Category Archives: BBC bias

Well, the weekend approaches and so time for a new one of these to see us off into the wild blue yonder! Detail the bias here please.

The politicians have been pressuring the BBC to use any name other than ‘Islamic State’ to describe the Islamic State in yet more appeasement of the Muslim pressure groups who wish to suppress all news and information that might shed light on why Muslims wish to join the Islamic State.

Here’s Cameron & Co’s equation….

If you use the term ‘Islamic State’ this will anger Muslims, these angry Muslims will be radicalised, and once radicalised they will join the Islamic State in order to defend the honour of the Muslim Community besieged as it is by the Kufaar….but it’s nothing to do with Islam.

This of course is similar to that other equation that means that Cameron & Co won’t put boots on the ground to fight the Islamic State….

If we put boots on the ground Muslims will get angry because we, the Kufaar, are killing Muslims…the angry Muslims will become radicalised and go on a Holy War to defend Muslims…by killing as many Muslims as possible and then claiming it is all the West’s fault….but it’s nothing to do with Islam….oh and when it suits, they will demand we put boots on the ground to defend Muslims and then become ‘radicalised’ when we don’t…ala Syria.

The BBC will then ask how it is that young British Muslims, disenfranchised, marginalised and demonised, become radicalised?  What they never ask is why it is only Muslims?

The BBC has of course staunchly defended itself from the Politicians’ pressure and has declared that it is only fair that it calls the Islamic State by its name…..‘giving “the impression of support” for the group’s opponents and “would not preserve the BBC’s impartiality”. ‘

Curiously the BBC is more than happy to redact the words ‘Muslim’ and ‘Islamic’ when reporting terrorist offences or crimes by Muslims….all too often limiting their report to the names of the arrested.

The BBC is of course not so keen to call a terrorist a terrorist…unless he is an Israeli ‘terrorist’ or ‘war criminal’…then it’s quite fair to apply such labels.

The BBC’s new Europe editor raised a small storm of protest back in January…

New Europe editor Katya Adler has been criticised over her EU connections

The BBC is facing a bias row over its new Europe editor, Katya Adler, who is replacing the veteran Gavin Hewitt but has yet to start the job because she is on maternity leave.

Eurosceptic Tory MPs are exercised by an entry in her LinkedIn work profile stating that from 1996 “to the present day” she has been “chairing debates, moderating and public speaking – hosting public, corporate and private events including for the EU Commission, the European Space Agency, CERN, London’s Frontline Club and the Austrian government during its EU Presidency”.

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen tells People: “This apparent cosy relationship between the BBC’s new Europe editor and the European Commission is a big cause for concern and calls into question the BBC’s impartiality on the issue of Europe.”

Adler is still available for bookings if you’re interested….next Tory Party conference perhaps?

Regardless of bias she certainly has a unique view of the world.

Yesterday on the Today programme (08:20) she was giving us a Russell Brand lite view of that political world….there is a clash between the old political order and the ‘People’…..

On the one hand, you have the traditional powers that be – bankers, big business and traditional political parties, imposing their will from above.

And on the other are grassroots movements, populist and people-driven, saying a loud NO to the status quo.

So what’s new?  Has she never heard of Communists, Marxists, Tony Benn and Arthur Scargill?  Funny how the parties she mentions and gives credence to are all left wing…..how different the BBC’s attitude towards right wing movements such as UK or the Tea party in the US….no ‘warnings from history’ about hard left socialists from the BBC….After all it is the socialists like Hitler, Stalin and Mao who killed millions upon millions of their own citizens…not sure Nigel Farage is in the same league (though some American on 5Live yesterday tried to suggest he was the starting point for the conveyor belt whose end product is the Nazis.)

On the Today programme Adler says that ‘the people feel it emotionally across the Continent….’  and she then makes a remarkable claim….’ this marries in with what is happening in the UK as well where we have high unemployment, a sluggish economy and a deteriorating quality of life for the majority’.

Hang on though…in her web write up she must have had second thoughts and edited out that bit about the UK being like Greece…..because it’s codswallop….

Acute EU dissatisfaction is a syndrome now affecting and infecting the whole continent.

High unemployment, sluggish growth, if any, a deteriorating quality of life for the majority, while the super-affluent minority continues to profit – the call for change, for a new Europe, is widespread.

