BBC Balance?

  Via Bishop Hill.…the BBC’s idea of balance in reporting climate change…they are investigating sceptic’s claims about the science….and yet they are all pro-climate change people on the programme…Mark Lynas is an author and environmental campaigner, Mike Hulme is professor of Climate and Culture at Kings College London and Dr Helen Czerski is a broadcaster and ‘bubble physicist’ at UCL. Helen Czerski ‏@helenczerski @SellaTheChemist @theresphysics @MichaelEMann @4589roger @guynewey And actually, … Continue reading

The Root of ‘News’ Is Surely ‘New’…Not ‘Old Hat’

    The BBC, as David has mentioned, has made yet another election attack on the Tories with claims of a ‘revelation’… Election 2015: Conservative benefit cut options leaked The Conservatives are considering options for scrapping several benefits, Department for Work and Pensions documents seen by the BBC suggest. The leaked files, commissioned by Tory officials, also suggest a regional benefits cap and taxing disability benefits as ways to help … Continue reading

All Quiet On The Home Front

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aqNBEpdao4     The BBC is being strangely quiet about events surrounding the three little Jihadis who skipped off to join Isis.  The BBC has until recently been bombarding us with tales of distraught families and police and security service failures. What anyone with a questioning mind might have asked is how the parents of these girls remained in the dark about their intentions, or possible intentions, when … Continue reading

LABOUR’S BROADCASTING ARM…

I thought it was interesting the way the BBC present the “news’ that the Conservative Party are considering options for scrapping several benefits, Department for Work and Pensions document. The leaked files, to the BBC (SIC) commissioned by Tory officials, also suggest a regional benefits cap and taxing disability benefits as ways to help cut £12bn from the welfare budget by 2017/18. The Conservatives insisted the proposals were not party … Continue reading

Doom And Gloom On The Jobs Front

    The rising employment figures have always been a mystery, and an issue, for the BBC, they have never been able to accept that they must be a sign that something, somewhere is going right in the economy and the BBC has always sought to find something negative to say on the subject trying deliberately to undermine the perceived success of the economy….a central plank of the Tories’ election … Continue reading

The Tariq Squeak

  Tariq Ramadan…the Muslim voice of reason, reform and renaissance, in the BBC’s, the Guardian’s and the Government’s eyes. Where is Tariq Ramadan?  There has been a tragic plane crash in whihc 150 people have died and the news has been absolutely dominated by reports about this story. When Muslim terrorists slaughtered cartoonists, Jews and police officers in Paris Ramadan and his ilk told us that it was ‘terrible’, no, … Continue reading

Question Time Live Chat

Question Time this week comes from the Labour stronghold of Bolton in Greater Manchester. Dimbo will be joined by ‘Conservative’ Education Secretary Nicky Morgan MP, Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy MP, Plaid Cymru Leader Leanne Wood, Ukip MEP Steven Woolfe MEP and Janet Street-Porter. What feast for the senses that should be! Join us for the fun at 10:45 or before if you’re really keen. Here’s the log. We had … Continue reading

THE BBC AND SCOTTISH SEPARATISM

I was listening to the BBC just after 6.30am this morning, to the Today programme. The news item being reported was this; The SNP would block a minority Conservative government by voting down its Queen’s Speech if it held the post-election balance of power, its former leader Alex Salmond has said. Mr Salmond said the move could bring down the government if Labour joined in, with David Cameron “locked out”. … Continue reading