BBC News receives photos every day from people across the world, many purporting to show unfolding events. Trushar Barot, of the BBC’s user generated content team, says there are two aspects to verifying whether images are genuine – technical checks and editorial judgement.
“There are several tools we use to help us assess image data, including whether an image is an original or whether it has been manipulated digitally. We’ll also look for visual clues that we can cross reference, for example the weather, the location, number plates, signs, language and so on. We do reverse image searches to see if the images appear elsewhere on the web to help us track their origin.
“Editorially, we’ll start from a point of scepticism, posing the question ‘Is this image too good to be true?’ We’ll analyse the context of the image and the motives behind why it might have been uploaded on the web at that time. We will also seek to cross-reference what the image purports to show against official or verified sources, such as news agencies or with our own teams on the ground.”
The BBC has no such qualms though when it comes to reporting that a whole nation might be ‘racist’ on the evidence of a few Tweets from a Muslim in Norway:
Well…not sure if it was a debate…more a witch hunt by the sounds of things.
Things of course are different here, we like to debate sensitive subjects openly…..
When Dominic Grieve suggested that Pakistani’s were prone to corruption, more prone than perhaps other communities, he has had to back down and apologise:
So no ‘sparking of a debate’ there then about corruption imported from abroad…or anything else by way of foreign culture imported from abroad that is detrimental to good order in this country.
You can see why debate might be unwelcome in some quarters……
Recent reports have suggested that immigrants to the UK since 2000 have made a “substantial” contribution to public finances and immigrants were less likely to claim benefits and live in social housing than people born in Britain.
He pops up again on the Beeb, this time his derivative Marxist pap on the prestigious RTS Huw Weldon Memorial Lecture:
Totally Shameless: How TV Portrays the Working Class
From Little Britain’s Vicky Pollard to the Jeremy Kyle Show to toxic documentaries on ‘feckless scroungers’ – writer and broadcaster Owen Jones argues that this growing strain of malevolent British TV programming denigrates the working class.
Of course that is how the working class are always portrayed by TV:
It’s a shame that a person who propagates an ideology that is so old and so discredited, one that has caused so much death and misery in the world, not least for the ‘working classes’ he pretends to speak for, should be given such a platform, the respect for which can only lend ‘authority’ to Jones in future and give his Marxist ramblings credibility.
Jones cleverly limits his outrage, crocodile tears some might say, to the TV’s depiction of the ‘working class’, to ‘Chavs’ in particular….because of course TV only mocks Chavs…upper class twits or ‘exploiters’ of the poor, or middle class pretentions are never ridiculed by TV…
Safe ground he calculates, lucrative ground, Jones is the ‘Wonga’ of the ‘Wonks’, a poverty parasite…making a splendid living whilst ‘helping’ the poorest in society out…knowing he will get immediate approval for his pious grandstanding ….and so it proves with a very rewarding career, built like the Cathedrals of old, on the sweated labour of the very Chavs he says he is speaking up for….to the Glory of Owen.
Vicky Pollard… her story is actually a bit of an inspirational one….she used to be a bit of a tearaway however she has turned her life around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MatUG_xTMg
And the posh birds don’t get the same treatment do they?
The trouble is, and the reason why the BBC should think twice before giving him so much prime air time, Jones is a Labour Party stooge…he works for the Unite union, which of course is the principle backer and influential policy ‘adviser’, to Miliband.
As Guido tells us:he is a paid lobbyist for UNITE the union and as such he should be registered. When Guido called his CLASS think-tank recently the phone was answered by someone who said “CLASS or UNITE business?” It is just a lobbying front for Red Len…
When Miliband has staked his political future on being seen as the man who can put an end to his so called ‘living standard’s crisis’, to have Owen Jones continually invited onto the BBC to promote that idea, whilst not admitting his close ties to Labour, is verging on the dishonest.
Jones doesn’t like how the ‘Working Class’ are portrayed…but he’s not above shutting down debate and labelling those who disagree with him…’demonising’ trolls….despite all those appearances on BBC’s ‘Freespeech’ programme…..
It’s flattering to think they regard the right to follow me on Twitter as a basic civil right
This is normally how it goes: they’ll spray something across my timeline like “Go live in North Korea you communist prick”, then I block them, meaning I won’t be able to enjoy their Wildean wit anymore. They then wail to the world that I have attacked their freedom of speech, presumably in the same way that hanging up on a crank call or walking away from a pub bore is attacking free speech.
