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The twists and turns of the Rennard saga seem to be taking the BBC into novel territory. We have had Lib Dem stalwart and BBC favourite Shirley Williams riding to the rescue of Rennard, praising him for his moral virtue. Then on Today this morning there was an odd item concerning the experience of women working in the political sphere. The meme being retailed was that ALL politics was chauvinistic and full of groping male MPs until the year of our lord 1997 when thanks to the enlightened policies of Labour, the Commons suddenly saw many more women and so men could no longer ride roughshed over the fairer sex. I think it was Barbara Follet who was interviewed, and who arrived in Parliament ..erm.. 1997.

Wednesday and time for a new Open Thread. Do enjoy.

Saturday Live on the 16th had an interesting little report. (about 0945)…all the way from the delightful People’s Republic of North Korea.

John McCarthy hears about the Arirang or Mass Games in North Korea’s capital Pongyang;  a dazzling display by thousands of marching, dancing, skipping, gymnastics and… flip charts. He talks to visitors to the games photographer Jeremy Hunter, former diplomat James Hoare and tourist Tony Pletts.

Fascinating what an upbeat little tale we have about one of the cruellest regimes in the world from the BBC….

We are witnessing an ‘ amazing stage, an incredible event….there is something here that these people have got, this system has got….the minders are really really wonderful…you only get to see what they want you to see but you really do get a sense of what life is like for Koreans…picnics and dances at the weekend….an element of Disney involved….it makes you appreciate just how different life could be from the life you lead at home….absolutely a thumbs up to go see one of the great spectacles of the world’

Curious how different is the BBC’s approach to that they take when reporting from Israel….possibly the only true democracy in the Middle East, a highly successful, modern progressive country which has succeeded despite being under constant attack for over 60 years.

Israel is a savage and oppressive regime whilst North Korea is somewhat like Disneyland?

Whodathunk?

From Wikipedia:

Human rights in North Korea are heavily restricted. There is no right to free speech, and the only radio, television, and news providers that are deemed legal are those operated by the government.^[1][2] It is estimated that between 150,000 and 200,000 political prisoners are detained in concentration camps, where they perform forced labour and risk summary beatings, torture and execution.

The following section is a direct quote from the United Nation’s Human Rights Resolution 2005/11 referring specifically to occurrences in North Korea:

Read this BBC report of the Moody’s  downgrade of the UK’s credit rating and you would think it was all over, UK PLC is done for…or as the BBC put it …Osborne’s  ‘Gamble failed’.

Despite putting in the basic facts from the report the tone adopted by the BBC is downbeat and defeatist with an emphasis on an economy with ‘significant  “challenges” ’ …though Moodys itself doesn‘t use the word ‘Significant‘ …..except in the positive sense as it says itself:  ‘the UK’s creditworthiness remains extremely high, rated at Aa1, because of the country’s significant credit strengths.’

Read Moody’s actual press release and you will see a much more upbeat analysis of the UK economy…. supporting Osborne’s  ‘strong track record of fiscal consolidation and political will.‘

Look at the growth figures from 2010 Q4 up until 2012 Q4  and they paint a different picture to that painted by Balls and the BBC of no growth or even contraction:

The total positive growth for the period is 2.6%.
The total negative growth for the period is -1.2%

The sum total then is a positive growth of 1.4%….slow and low but not ‘failing’ and certainly not ‘contracting’ as the BBC so often state..

Look at the GDP figures since 2006.….they show that even after the deepest recession since the ’30’s we have a GDP above that in 2006:
In 2006 we had a GDP figure (£m) of 353,777

In 2009 Q2 (The height of the recession) GDP was 349,261

In 2012 Q4 GDP was 360,483

Finally there’s the issue of Moody’s own credibility…..

The BBC has always attacked these credit rating agencies but  seems happy to take the opportunity to give Osborne a dig.

However I did laugh when I heard this this morning from ‘Wake Up to Money’ (26 mins) from Mickey Clark in relation to the credit rating agencies:

‘They’re not regulated, they have got a lot of vested interests…and they got away scot free over the banking crisis.’

Or was he talking about the Labour Party!

Whilst most political parties do sleaze, the Lib-Dems do it particularly well. The BBC has had little choice to run with Rennard after all this is just the latest instance in a line that weaves from Huhne to Laws, Brown to Oaten.  Wonder what you make of the line the BBC is taking on this?

The BBC is at the heart of the corrupt political scheming that fills the pockets of politicians and their landowning friends with millions of pounds and  the Green industries they back whilst those whose pockets have been rifled by greedy, duplicitous or ignorant politicians have to turn down the heating and switch off the lights.

