draws our attention to BBC accused of insulting war hero in The Times. The BBC’s own Radio Times has this to say: It purports to be a serious look at British war films, yet only British Film Forever would come up with the following throwaway remark about Reach for the Sky, the biopic of legless Second World War hero Douglas Bader: “Viewers of this film might’ve thought they were having … Continue reading →

Blair may have gone but the Blair Broadcasting Corporation is still spinning: The Scottish Executive is to be rebranded as the Scottish Government, it has been confirmed. No – it’s already been rebranded, as we can see from the photo and as we can read about in the very same article: A new Scottish government sign has been put in place outside its Victoria Quay building in Leith, replacing the … Continue reading →

, so the second most important Entertainment story, in their view, is the stunning revelation that Theron ‘wants US soldiers home’ – a masterpiece of investigative reporting. Quite coincidentally, she’s also plugging her latest film that just happens to be about an American soldier who goes missing after serving in Iraq. Meanwhile, just for balance, we have this tacked on to the end of the same article: Meanwhile, director Ken … Continue reading →

, BBC Views Online bring us news that TV’s McGovern calls BBC ‘racist’: Asked by Mayo whether the country was less racist than it once was, McGovern said: “I have got to say this, you will not like this. But I’ve worked a lot in the BBC, you know. “I love the BBC as an institution and as an organisation and you do see lots of black faces in the … Continue reading →

laying in to Stephanie Flanders over that Cameron interview on Newsnight (see Biased BBC yesterday and the day before) didn’t get a mention in the regular BBC In The News section of the BBC Editors Blog on Friday, at least not until after 5.44pm, when one Elliot Spencer commented (see no. 2): I see Littlejohn’s piece in the Mail didn’t make your list, I wonder why? …complete with a link … Continue reading →

, 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 →