The odd thing is those ‘Trolls’ are probably the very ‘Chavs’ he defends elsewhere…..people who see through his pretensions and express their contempt in the way that comes naturally in the society they move in….by sticking two fingers up to him…verbally.
Owen Jones, ‘the slave of some defunct economist‘ is little different than Islamist extremist Anjem Choudary,…a cheap huckster, a ‘poverty hustler’, generating false grievances, inciting anger, encouraging class conflict, both ‘distilling their frenzy’ from the ancient scribblings of a charlatan they have latched onto and used to lend credence and authority to their own ramblings……the carpetbagger of cheap and incoherent ideas, exploiting the poorest in society, troughing away whilst talking about inequality and the gap between the rich and the poor as he gets paid a couple of grand for a column in the Guardian or Independent.
You could respect him if he lived his ideals…but he doesn’t….when he earns what must be at least 5 times the weekly wage of many working class people for writing a single column in a newspaper, regurgitating stuff that’s been said a thousand times before, not even original stuff, how can he justify his pretence of being the ‘People’s Champion’?
You can’t really take him seriously until he joins up with the likes of Polly Toynbee and starts handing out a good proportion of their own income to the needy.
Touring the TV studios grandly pontificating and theorising about poverty whilst doing nothing concrete is showbiz and self promotion.
Shame the BBC doesn’t call him out on it….instead of which they lay out the red carpet and treat him as if he is the second coming of Marxism….the opium of the Bien Pensant.
The G20 group of leading industrial nations has no representative in the top 10, nor do the Middle East or Africa.
That was undoubtedly just in case you were thinking that Islamic countries were oppressive regimes for women….Western Democracies are too…..what the BBC doesn’t point out is the massive gap between those G20 countries and ‘The Middle East’ as it coyly names the offending regimes.
What it could also point out is a remarkable trend…..it is Christian countries that dominate the upper ranks. Australia, geographically many miles from Europe, yet it ranks highly….what could be the common denominator? Maybe it’s all those immigrants from Europe bringing diversity and cultural and social uplift…something perhaps Saudi Arabia could do with?
Even India, which I claim for the ‘Golden Age’ of the Raj’s influence, is not in the bottom ranks….at 101 ahead of Japan.
As mentioned before…The BBC working hand in hand with Labour to massage Miliband’s image….and we all know Marxists love ‘the family’…..about as much as the BBC does.
We’ve had the Newsnight ‘Milibandism’ party political broadcast and now this clip from Desert Island Discs (full version on Monday).
Guess now that Miliband’s ally at the top of the Co-op is no longer available for donations the BBC has stepped up with its donations ‘in kind’.
The BBC’s trail shows exactly what the intention of this charade is:
Ed Miliband: ‘Parents welcomed us into politics’
Ed Miliband has attributed his interest in politics to his parents, in a programme for BBC Radio 4.
The Labour leader spoke to Kirsty Young for an edition of Desert Island Discs, which is due to air on Sunday.
In October, Mr Miliband called for an apology from the Daily Mail newspaper, after it published an article about his late father, Ralph, entitled ”The Man Who Hated Britain.”
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A million of our young out of work, dictatorship by Brussels and why Mr Cameron can no longer ignore the people on immigration
In less than six weeks, unless there is a decisive Government U-turn, Britain, as required by the European Union, will throw open its jobs market to the 29 million citizens of Romania and Bulgaria.
It’s a development which could have the most considerable implications for the Prime Minister, British society and, most importantly, this country’s one million unemployed young people.
Yet David Cameron and his ministers are approaching January 1 with a head-in-the-sand insouciance which is so sadly typical of a political class that is increasingly remote from the lives and concerns of ordinary voters.
Incredibly, the Government has refused to estimate how many migrants will arrive.
This week, Mark Harper, the Immigration Minister, said — with frightening complacency — that he didn’t think the number would be huge.
In doing so, he ignored hard empirical evidence that a new wave of immigration is about to take place that will place huge strain on our already stretched schools, hospitals and housing.
Consider the facts: the average wage in Britain is about £26,000 a year, compared with just over £3,000 in Bulgaria and £4,000 in Romania. It’s utterly unsurprising that, when the Mail visited both countries recently, there were huge queues at recruitment centres for British hotel chains, fast-food firms and the NHS.
