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The disturbing right-wing drift of our beloved BBC continues apace, and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown ( aka “The Yazzmonster” ) files her latest report from the front line: “Unlike me, my husband is not given to hissy fits or surges of flaming outrage”. She begins. Hey, I can believe that. But she’s setting a pretty low bar, isn’t she? “But last week he threw down his towel (literally) and finally gave up … Continue reading →

that the “Dow Jones was substantially down amidst more credit crunch fears”, with a market fall of 210 points – all nonsense of course: the financial markets in the US were closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving Day, with the figure reported being Wednesday’s close. On Friday afternoon, Peter Barron, Editor of Newsnight, wrote a rather contrite apology on the BBC Editors Blog, concluding: I’m sorry and I’m determined this won’t … Continue reading →

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, 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 →

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, 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 →