. Reporter Paul Revoir writes: BBC staff, viewers and politicians have accused the broadcaster of ‘overkill’ in its coverage of the diaries, which Mr Campbell himself admits have been sanitised to protect Tony Blair and the Labour Party. As well as three hour-long episodes which run nightly until Friday, the corporation has already carried lengthy interviews with Mr Campbell on Sunday AM with Andrew Marr and Radio 4’s Today programme. … Continue reading →

in the world at the moment is ‘No sun link’ to climate change – a journalistic cut and paste job by a Richard Black of a new study by Mike Lockwood and Claus Froehlich published in the Royal Society’s journal ‘Proceedings A’. Black’s article is even more partial and one-sided than is admitted in the Jeremy Paxman quote here in our sidebar. He writes, for instance: “This should settle the … Continue reading →

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last night, The War on Britain’s Jews?, was excellent and informative. Whilst we don’t often stray off of the BBC on this blog, I couldn’t help but wonder as I watched, why doesn’t the BBC do stuff like this? And then I read Littlejohn’s piece in last Friday’s Daily Mail, in which he wrote: A couple of years ago when the BBC approached me to make what they called an … Continue reading →

Here are a couple of quotes from BBC reporter June Kelly’s package on the Ten O’Clock News covering the verdicts in the 21/7 terror trial: “A week earlier, they were part of a group of Muslim fanatics who brought chaos to the London transport system.” and: “It was said that these men wanted to stage a bigger and better attack than the 7th of July. They did come very close … Continue reading →

in their coverage of the publication of Alistair Campbell’s sanitised diaries – you’d almost think they have a three-part series to promote (BBC2, Wednesday 8pm, Thursday 8pm and Friday 7pm – just to catch you out). Michael Crick on Newsnight concluded his filmed piece on the Campbell diaries with: Crick: “This journal doesn’t match those of Richard Crossman, Tony Benn or the right-wing Tory Alan Clark, [pause] seen in these … Continue reading →

in the run up to the Southall by-election on July 19th 2007. And how does our fearless, impartial, unbiased tellytax-funded state broadcaster cover this blow to the Labour campaign? Well, for a start you have to go looking for the story – it’s tucked away on the sidebar of the Politics page and about to fall off the bottom of the UK page – though it’s not on the England … Continue reading →

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I’m sure I speak for all of BBBC when I say we’re very pleased about the release of Alan Johnston. Let’s now hope : a) the BBC resist the temptation to give Hamas any more free PR than the facts and the story require. b) a couple more stories are devoted to the FIVE Brits kidnapped in Iraq a month ago. Click through to read and contribute comments on this … Continue reading →

It’s been a long-established BBC tradition that where a foreign national commits crimes in the UK, his nationality and immigration status should be downplayed or ignored entirely in their news reporting. Hence we see the Algerian illegal immigrant transformed into a man from ‘Shepherds Bush‘, the Moroccan drug dealer (obsessed with beheadings and al-Quaeda videos) who becomes a man ‘from Lisson Grove, north-west London‘ (with no notable habits), the Somali … Continue reading →