The BBC has backed the Green lobby and ignores the corrupt politicians….when your fuel bill arrives you can be assured that not only are you paying £145 for the privilege of watching the BBC you are also paying through the nose for fuel because of that self same BBC.

Labour’s Ed Miliband started it all off with his industrial suicide policy committing Britain to cuts in CO2 of 80%.

It should be remembered that under Labour far more industry was destroyed than under  the long Tory reign but you’d never guess from the BBC’s coverage of that era.

The massive political attack on industry and the Public’s wage packet conducted through corrupt energy policies is gathering pace as rich landowner’s  bank accounts bulge with subsidised payments for allowing wind turbines on their land.

Politicians ride the wave of money themselves...corrupt morally, intellectually and financially, working simultaneously for Green industry  pocketing large payments whilst pushing through legislation that is favourable to these industries.

Britain is teetering on the verge of industrial and social collapse as blackouts loom due to the increasingly onerous, ‘unbelievably aggressive CO2 reduction targets’ that will plunge us into a new dark Ages where industry flees the Country and the Public cannot afford to heat their homes or drive to work.

The Green lobby is set on destroying industry in the UK whilst China and India pump out vast and increasing quantities of CO2  that make our own emissions look insignificant.

MPs are ignorant or corrupt and sign up to these policies out of misguided and ignorant good intentions or a malevolent disregard for the common good as they fill their own pockets as they help themselves to the Public’s money voting in ever increasing payments to energy companies.

At the heart of all this is the BBC and its huge, powerful, one sided backing for the Green lobbyists.

The capture of the BBC and its enormous and influential propaganda platform by the Greens was  a victory without compare.  It has meant practically no opposition to the green steamroller as the BBC is the most powerful, respected and trusted broadcaster with enormous ability to define the narrative.

‘The “capacity to define potential risks and hazards is broadly aligned with the distribution of power among ‘credible,’ ‘authoritative,’ and ‘legitimate’ definers of ‘reality’ across the media field.”  ‘ 
‘….the BBC [is] widely seen as an international leader in terms of balance, independence, and clarity. It is viewed as hegemonic within British broadcasting, helping to dictate the limits of what might be considered “news” in mainstream reporting.‘  Dr Joe Smith

The BBC decided that CO2 is a problem and has relentlessly pumped out propaganda to persuade or batter the Public into accepting that and the consequent measures needed to tackle the ‘problem’.

The BBC has brought into the fold many in academia, the arts and industry as they fall victim to the ‘consensus’, the manufactured consent that the BBC works so hard to enforce, people with doubts unwilling to stand out and be labelled as  ‘deniers’.

Many I’m certain are not actual believers in man made global warming but are forced into acceptance by the ‘moral obligation’, the guilt that is placed upon them by the likes of the BBC which is an expert at manipulating images and perceptions linking man’s actions to natural disasters which in reality have extremely tenuous links.

Had the BBC done its job properly and not become an active propagandist for the Green lobby we might not now have MPs so willing and able to vote for the ‘consensus’ too afraid or too self interested to stand up and oppose this lunacy.

The BBC, ever ready to highlight ‘Big Business’ funding of climate sceptics, has refused pointblank to be similarly rigorous when it involves those who support the Cause.

Is it any wonder that they feel free to sit on committees that decide energy policy whilst pocketing green industry cash?  They can dismiss newspaper reports as a ‘rightwing’ agenda…because of course the leftwing papers won’t report the corruption as they support the policies and the BBC looks the other way.

How to change the BBC and make it return to ethical journalism not green activism?

Write to your MP.

Maybe not!

That illustrates the problem with the BBC, it is unaccountable.  Even now after ‘Savile’ it rides on essentially unaffected.  A few bad headlines, a few waves at the top as there is a shuffle of jobs to make it look like something is being done but this time next year it will be more of the same, the innate leftwing biased reporting, the support for climate change and a disregard for any complaints.

The BBC are confident that they are unassailable as politicians are either in tune with the BBC ethos or are too scared to attempt to change it…or hopeful of getting a job there when falling on hard times.  If ever there was an opportunity you might think it is now in the wake of ‘Savile’ but that was a failure of internal corporate procedure not of its political values and activities…..the BBC knows that and sails on regardless pumping out anti-government information and pro climate change hype recognisng no politician dare speak out, let alone act against it in any meaningful way.

Here we go with a new Open Thread before we even get to Monday morning! Do detail the bias.