Even before the restrictions are lifted, 135,000 workers from Romania and Bulgaria are already in this country. This number has increased by 23,000 in the past year alone.
On Tuesday, it emerged how British colleges were being inundated by applications from 5,000 youngsters from these two desperately poor countries wanting student loans.
Salford University research reveals Britain already has one of the largest Roma populations (which includes migrants from Romania and Bulgaria) in Western Europe — with about 200,000 living here.
That figure, typically, is four times higher than the Government’s own estimates.
Worryingly, MigrationWatch UK chairman Sir Andrew Green, whose research has proved painstakingly accurate over the past decade, is predicting 50,000 arrivals every year from Romania and Bulgaria from January 1.
Over five years, that is the equivalent of the population of a city the size of Hull.
The Mail cannot be accused of irresponsibility in raising this issue.
So now we know…. the BBC told us that moving production out of London was providing jobs for Taxi drivers and hairdressers:
Host David Dimbleby was forced to apologise to viewers as panelists Labour Peer Baroness Bakewell – formerly TV presenter Joan Bakewell – and blogger Tim Stanley were left stranded in a stricken train. Their train was diverted because of a trackside fire near Tamworth which caused widespread disruption to Virgin services on the West Coast mainline.
Should have put the taxi driver on the panel to fill in….talk more sense than little old Russell ever does.
To hear black people opposed to immigration is nothing new. In 2011 a study by Searchlight Educational Trust found 21 per cent of black Britons believed that all immigration into the UK should be stopped permanently, or at least until the UK’s economic situation improves. The study found 17 per cent of black Britons believed immigration had been a bad thing for Britain. However, what stunned me was the anger I witnessed.
At Goldsmiths University the panel was asked whether immigrants take jobs from Brits or merely do the jobs that Brits are unwilling to do. I shared how my hardworking British friends in the construction industry found themselves undercut and almost unemployed when the Polish builders first arrived on the scene.
At Oxford University, a black female student was furious at our politicians’ inability to discuss, address or control immigration. At Manchester University, a black female student was annoyed to find herself in the English-speaking minority on her Medical Science degree course. At Greenwich University, a black charity worker from East London shared his deep-seated irritation at how the local culture had been transformed by Asian and Somali immigrants: “I feel uncomfortable” he said. His candid comment led to an awkward silence.
One concern of the Great Debate founders is that blacks are not as politically active as whites. But immigration was the one issue black people in these audiences did have a political opinion about. And black Brits are uncomfortable with it.
Talking about immigration is racist.
And yet the BBC’s finest tells us it’s only Whites who can be racist….
Jo Brand: My personal opinion is that you can’t be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them but being prejudiced isn’t an illegal act whereas being racist can be.
Phil Williams: Don’t you think racism is just being derogatory about a race, regardless of the colour?
Jo Brand: No I don’t. I think the definition of racism also encompasses political power. So you can’t be racist towards a race that’s politically more powerful than a minority. That to me is the correct definition of racism. I think you can be prejudiced towards a group of people who are more powerful than you, but I don’t think you can be racist towards them.
So clearly it’s not racist for Black people to talk about immigration…so let’s hear more of their voices on the BBC.
The BBC is bringing you yet more information about immigration that should sooth your worries, lessen your concerns and put to rest all those thoughts you may have had that your country is being invaded, occupied (like the Palestinians?)….all that and they still manage a less than subtle sneer at Nigel Farage……
But he admits the Labour government, in which he served as home and foreign secretary, got it wrong by not imposing extra controls when EU expansion triggered the arrival here of migrant workers from eastern Europe.
The one leading politician who says he does know is the UKIP Leader Nigel Farage.
“If you open your doors to people from countries with significantly lower wages and GDP than the UK then migratory flows will come,” he said.
However the BBC knows the likely figure because:
When I chaired a BBC conference earlier this year, attended by representatives of the Bulgarian and Romanian embassies here, they were dismissive of what they clearly saw as alarmist speculation…..those relatively modest numbers who were considering it were likely to be top professionals like medics who would be assets rather than liabilities.
Fantastic…though maybe not for Romania and Bulgaria whose ‘top professionals’ flee the country leaving behind all those poor, unskilled people to manage things on their own.
Unless they all come here.
The BBC’s sneer at Farage is obviously just a sneer because he is right…as Migration Wtach points out.
