Unfortunately, all singing, all dancing he might be but all seeing he ain’t.
Tony Hall the new DG has declared that the BBC is not left of centre.
How can the public hope for him to address this acute problem if he won’t even acknowledge that it exists?
No clearer example than this to illustrate why the Today programme, and the BBC as a whole, fail so often to bring us the truth:
‘I put a comment on saying David Cameron can stick his Big Society where the sun doesn’t shine, or words to that effect,’ he said. ‘As a result I was invited to go to Newcastle and be interviewed by John Humphrys.’
I wonder what exactly it was about his ‘evidence’ that attracted the eye of the BBC.
Perhaps there is an earnest economist somewhere left wondering why he was invited to audition for the part of Delboy in a remake of ‘Only Fools And Horses’ at the BBC.
Stephen Nolan, standing in for Victoria Derbyshire interviewed Edwina Currie…and it was a fair interview with Currie given a chance to make her points and Nolan didn’t get upset, Humphrys’ style, when challenged about his use of the ‘welfare Lobby’ type phrases…or ‘slogans’ as Currie put it.
Thought it was a far better interview and more informative than the adversarial interrogation we got from Humphrys with Ian Duncan Smith…having said that Currie was a much better communicator than IDS.
Perhaps Humphrys could learn something from Nolan’s style of interviewing….Nolan isn’t exactly a pushover himself.
Something for the diary…Nolan and Currie have both agreed to try and live on £53 for a week sometime soon…..all I can say is Currie should sleep with one eye open from the Wednesday on….Nolan must have a big appetite and already admits he doesn’t think he can live off that small amount….wouldn’t want to wake up and find a half starved Nolan chewing on your leg…having said that Currie wasn’t too fussy about John Major doing something similar.
I have discovered in England that sometimes the media are more crazy in some ways than the Italian media.
Does any more need to be said? Fascism wasn’t such a problem for the BBC when he was Swindon manager in 2012.
Will Dan Hodges and the Durham Miner’s Union be demanding a boycott of the BBC now?
Had to laugh at this though:
‘Players should know their place…It is not about being a dictator’
Stephen Nolan this morning on Derbyshire’s show suggested Di Canio was definitely a fascist with authoritarian tendencies…why?…because he said he would ban reporters from press conferences if they kept badgering him about Fascism.
Just like that well known fascist Alex ferguson when he refused to talk to the BBC….except Fergie is a ‘natural born’ socialist from Govan….
Sir Alex Ferguson lifts seven-year ban on talking to the BBC.
Poor IDS, the BBC hate him almost as much as they suddenly dislike Paolo Di Canio! Detail the bias here!!!
Today sees the Coalition introducing Welfare reforms. I think the BBC coverage is…ahem..interesting and wondered what you make of their impartial world class coverage?
The BBC thinks David Miliband quitting the Board of Sunderland football club is the third most important story in the world.
‘Ex-foreign secretary David Miliband has resigned from the board of Sunderland football club over new head coach Paolo Di Canio’s “past political statements”.’
Strange that they do not take a more nuanced look at this…Miliband who is quite happy to work with IRA members in Parliament, with Muslims whose religion entreats them to separate themselves from non-Muslims…or indeed Christians who oppose gay marriage.
What has Miliband himself said, on the BBC, in the past that might raise a few eyebrows?:
‘Terrorism….Yes, there are circumstances in which it is justifiable and yes there are circumstances in which it is effective.’
Miliband is also quite happy to serve with his fellow travellers on the Left, the Marxists and Trots et al.
His own father was a Marxist.
Miliband is from a Jewish background.
What did the Socialists say about what they called ‘The Jewish Question’?
On what grounds, then, do you Jews want emancipation? On account of your religion? It is the mortal enemy of the state religion.
The most rigid form of the opposition between the Jew and the Christian is the religious opposition. How is an opposition resolved? By making it impossible. How is religious opposition made impossible? By abolishing religion.
Bauer, therefore, demands that the Jew should renounce Judaism, and that mankind in general should renounce religion, in order to achieve civic emancipation.
When the political state as such is born violently out of civil society, when political liberation is the form in which men strive to achieve their liberation, the state can and must go as far as the abolition of religion, the destruction of religion.
The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism.
Below you will find some of Karl Marx’s references to Jews, quoted verbatim:
“It is the circumvention of law that makes the religious Jew a religious Jew.” (Die Deutsche Ideologie, MEGA V, 162)
“The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.” (Neue Rheinische Zeitung, April 29, 1849)
He called Ferdinand Lassalle, “Judel Itzig-Jewish Nigger.” (Der Judische Nigger, MEKOR III, 82, July 30, 1862)
“Ramsgate is full of Jews and fleas.” (MEKOR IV, 490, August 25, 1879)
“Let us look at the real Jew of our time; not the Jew of the Sabbath, whom Bauer considers, but the Jew of everyday life.
“What is the Jew’s foundation in our world? Material necessity, private advantage.
“What is the object of the Jew’s worship in this world? Usury. What is his worldly god? Money.
“Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.” (“A World Without Jews,” p. 37)
“Money is the zealous one God of Israel, beside which no other God may stand. This alien monster rules him and he worships it.
