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
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
B-BBC readers and in particular those who like to come along to the weekly Question Time liveblog – will know that Geoff aka The All Seeing Eye – is back on the long road to recovery after a serious accident and may even be able to join us tomorrow night! This is welcome news and proof that prayer is answered! So the Liveblog is ON for tomorrow night. Make sure … Continue reading
“Just in case you’d been distracted by trivial, parochial concerns like BBC salaries and British soldiers coming home in coffins, it’s our duty to remind you once more about the real scandal. The Israelis.” “Lest you forget, we must tell you again about the war crimes, human rights violations and abuses that took place in Gaza! What’s more the BBC didn’t even have to uncover the scandal because Israelis blabbed … Continue reading
Wonder if you are impressed as I am by Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust, who has laid himself open to accusations of hypocrisy after his remuneration package rose by 30 per cent to £213,000 last year, despite his assurances that the Corporation was cutting costs! Perhaps when BBC talking heads drone on about the “greed” of the bankers they need to look more closely to home … Continue reading
Wonder what you make of the news that the BBC is considering whether to hand over Thought For The Day to non-religious speakers? The long-running Radio 4 slot, which airs during the Today programme, remainsone of the few features devoted entirely to religion and ethics. But it emergedyesterday that the corporation’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has launched aninvestigation into whether it should be opened up to secular and humanist … Continue reading
It’s not really that subtle, is it? BBC lead story is McDoom defending his strategy of under-equipping our military in Afghanistan. In McDoom-speak this means claiming our military are better equipped than they have been for decades. All fantasy, of course. The BBC then segues into a story concerning alleged abuse carried out by a British soldier in Iraq. Simple equation; British Army = bad. The beat is always the … Continue reading
Here’s a bumped thread for your BBC observations. The floor is yours! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Praise is due to the BBC for allowing the other side of the story for once. It doesn’t equalise their consistent favouring of the criminal over the victim, but here it is, a least this: Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
That’s the sound of the BBC going way overboard in covering what they seem to think is a big scandal of Dick Cheney’s doing- some secret “plan” concocted with the CIA without Senate knowledge. Last week it was phone-tapping of public figures in the UK by the News of the World, this week Dick Dastardly and his Mutley CIA. Well just as last week’s soft scoop has turned into a … Continue reading
