Blue Peter has apologised for showing children the ritual slaughter of a goat in scenes that included the animal’s agonised death throes. Ofcom criticised the BBC after viewers complained that the scenes, shown without warning, were shocking and wholly unsuitable for children. The footage was shown in a feature about a village in Oman preparing for the Eid ul-Fitr festival. The killing was shown in long-shot and from behind, so … Continue reading →

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The BBC has confirmed that an Iraqi bomb has got through the armour of a Challenger tank for the first time. – quite why the BBC are able to confirm this, since they don’t operate the tanks, escapes me. Perhaps they’re using ‘confirmed’ in the same way as that other lazy BBC-ism, “the BBC has learned”, when of course the BBC’s job is to report, rather than to toot it’s … Continue reading →

BBC Views Online’s sleazy stealth editors have been in action again (though I doubt that they are ever really out of action – it’s just that we don’t always spot it happening). On Saturday morning BBC Views Online reported Migration ‘tipping point reached’, beginning: Immigration could lead to the political break-up of Britain, according to think-tank Civitas. A pamphlet by the group suggests that Britain may have reached a “tipping … Continue reading →

Prague Tory points out that the early BBC coverage manages to attack both the successful first round candidates from a left perspective. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

At Not Proud of Britain … Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

have a video out on YouTube – Can America Trust the BBC? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

The following BBC story, Three killed at Turkish publisher, describes how three people have had their throats slit at a publishing house in Turkey that produces Bibles, or bibles as the BBC puts it. All the bold type in the excerpts below was added by me. Nationalists had protested at the publishing house in the past, accusing it of involvement in missionary activities, local media reported. There is a rising … Continue reading →

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When the charges against the lacrosse team at Duke University were first laid the BBC covered it in this article by Daniel Lak. The article correctly takes no explicit view about the truth or otherwise of the charge, as at that time investigations were still proceeding. A great deal of the article, in fact, is not about the details of the particular case at all. Rather it is “framing” – … Continue reading →