I’m afraid this is a post that was meant to appear several days ago. I intended to press “publish” before we went away for a few days, but in the rush of packing it didn’t happen. Some elements may also have been mentioned in the 2,390,766 emails and comments I haven’t read; consider yourselves hat-tipped in spirit. Incoming email: Today programme, July 29th. The reporter, only asked British Muslims what … Continue reading →

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Ok. Well, it appears I was wrong in the observation posted here about the lack of BBC coverage of a pro-Israel march. Sorry folks. Thanks to those who pointed out BBC coverage such as this. I heard all about the anti-Israel marches that had been held just before; nothing about this. It’s impossible for me to evaluate the coverage and say whether it was proportionate in the light of what’s … Continue reading →

As part of its services to the chattering classes, the BBC has been preaching teaching how to say “Qana”. Important stuff, I am sure, for making up anti-war chants and for feeling comfortable in that after-dinner conversation mode. The Beeb have also been quick to help define what we’re to associate with “Qana”- an Israeli ‘war crime’. Once more this brings into question why the BBC gives such prominence to … Continue reading →

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This article in the Jerusalem Post points to this BBC article as encapsulating a point of view regarding Israel which dominates at the BBC. Basically, it is Israel as regional bully-boy, Such a thing is, of course, a little bit more complex than it seems at first sight. I searched Nick Thorpe on the BBC website and found that, while in the article already cited he caricatures Israel’s experience of … Continue reading →

From time to time it occurs to me, and to others who frequent this site, that the BBC holds to its news managing agenda with a kind of religious fervour- with of course some more evangelical than others. Who better than the devil to break one of the commandments, then? Here he is taking on the BBC’s tenacious adherence to “thou shalt consider Britain a racist country” as it appeared … Continue reading →

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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 →