Biased BBC

OPEN THREAD

By David Vance | July 18, 2009 - 5:35 pm |July 18, 2009 open thread

Here’s a new old open thread for your use – bumped to the top for your latest thoughts. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

THOSE JAKARTA "ATTACKERS"

By David Vance | July 17, 2009 - 9:50 pm |July 17, 2009 dhimmis

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So, Islamist homicide bombers detonate themselves in two hotels in Jakarta brutally killing several innocent people. The BBC reports this as the act of “attackers” – wonder if the word Jihadist is banned by those sensitive souls at the Beeb? Perhaps the people just “died”? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

THE LOVELY SARAH

By David Vance | July 17, 2009 - 9:45 pm |July 17, 2009 Save Gordon - the last stand.

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Gigits has an excellent post here picking up on the BBC’s increasingly freakish attempts to try and prop up McDoom. Of course they know that he is a busted flush but then there is the lovely Sarah – she who is a member of the “First wives club” apparently… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

Breaking the Silence Part 2

By Sue | July 17, 2009 - 3:30 pm |July 17, 2009 anti-Israel, unscrupulous journalism

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What at first seemed like a straightforward controversy over war ethics has turned into one about irresponsible journalism. The original question asked:Should soldiers be compelled to risk their own lives by adhering strictly to military rules of engagement even when, in the fog and extreme chaos of war, they are faced with an unpredictable and fanatical enemy which is under no such obligation?Now, I’m asking:Is the media ever justified in … Continue reading →

MORE BUBBLY?

By David Vance | July 17, 2009 - 3:14 pm |July 17, 2009 bbc expenditure

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Ah to be at the BBC, where it’s summertime and the living is easy. The heads of BBC radio and TV stations and senior corporation management figures used public money to pay for flowers, champagne, hampers for stars and “thank you” lunches and dinners. Read the sordid details here! It’s a luvvie merry go round oand we, dear reader, fund it. That’s what makes it so special, you see. Click … Continue reading →

Easy money, expensive words

By Ed Thomas | July 17, 2009 - 10:15 am |July 17, 2009 anti-conservative, bbc license tax, pro muslim

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The BBC have given £45,000 to the head of the Muslim Council of Britain, Muhammad Abdul Bari, to settle a legal case brought by him against the BBC for comments made by Charles Moore on Question Time in March. Charles Moore accused the MCB “leadership” of failing to condemn attacks on British soldiers, thereby implicitly condoning them, and this was deemed libellous of Mr Bari. I read Cranmer’s response to … Continue reading →

DRIPPING POISON

By David Vance | July 16, 2009 - 7:38 pm |July 16, 2009 anti-conservative

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The BBC attack on the Conservatives is ongoing. Just consider; The Andy Coulson attack story is being kept alive here. This is despite the fact that it has no no legs whatsoever. Meanwhile on the PM programme, I listened to Eddie Mair running a shock horror story about how poor old David Cameron’s Conservatives are linked to a Polish politician who allegedly made “homophobic” comments – NINE year ago! Is … Continue reading →

BBC FAMILY VALUES

By David Vance | July 16, 2009 - 4:37 pm |July 16, 2009 anti-family

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The traditional family unit remains the very best bastion against the growth of the State. One of the devastating consequences of decades of marriage breakdown here in the UK has been the resultant weakening of the family unit – so allowing Nanny State to enter our lives, interfere and contort things. I rather think the BBC appr0ves of this so that may go some way to explaining why a programme … Continue reading →

QUESTION TIME LIVEBLOG!

By David Vance | July 16, 2009 - 4:05 pm |July 16, 2009 question time live

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OK – so we go live later this evening and here is the panel for your edification. We have media opportunist liberal Lembit Opik, then there is phew wot a scorcher Conservative parliamentary candidate Margot James, (the new Nadine Dorries now she is mad); there is Trasha from garbage TV, and of course we shouldn’t forget FT Editor Lionel Barber; finally there is lovely boy Chris Bryant from the Rhondda. … Continue reading →

ON CUE FROM THE LEFT…

By David Vance | July 16, 2009 - 7:05 am |July 16, 2009 BBC funding and purpose

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I think that Stephen Glover has quite a perspicacious article here on the subject of how the BBC operates as a multimedia more powerful version of the Guardian. As a publicly owned broadcaster funded by the licence payer, it is supposedto eschew partisan or biased stories with a political agenda. In this case,the newspaper lobbed a grenade into David Cameron’s back yard by targetingAndy Coulson. The BBC blindly followed suit. … Continue reading →