The BBC has released a report into the future of News. Here is the BBC’s own version of what’s in the report: BBC ‘should improve local and World Service news’ BBC News should increase both its local and global coverage and improve its digital services if it is to remain relevant, the corporation has said. The BBC should “do more to provide local news that properly serves all … Continue reading →

  Thanks to Guest Who for pointing me in the direction of Newsnight where (Labour supporting…apparently) Kirsty Wark trashed Andy Burnham, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister.       A fascinating interview that tore Burnham to shreds and showed him up as a one hell of a bluffer unwilling to commit himself to putting a figure on how much of NHS work could be contracted out to the private sector….Burnham stated … Continue reading →

Time for a new one of these. Do detail the bias please!

    The Submarine Service used to be called the ‘Silent Service’ using stealth and skill to evade detection and sink the enemy. Seems that the BBC might well take on that nickname for its ‘silent’ support for Labour in its effort to sink the Tories….its silent support being its bias by omission as it avoids reporting or highlighting unpleasant news for Miliband. Miliband yesterday launched his bid for election … Continue reading →

    Some links to peruse at your leisure that may help you form an opinion of the BBC’s coverage of world affairs: How Marine Le Pen is winning France’s gay vote The Front National now has the support of a quarter of Paris’s gay voters – and only 16 per cent of the straight ones   How will the Guardian and the BBC cover the Trinity Mirror phone hacking? … Continue reading →

Phew!!!  What a relief eh?  The barbarians have been defeated, the  takeover of Greek politics by the nazi scumbags of the Far Right hasn’t happened…the BBC’s warnings from history about Hitler’s ressurrection as an Ouzo drinking, plate smashing immigrant basher were just so much paranoid delusion. Instead we have the delightful prospect of a radical far left group in charge…and in charge of that group… Alexis Tsipras, “the most dangerous … Continue reading →

Something to add to the general debate on free speech and which can inform our judgements on the BBC’s reactions to pressure from Muslim activists and its subsequent approach to ‘free speech’. A Channel Four debate from 2012 on freedom of speech in relation to Muslim demands on British society…asking ‘Is free speech under threat in Britain?’   The very fact that they need to ask that says everything…….   … Continue reading →

Here you go, a new Open Thread. BBC in a bit of a spot – they are delighted a hard left bunch of communists and other assorted leftists have won power in Greece but then concerned this could lead to the unravelling of the EU! Anyway, the floor is yours…

  Paris attacks: Do not call Charlie Hebdo killers ‘terrorists’, BBC says   Tarik Kafala, the head of BBC Arabic, the largest of the BBC’s non-English language news services, said the term “terrorist” was too “loaded” to describe the actions of the men who killed 12 people in the attack on the French satirical magazine. Mr Kafala, whose BBC Arabic television, radio and online news services reach a weekly audience … Continue reading →

  Not had a great deal of time to look at this but you might have heard the BBC plugging the IFS research that tells us that: Benefits cuts ‘cost average family £489 a year’   Lower income families have been hit the worst as a percentage of their income the BBC insist on telling us…. Low-income working-age households have been hit hardest, losing the most as a percentage of … Continue reading →