Truly astonishing things are beginning to happen at the BBC over the CRU emails. First, Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics yesterday posed some decent questions about what had gone on at CRU and about the climate change record generally. Second, a genuine climate change sceptic (Professor Fred Singer) was allowed to speak, only the second time in recent history that I’ve seen this happen. Thirdly, Neil worked hard to … Continue reading
The BBC’s Matt Frei is surely a worthy successor to Justin Webb. Take a listen to Sunday’s “Americana” on Radio Four – although I must warn you that you will never get those 30 minutes of your life back (fortunately I had a long drive to do on Sunday). “As Sarah Palin kicks off her book tour around the nation this week, Americana takes time to learn more about the … Continue reading
BBC2, 7pm Wed 25 Nov: Can Obama Save the Planet? presented by Justin “Ethical Man” Rowlatt. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
We finally got a discussion about the CRU emails on the BBC with Lord Lawson and UEA Professor Robert Watson appearing on the Today programme this morning. Listen here. I, like Cassandra in the comments, was struck by the little qualifying statements made by Professor Watson: “These scientists at the University of East Anglia are both honourable and world class. Their data is not being manipulated in any bad way … Continue reading
The BBC has been anxious to make us aware how put out the ppor Spanish are over the alleged firing by the Royal Navy on a Spanish flag on a buoy in the straits of Gibraltar. Jeremy Paxman’s brother, Giles, who is British Ambassador to Spain (natch) has apologised for any misunderstandings (shamefully, in my view but this is not enough and the Spanish opposition is now calling for a … Continue reading
I’m sure Biased BBC readers will be familiar with the shocking news concerning the fiddling and misrepresentation of statistics at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Naturally this represents a problem for the BBC which has been to the fore in promoting AGW. So this morning we had an item @ 7.35am on this issue debated by Lord Lawson and Prof Robert Watson and I felt … Continue reading
For decades, the IRA has had a very sympathetic hearing from the BBC. I do not suggest that the BBC supported the killings, the bombings, the maimings carried out by Irish Republicans but it did seem to have a visceral sympathy with the IRA ideal that “Britain” needs to get out of Northern Ireland. This morning, the BBC was coming to terms with an attempted massive car bombing of the … Continue reading
So what do you make of the news that Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC, has vetoed a review of executive pay because the corporation’s private polling shows that viewers care more about repeats? The Telegraph has the details here. I cannot see how the BBC can adopt such an arrogant approach although listening to David Cameron on Marr this morning did not inspire me into thinking that … Continue reading
Via Clive Davis, a quote from Richard Black taken from the BBC’s staff magazine Ariel: In case you ever want to meet up in the blogosphere, I’m the guy with the target on his back. It’s big, it’s green and it flashes up a message saying “climate sceptics – shoot here”. Yeah, but the target’s so big now that it’s not much of a sport any more. It’s about time … Continue reading
Deegee highlights numerous signs in Jeremy Bowen’s article that indicate he’s not really BBC Middle East editor at all, but a correspondent representing the Palestinians. Like Alan Johnston, Bowen obviously wants to assure his friends that “I’m telling your story.”The article is riddled with clues as to Bowen’s personal feelings, and is dumbed down by lazy over-simplifications of the sort that invariably get repeated over and over till they become … Continue reading
