Had to laugh at this!

The BBC will negotiate “tougher” contracts with new managers in future to avoid a repeat of the fiasco over George Entwistle’s £450,000 pay-off when he quit as director-general, Lord Patten has said.

Oh really? Meanwhile…

The appointment of a former Labour cabinet minister to a senior BBC job on a salary of almost £300,000 a year last night re-ignited concerns over the corporation’s links with the Left. James Purnell, who served as both Culture and Work and Pensions Secretary under Gordon Brown, has been handed the job as the corporation’s strategy chief.

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I had the misfortune to listen to BBC Radio 4 “Saturday Live” this morning, presented by Rev Richard Coles and Sian Williams.  The special guest was Billy Bragg, yeah, I know. He was introduced as an intrepid fighter against “fascism” and the entire tone of the interview as simpering sycophancy. Bragg moaned about the fact that too many posh boys were in the charts these days and he proclaimed that you just had to look at  Mumford and Sons “to know” their background. You just have to look at Comrade Billy to see the giant chips he has on both shoulders. Bragg articulates a hard left meme that resonates easily at the BBC…. his cliched anachronistic left wingism fits in perfectly with the State Broadcaster. Here is his bedsit in the frontline in ..erm..west Dorset. Power to the people!

The BBC pursues any Israeli weakness or fault with a vengeance that belies bias; Here is BBC Watch picking up the details…

On February 14^th – just one day after a report about a group of racist fans from the Beitar Jerusalem football club (one of two produced until then by the BBC) had finally given up the place it had held on the Middle East page of the BBC News website for six whole days – two more articles on the same subject were instated on that same page.

Here you go, better late than never! BBC bothering you, what’s the detail on it? Please spill the beans! I was on BBC5 LIVE this morning with Fi Glover and to be fair she gave me first and last word on the topic under discussion.

Harry’s Place explains it all:

Lone voices against Terror

…expanding on Nick Cohen’s piece in The Spectator:

‘British Asian feminists and their supporters had gathered to launch the Centre for Secular Space an organisation whose work I would say is close to essential. It is not fashionable, however, because its focus is the collusion between the Anglo-American left and the Islamist right, which has betrayed so many Muslims and ex-Muslims, most notably Muslim and ex-Muslim women.

The failure of Britain’s liberal establishment and white left to combat reactionary religion, or even call it by its real name, stuns them.

All emphasized how many in the British state and British left were racists hiding behind liberal masks.

This would be bad enough if we did not see from the far Left way into the liberal mainstream supposed progressives allying with clerical reactionaries and clerical fascists. They ignore the victims of theocracy and accept their oppression.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch look with horror on those who speak out about murder, mutilation and oppression if the murderers, mutilators and oppressors do not fit into their script. The Guardian, New Statesman and BBC turn away with embarrassed coughs. The police want to keep the natives of the East End quiet by cooperating with Islamic Forum Europe. Although Labour ministers, particularly Labour women ministers, tried to speak out against the double standards during the last government, the policy of the Labour establishment has been to do nothing to upset the ethnic block vote.

I hope you could hear a lot more in that vein. The trouble is that because the Centre for Secular Space argues against our shifty consensus it has no money. They need everything from computers to wages for secretaries. If you can help at all, even by giving them an old laptop, please contact them via the link here‘

The BBC is one of those who remain silent in the face of Islamic violence and threats.  Worse it often makes excuses for that violence.

One day, BBC,  they will come for you…and who will be there to speak out for you?

Thirteen years of Labour mis-government have been airbrushed from history by the BBC just like the Medieval Warm Period.

We once had a Labour Prime Minister called Tony Blair and a Chancellor named Gordon Brown, who went on to become Prime Minister himself.

If you only get your news from the BBC that all might come as a bit of a shock.

Today all that changed.  The archives have been rifled and dusted down, the story fixed and the tone set right.

We are now offically allowed to hear about Blair and Brown and even that they made the odd mistake….all in the best possible interest of the country naturally.

How so?  What has changed?

