linking to the Telegraph’s editorial Terror victims are BBC licence-payers, too, the Telegraph has more coverage of the BBC drops Casualty suicide bomb plotline story that has been discussed in the comments here. Lord Tebbit is quoted: People were perfectly free during the violence in Northern Ireland to produce dramas about terrorism for which presumably they might have been accused of stereotyping IRA terrorists or even suggesting that all Catholics … Continue reading →

came with this Radio Times warning: I strongly suggest you keep your finger hovering over the mute button on your TV remote controls, because you’ll want to silence, yet again, the witless and sneering commentary that’s characterised the series so far. My time watching the programme was interrupted (“Daddy, I can’t get to sleep”, “Well, come and watch this BBC tosh then, that’ll do the trick” etc.), and I got … Continue reading →

, reports a BBC Views Online front page ‘highlight box’, describing the featured story as: Tale of two cities: ‘Not like in Dickens, kind of American’ – a visitor’s view of Brum. …except that in the story, Not like in Dickens, it turns out that the visitor the BBC refers to is actually an immigrant – not normally a synonym for visitor, except perhaps in BBC La-la-land. Click through to … Continue reading →

in a current BBC Views Online (Don’t) Have Your Say discussion: Is manned space travel still relevant in the 21st century? Is it worth the financial burden or just a country’s expensive ego trip – a hangover from 60s? …which was magically stealth edited into: Is manned space travel still relevant in the 21st century and worth the cost? Is the risk involved in space missions worth it? …except that … Continue reading →

, in a good article recounting his experience of the media and the BBC in particular while trying to put forward serious policy proposals: I was delighted that halfway through the week Helen Boaden, a senior manager at the BBC, graciously admitted it had been wrong to run footage of me singing, from 14 years ago, as their lead-in to their first report. I am the only politician who has … Continue reading →

has written an article, How the BBC disgraced my mother, published in the Daily Mail, beginning: When it comes to separating fact from fiction, the dear old Beeb seems to have been making a bit of a hash of things recently. There have been a whole string of exposures about faked competition winners, dubious reporting and manipulatively edited documentaries. Before moving on to her main point: So serious is the … Continue reading →

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