Please use this thread for BBC-related comments and analysis. Please keep comments on other threads to the topic at hand. N.B. this is not (and never has been) an invitation for general off-topic comments, rants or use as a chat forum. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog. Please scroll down to find new topic-specific posts. Click through to read and contribute comments on this … Continue reading
: academic, writer and anti-semitezionist, Tom Paulin: Paulin, who appears regularly on the panel of the BBC2 arts programme Newsnight Review (formerly Late Review), allegedly made the comment in an interview with the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram.The interviewer wrote that Paulin, a consistent critic of Israeli conduct towards the Palestinians, clearly abhorred “Brooklyn-born” Jewish settlers. Paulin, a lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford, was then quoted as saying: “They should be shot … Continue reading
: The BBC has admitted that Alan Yentob, the corporation’s creative director, has performed “noddy shots” on interviews that he did not personally conduct for his arts series Imagine. In the first instance of a senior BBC executive being drawn into the TV trust issue, a senior corporation source admitted to MediaGuardian.co.uk that Mr Yentob often does not conduct all the interviews on Imagine – even though he appears nodding … Continue reading
on BBC Views Online yesterday – a fawning and uncritical analysis of Labour’s school building program – a nice companion piece to last night’s BBC Ten O’Clock News that featured Gordon Brown visiting the very same school on the same day – what a happy coincidence. Gordon Brown: “This school’s great!”, BBC: “It really is a school of the future!” Biased BBC reader Ayayay commented: The story basically says, … Continue reading
The Beeb does Fred Thompson. Here. “The BBC’s Justin Webb in Washington says the former senator from Tennessee is enormously popular on the right of the party where he is seen as a new Ronald Reagan. He is known for his conservative views on issues like abortion and gun control.” Well, not really. Three things the BBC overlook. Deliberately. Firstly, the debate on the Right is specifically whether Thompson really … Continue reading
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, informing us that: Germany, which has soldiers in Afghanistan but did not send troops to Iraq, has been largely spared terrorist attacks. Cause and effect you see. Apart from all the Islamist terror attacks and atrocities in countries that didn’t send troops to Iraq or Afghanistan… Thank you to Biased BBC reader champagne bottles for the link. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
, referring throughout to his ‘militancy’. Does this mean that, in common with many Londoners, the BBC regards Mr. Crow as some kind of terrorist? Or is it just further evidence of the BBC’s egregiousness in referring to real terrorists as ‘militants’? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The BBC has cancelled its planned Climate Relief day. Messrs Horrocks and Barron weighed in with criticism of the event and it’s been shelved. Barron (Newsnight Editor) came up with the very quotable, almost Paxmanesque, “It is absolutely not the BBC’s job to save the planet”. Well, that’s the spin, anyway. My guess is the BBC feel that because the science is not at all that settled, they don’t want … Continue reading
Please use this thread for BBC-related comments and analysis. Please keep comments on other threads to the topic at hand. N.B. this is not (and never has been) an invitation for general off-topic comments, rants or use as a chat forum. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog. Please scroll down to find new topic-specific posts. Click through to read and contribute comments on this … Continue reading