Well for a start the BBC has a new/old recruit dragged in through the BBC’s revolving door that connects it directly to Labour Party HQ as ex Labour MP James Purnell is given the job of Director of Strategy at the BBC….but it’s OK….he quit his Labour government job in disgust at Gordon Brown’s policies.

What’s the strategy?  Get the Labour Party elected naturally.  I joke.

The BBC clearly have to now mention Brown and his misdemeanours and Purnell’s antipathy towards Brown so that their ‘new boy’  is cleared of any likely charge of bias….a good try…unlikely to succeed.

Secondly Ed Miliband has relaunched, rebranded and rebooted his Party with a little ‘mea culpa’…..Brown got it wrong on taxes and abandoned the working class.

“We would put right the mistake made by Gordon Brown and the last Labour government.”

The BBC has to again mention Brown and his little errors of judgement, just enough for Miliband to apologise and then promise it will all be so different under a  new Labour…no that’s been done hasn’t it?  It’s good old Old Labour under Red Ed.  Back to the future, with lessons learned, fingers burned.

Two mentions of Gordon Brown in one day on the BBC….with the BBC you know you really are history once they start airbrushing you back into the picture.

In ‘In Our Time’ Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss ice ages, periods when a reduction in the surface temperature of the Earth has resulted in ice sheets at the Poles.

Melvyn Bragg has the decency to be seemingly embarrassed during this programme, presumably forced upon him….yet another global warming ‘persuader’ moulded to bring us into the fold….it was always clear where it was going to end up…and sure as snowballs will melt in the burning hell of a CO2 polluted world the final words were ‘We’re doomed’.

Having said that listen to the programme and I doubt you will be at all convinced by it that global warming is a man made threat….never mind Bragg saying that warming benefitted mankind…but ‘we’d  better park that idea.‘  Why?  Wasn’t it in the script?

There clearly was a script..not just the usual one to guide the drift of a debate to search into all corners of a subject…this one was definitely heading in one direction only…however not even the guests seemed convinced.

For instance they kept revealing information that seemed at odds with the global warming story….the history of the earth is that for only 15% of its existence has it been covered in ice…the other 85% it has been in a ‘Greenhouse’ state.

We were told that the Antarctic became frozen as the continents drifted away from it and the vast expanse of sea meant that it became colder…..the narrative of that was interrupted by a second guest who said ‘Remember that CO2 is driving this of course’…..‘Oh yes‘ said the narrator, ‘CO2 of course…yes it drives this’.

Convincing?  Not at all.  Was someone off script?

What else?  Oh yes…CO2 levels have been 12 times higher than at present and the greenhouse state is the normal one for the planet.

At the end of the programme the BBC, after 40 or so minutes of interesting stuff about ice ages, decides that’s enough of that….whatever you the listener has concluded yourself you’re going to be given the summary of what you really should be thinking…whether it really embodies the content of the programme or not….and of course that conclusion is…‘We’re doomed’.

Despite my scepticism, about the BBC motive, it’s very worth a listen in its own right if you have the time.

The BBC used to mock Prince Charles for talking to his plants…now they have recruited him to chat to us, to persuade us that we are doomed by global warming unless we change our behaviour….we all know his views….and if you don’t here’s a clue:

The BBC presumably thinks we are rather plantlike…mushrooms maybe?

The BBC’s Countryfile has 7 million viewers allegedly…so a vast potential recruiting pool for green propagandists that is not to be wasted. Prince Charles has agreed to be guest editor for the 25th anniversary show.

The Prince of Wales is to guest edit a special edition of the BBC One flagship Countryfile programme as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations.

Charles will talk about his passion for the countryside in interviews with Countryfile presenters Julia Bradbury and Matt Baker and will also explain his choices for the special edition of the weekly rural affairs programme.

The final shot?  An earnest Charlie leaning on his stick telling us how important the environment is and that we must become ‘one’ with the environment to save the Planet from certain catastrophy.

