Please could someone tell Jim Muir. He doesn’t seem to have a clue. He’s unapologetic about it though. Look, we’ve had the tears for Arafat episode. How many times does the BBC need to hear that they are notto take sides? Where to start, where Muir gives us the film-set intro or where he describes the origins of Hamas’ success as being among ‘men of undoubted and bearded piety’? Right … Continue reading →

. A commenter on B-BBC, Thomas, aka Grumpy Troll, has got a result from BBC Newswatch regarding the now more widely known BBC omission of coverage concerning Iran’s condemned-to-death rape victim (please check out the horrific details if you haven’t yet heard about it properly- we’re not talking about something in doubt here) I notice that Mr Jolly (the BBC Newswatch man who responded) tries to excuse it by saying … Continue reading →

We report, you decide. Thanks to Clive Davis (via Instapundit). Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

 The BBC report this story about a widow on the campaign trail for Hamas, but not this story of a suicide matron, also on the campaign trail for the terror group. Typical James Reynolds, I have to say. Typical BBC selectivity. Meanwhile the Beeb are agog with liberal ambition for the post-Sharon era. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

First, Rottweiler Puppy has taken up the story of the Beeb’s failings over Iran, and produced a very good post on the subject on his new site. It’s ironic in the light of this that the BBC is reporting experiencing Persian censorship. Why, when they’re doing such a good job (for the Mullahs)? Maybe it’s a case of treat ’em mean, keep ’em keen (just like the women). The second … Continue reading →

If the American expat can be sarcy, so can I. Or am I just being mean in seeing this as both prurient and irrelevant? Against Islam, indeed. Like, duh! Surely they’re just trawling for Google hits with titles like ‘Malaysian Naked Squats Condemned’. Ooh er missus. Now we know the secret of those millions of daily hits… Or, er, maybe I am… Oh well, at least they’re not guilty of … Continue reading →

I make no apologies for comparing a Fox News report with a BBC one. The success of Fox speaks for itself, and as Peter C. Glover argues, it’s about time we saw something similar in the UK. But one of the biggest slanders going today is that Israel is an aggressor, a source of trouble, an arrogant ungrateful unilateral go-it-alone bully. So I think that a responsible media outlet would … Continue reading →

Scott Callahan has put together a detailed post that’s right up this blog’s street. He compares the BBC’s approach to the death penalty in the US and China- and finds a stark contrast. Just over a week ago I did a similar thing in relation to the BBC’s coverage of the Iranian death penalty- though not as well – on my own blog. The point is that whichever way you … Continue reading →

notes that the Today programme item (RealAudio) on the French women’s movement Ni Putes Ni Soumises treads carefully round one aspect of oppression. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

whether this piece, on the withdrawal from the party leadership contest of Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten, says more about the BBC or the Liberal Democrats. In Parliament since 1997, Mr Oaten is seen as being to the right of many in the party, having promoted a law and order policy of “tough liberalism”. Mr Oaten has campaigned for prisoners to be given the vote, a policy which his then … Continue reading →