, reckons that Truth is the first Casualty at the BBC, as he weighs into the debate about the BBC’s decision to change a Casualty episode depicting an attack by an Islamist terrorist into an animal rights attack: I’m only surprised that they didn’t rule that the bus station bombing in Casualty should be carried out by “militants” linked to UKIP, demanding a referendum on the European Constitution. Turning to … 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
, Associate Editor of The Times, reckons We’re to blame for BBC bias. It’s an interesting, and hopefully wry, take on the causes of the BBC’s cultural mentality. Here’s the key part: If Zimbardo is right, then the political slant of BBC reports is not the result (or at least, not mainly the result) of the disposition of the BBC’s reporters. It comes about because of the role they see … Continue reading
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
“I couldn’t help noticing the ridiculous BBC online coverage of the idiotic global warming protest camp at Heathrow over the weekend. The BBC’s coverage sure seemed to me like a veritable propaganda newsletter, complete with maps.” Ah, but he was not the only one. Donal Blaney writes on his blog: “With fawning excitement, the BBC has paid excessive attention to the sordid collection of hippies, pot smokers and anarchists who … Continue reading
(14.50 UK): I notice via David K in the comments that The UK Telegraph includes the Jesus comment story in an editorial today which you can read here. I think we may safely say… That Biased-BBC comments are considerably more sanitary than the BBC message boards. I am not really up to speed on BBC message boards. I don’t go there. However, the enthusiastic commenters who do enjoy posting there … 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
