I am sure you will have encountered the Mandela worship on the BBC today. It is 20 years since Nelson Mandela was released from captivity and the excitement at the BBC has been palpable. However I believe the coverage has been very one dimensional and has stayed away from asking any of the tough questions lest the halo around Saint Nelson be dented. 20 years on, we have the corrupt … Continue reading
I have covered this on A Tangled Web but wanted to post it here as well.It’s a sad story. British fashion designer Alexander McQueen has been found dead at his home. The poor chap, a doyen in the fashion world, was only 40 years old. His mother died last week. Here’s the issue. The BBC report on it here. He died. Just like that, seemingly. However, as is reported elsewhere, he committed suicide. He … Continue reading
Mark Kinver, one of the BBC’s most prolific global warming alarmists,was quick off the mark today to say that an “independent panel” is going to review the leaking of the Climategate file from UEA, and also whether climate research has been accurately conducted there. Mr Kinver is telling monstrous economies-with-the-truth and he knows it. The panel is anything but independent; as Bishop Hill points out with his usual eloquence, most … Continue reading
Last October I blogged about the BBC’s silence over Andrew Neather’s revelations about the government’s open door policy on immigration, allegedly to fill gaps in the labour market. But the government’s deliberate policy of manipulating the demographics in the UK was to fill gaps in the Labour-voting market, not the job vacancy one. Before backtracking and claiming his words had been twisted and misrepresented, Andrew Neather mentioned that the government … Continue reading
Question Time tomorrow night is a Northern Ireland special. On the panel will be leader of Traditional Unionist Voice Jim Allister QC, Old Bailey bomber and IRA terrorist Gerry Kelly, Conservative Lord Trimble, Sammy Wilson of the DUP and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Shaun “Where’s my Butler” Woodward. Coming at an important stage of political changes in Northern Ireland, it will be fascinating to see how the BBC attempt to shape the news … Continue reading
Earlier this year we learned that the BBC was helping the Guardian produce its front-page scoops. An interesting series of tweets from yesterday shows that the licence payer is also subsidising technological advice to our national broadcaster’s favourite newspaper. Here’s the head of all things digital and interactive at BBC Radio 5 Live, Brett Spencer: A good morning spent hammering out our big interactive general election offering. Off now to … Continue reading
I know this isn’t saying much, but Justin Webb on Today is a great improvement on Ed Stourton whom he replaced much to some people’s dismay. I thought he gave Gita Sahgal a fair hearing this morning, and it’s certainly encouraging that for once the BBC allowed someone to dislodge the halo surrounding Amnesty International. If you haven’t been following the story, Ms Sahgal, a senior official at AI, became … Continue reading
When Barack Obama was mocked recently for addressing a sixth grade class, and later a committee meeting, with teleprompters present, did the BBC report it? No.When he was mocked recently for repeatedly mispronouncing “Navy corpsman” as “Navy corpse-man” at the National Prayer Breakfast, did the BBC report it? No.When he was mocked recently for saying, “The Middle East is a problem that has plagued the region for centuries”, a line … Continue reading
The latest climate scare story from the BBC is this gem. Plants are going to be on permanent high alert and a lot smellier. Why this is a problem is not quite clear, but hey, this is climate change work, there’s lots of money in pursuing this line of research, so the authors clearly believe it’s something we should worry about – and the BBC think its worth covering. Who’s … Continue reading
And as Wednesday appears with the inevitability of an unbreakable plate, so we also have a new Open Thread. Enjoy… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
