Funny thing…pre-election millionaire revolutionary, Russell Brand, was constantly on the BBC giving us the benefit of his wisdom. He was the voice of the people who’d all lost trust in politicians (and you know, the political system that meant no one party would ever take a majority again), then he was the man who interviewed Ed Miliband, and then the man who dumped the Revolution and said vote … Continue reading
A fresh open thread to start the week…..so much bias out there….it shouldn’t take long to fill this thread…
Lord Hall’s main defence of the BBC is that it is the central prop for the creative industries in the UK and without the BBC they would wither and die. You might object to the idea that the BBC has such a dominant role in the media and its programming and that Hall thinks this should be maintained, and you would not be alone in objecting….ITV is objecting strongly … Continue reading
Andrew Marr introduced his show with the words that ‘The BBC’s enemies are circling’, a narrative that David Dimbleby also used….that anyone who criticises the BBC or believes it is need of reform is an ‘enemy’… “The BBC has enemies, it has powerful enemies. It has powerful enemies in the press and powerful enemies in Westminster. Some for ideological reasons, some for straight commercial reasons.” Demonising anyone who raises … Continue reading
Top Gear seems to hit a raw nerve in the Guardianista Bunker…apparently it is a toxic orifice… a vast, gaping inter-dimensional sphincter, the size of a gothic cathedral rose window, has throbbed and dilated silently at the heart of the BBC buildings on Upper Regent Street, belching fossil fumes and foul thoughts from a dark realm of negative space. Personally I think Stewart Lee is the biggest arse … Continue reading
The little private chat some Muslim activists had with James Harding worked a treat….the BBC is now filling the airwaves with pro-Muslim propaganda aimed at making us non-believers realise what lovely chaps Muslims really are and what a beautiful religion Islam is. Love my comedy, love Islam. Die laughing….a joke….a joke!!! What!!!! British Muslim Comedy Five comedy shorts, written and starring British Muslim comedians, exploring the highs and lows … Continue reading
Nick Robinson, a somewhat unreliable witness during the election, has tried to smear David Cameron with a claim that Cameron had ‘threatened to close down the BBC’. Robinson tries to escape the charge that he is engaging in some black propaganda on behalf of the BBC in the run up to its charter negotiations by saying that it was hard to know if the comments, which colleagues who were … Continue reading
The BBC undermining British values and culture in misplaced deference to “multiculturalism” and the implacable rise of Islamic radicalism. A connection? From the Telegraph: Everyone now recognises the global importance of soft power. The World Service and the TV news output could be useful in the struggle against Islamic extremism. Internationally, the BBC still enjoys a high reputation. Although that may owe more to past glories than to … Continue reading
The BBC never changes….never misses a chance to put the boot in….here’s a minor classic of the genre… Everything Everything: ‘Our album is a horror bible’ Ebola, missing airplanes, beheadings, the rise of UKIP. They’re not the usual topics for a top 40 chart act, but that’s exactly what alt-pop band Everything Everything have been writing about over the past year. “After we’d finished the record, I read the … Continue reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8vtagvxbuI The Today programme (09:50) altered its running order and slotted in a clip of Jon Stewart talking about the murder of 9 black people in church by a white man. Stewart told us that there was a ‘disparity of response’ towards this attack and an unwillingness to acknowledge that this was a terrorist attack. Is that true? This is how the BBC, which is scrupulous … Continue reading
