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
I’ve set up an RSS feed for Biased BBC via Feedburner (with a redirect from our previous blogspot provided RSS feed). Those who wish to use RSS to read Biased BBC can do so by clicking on the link in our right hand panel. So far, according to Feedburner’s daily estimate, we have around ~250 daily readers that we didn’t know about before, in addition to our normal web readership, … Continue reading
, 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
to the question I asked yesterday (see post below) as follows: The piece you are referring to was made by the independent film-maker Jamie Campbell. The BBC has said it was not good practice to reorder the sequences, but that the overall sense of the piece was not significantly changed. I am convinced there was no intention to deceive the viewer and that the ordering of the two sequences was … Continue reading
of David Cameron (see posts below) she has written Bribery and wedding bells in the Sunday Times, explaining, among other things: I asked Cameron whether he had met anyone who would get married for £20 a week, because that’s the question everyone asked themselves when Iain Duncan Smith’s social justice policy group unveiled its married couple’s tax break a few months ago. …which is certainly not how it came across … 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
