Commenter DG writes: http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/8577/bbc1mt9.jpg The above link is to a screenshot of a BBC Football webpage. Please do not view the image if you are offended by four-letter swear words. Sport isn’t covered on B-BBC very often but, certainly in Scotland, the most frequent examples of BBC Bias are in this area, nearly all aimed at Rangers FC (the above being just the latest example). The article concerns the recent … Continue reading →

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on our earlier coverage of Newsnight, (here, here, here and here, for example) Peter Barron’s mention of Biased BBC can also be seen online in How green should we be? on the BBC Editors blog. Further to the excerpt quoted by Natalie, Mr. Barron goes on to say: But if Newsnight stands for anything it should certainly stand against group-think, so while the broad thrust of our coverage accepts the … Continue reading →

According to commenter “will”, Newsnight editor Peter Barron quotes this blog in his weekly email: One of the consequences of ‘Paxman slams the BBC on climate hyprocrisy’ [Out of date link to original “This is London” article deleted] has been a prominent posting [link] on Biased BBC, a website devoted to pointing out what it sees as the politically-correct institutional group-think of much of the corporation’s output. This time they … Continue reading →

from Perry de Havilland at Samizdata: “What particularly made me laugh was when the BBC voice over said “and the fact over one hundred governments have endorsed this report will add to its credibility.” So let me get this straight… the fact one hundred states which exercise political power over people have endorsed a report that will be used to justify imposing even more political control over people, and that … Continue reading →

said Rizzo the rat, as he was used to clean a window. Heard on Radio 4 this evening at 7.20pm (quoted from memory): “Hamas can now claim to speak for the majority of Palestinians. This means an end to the conflict is inconceivable without their involvement.” The BBC’s unquenchable belief that conflicts invariably end by mutual agreement is kind of sweet really. Don’t take this as an endorsement of any … Continue reading →

Please use this thread for off-topic, but preferably BBC related, comments. Please keep comments on other threads to the topic at hand. N.B. this is not an invitation for general off-topic comments – our aim is to maintain order and clarity on the topic-specific threads. 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 … Continue reading →

: Now, let’s see… violent politicised Islamists are out to kidnap and kill a soldier from what they see as an occupying army… So if it was Hamas or Islamic Jihad out to get an Israeli soldier, we could rely on the BBC to refer to “militants” “seizing” a soldier. For example, way back last July we had:       Cpl Gilad Shalit was seized by Palestinian militants       in an attack on … Continue reading →

writes Jason Deans in yesterday’s MediaGrauniad, reporting on an article by Jeremy Paxman in the BBC’s internal magazine Ariel (known satirically inside and outside the Corporation as Pravda!). Some excerpts: Jeremy Paxman has accused the BBC of hypocrisy over climate change, saying it takes a “high moral tone” in its reporting of the issue while at the same time pursuing environmentally irresponsible policies… “I have neither the learning nor the … Continue reading →

Ben Brown, BBC News 24 headlines at 9pm: “Nine men are in custody in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap a British Muslim soldier and film his execution” Note to all BBC journalists (and some at Sky News too): ‘Execution’ implies a legal or judicially sanctioned killing. You cannot be charged with conspiracy to ‘execute’ someone. These people are being held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder (along with … Continue reading →