The EU Serf writes: An important way to understand what someone thinks is the way in which they use certain words. The BBC’s insistence on words like Militant is the best known example. Yesterday evening on the BBC World News bulletin at 18:00 GMT I came across another misuse of phrase which surprised me even for the BBC. Yesterday Bulgaria and Romania signed EU accession treaties. The story was about … Continue reading
for publishing these voices from Iraq. (Hat tip: Rob Read.) Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Alex Singleton sent me this link from his Globalisation Institute Blog. In this BBC article by Peter Day, Day says that the Ghanaian economy has shrunk for much of the last twenty years. No it hasn’t. This case study on Ghana by Andrew McKay and Ernest Aryeetey takes a long time to load but has a great deal of info. What I noticed most about the graph Alex cited, the … Continue reading
This is about Dr Who. Be warned: spoilers coming up. Reader Mark comments: Surprised the biased BBC blog hasn`t made a post about the two part Doctor who programme, the second part of which was shown last night. Basically the story turned out that a family of aliens (high up and powerful in government) wanted to start a war for profit despite not having a UN resolution, one of their … Continue reading
If anyone doubted the BBC’s bias before they’ll surely be having second thoughts today: The BBC was last night plunged into a damaging general election row after it admitted equipping three hecklers with microphones and sending them into a campaign meeting addressed by Michael Howard, the Conservative leader. I do think that the Conservative response is far too mild. If I were Michael Howard I’d announce that no Tory would … Continue reading
BBC Online has some regional coverage of St George (patron saint of England, feast-day today) this year, including this BBC London item, which garnered a huge and overwhelmingly positive response to the question “should London have a major St. George’s Day celebration ?”. We seem to be getting less coverage these days which suggests that celebrating Englishness is reserved for knuckle-dragging Neanderthals. Not so only a few years back. Here’s … Continue reading
Reg Jones wrote to the BBC regarding this link: “War crimes – have we learned anything?” and copied us in. He wrote: Classic BBC worldview regarding war crimes: “… Buchenwald last week, Belsen this, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki still to come in August.” Why didn’t Mr. Simpson have the courage to follow up and explain just how the men responsible for dropping the A-bomb ie Truman, Stimson, and Oppenheimer escaped … Continue reading
and am late in posting some interesting emails. Jeremy Sharon writes: the BBC reported the IDF’s killing of a ticking bomb terrorist in Nablus on Thursday, April 14 here ,but have thus far failed to report the shooting of a soldier and civilian in Gaza by a sniper of the Popular Resistance Committees today (Monday, April 18) reported here at the Jerusalem Post. The incident last Thursday seems to have … Continue reading
. BBC political editor Andrew Marr (RealAudio, 3 minutes in) on the Today programme’s legendary neutrality. “… I was talking to an eminent American pollster who’s been observing it closely – and he says that on immigration, Michael Howard has a breakthrough issue – if he’s prepared to use it – but he’s too nervous of the liberal media – you know, er, (laughs) the Today programme, the newspapers and … Continue reading
As many of you know, it is the policy of this blog, when publishing letters, to give whatever name (if any) is stated in the text of the email. The writer of the letter below has chosen to give his name. That being so, it is not our place to shield him from the full rigour of the law. My wife and I recently bought a mail-order VCR off Amazon. … Continue reading
