this evening is: Wikipedia ‘shows CIA page edits’!   Hypocrisy writ large: the BBC pot calls the CIA kettle black Biased BBC’s story about the BBC’s own editing of Wikipedia has been online for 18 hours – and has been blogged on the BBC’s internal blog system by Nick Reynolds, a senior advisor on editorial policy, and yet this article, by Jonathan Fildes (is that a typo for Fidler?), a … Continue reading →

reported and also about the BBC’s (ab)use of that Redwood footage again, Helen Boaden, the BBC’s Director of Views, sorry, News, has written about the BBC’s Red Tape Reporting on the BBC Editors Blog, saying: In retrospect we weren’t right to use that footage again, which came from a long time ago. In retrospect Helen? Wasn’t it obvious that it was wrong beforehand? It was obviously wrong to everyone outside … Continue reading →

have made somewhere in the region of 7,000 anonymous Wikipedia edits (i.e. not including those Beeboids who have their own Wikipedia accounts), including this BBC edit of George W. Bush’s entry, changing his middle name from Walker to the Beeboid’s own name. How amusing. Of course the real joke is that we telly-taxpayers are paying these morons to sit on their backsides and indulge in their petty personal political prejudices … Continue reading →

This August I’m sorry not to be in Edinburgh. Not because I’ll miss the Fringe. If I want left-wing propaganda masquerading as comedy I can always tune into Radio 4… Sadly there’s much more than a grain of truth in Michael’s dig – far too often Radio 4 seems to be filled with the idiotic whining of unfunny class warriors like Mark Steel, Jeremy Hardie and so on – all … Continue reading →

see this editorial from today’s Sun: Anti Auntie THE BBC’s coverage of Tory plans for £14bn cuts in red tape and bureaucracy was a mockery of impartial journalism. Instead of examining John Redwood’s arguments, it made a joke of them by unearthing his garbled version of the Welsh anthem from a decade ago. The caustic bulletins could have been scripted by Labour ministers. Mr Redwood may be a colourful character. … Continue reading →

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, co-author of the wonderful Yes Minister series, has been spilling the beans recently on the bias and attitudes inherent in the culture of the BBC. His latest article was in yesterday’s Sunday Times. Here are some excerpts – the first sets the scene and lists the things that the BBC was, and still is, largely anti- to: The growing general agreement that the culture of the BBC (and not … Continue reading →

: I don’t know how this is being covered on other networks, but the BBC are starting all their news bulletins about John Redwood’s Competitiveness Commission reports with the words… The Labour Party has today criticised… This has happened many times before. Instead of concentrating on the substance of a Tory policy announcement the BBC seem to revel in giving Labour Ministers the microphone to explain how whatever the policy … Continue reading →

in a trailer for Any Qustions (quoted in its entirety): In Any Questions today: the stock markets have fallen. Should we rejoice if greed is bad for us? Dimblebore’s presumption of a correlation between stock market prices, greed and whatever is ‘bad’ (or good) for us is an awfully simplistic, ignorant view – the sort of view one might expect from someone who doesn’t need to worry about his pension … Continue reading →