The BBC are at it again. Yesterday I noted how the nationality and immigration status of a police killer is newsworthy if the killer’s American but not if he’s Somali. Here’s the conviction of a bigamist and con-man. “American William Jordan, 41, who has at least 10 children, wove a web of lies to con his victims, a court heard.” Mr Jordan is a naturalised British citizen. But apparently he’ll … Continue reading
BBC Views Online informs us that: One in 20 Hispanics ‘goes hungry’: Five per cent of Hispanics in the US regularly go hungry and as many as 20% do not have sufficient access to nutritious food, a US report says. Poverty and lack of awareness about state entitlements are the causes, says the study by Hispanic civil rights group the National Council of La Raza. Hmmm, do we think that, … Continue reading
The news headlines at 3am: Sky News: President Bush has admitted that American Forces are not winning in Iraq yet. BBC News 24: President Bush has admitted that American Forces are not winning in Iraq. I wonder which of these subtly different headlines reflects Bush more accurately. Any guesses?
When American David Bieber was convicted of killing police officer Ian Broadhurst in Leeds, BBC coverage left you in no doubt as to his nationality. The report of his conviction opens with the words “A former US Marine“. He is portrayed as “the clean-cut, all-American boy“. We even have a report asking why UK immigration “failed to stop a killer“. Another police officer was murdered in West Yorkshire recently, by … Continue reading
Blimey. 409 comments. Looks like it’s time for a roundup, below, and a new “open thread” post coming up in a minute. An article in the New York Sun by Daniel Johnson says The BBC now has a huge audience in America as well as in the rest of the world for its endless reiteration of the implied thesis that the Jewish state is the root of all evil — … Continue reading
Comic fantasy from the New Culture Forum. Hat tip: gordon-bennett
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Today’s Radio Five Drive show featured a BBC interviewer (around 25 minutes in, RealAudio for a week) giving immigrants a hard time : “It would be helpful if they could integrate a little more – why can’t they learn the language ? It’s just lazy, isn’t it ? Why don’t they bother to integrate more ?” Eh ? I’ve never heard a BBC presenter talk about immigrants like that before. … Continue reading
I do not have a means of checking the quotation from the Newsnight e-mail preview quoted in the following comment by “will” but have no reason to disbelieve it. In fact, in light of the post from Adloyada that follows, I have good reason to believe it. The comment from Will first: Newsnight on Iran’s Holocaust Conference (from their e-mail preview) In the face of international condemnation, President Ahmedenijad has … Continue reading
Bishop incident “was not mugging” says the BBC. OK. What was it, then? The Beeb, not normally so solicitous of Christian men of the cloth, ain’t telling. The Guardian is. The Rt Rev Tom Butler, 66, one of the Church of England’s most senior bishops and a pillar of Thought for the Day on the BBC Today programme, says he has no idea. Others say he was seen sitting in … Continue reading
