The BBC’s job is to report impartially what goes on in the world. To pursue that task, it receives at least £750m of your money every year, and it has almost 5,000 staff who are directly involved in journalism. So when steel-making on Teeside, one of our oldest manufacturing industries, faces closure, with the loss of 300 years of tradition and 10,000 jobs, you would expect the corporation to be … Continue reading
The BBC Trust’s From See-saw to Wagon Wheel, p 40: The BBC has held a high-level seminar with some of the best scientific experts, and has come to the view that the weight of evidence no longer justifies equal space being given to the opponents of the consensus. But these dissenters (or even sceptics) will still be heard, as they should, because it is not the BBC’s role to close … Continue reading
In a recent blog post I drew attention to some anti-Sarah Palin tweets from the BBC’s Richard Bacon, and said that I thought the BBC would “follow ITN’s example and issue Twitter rules for its employees”. Bacon was asked about the BBC’s attitude to his Twitter influence on Saturday’s Adam and Joe Show. He responded: “They’re going to check what I write before I put it up there, which will … Continue reading
The BBC reports that the Dear Leader has said technology such as crime maps and online school reports will cut bureaucracy, as Labour attempts to halve the Budget deficit.; Ahead of Wednesday’s pre-Budget report, the PM said “efficiency savings” would help to save £12bn over four years – £3bn more than planned in the Budget. Great news. I suppose one might pause to wonder how £12bn worth of theoretical “efficiency … Continue reading
Well, The Guardian along with 55 other newspaper titles in 45 countries may declare that we have “14 days to seal history’s verdict on this generation” as regards the gathering of the AGW cultists in not so wonderful Copenhagen, but hey, the BBC is doing the best it can for “the cause” today. Did anyone else catch “Today” this morning? Check out the totally unbiased headline “A Deal consistent with … Continue reading
Even the BBC’s coverage of bias is biased when it comes to the climate change debate. This, posted today, is the BBC’s attempt to create “balance” in the debate about AGW. I haven’t the time now to go into detail about why this is a blatant, pathetic whitewash. I am sure others will in due course. But how about for starters, the words devoted to the AGW case are far … Continue reading
Wat Tyler has responded to Marcus Brigstocke’s dire Now Show rant about the Taxpayers’ Alliance. This was Brigstocke’s humble tweet following the recording: “No knock out punch I fear” Yeah, because that was likely to happen. “Following a series of unfunny remarks made about us by Green Party and CND supporting posh kid Marcus Brigstocke on The Now Show, we have decided to disband the Taxpayers’ Alliance.” I see that … Continue reading
Further to Robin’s post yesterday about this week’s Newswatch, here are the transcripts of the exchanges between presenter Raymond Snoddy and environment correspondent Richard Black. First exchange: Snoddy: Richard Black, as a journalist do you think the BBC really underplayed this story despite Today and Newsnight items? Black: In quantitative terms I’m not sure that we have underplayed it. I don’t think that stands up. But there is another side … Continue reading
The Kate Silverton programme on Radio Five Live this morning dedicated a segment to telling us about all the wonderful positive things that will flow from the challenge of combating climate change (more recharging points for electric cars, refurbished homes, new factories, green jobs, a unicorn for every home, trees with money growing on them, that sort of thing). The guest they had on to help promote these lovely fluffy … Continue reading
I listened carefully in BBC bulletins last night and this morning to David Shukman spreading AGW panic about melting glaciers in Bolivia, which he left no doubt were because of “climate change”. Poor, hapless Bolivians were dying of thirst because of Western greed, etc. I decided to do a bit of google-digging to find if this, indeed, was the “consensus”. It turned out to be like wading through treacle because … Continue reading
