This Thursday evening again brings a double-bill of liveblogging…. “You lucky people”, as Tommy Trinder used to say. First up at 8.30pm we will be live blogging the 3rd Leaders’ Debate which is being broadcast on the BBC between 8.30pm and 10:00pm. Rather like the last Debate chat this promises to be great fun as once again 10 blogs will all be hosting it simultaneously. Let’s see if Dimbleby will … Continue reading
Many of the comments on posts below are wandering entertainingly off-topic so let’s start another Open Thread to help out… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
I am sure that you, like me, will have been touched to read David Cameron assert that he is “pro-BBC”. But the Tory leader told the Radio Times: “I’m probably the most pro-BBC Conservative leader there’s ever been. Looks like we will have a job to do SHOULD Cameron get into power…. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
…that the UK’s tweet-happy left-wing comedy establishment (see BBC and Channel 4 listings for details) appears to have opted for a Twitter silence on the subject of South Park’s censorship? Update. From The Simpsons episode broadcast in America last night: Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Yesterday ‘Elder of Ziyon’ reported ‘Hamas’ interior minister’s sick daughter airlifted by Israel to Jordan.’ We have to go to Islamic Jihad’s organ ‘Palestine Today’ to read a transcendental Google Translation of the tale because Fathi Hammad was feeling a bit shy. He feared the story wouldn’t go down very well at home. “Sources in Gaza yesterday that the situation of girls has improved. In addition, it imposed stringent controls … Continue reading
Fiona Fox, Ray Snoddy’s interviewee on Newswatch, who is clearly a pivotal figure in setting the parameters of BBC science coverage generally and climate change in particular, has precisely the credentials the BBC looks for in its “experts” (an area of responsibility, incidentally, that Sue Inglish manages). Her degree was in meejah studies at the Polytechnic of Central London (just down the road from Broadcasting House in Portland Place). Then … Continue reading
From hippiepooter in the comments comes a timely reminder, ahead of the BBC leaders’ debate, that Sue Inglish, the BBC’s Head of Political Programmes, is married to former Labour Party Director of Communications John Underwood. He was the man behind Progressive Policies Forum, the don’t-think tank which channelled funds to Peter Hain’s failed deputy leadership bid. As hippepooter points out, the declaration of personal and family interests section of Inglish’s … Continue reading
Here are the signatories to the letter defending the BBC in today’s Observer mentioned by David in an earlier post. It’s the stuff of nightmares – cloned luvvies: I bet the first Richard Eyre is really pissed off knowing that the second one has a knighthood. (Hat tip Winston Smith in the comments.) Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Following on from the earlier DB post, I have known Ray Snoddy, the editor of the BBC’s Newswatch, for more than 25 years and I admire him as a journalist. But his decision to interview Fiona Fox – director of a body called the Science Media Centre (SMC) – to give a supposed impartial verdict on the current standards of BBC science reporting was a major mistake. First, this harpy … Continue reading
Better late than never, over to you… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
