While the BBC get all excited about cool new British cloning, and fresh monkey business, they apparently haven’t noticed a whacking blow to their greatest environmental news fetish- news that the Antarctic is putting on weight. (via A Tangled Web) Oddly no-one ever seems to learn that when it comes to a lot of the investigations we perform in science today our knowledge is in its infancy. At least one … Continue reading →

This picture series is entitled “French Left split over referendum.” The opening page says: “A battle is on for left-wing votes as France’s referendum on the EU constitution looms. Most supporters of the centre-right UMP party are expected to vote Yes, ignoring the far-right No campaign. But many Socialists appear ready to defy party leaders by voting No, with the far-left. BBC News asked a selection of left-wingers for their … Continue reading →

That is the question asked by The Scotsman’s Jenny Hjul. (Hat tip: Gary.) She says: His presence in Washington begs two questions: why did BBC Scotland feel it needed to send its own man when (a) it is currently implementing drastic cost cuts and (b) the BBC’s Washington correspondent, Clive Myrie, was already there and more than up to the job? Also, if BBC Scotland really, really had to send, … Continue reading →

Norm Geras has a post up at Normbloglooking at something the BBC missed in their report on Ronaldo’s UN visit to Ramallah. Did he visit anywhere else, perhaps? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

Over at Samizdatathey have an interesting post about how, according to the BBC, capitalism is causing famine in North Korea (as opposed to Stalinist communism being the root cause of that country’s ills). I particularly liked “Market reforms introduced in North Korea in recent years mean most people only get about half the food they need through the state and have to buy the rest themselves.” Click through to read … Continue reading →

I’m rather busy at the moment, so here are some quick links on several subjects all in one fell post. Coming Anarchy (a blog with the intriguing tagline “Speak Victorian – Think Pagan”) wasn’t impressed with the economic assumptions behind a BBC article called Living in Somalia’s Anarchy. Norman Geras agrees with many complainers that Jeremy Paxman and other media interviewers are too rude and dismissive to many political interviewees, … Continue reading →

The text of the Robin Aitken story is now up at Blithering Bunny. It’s written by Damien Thompson. Thanks to reader David H for the scan, and EU Referendumfor further highlighting the story. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

…but the same conclusions. Helen Szamuely and The Rottweiler Puppy take on the BBC over bias. Helen reports the work of Robin Aitken, former BBC journalist: ‘Robin Aitken is writing a book on the BBC bias. He has already done a good deal of the research and marshalling of the material for a dossier he presented to the Governors in the 1990s. It was comprehensively ignored…’ Click through to read … Continue reading →

, the Beeb sees setback for Bush as a “blow by powerful Senate group”! (Surprise, the Senate is a political body comprised of Democrats, Republicans and one “Independent”. What is so surprising about a renegade Senator from the rustbelt who rocks the boat?) If you really want to know what’s happening, look elsewhere for factual reporting. The only surprise here is that Senator Voinovich, a Republican, did not vote to … Continue reading →

: The BBC’s story on Galloway contains this little gem: ”UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has been criticised over his son’s work with the programme, but he himself, in an interim report by a UN committee issued in March, was cleared of wrongdoing.” Of course, he was not cleared at all: “I thought we criticised him rather severely. I would not call that an exoneration,” Volcker told US network Fox … Continue reading →