Nigel Farndale in the Telegraph takes issue with the BBC’s Diversity Tsar. Sooner or later she was bound to feel the need to justify her salary. So, just six months into the job, she has made a pronouncement. It is about the BBC’s coverage of Saddam’s execution. When BBC reporters expressed horror at the manner of it they were being “culturally insensitive” she says, because doing so imposed Western values … Continue reading
The reason is the death of hope, caused by a cocktail of Israel’s military activities, land expropriation and settlement building – and the financial sanctions imposed on the Hamas led government which are destroying Palestinian institutions that were anyway flawed and fragile. The “death of hope”, eh? Sounds pretty comprehensive to me. I thought about the leaked email from Jeremy Bowen when I made comparison between this November 2006 BBC … Continue reading
from Saturday’s Daily Mail: The BBC faced more claims of New Labour bias Friday night after giving prominence to Downing Street’s instant denial over the latest twist in the cash-for-honours scandal. Rival ITV News led its 6.30pm bulletin on Thursday with allegations that police had found deleted e-mails on a second computer system linked to the probe. The Mail was also working on making the story its front-page splash Friday. … Continue reading
Two race-based extremist groups, one black, one white. Many unsolved murders from decades ago are laid at the door of their members, and at last the law is making arrests. You would simply never guess which story the BBC reports and which it doesn’t. 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
latest report from the USA, also featured in other BBC bulletins and repeatedly on BBC News Twenty-Bore. The report was on a new US Army device – a Humvee mounted heat ray system to disperse hostile crowds or enemies in a non-lethal manner. An interesting topic, but oh so nauseatingly covered by Frei, his smug voice dripping sarcastic disdain throughout his ultra-sceptical report. Here’s a transcript in case you can’t … Continue reading
, courtesy of Peter Mullen, Rector of St Michael’s, Cornhill, in the City of London, as published in the esteemed Northern Echo last year: Aunties’s bias is showing I sometimes worry for the sanity of the BBC. Let me say at the start, I’m a totally unreformed addict of Radio Four and I come over all sulky when we go abroad and I have to make do with satellite TV … Continue reading
, posts this update: January 24th, 2007: Hi All, Spring time has hit Baghdad and the weather is fine. Shit day yesterday: A girl I knew pretty well from the company we work for here was assasinated. She was Shia and lived with her mother in a real shitty Sunni area. The world is a sadder place without her. You can bet she was raped, pretty girl, and we heard … Continue reading
I haven’t seen or heard any reply from Peter Barron, editor of Newsnight, to the questions I asked him the other day, even though many others have posed similar questions on his blog. I’ve just posted a reminder for Peter on his blog: Hello again Peter, I know you’re a busy chap, but from the questions and comments here it is plain that a lot of people are interested in … Continue reading
, according to Media Guardian’s Leigh Holmwood. Not surprisingly, just like this chap (Ned that is, not Justin), the Newsnight turkeys aren’t keen on the approach of Christmas: All of the flagship BBC2 programme’s 15 correspondents, including political editor Martha Kearney and veteran journalist Michael Crick, wrote to Mr Barron last week as part of the campaign against the compulsory cuts. The journalists, who are all faced with selection for … Continue reading
