The economy may be picking up…not just a mere point here and there but some serious uplift maybe in the offing.

GDP figures will be released on Thursday….even the Guardian recognises this could be significant:

Something big happens this Thursday. As events go, the publication of a thin booklet of provisional numbers may sound about as dramatic as the shipping forecast. But the release of the GDP initial estimate for the second quarter of this year will have a huge impact.

The newspapers reported the stirring of strong growth of ‘green shoots’.

The Times did, the Telegraph did….twice:

UK economy showing “green shoots” as growth thought to double

British economy has turned a corner, senior Tories claim

Even the Guardian commented on it ….twice also..though only to throw cold water on the idea of course:

Economy: politics of the recovery

Ignore the hype: Britain’s ‘recovery’ is a fantasy that hides our weakness

Only the BBC has chosen to ignore this ‘good news story’….the Guardian’s ‘huge impact’ dismissed as unimportant.

Remember when the BBC thought GDP figures would show a ‘triple dip’….they were talking about it non stop days befoe the announcement…only to be disappointed…..though why the BBC continued to push the idea of a ‘triple dip’ recession is beyond me…as they already knew that there had been no ‘double dip’ recession….so how could you have a third?

It is all too obvious that the BBC has yet again decided to fix the narrative…hiding the good news whilst highlighting potential bad news……even if it might turn out to be good news in the end…a long run of negative stories even if eventually proven false can lay some useful groundwork in casting doubt and confusion into people’s minds.

Journalists working under the sway of thuggish dictators are usually thought of as the puppet voices of oppression and repression.….the news they produce mere propaganda…the legend being that there’s no news in the truth and no truth in the news….

…..but compared to BBC journalists they are in fact paragons of virtue…they at least are forced to compromise their journalistic ethics  and ideals such as they might be…the BBC journalists make that choice for themselves….they make a conscious decision to promote one political party with the sole aim of denying a platform for any opponents of their chosen ideology.

Many BBC journalists are morally and professionally corrupt distorting and exploiting the democratic process to rig elections…or so they hope usng the BBC and its privileged position, authority and credibility as their personal soapbox.

For a long time the BBC ignored the Unite scandal where the Union was identified as having attempted to fix who became many of Labour’s parliamentary candidates.  The  BBC pushed Labour’s own narrative that this was a few rogue officials in one location whereas we know from documents and Labour’s own websites that this was Union policy, that it was adopted widely and that the Labour Party knew and approved of it….Miliband himself is implicated in this…..he is now lying when he claimed to be ‘cleaning up’ the mess….one that he already knew of…but did nothing about….until challenged….the BBC have never questioned Miliband’s stance or credibility over this.

Whilst the BBC ignored the Unite story they instantly moved on the story about Lynton Crosby, the Tory’s election advisor….of course this was a story generated by Labour….so once again the BBC do news by ‘press release’. 

The story is clearly just counter fire run out to take the wind out of the sails of the Unite story….not that the BBC were ever interested in that anyway….note that the latest about Unite’s new political director, Jennie Formby, who was yet another of McCluskey’s in house girlfriends and who has a child by him, has been totally ignored by the BBC….despite her being on Labour’s NEC as well.

Whilst the Public has absolutely no interest in Crosby the BBC keep up the narrative and keep the story alive hoping it will catch fire and see the sacking of Crosby whom they see as far too successful and a threat to Labour.

The last story on the Today programme this morning  (0855) was a classic example of that, a manufactured point of interest….designed purely as an excuse to enable the BBC to keep the  Crosby/Cameron lobbying narrative simmering and in the public eye….

‘The prime minister has deflected questions about whether he has discussed the issue of tobacco packaging with the Tory strategist Lynton Crosby. The BBC’s Michael Cockerell, and Sheila Gunn, political press secretary to former prime minister John Major, examine whether politicians should answer questions more openly.’

They couldn’t get him to say ‘Yes it’s all true…Crosby runs Tory policy in the interests of his commercial clients.’ so they make up a spurious talking point to suggest that Cameron is hiding this ‘fact’….the BBC knows it is true…therefore when the PM denies it he must be lying!

The BBC stoop even lower with this latest concoction by the Guardian (Now re-edited by the BBC to reflect a new truth as found by Guido…see later post…BBC Smears and Lies)…reporting what Crosby did in his own business when not employed by any political party…..reporting it as if there was some connection to Tory health policy…..despite as said Crosby not being in their employ at the time….

David Cameron faces fresh questions about his election strategist Lynton Crosby after it emerged his lobbying firm advised private health companies at the time of NHS reforms.

As to those ‘fresh questions’…once again a Labour Party press release.

It must be great when a political party has its own multi billion pound media empire disseminating its propaganda for it.

I wonder just how the BBC’s support for the Labour Party will be taken into account when considerations of Party funding are raised….it must be worth a ‘pretty penny’.

It’s almost as IF the BBC wants us to feel a little sorry for Michael Abebolajo. The Mail reports;

Prison officers have reacted with fury to claims from Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo that he was ‘assaulted’ while in prison.  The man accused of hacking to death Fusilier Lee Rigby in the street was involved in a violent incident in Belmarsh high security jail last week in which he lost two teeth. In an interview with BBC News over the weekend, Adebolajo’s brother Jeremiah claimed warders in the prison ‘took offence’ when the remand prisoner refused to obey an instruction and then ‘smashed his head against a window’. The BBC also reported the claim – denied by Prison Service officials – that the murder suspect had been denied medical treatment.

It amuses me that whilst the BBC struggles to actually assignate the label “terrorist” to the likes of Al Queda, or the IRA, or Hezbollah, or pick your terrorist gang here, it IS able to call its own DALEKS terrorists! So in a fantasy world, it can attribute moral value but NOT in reality!!

A Biased-BBC reader points out that the BBC seems to have missed this story about one of Morsi’s Ministers being filmed beating an 11 year old boy.  Considering all the coverage which  the BBC gave to a story (used to demonise Israel) about a young Palestinian boy detained for throwing rocks at Jews, one would at least expect this story of authentic child abuse to be reported by the BBC’s vigilant journalists.

I was listening to the Today programme around 6.45am and caught a remarkably sneering piece by the BBC on how the Conservatives cannot be trusted on tax. The comment that really made my ears prick up was “It takes independent bodies like the Resolution Fundation to tell us how things really are” before going on to play a clip of Osborne saying NO tax increases before the 2010 election and then announcing an increase in VAT shortly thereafter. Mention was made of Brown doing something similar in 2000, but sadly no clip was available.  My beef with this is that a/The Resolution Foundation is a body with an activist left wing pro Labour agenda and so cannot possibly be seen as impartial and b/Perhaps the utter mess of the public finances created by labour which Osborne inherited may have contributed to hid decision to raise our VAT to EU average???

Good morning one and all, here is a much need NEW Open thread for you to detail the bias.

Burqa riots in Paris but our world class BBC don’t seem that interested on telling us on their home page. (Yes, I know it is the World page) By way of comparison they have the US bombing the Great Barrier Reef on the home page.

The BBC seem VERY concerned for the well being of Jihad butcher suspect Michael Adebolajo. And when it’s not concern for poor Michael then its concern for Mosques being attacked by (whispers) Ukrainians  It’s almost as IF the BBC seeks to present Islam as the victim!!!

Ah, how touching of the BBC to publish this obituary for “pioneering” US journalist Helen Thomas dies at 92. Thomas was a profound anti-Semite so even the BBC felt obliged to make passing reference to some of her vile comments but hey, she “regretted’ those slurs against Jews so no big deal. Right? Straight to hell, Helen. Naturally the BBC admire her.