Seen this? “The BBC is embroiled in a fresh Brexit bias row after a study found that just one in six contributors to the Radio 4 Today programme’s business news slot in the six months after referendum saw the result as positive for Britain. A report by News-watch into the BBC’s coverage on Brexit covering the six month period after the referendum vote found overwhelmingly negativity about Britain leaving the … Continue reading
Remember when Boris suggested attempts to unify Europe into one poltical union, as tried by the Romans, Napoleon and Hitler, were doomed to failure and he was savagely attacked by people who oviously hadn’t read what he wrote or didn’t care and just wanted to attack him?… Rejecting Mr Johnson’s analysis, Hilary Benn said: “Leave campaigners have lost the economic argument and now they are losing their moral compass. … Continue reading
And on time, a new Open Thread for you to detail the bias as the weekend approaches…
Fake tube sign read out on BBC News and in Commons after Westminster attack
The Obligation of Jihad “Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) hath Allah promised good. But those who strive and fight hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward,” Quran Chapter 4: The Women, verse 95 Some quotes from the BBC’s ‘Muslims … Continue reading
The London attacker has been named as Khalid Masood, the BBC tells us lots about him except of course his religion…they even tell us that he, presumably, posed as a teacher when hiring the vehicle that he used in the attack…no doubt the BBC would portray this as the cause of the attack..so disaffected was he by government ‘cuts’ to the education budget that it drove him to attack … Continue reading
The secret to political success? Lying with sincerity. So says Mary Ann Sieghart, Chair of the centrist Social Market Foundation think tank, who has just done a programme shilling for the ‘centre ground’ of politics for the BBC called “Can The Centre Hold?” Naturally she doesn’t actually say ‘lie’ but that is the basis of her plea…do what the Dutch Prime Minister did, make right-wing sounding noises in order to … Continue reading
Time for a new one of these. I couldn’t bear to watch the BBC eulogise IRA mss killer Martin McGuinness yesterday and from what I hear from others I was right to stay away from the love-in. Meanwhile, Jihad on Westminster bridge…
Whilst the BBC refused to report eye-witness statements that the attacker in London was Asian looking it has been fast to correct Channel 4’s claim that Abu Izzadeen was the attacker…note BBC calling him ‘Trevor Brooks’ and not his new Muslim name…from Guido… Tonight on Channel 4 News Simon Israel named hate preacher Abu Izzadeen AKA Trevor Brooks as the Westminster attacker. The BBC say they are wrong and … Continue reading
The Long View of Targeted Fake News Jonathan Freedland compares the current wave of fake news stories, particularly those targeted at Muslims and immigrants in the UK, with the anti-Semitic story of an eight-year-old Christian boy, William of Norwich, who was murdered in woodland outside his native city in 1144. His death was later reported as a Jewish conspiracy and ritual, becoming the founding myth of the so-called ‘blood libel’. … Continue reading