I thought this was a really interesting insight on a current BBC story from a Biased BBC reader;

“There is a report today on the BBC website about the government wanting all foreign doctors working in the NHS to be able to speak English. At present, EU-registered doctors are exempt from such a requirement, due to the Alice In Wonderland laws that currently prevail. The move has been precipitated due to the case of Dr Daniel Ubani – described as a “German” locum doctor – who managed to kill a patient on his first and only shift in the UK.

At the end of the article, the BBC makes the following plea: “Are you a foreign doctor working in England? What do you make of the government’s plans? Send us your thoughts and comments using the form below.”

Now, is it me just being unduly sensitive, but why are they are asking for such comments? If they are seeking opinions, surely the only ones that really matter are those of patients?

Surely the question should be “Are you a patient whose health treatment has been unduly affected by the use of doctors who cannot adequately speak English?”

Obviously such a question should only be open to NHS patients, and not the 500+ BBC executives who receive private health care as part of their contracts and are presumably unaffected. It may seem a small point, but it is indicative of the general mindset of the BBC, where victims and the guilty are carefully rearranged.”

Oh, and one final point. Ubani is “German” but was born in Nigeria only gaining German  citizenship. Perhaps the BBC should provide this little detail when it is at it.

BiasedBBC is recruiting…we’re looking for agents for our network who can successfully infiltrate and negotiate surreptitiously the labyrinthine corridors of the BBC and whistleblow, leak or steal, in BBC parlance, information that is in the Public Interest….if you are in a position to influence and guide BBC policy towards a more enlightened and impartial approach to reporting news that is an added bonus.

To that end I bring to your attention two positions that have fallen vacant at the BBC…we are nothing if not ambitious at BiasedBBC:

Director, BBC Television

The BBC is the world’s leading public service broadcaster.

As a member of the Executive board, reporting to the Director-General, this role will play a significant part in the BBC’s strategy and output, ensuring that the BBC always holds the trust of the people who pay for it and distinguishes itself through the best possible content, effective distribution and organisational efficiency.   As an inspirational leader with a strong, clear vision, you’ll bring extensive experience of leadership in a creative organisation, and demonstrate a clear understanding of the public service ethos of the BBC.

The real criteria for the jobs….a willingness to work for enormously rewarding remuneration and a gold plated pension, a desire for generous legal funding should your underlings let you down, a hands off approach to management and the ability to stay calm in a crisis by keeping above the mêlée, and the delegation of blame…sorry…responsibility downwards to your staff demonstrating trust in their abilities.

Should you be successful in your application BiasedBBC look forward to a long and successful career for you and hope you  can pass along some useful gossip before you go native and are subsumed by the BBC culture and comfortable lifestyle that seduces people into surrendering their principles in exchange for life in the BBC bubble.

…and remember this is of critical importance:

‘…ensuring that the BBC always holds the trust of the people who pay for it…..and demonstrate a clear understanding of the public service ethos of the BBC.‘

The BBC have been forced to admit that their usual hugely damaging anti-British rhetoric is wrong.

The BBC ever ready to do down our own troops whilst giving favourable coverage to terrorists has been proven wrong as it tried to rewrite hsitory as Christopher Booker reports in the Telegraph:

‘There are few more futile exercises in this world than trying to get the BBC to admit it has got anything wrong. Normally, after a series of fruitless exchanges with apparatchiks in the BBC Complaints Unit, each more dead-bat than the last, most people give up in despair. Not so Henry Keown-Boyd, who was aggrieved to hear the BBC news reporting last April on how, in the Fifties, Britain had “brutally suppressed” an “uprising against British rule” in Malaya.

Having served in Malaya for 15 months as an officer in the Hussars, Mr Keown-Boyd was keenly aware that, far from this being a typical nationalist uprising, British and local Malay forces had for 12 years fought a textbook jungle campaign to prevent the country being ruthlessly taken over by a small ethnic minority of Chinese communists, who were given full support by both Mao’s and Stalin’s dictatorships. No one was keener to see off this vicious threat than the Malays themselves, who finally ended the rising in 1960, three years after winning peaceful independence from Britain.

So determined was Mr Keown-Boyd to get the BBC to set the record straight that, after nine months of the usual “get lost” replies, he has finally received a three-page letter from Fraser Steel, Head of BBC Complaints, to say that their researches “support the view that this was an inaccurate and materially misleading way of describing the Malay Emergency”. Well done, Mr Steel.

But knowing the BBC staff’s usual Guardianista view of British historical events that happened before most of them were born, I suspect this may not be the last time that better-informed listeners will have cause for amazed alarm at how little they seem to know.’

How many years before the BBC recognises that their pro-Palestinian view of the Middle East is an ‘inaccurate and misleading way of describing the conflict there.’