Monday’s Radio Four had something for everyone’s blood pressure. The Today Programme opened with American claims of Iranian involvement (RealAudio) in attacks on US and British troops in Iraq. The story was pitched in terms of America ‘raising the temperature’ (as it was described on the news bulletins). Web coverage continued the theme of ‘what are the Americans up to ?‘ – as Paul Reynolds says “Blaming Shia Iran for … Continue reading
Scott Burgess- in one of his usual perspicacious posts- notes a BBC Radio 4 beaut on the recent snow in Britain: “The most obvious sign that snow had come was outside.” Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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
reports BBC Views Online’s children’s CBBC Viewsround (or should that be ‘cbbc newsround’ in the dumbed down world of BBC News?), concluding with: Important When troops on the same side fire at each other, it’s known as friendly fire, or blue-on-blue. Although accidents like this do happen in war, this is seen as very important because it could show the Americans aren’t being honest about what happened. Well, paint me … Continue reading
The Rottweiler Puppy on the BBC, corporations and the environment, citing this BBC report. “Really, this isn’t journalism. It’s caricature, demonisation.” Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The BBC tread carefully around issues of race, culture and demographic change. So it’s not surprising that the report on Sir Keith Ajegbo’s ‘Diversity and Citizenship’ report reached sixteen revisions in four days. The headline and the main thrust of the story itself is not an honest reflection of Sir Keith’s main findings and recommendations. Schools in England should teach “core British values” alongside cultural diversity, a report says. In … Continue reading
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