“The God of the Jews has become secularized and is now a worldly God. The bill of exchange is the Jew’s real God. His God is the illusory bill of exchange.” (“A World Without Jews,” p. 41)
Such thinking in countries around the world forced the Jews to desire a country of their own….Israel.
Work that one out as many of those who denounce Di Canio, such as the Unions, also seek to boycott Israel.
Funny how Miliband has nothing to say about his comrades in Parliament who cleeve to the Socialist mantras when behind it all is a man who thinks like that.
Miliband’s posturing is accepted without question by the BBC…it is no more than a political charade for ‘the cameras’…..If he really had such principles then he couldn’t serve in either Parliament or with many of his ‘comrades’ in the Labour Party.
Many in the ranks of the BBC itself might also blush a bit as they piously denounce Di Canio…..remind us just how many innocent people have been murdered by the Socialists…and of course Fascism is a Socialist ideology itself.
Or not…look away quick….the torture was by Palestinians on Palestinians.
‘In the Nineties, we used to torture them badly. We beat them hard and we made them like a car that doesn’t function. But we were defending our home, the region and the rest of the world. I am happy it was justified.’
Hooded, hanged and left in agony for hours on end: Palestinian security chief tells how he has tormented ‘suspects’ with MI6’s knowledge… and reveals how Britain helps pay for it with £33m foreign aid.
This extraordinary interview is the first admission by a former perpetrator of the widespread torture of Palestinians – not by Israel, but by the Palestinian Authority (PA)
Nothing on the BBC yet…but I’m sure it’ll be headline news as it was with Libyan prisoners or Guantanamo Bay.
Got to check those facts first….might just be Israeli misinformation.
Rowan Williams, ex Archbishop, recently walked along his local high street. As he went he cast lavish quantities of £10 notes down upon the ground amongst the good people of the city.
He was astonished to see them throng about him in a frenzy picking up his largesse as fast as they could.
The good Rowan concluded that this was an obvious sign that the people of this town were living in desperate poverty…why else would they reduce themselves, humble themselves, by picking up money in the streets?
In the same way opening a food bank doling out free food is going to attract a lot of opportunists…why go to Tescos and pay hard cash when you can get it free from the mugs at the food bank?
Many naturally do need the service but I would confidently predict a large number do not.
That doesn’t stop the BBC using the rise of the Food Bank as a sign of economic and social collapse, government failure and unfairness.
In the broadcast mentioned below there was a particularly one sided view, from the BBC, of food banks, who uses them and the reasons they are needed.
As usual no context as to the dire economic situation the country is in….it is merely an attack on government policy combined with a demand for more money. The questions are all rather pointed….‘What does RW think of the government’s policy of cutting back on welfare?’
This morning on R4’s ‘Sunday (6 mins in) we are informed that the Hairy One is now patron of the Cambridge Food Bank…serving the poverty stricken and those living in deprivation in the ghettoes of Cambridge.
We are told that the ever growing (‘an explosion of’ according to the BBC) number of food banks are necessary due to unemployment and welfare cuts…I didn’t need to tell you that though.
Demand is growing steadily..it’s a recent thing…a feature of the times (since 2010?).
The BBC tells us that the fact that a former Archbishop is back on the ‘frontline’ tells us how serious things are…what with austerity and worsening poverty.
It’s not just Government welfare cuts though…the problem is also the media (Rowan means the Daily Mail of course) equating someone on welfare with scroungers…..Well, I could name and shame (probably not shame) loads in my own neighbourhood living quite comfortably on the bludge with no intention of changing their ‘lifestyle’.
The answer…more money. Go to the top of the class for guessing that one….‘which doesn’t square with government welfare cuts somehow.’
The BBC produces an ever growing, an explosion?, of programmes examining ‘poverty’ and welfare cuts or cuts to the NHS or to education…but there is absolutely no recognition that ‘there is no money left’.
I guess when you have a man like Rowan Williams, who believes you can feed 5000 people with just five loaves and two fish you can can see what guides this thinking…..no money? Not a problem…God will provide, and if not there’s Plan B, a Labour government will.
This morning on the BBC we also had one on mid-wives and their protests….or demands…guess what..more money…..no connection between Labour’s mass immigration, a leap in births and the need for more mid-wives? Those 13000 immigrants Labour let in were pretty productive…they’ve blossomed into millions….adding to the diversity and economic benefits to society of course.
It is all reported as if there is a pot of gold somewhere from which an endless supply of wealth could be brought forth if only we had a Labour government.
There’s the real world, then there’s the world as reported by the BBC.
Jam today, jam tomorrow. Hurrah for Labour’s jam factory!
On Easter Sunday, the BBC decides that its lead story is an attack by four Churches on the Coalition plan to try and reduce Welfarism in the UK.Conveniently, this dovetails into the Labour meme that welfare cuts are aimed at “the most vulnerable” and “the poorest” rather than the skiving subclass that parasites off those of us who can be bothered to get out of bed each day and work. There is a dreary and relentlesss drip drip drip to the BBC output which continually undermines the best intentions of this Coalition. Miliband must be delighted to have his broadcast division so active and always present in our living rooms.
