, speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, said the problem was not due to economics.

“One of the striking things is the difference between the attitude and the success in life of black girls from exactly the same backgrounds compared to black boys.”

Black girls perform around the average at Key Stage 4, aged 16, compared to the overall population, he said.

‘Lads need dads’

“Black boys go backwards when they get to secondary school.

“It’s a cultural problem. It’s the absence of fathers who are actively involved in parenting.

So Straw is making the very same claims that Labour are now trying to claim Letwin was making…..crime was due to cultural factors in the Black community….oh and look who else was talking the same talk….

And last March Commission for Racial Equality chairman Trevor Phillips implied some absent fathers were partially to blame for the under-achievement of black boys at school.

Barnardo’s spokesman Errol John said the Babyfather Initiative acknowledged there were problems to be tackled.

“Some black men aren’t playing as full a role in their children’s lives as they should be.

“That’s an issue we don’t shy away from when talking to communities, along with the political stuff that needs addressing,” he said.

And again…

Mr Phillips said a lack of self-esteem and positive role models for black boys also compounded the problem, as well as an attitude that being clever is not cool.

“If the only way to break through the wall of attitude that surrounds black boys is to teach them separately in some classes, then we should be ready for that,” he said.

Phillips laid into multi-culturalism and the cultures that produce criminals and terrorists…..

Because I had made it my business to spend part of each week in a community outside London, I already knew some groups were becoming so isolated that values and ideas which most people would find alien were tolerated and even encouraged.

And I saw a looming danger that these communities were steadily shrinking in on themselves, trapping young people behind walls of tradition and deference to elders.

Of course none of this was secret. But anyone who pointed the finger could expect to be denounced for not respecting diversity.

Our desperation to avoid offence is itself beginning to stand in the way of progress. And all too often the losers are minority Britons.

If African Caribbeans are statistically more likely to commit some kinds of crime than other people, as indeed they are — we are especially proficient at murdering other African Caribbeans, for example — it might make some sense to understand why, so we can stop it happening.

Even the Guardian’s Michael White backed Phillips whilst others tried to silence him for saying we were sleepwalking into segregation….

Trevor Phillips says the unsayable about race and multiculturalism

Petty crime patterns, high exam performance and levels of affluence are usually taboo if they threaten to carry a racial dimension: stereotyping is the usual complaint and, of course, it has some merit. Only some. Even a word of out place – think Benedict Cumberbatch’s well-meant remarks about the shortage of “coloured” actors – can raise a media mini-storm, though colour is again being used in the US to embrace all sorts of non-white ethnic groups.

Seems to me that there is a huge amount of hypocrisy around Letwin’s comments and not a little political opportunism.  The BBC has indulged itself and gone on the attack instead of doing its job and sifted out the sanctimony, hubris and moral grandstanding as well as the far more dangerous attempt to stir up race conflict…something the BBC itself specialises in.  Phillips has let himself down and made some cheap comments playing to the baying mob attacking Letwin whilst admitting Letwin doesn’t actually have an attitude like that, and Phillips says he knows him well.

This isn’t directly about a BBC programme….well maybe it’s in line with Harrabin’s programme of climate change indoctrination as it illustrates the propaganda that is being manufactured by the climate change lobby in order to fool us into believing their narrative….using ‘evidence’ that isn’t evidence at all.  The planet may be warming but the below is not evidence of man-made global warming, just a continuation of a trend that has been happening for hundreds of years.

The Exit Glacier in Alaska has become a poster child for the the climate change alarmists…Bear Grylls escorted Obama around the climate change crime scene in order to scaremonger about the supposed dangers of climate change.

This was a specifically designed programme to illustrate the threat from climate change as evidenced by the ‘retreat’ of the Exit glacier, Obama saying ‘It underscores why it is so important to pay attention to climate change.’

Bear Grylls told us that ‘this[ice] will go and if it goes it won’t come back’.

Unfortunately that is just so much self-serving nonsense and underscores the importance of not paying attention to celebrities and politicians who are flogging you something…..the trend may be a retreat but the glacier can grow again……

At two of the six sites — the highest-elevation sites monitored by the Park Service — some of last winter’s snowfall was retained, according to the data.

That has been the general pattern so far, said Deborah Kurtz, a Park Service scientist who is coordinating the Kenai Fjords glacier-monitoring project. “At lower sites, we are seeking overall melt, or ablation,” she said. “The melt is usually greater than the accumulation.”

But there is great variation between years and specific sites, Kurtz said.

Two of the past five years’ measurements showed a gain in mass — more accumulation than melt — one year’s measurements showed no change and measurements in the past two years showed a net loss, with more melt than accumulation.

The ice loss was biggest in 2013, a particularly warm year, Kurtz said. The past year was not quite as warm, and there was significant high-altitude snowfall in October and December that contributed to the icefield mass, she said.

The Exit Glacier has been retreating and reforming for thousands of years….growing or shrinking yearly….the trend since the end of the Little Ice age has been a slow retreat overall….

From 1815 to 1999, Exit Glacier retreated at an average rate of 43 feet a year, though at widely varying rates, according to a Park Service analysis. Since then, retreat has continued at an uneven pace. The average annual retreat between 1973 and 2013 was a little over 30 feet or 9.2 meters, according to Park Service records.

So for nearly two centuries the retreat has been averaging 43 feet per year, then during the period of man-made global warming it only managed 30 feet per year until last year when it managed 187 feet in one year…

At Exit Glacier, a major Alaska tourism attraction, the terminus retreated 187 feet in the past year, according to measurements taken last month. About 80 percent of that retreat happened during the summer, according to the Park Service measurements.

You will say…whoaa, 187 feet in one year!!!…climate change!….the world’s obviously boiling…..hold your horses though…..check this out…

So from 1894 to 1899 the retreat was…em…that magical and terrible 187 feet per year…oh, look….in 1914 to 1917 it was 302 feet per year.  Is 302 more than 187?  I think it could be.

So in a period when climate change, man-made, wasn’t happening the glacier was retreating at the same or faster rate than at present in our climate alarming scenario…..which needs ‘fixing’ at great cost.

Not saying someone is lying to us about climate change but you might interpet it that way.

Oh yes….don’t forget the medieval forest uncovered by the ice retreat…

Retreating Alaskan Glacier Reveals Remains Of Medieval Forest

A medieval forest under the ice?  Wouldn’t that indicate that the planet was a lot warmer in Medieval times before ‘man-made’ climate change?…and if so what made it so warm if it wasn’t CO2 belching from our factories, cars and chimneys?

Is this climate change or just climate?

Could it be that what made it warm in Medieval times is the same thing that makes it warm now?

Mrs Nick Clegg aka Miriam González Durántez was the “Guest Editor” on the Today programme this morning and what a steaming pile of biased claptrap she served up. I awoke to a report just after 6.30am to inform me that Hillary Clinton is the ONLY candidate worth considering in the US Presidential election care of some militant feminist. I was then advised that Oliver Letwin is “in trouble” over some comments he made back in….1985. Yes, Today really is topical. Then, we moved on to the importance of Immigration and Mrs Clegg has this as her key theme for Today. We really NEED to appreciate the virtues of immigration was drummed into our thick heads. No mention of the questionable  merits of mass Somali, Eritrean, Sudanese immigrants. It droned on and on, a complete raving Left-fest. During this period of Holiday, the Today programme throws aside any pretence of balance and just indulges its hateful anti-British agenda. It reminds me WHY we need the likes of this site to hold it to account.