The BBC has been flagging up the the fines handed out to ITV for abusing premium rate phone call-ins. Meanwhile, this afternoon, the BBC lets slip that IT has been forced to apologise for keeping £106,000 from premium-rate phone- ins that should have gone to charity. Nice. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
“And what is your concern about Boris?” London Assembly member James Cleverly writes that “This was the question which greeted callers into Dotun Adebayo’s show on BBC Radio London last night.” His criticism related to the person answering the phones, not to the show itself. The link above came via Iain Dale, who also says, “So in the most successful week for the Conservatives since 1992 THIS WEEK doesn’t have … Continue reading
One can’t push back against it all, but Dizzy has a great go at a story which the Independent-echoing BBC report about food waste. It’s probably supposed to make the supposed food crisis more, you know, “interactive”. An absurdly long BBC report misses most of the points which Dizzy raises. The money quote as far as I am concerned occurs almost at the bottom: “WRAP receives government funding from England, … Continue reading
. There is a great dissection of the BBC’s recent 60th birthday “tribute” “to Israel here over on Honest Reporting. The very fact that the BBC selected Jeremy Al Bowen to present this one hour documentary is surreal given HIS track record. It’s akin to having Hannibal Lecter front up a documentary on Veganism. “A taste of things to come arrives in the first few seconds of the broadcast, which … Continue reading
On the BBConline UK frontpage we see “Row looming over cannabis grading” To its right, a survey is highlighted: “Third of staff ‘hungover at desk’“ Surveys and political “debates”- two of the BBC’s favourite things. Well, what I am suggesting is that such tie-ins between a feature about the classifiction of Cannabis and the deleterous effects of alcohol is not coincidental- the BBC want to emphasise the old talking point … Continue reading
You just KNEW it was coming. The BBC ran an item on the “Today” programme this morning just before the 7am headlines about the fact that we are entering into a period where England will suffer more from flooding than it has in the past several decades. Wonder if you caught it? At the start of this three minute item, it was made clear that “global warming” was not the … Continue reading
So, I’m sure you eagle-eyed B-BBC readers will have spotted that the BBC has been caught out trying to downplay the impact of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s association with the Obama campaign, as picked up by Janet Daly in the Telegraph. The key line is the expression that the BBC correspondent uses when suggesting that the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a man “whom the US media depicts” as a racially … Continue reading
It’s not what the BBC says in its reports, it often what it leaves out. For example, in this report on the Northern Ireland portal it factually reports certain changes regarding the constitution of a Victim’s Commission. Fair enough. It then blithely states concerning the members of this quango that amongst them is “Patricia MacBride, whose brother was killed by the SAS and whose father died 17 months after being … Continue reading
Did you spot that the BBC “has learned” that there has beena dramatic increase in the number of employers being prosecuted for hiring illegal immigrants? Now then, I’m all in favour of ensuring that those who are illegally residing in the UK be booted out pronto so I am naturally delighted to hear this news. However I was wondering if the BBC’s sudden enthusiasm for this new “get tough” prosecution … Continue reading
Did you happen to catch Evan Davies interview Douglas Alexander on the Today programme just after 8am? Alexander was selling the government line that last weeks’ electoral disaster was all to do with world economic crisis, mid-term blues, etc, etc. However the interesting bit was when Evan Davies suggested that what Labour really needed to do to restore fortunes was to bite the bullet and raise taxes on “the rich … Continue reading
