On BBC Radio world service yesterday Jon Donnison reported Ban Ki-moon’s depressing reaction to his Gaza visit. Somewhere along the line someone has used the word ‘medieval’ in connection with Gaza, language modelled on Michael Buerk’s iconic ‘Scene of Biblical Proportions’ speech.This emotive word must have appealed to the BBC; it appeared again and again in various news bulletins. Jon Donnison’s report contained the parts of Mr. Ban’s statement that … Continue reading
File under “Bears shit in the woods” – Dr Who luvvie hates the Tories. Becoming part of the Dr Who team must be similar to joining The People’s Front of Judea: “Can I join Dr Who?” “No. Piss off.”“But I hate the Tories as much as anybody.”“Are you sure?”“Oh, dead sure. I hate the Tories already.”“Listen, if you wanted to join Dr Who, you’d have to really hate the Tories.”“I … Continue reading
Put together a potty, unneccessary EU directive abour air quality, an EU-fanatical greenie nutter like Tim Yeo, and the BBC, and what do you get? A well-tried formula of alarmism warning us that unless we stop keeping ourselves warm with nasty power stations, refrain from using petrol, and wind down our industrial base completely, we’re all gonna die. One thing missing from the equation? Recent peer-reviewed research that shows that … Continue reading
Or, as the BBC more prosaically put it yesterday, “Lethal landmine legacy from battle of El Alamein“; accompanied by a picture of two blokes, a flock of sheep, several buildings, some power lines with masts and a tree – and captioned “featureless”. So why the sudden interest 68 years down the line? The battle of El Alamein was a turning point in World War II but the unexploded munitions it … Continue reading
As Craig and Cassandra have been pointing out in the comments, the Beeb have been subtly downplaying the cash for influence scandal of senior Labour figures. First there’s the fact that the headline to their article says “Ministers attack ‘MPs for hire’”. Ah, so senior Government figures are on the side of the angels then? The Gvt is acting decisively? What exactly is “for hire?” Is that anything like soliciting … Continue reading
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Influential public relations agency BBC EU PR has just produced a puff piece for one of its top clients. “Need some helpful spin?BBC EU PRBest in the business.”(Herman Van Rompuy) Update 16.20 – just noticed that Roland Deschain mentioned this on the open thread earlier, so tip of the hat to him. Beeb Bias Craig spotted it before me too. Comments on this thread in haiku please. Starting from… now. … Continue reading
The BBC seems determined to implant the notion that a hung Parliament is inevitable. It seems to have daily items on the topic including this one this morning! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
I was reading the BBC’s coverage of the Quartet’s condemnation of Israel for daring to build in Jerusalem and came across this sentence…”That move undermined efforts to restart indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks” But did it? Wasn’t the firing of rockers from Gaza into Israel another reason to conclude that “peace talks” are being undermined from THAT side? The BBC is always in such a rush to damn Israel, 24/7, isn’t it? … Continue reading
I’ve received quite a few emails from people disgusted at the way in which the BBC has been pushing the joys of greyhound racing. One concerned B-BBC reader writes… I have recently been appalled by the actions of the BBCon several occasions where in various programs it has highlighted greyhoundracing as a fun sport and a great day out for the family. Firstly early this year the presenter of Animals … Continue reading
