A few days ago, parts of the public sector chose to strike. The Daily Mail suggests that the public sector strike was not as successful as anticipated whilst some of the BBC’s early web news headlines implied a “mass” turnout. There seems to be a bit of a contradiction ? I am sure the Daily Mail has a bias in its coverage but so has our allegedly impartial State Broadcaster surely?

  On Wednesday Owen Jones made a rather surprising claim in the Guardian (Jones never lets a bandwagon go by without jumping aboard)…that the BBC was pro-Israeli:   ‘Israel under renewed Hamas attack’, says the BBC. More balance is needed The macabre truth is that Israeli life is deemed by the western media to be worth more than a Palestinian life – this is the hierarchy of death at work … Continue reading →

Overdue but the floor is YOURS. Any views on the Hamas British Broadcasting Corporation and its BIAS?

    Robert Peston hints that the BBC Trust should and might be split….its power to regulate the BBC removed:   Here are a couple of mildly interesting tidbits about my own shop, the BBC. First (and there is nothing terribly revelatory about this) Lord Coe is a virtual shoo-in to be Lord Patten’s successor as chairman of the BBC Trust. Of course his appointment is not 100%, because there … Continue reading →

    Capitalists can obviously go up stairs.   Top Gear, Doctor Who and Strictly Come Dancing face being privatised under ‘competition revolution’ at the BBC Top BBC shows like Doctor Who, Top Gear and Strictly Come Dancing face being privatised under new cost-cutting plans at the corporation. Hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of TV programmes currently produced by the BBC will no longer be protected from outside competition … Continue reading →

    Israel launched a terror alert as BBC journo assumed to be Hamas terrorist…how could that ever happen?          

    Patten’s hardly out the door when: BBC’s Nicky Campbell launches scathing attack on Lord Patten over female broadcasters debate Nicky Campbell, the BBC Radio 5 Live broadcaster, has claimed that Lord Patten was “ignorant” of the number of talented female broadcasters already working at the BBC when he called for more women on air. Campbell launched a blistering attack on the BBC Trust Chairman, who has stepped down … Continue reading →

      John Lloyd being ridiculous: The writer and TV producer John Lloyd has said it “makes his blood run cold” to look back on a comedy sketch from 1980 that shows young children being abducted and put in a BBC van bound for a children’s TV show hosted by Rolf Harris. He told The Independent: “It is extraordinary how spooky it is, it’s almost prophetic. “It makes the … Continue reading →

    Interesting to see what the BBC has been doing with some money it receives from the EU: (H/T  Bishop Hill)     Funding revolution it seems.  All interesting countries to be ‘developing’ the Media in….Iran and Syria especially.    

  It is interesting how the BBC frames the debate on immigration.  The Migration Advisory Committee has released a report into the impact of new entrants to the EU in regard to immigration to the UK.   The BBC’s first thought is for the immigrants: Low-skilled, vulnerable workers are at risk of exploitation because of lax labour checks, a report has warned.   But that is the whole point of … Continue reading →