Rob Schneider wrote on 2 January: Natalie, In tonight’s BBC news Matt [Frei] was reporting on ex-President Ford’s funeral in Washington. He said (and I can’t remember the exact quote) that “He was a popular president. But he pardoned President Nixon and the country never forgave him.” That is simply not true and misrepresents history. Ford became president on 9th August 1974. He announced his decision about President Nixon on … Continue reading
Pounce comments on one of today’s front page stories at the BBC: Skin bleaching cream couple fined A couple believed to have earned £1m selling toxic skin lightening creams were ordered by a court to pay nearly £100,000 in fines and costs. Yinka and Michael Oluyemi sold banned bleaching concoctions from their two cosmetics shops in south-east London. [snip] The church-going couple, who lived in a £725,000 house in Sydenham, … 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. A Happy New Year to … Continue reading
Not exactly about bias – in fact not at all, but it’s Christmas … the Sage of Peebles on Kirsty Young and the departure of Michael Grade.
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.
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