OK…obviously the show hasn’t gone out yet…but any bets I’m wrong about the content and the final ‘wrap’? …and the BBC’s reasons for having him front their show piece propaganda?

You can always tell what the BBC line is on any subject by seeing what they don’t report and of course what they do carefully select to highlight.

Bishop Hill has noticed this:

‘….the comments of Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England at the launch of the Bank’s quarterly inflation report. Environmental policies it seems are an “own-goal”.

Sir Mervyn blamed the Government for the overshoot, claiming that the Coalition had scored an “own goal” by damaging household incomes with a range of environmental and education policies that have pushed up energy bills and tuition fees.

He said: “It’s a bit of an own goal as it looks as if inflation is worse without any change in the underlying behaviour of the economy. And clearly the attempt to put up prices charged by utilities – to pay for green charges, green policies – are pushing up administered prices in a way that [is] … self inflicted in terms of damage done to real take home pay.”

 

The BBC miss out the ‘environmental costs of green policies’ paragraph and skip to the next one, happy to highlight the government scoring an ‘own goal’ for its economic policies reducing take home pay:

‘Own goal’

Sir Mervyn said that factors outside of the Bank’s control – increases in university tuition fees and utility bills – had added to inflation recently.

“If you like, it is a bit of a self-inflicted goal in terms of the damage done to real take-home pay, perhaps another way of trying to implement fiscal consolidation through moving up the price level,” he said.

 

 

And whilst reporting this:

Although economic output has been broadly flat for the past two years, Sir Mervyn said that masked “a more encouraging underlying picture”.

Manufacturing and services – which make up the bulk of the economy – had grown during 2012, seeing a similar performance to that in the US and considerably stronger than in Japan and the eurozone, he said.

 

They do not give the figures…which say that growth for 2012 was 1.2%….just below the US 1.5%….despite its massive stimulus, Labour like Plan B, spending!

I imagine they prefer you to think along the lines of a measily 0.3% or some such figure…they certainly aren’t going to give the government an inch on good news.

 

Curious what catches the eye of a BBC journalist.  And what gets suppressed.  The massive inflation in fuel prices cause by green policy is surely something of importance and something that should be discussed.   But that would rasie all sorts of awkward questions not just about the ‘renewables’ policies but about the cause iof it as well…ie ‘global warming…man made or not?’  for instance.

 

I suggested in my last post that the BBC has given up on promoting Labour’s Plan B as its main line of attack and has now targeted unemployment, long term youth unemployment in particular as a government weak point on which it can be undermined.

Just clicked on ‘People Like Us’ on the iPlayer only for a different programme to appear…  one called ‘Freespeech’ presented by a bearded Nicky Campbell apprentice.  (Probably disappear by the time you read this but no doubt ‘Freespeech’ will have its own spot on the iPlayer later…yep….here’s actual programme link)

First subject of this first programme….youth unemployment….‘call them shirkers call them strivers….long term youth unemployment is continuing to cause concern…tripling since 2010.’

We get the message.

A trendy yoof version of Question time…nothing to do with free speech….the panellists are what you would expect the BBC to round up…a Muslim woman (a Tory candidate and knicker entrepreneur…but she never herself admits, see here also, to being Muslim…but she is…BBC subtly trying to alter your perceptions of what being ‘Muslim’ means?),  a socialist, a yoof journalist and to  be fair, the trendiest Tory MP they could find, David Morris ex musician and hairdresser (Straight).

If it was truly freespeech it would be on absolutely any subject and the only voices we would hear would be the Public’s and not a panel chosen by the BBC for their very obvious political or social/cultural  adopted positions.

A film made by a non-political, non professional person, given time to expand their ideas and thoughts and explore all the issues from their point of view would be freespeech…to have everything stage managed and choreographed in the usual BBC manner is anything but freespeech.

The BBC sets the boundaries for what can be said…limiting the subject, choosing the panel of people to speak and then having the power to edit anything they don’t think ‘fits’ with the narrative.

As Chomsky said:
‘The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.’

You think they’re listening and taking note….they’re not.