or, Tuesday night laugh. According to this press release, the BBC is launching its first major publicity campaign since 1997. Rather like this blog, the campaign “will feature real life examples of extraordinary BBC achievements, large and small.” Oh joy. (via Stephen Pollard) 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
Two posts from the indefatiguable and Neverdocking Marc– one of which linked by LGF- highlight just what kind of an organisation the BBC are nowadays. There is the extraordinary admission by Jim Muir that they were warned by Hezbolla that by showing Hezbolla firing from civilian sites they were endangering Lebanese lives and would have their equipment confiscated (oh the irony of such humanitarian concern!). It’s extraordinary because in the … Continue reading
: “They see no march The BBC seems somehow to have missed thosuands of Muslims marching through London supporting terrorists and calling for the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate over much of the West. Strange. Can anyone out there think why they would not report on this particular item of news?” Is he right? Can it be that the BBC have failed to notice this? Failed to report it? Failed … Continue reading
Funny how the Beeb give all the best lines to the UNmeisters. Malloch-Brown gets away with saying gets to say that “something very ugly was brewing” in Darfur. Meanwhile the Beeb registers that the UN is “extraordinarily concerned”. Not sure where that rates on the scale of things. I guess that they’re more than just concerned, or very concerned. Their concern is beyond all such ordinary concerns. It is indeed … 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. Click through to read and … Continue reading
The BBC once again fails to distinguish between the nations of the United Kingdom when it comes to university top-up fees. Alfie at Waking Hereward gets cross. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Yes, Republican Senator George Allen (likely 2008 presidential candidate) has gotta be a racist (not just stupid), no doubt about it. The BBC has learned from public sources that he put his foot in it the other day during a political event. The BBC has scoured his high school yearbook and discovered more incriminating evidence: George Allen at age 17 wore a Confederate flag pin on his lapel and had … Continue reading
The BBC is setting up a rival to al-Jazeera and this is what it promises: “It will maintain the BBC values of accuracy, editorial independence, impartiality, while balancing a wide diversity of views.”The BBC yesterday said its new television service would be “free from commercial, political and religious affiliations or pressures”. I suppose it’s possible that some BBC people really believe this nonsense. I’ve watched the Beeb for long enough. … Continue reading
Orla Guerin’s truth. “the more we walked, the worse it got… this town used to be home to 7000 people.” Her report from the town of Bint Jbeil included an unmistakeable hint about prosecuting Israel for war crimes. It’s a good job there are other sources. Drinking from Home has put her to shame, with the help of Channel Four’s Alex Thompson, who reported from the same town. From Thompson … Continue reading
