We have received several comments and emails about the selective BBC reporting of the comments made by UN relief chief Jan Egeland. “EUstoned” tells it well: Egeland visits Beirut and expresses disgust at Israel’s actions there. BBC reports his comments thus: ‘UN appalled by Beirut devastation’ A couple of days later, Egeland expresses disgust at the actions of Hezbollah militants. The BBC buries his comments six paragraphs in and gives … Continue reading →

The BBC accepts the words of a pressure group and its local Palestinian friends concerning a vague report of Israelis using ‘human shields’ against terrorists (who obviously would be mightily put off by such tactics). The pressure group has the declared aim of changing Israeli policy towards the Palestinians. Meanwhile the BBC lavishes no articles and wastes no keyboard work over the fundamental importance of human shields to Hezbullah and … Continue reading →

, with this difference: that the men who exercised it back then were at least men of taste and discrimination.” Theodore Dalrymple on Jonathan Ross’s interview with David Cameron. 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 →

hears from a BBC insider: Stephen, you do well to pinpoint your frustration in today’s Times on just one programme. As a Jew (aargh) and a (whisper it) Zionist, I’m torn asunder by the way the BBC has done this. (And remember they’ve spent months addressing the accusations of bias, trying to get us all to do an online course which claims to be impartial but merely tries to impart … Continue reading →

(Do scroll down; we’re building a nice little series on the BBC’s behaviour over the Lebanon situation. The general point seems to be that when the stress is even slightly on, the Beeb reveals its activist colours. Maybe it’s partly that yours truly awakes to them; who knows such things?) ++++++++++++++ Escalation, Beeb style The trouble is, they’re dying to interfere, aren’t they? DFH notespossibly an even worse example where … Continue reading →

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featured a virtual advertisment – in two senses – for demonstrations organised by the Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain, says USS Neverdock. His screenshot shows a box headed “Protest Assembly Points” and then the exact times and places for the demonstrations in Birmingham (“Outside Waterstones, entrance to Bullring”), Exeter, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kirckcaldy, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Sheffield and York. To finish it off nicely there’s … Continue reading →

Had an interesting time using Google News recently. An hour or two ago I saw an article about Rowan Williams, the Arch-Bish of somewhere, who was quoted saying that Hezbullah was using Lebanese as a human shield. This was accompanied by numerous links reinforcing the fact. Reuters provided the lead article, I think. I also saw this. Later, trawling the BBC I came across a more than slightly different emphasis: … Continue reading →

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