The BBC tells us that:
Net migration is currently running at 150,00 a year and the campaigning organisation Migrationwatch UK estimate this new influx could push that figure up to 200,000.
Migration Watch has a good track record analysing future population trends so its latest forecast should be taken seriously
So it is Pickles and Straw who are ducking the issue whilst Farage is probably right.
Perhaps another relevant figure the BBC could have quoted in this article was this:
Projections show that over the next 10 years the population is going to increase by 4.3 million to 68 million and over the next 25 years the population will increase by 9.6 million from 63.7 million in mid-2012 to 73.3 million in mid-2037. The UK population will hit 70 million in 2027.
The BBC squeals often enough about immigration to other lands….such as the West Bank….If the West Bank is being occupied then so is the UK by people just wondering across the border setting up their own mini homelands….but seems to promote it here.
No doubt someone will pipe up…‘But it’s legal occupation‘…..well no one asked the population already here…in fact the politicians deliberately hid the scale of immigration and their reasons for it, and the likely effects…all aided by the BBC.
Those little heard voices of the people give their opinion of the BBC’s coverage:
12.
BBCLeftWingBias
21st November 2013 – 22:06
Here in the UK we are short of many things. Things like good and honest politicians, housing, school places, health care, energy, seats on trains, and space on our roads on which we can drive. What we are not short of is people. What is the benefit of even more uncontrolled immigration (oh yes it is!) for the citizens of our country?
Comment number 11.
Tearsoverintegrity
21st November 2013 – 21:48
The thing that keeps a nation united, is the people of that nation having shared values.
We are deliberately being swamped by immigrants who don`t share our values,
It`s time to let the MPs know that we know what they are doing to Britain and the British people.
Comment number 10.
rowdie
21st November 2013 – 21:31
sjh #3
You couldn’t make it up….this is the results of ‘socialism’. The EU and ‘one big happy family’.Doesn’t matter about all the different cultures, religions, ethnic groups with hundreds of years differences. and economic differences.
‘It would be lovely to all live together in one big happy family’. When will these idealogues and socialist inteligencia pursue the real world.?
Comment number 9.
average joe
21st November 2013 – 15:54
Anyone know the Statue of Liberty song? ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning’… to sign on in the UK and drain the country dry!!
Believe it or not, I am no racist but enough is enough.
Comment number 8.
LB
21st November 2013 – 9:50
Why should we give up even more of OUR country to even more immigrants to have it concreted over with houses for them, school place shortages, extended hospital and GP waiting times and so on. Where I live it is like being in Poland. They are not in skilled jobs, live 6-8 in a house so are happy with minimum wage to share the bills.They are not friendly, do not mix and don’t even like us.
7.
ciconia
21st November 2013 – 9:22
We get the best when eu migrants come here; after all they uprooted themselves to find new opportunities abroad.
Done it myself, it can be tough.
Problem is they’re, young, outcompete many of our own perpetual adolescents, then settle.
This is massive continent wide human engineering for EU ideological purposes, like the euro.
A kind of corrupt religion with our politicians as fat bishops.
6.
historical
20th November 2013 – 21:52
The problem is not just migrant workers from the EU.
Look how the government is dealing with immigration from outside the EU.
Relaxing immigration from China, so that UK visa’s are no longer required to visit the UK, as long as a visa to another EU country has been obtained.
Governor of the BoE, from Canada, police chiefs from anywhere in the world.
No building of affordable rental housing.
Comment number 5.
sjh
20th November 2013 – 20:45
…..and how many times is this repeated across the UK???
I would really like to see all the TRUE, UN-MASSAGED/SPUN STATISTICS relating to EU migration released.
2.
Jettison the Jinxed UK Junta
20th November 2013 – 20:15
This is a true story. 6 month ago an Italian moved into flat opp me. He got a job as a waiter. Then Wife & kid arrived with Mother-in-Law. Then he wrapped the job. They signed on Jobseekers and Wife was sent for English lessons. They approached elderly neighbour for help with Child Benefit forms … Then 2 women and kid went home. He was arrested last week for burglary x 3 and is on Remand in jail
Comment number 1.
sjh
20th November 2013 – 19:59
This uncontrolled EU Immigration only compounds the true reason as to why there are so many unskilled jobs available for the migrants to fill. The wages are almost criminally too low – too low for British nationals to take up, but fantastic for people struggling on 5 times less in their own country. Plus they are also entitled to benefits.
The real winners = unscrupulous employers
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