, Nigel Reynolds of the Telegraph reports that Andrew Marr’s BBC warning angers Sky: “Our main competitor, Sky News, always trumpets that it is first with this, first with that. “Well, we are the BBC and we have to be sure that we are right. We must not, therefore, get into the culture of first with this, first with everything – first and frequently right.” Sky News reacted angrily to … Continue reading
Biased BBC reader John Gentle comments: Thursday’s BBC Newsnight has just informed its viewers that the FTSE was up 80 odd points, but the Dow was down 210 points. That’s funny, it was down 210 points on Wednesday as well. And closed Thursday for the start of the Thanksgiving holiday. Oh dear. I can imagine a Beeboid flunky checking the stats and not noticing this, but for it to get … Continue reading
Please use this thread for comments about the BBC’s current programming and activities. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog – scroll down for new topic-specific posts. N.B. this is not an invitation for general off-topic comments, rants or chit-chat. Thoughtful comments are encouraged. Comments may be moderated. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
, the third biggest story in the world for UK tellytaxpayers, according to BBC Views Online, was Channel 4 accused of ‘distortion’. The third most important story in the world on 08AUG2007? The story first appeared, according to Newssniffer, at 10.50am, with the headline No charges over mosque programme, becoming Channel 4 accused of ‘distortion and C4 ‘distorted’ mosque programme as it went through the BBC Views Online spin … Continue reading
, James Woudhuysen, Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, asks What’s Auntie for, exactly? Getting into his stride on the second page, the Prof. writes: Recently: Science ran a piece on how changes to the stratosphere will affect surface climate. It concluded [PDF] that predicting the dynamics was “a substantial task”, and one not yet undertaken by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Nature had an essay … Continue reading
page trumpets Does Islam have a sense of humour? – a happy story, illustrated with a glossy library picture of burka clad girls (with one peeking out to smile at the camera), where: Keen comedy fan Tosifa Mustafa nails a widely-held stereotype, before dismissing it in the same breath. It’s “just not the case,” she says. Protests over cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad combined with images of Muslims criticising frivolous … Continue reading
Or not, as the case may be. For Griff Rhys Jones, it was a high point of his television career. He had scaled the tallest mountain in Britain, the cameras rolling all the while, and last night he learnt that he had won a coveted Scottish Bafta award for the resultant series, Mountain. But even as the series was receiving the plaudits of the critics, doubts were beginning to surface … Continue reading
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: Sky and ITN ran clips of the footage without the audio, the BBC’s footage contains the sound of children crying, even though the babies have respirators in their mouths. A spokeswoman for the Oxford hospital said: “There was no audio on our clip.” “The BBC must have put it over.” “I thought they weren’t supposed to do things like that.” A BBC spokesman said the corporation should have left … Continue reading
, has submitted comments to the BBC in response to their current, doubtless passing, interest of sorts, in the arguments against reducing Western Civilization to subsistence farming as a means to avoid the fiery fate predicted by legions of global warming doom mongers. Just in case his comments, for some predictable reason, don’t make it past the BBC’s censors, he’s posted them on his blog, BBC Black Propaganda #1 and … Continue reading
