The Today programme like to think that they don’t just report the news, that they “help to set the agenda” – and to a great extent they’re correct. You can hear Humphrys or Naughtie worrying away at a point like a terrier with a rat. hoping to get an admission which will make the NEXT news headlines. “In an interview on the BBC Today programme, the Minister revealed that …” … Continue reading →

I was interested to find people in the comments compiling lists of ‘BBC issues’. I think the following is a nice example of the BBC’s sly slanty issued-based bias. This article might seem fairly innocuous, business as usual for Caroline Wyatt reporting French affairs. It’s got a fashionable feminist slant, after all, questioning patriarchal values blah blah. Typical BBC really. But notice that the photo appears to have little to … Continue reading →

David Vance intends to tell the BBC a thing or two, to their faces: ‘I believe the License Fee should be scrapped forthwith and ALL subsidy to the BBC ended. The BBC must stand, or fall, on it’s own two financial feet. As far as I am concerned state broadcasting is anachronistic and totalitarian – time to end it.’ A merry thread ensued. Click through to read and contribute comments … Continue reading →

: BBC gives Greg Palast a presenter’s spot on its Latin America news section (should fit in nicely with Gavin Esler’s approach eh?). Perhaps you know little about Mr Palast, but we at B-BBC remember him. He’s the man who exulted in Ronald Reagan’s death. Produces extreme Bush lied theories. Maintained that that Kerry won in 2004 And now the BBC have given him the task of reporting Hugo Chavez … Continue reading →

Adloyada points out the imbalance in this articleby Alan Johnston- a cover up for convicted murderers which includes some apparent far-left plagiarism. One judges people by their friends, sometimes. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

… Justin Webb on yesterday’s Radio Five Drive show, being interviewed about Kate Couric, new CBS news anchor. He spoke about how the big networks were losing market share to cable and the internet. “There ate three groups of people who don’t watch the evening news any more, and they are intelligent people, young people, and right-wing people – and obviously there are some people who fall into all three … Continue reading →

It had to be concerning the misrepresention of the UN’s position, didn’t it? Nothing else could rouse the BBC Governors and the panel they appointed to investigate matters. According to the EJP report here, a BBC report published late last year, ‘suggested the UN called for Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from territories seized during the six-day war when in fact it called for a negotiated “land for peace” settlement between Israel … Continue reading →

. Gavin Esler has the scoop! There is trouble ahead for Uncle Sam in his own backyard. Big trouble. It is one of the most important and yet largely untold stories of our world in 2006. George W Bush has lost Latin America. Fortunately Mr Esler has found it down the back of his sofa. He dropped it there in the 1980s while having a little cry after the Sandinistas … Continue reading →

First, an apology for absence. Some work took rather longer than I had anticipated and I had to drop the blogging for the week. Here are some emails and posts that caught my eye. A commenter writes simply “terrible article” and sends a link to this. It’s called “Israeli poll deepens Palestinian gloom.” I didn’t think much of it, either. Throughout the Palestinians are presented as seekers after peace cruelly … Continue reading →

. They don’t stop, do they? ‘In the latest in our series about the role of the state in encouraging couples to have more children’… Thus runs the intro to the Beeb’s latest in a blatantly calculated series about birth rates. ‘Now then, none of that Mark Steyn hysteria about the emptiness of modern western wombs’, says Auntie firmly- just as firmly as she ignores the actual news which instances … Continue reading →