Pardon me but that ‘Acute EU dissatisfaction syndrome’ in the UK is to do with sovereignty and mass immigration….trying to categorize the anti-EU protests in the UK as about the economy is to miss the pont completely.

She went on to say on ‘Today’ that ‘Pretty much everyone across Europe is calling for change’.  We’re all ‘Occupy’ now!

Who needs Russell Brand, now that he’s totally discredited, when you have the BBC’s Katya Adler cheerleading ‘Occupy’?

Adler was back on the Today programme the next day with another gem.(08:58ish)…apparently we have to remember that for all the talk of EU survival this is about people’s lives and jobs!.

Well yes….and that is precisely what the BBC has ignored for many years as it reported favourably on the grand political project without the slightest regard for what people thought or what the actual effect of the lofty EU project was having on them., their lives and their jobs.

And on the subject of Farage I was amused to see this….the trouble with Farage is that he is all too often right about Europe’s problems…and it makes the EU bureaucrats terribly annoyed…yep must be terribly annoying to have to deal with such inconveniences as credible complaints…..sounds familiar…..

Nigel Farage is ‘right too often’ about European Union failings

Nigel Farage is “right too often” about the failings of the European Union, the vice president of the commission has said.

Frans Timmermans, the second most powerful man in Brussels, said he is “terribly annoyed” by how frequently the leader of the UK Independence Party appeared to correctly diagnose the bloc’s failings – particularly its handling of the migration crisis – even when he strongly disagrees with his proposed solutions.

“What I really like about the man is his incredible sense of humour,” he said. “The problem is, I don’t get annoyed when he talks rubbish.

“I get terribly annoyed when he’s right. And on some issues he is right too often. If he criticises the EU for not having a migration policy that is effective he is right. He is absolutely, completely wrong with his solutions. But to start criticising the EU for not dealing in the right way with the migration crisis is right.

 

1ST July and a new month beckons! Here is a new Open Thread. Please detail the bias here. Can I also request civility in the comment threads? I am aware of some impersonation that has been going on here and a plan is in place to permanently stop this. I also wanted to say that the credibility of the site with you – our excellent readers. Please be careful that you choose links with care and that you don’t accidentally damage the site by saying or linking to lunatic sites (right or left!) Many thanks.

The elephant is in the room but neither Nicky Morgan or the BBC is going to name it!

Homophobic views may be a sign that a pupil is at risk of becoming an extremist, Nicky Morgan has said. The education secretary was speaking as schools in England and Wales were issued with a guide to identifying pupils in danger of radicalisation. She said attacking core British values or being extremely intolerant of homosexuality were examples of behaviour that could raise the alarm.  The NUT said the guidance would cause teachers “nervousness and confusion”.

Since the only being people “radicalised” are Muslims then does she mean Islam is encouraging such views? I think we should be told but the BBC remain mute on the topic, too busy still celebrating the legalisation of “Gay Marriage” in the States,

A reader sent me this a few days ago and I think the point remains pretty valid.

“It’s 7am on Saturday morning, 27/06/2015. People, mostly Brits, were shot yesterday on the beach in Tunisia and the top stories in the carousel on the BBC web site home page are:

Unbelievable.”

I am sure we will have all been horrified by the acts of Jihad that took place on Friday past, with the massacre of the innocents on the beach in Sousse, Tunisia causing so much grief and misery to so many people. Naturally, my sympathies go to all who were murdered by the Islamic savage concerned. HOWEVER, I am wondering why BBC Northern Ireland (yes, part of the BBC UK network lest we forget) choose to lead THEIR coverage of the issue by informing us of the deaths of the three Irish people who sadly lost their lives on that day? I am not suggesting that the loss to the families concerned is any different in any way BUT I am wondering why the BBC in this part of the UK chooses to take an angle which does not affect any British people. I have argued for years that the BBC over here deliberately chooses to cast stories from an all-Island perspective which is all very well but it is License Tax payers in the UK that fund this odd behaviour.

Ok, here’s a curious one in which I defend the BBC against the Prime Minister.

Morning all! Hope this finds you well. I’m back after a break so let’s kick off with an Open Thread before we dive into a few issues.