, I watched the first of this week’s Panorama programmes, the one about Weekend Nazis, and was thoroughly unimpressed. It was a weak and ineffectual edition that achieved little beyond undermining the reputations of Panorama and John Foghorn Sweeney for genuine investigative reporting. In short, a small number of people get a kick out of dressing up like Nazis and play-acting second world war battles at a show in Kent … Continue reading →

has had a much needed one–two (two links) at Abd al-Bari Atwan, Editor in Chief (no less!) of Al Quds Al-Arabi (it’s all Greek to me, but it means ‘Arab Jerusalem’, nice and subtle) – “Barry” Atwan to his friends at BBC News (and Sky News too). It seems those dastardly truth telling jews at Memri have had the cheek to translate some of “Barry’s” Arabic pronouncements into English – … Continue reading →

– covering Malaysia’s 50th anniversary BBC Views Online style. Good old News Sniffer! Updates: There are now four versions – see the list on the left at News Sniffer. Martin comments that it’s worth reading the related Have Your Say thread, sorted by reader recommendations, to get a real (rather than a Beeboid) insight into the reality of life in Malaysia. Laban has written about this at greater length on … Continue reading →

, following his recent outspokenness against the BBC’s work on a planned day of Planet Relief propagandagrammes (see below), writes on the BBC Editors Blog that the BBC has No line on climate change: BBC News certainly does not have a line on climate change, however the weight of our coverage reflects the fact that there is an increasingly strong (although not overwhelming) weight of scientific opinion in favour of … Continue reading →

Who says the BBC is full of moral relativists ? “Outrageous Wasters sees a crack team of eco experts on a mission to transform Britain’s most wasteful households … Joanna, Dan and Andy descend on a household of wasters to assess just how bad they are based on what they see in the house, by ‘interrogating’ them and from the evidence of a waste diary that the family has compiled. … Continue reading →

the widespread criticism of Wednesday’s Snooznight Special interview of David Cameron (see posts below), asserting that If BBC reporter Stephanie Flanders speaks for Britain, I’m a gnu – flaying Stephanie Flanders for her patronising response to the idea of a marriage tax-break. Here are a couple of excerpts: “Have you ever met anybody who gets married for £20 a week?” she sneered. “If I decided to go home and get … Continue reading →

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“Headlines suggesting the Tories have “lurched to the right” are, of course, precisely what Mr Brown wants”. – from a Nick Assinder piece headlined Is Cameron lurching to the right? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

I noted that BBC Views Online’s instant reaction to Cameron’s 45 minute Newsnight interview was to big up on the Immigration ‘too high’ – Cameron line (a truly shocking notion to the Guardianistas at White City). Now, courtesy of Iain Dale, we have a first-hand account of BBC Radio 4’s Toady programme shopping around their Conservative (sorry Beeboids, Tory, facking Tories!) contacts list looking for someone to agree with their … Continue reading →

being interviewed four-to-one by Gavin Esler, Michael Crick, Stephanie Flanders and, who was the fourth one? Oh yes, Mark Urban, was an underwhelming experience all round. Gavin Esler was typically tedious as he repeatedly tried to put the word ‘swamping’ into Cameron’s mouth when discussing the record high levels of immigration, legal and illegal, into the UK over the last ten years. Stephanie Flanders was as seductively haughty and posh … Continue reading →