Monday morning arrives and with it comes this brand new Open Thread for your completion! The floor is yours….

    Bishop Hill reports: Simon Buckle of the Grantham Institute at Imperial has penned some nice thoughts about the Bengtsson affair: ‘Professor Lennart Bengtsson’s resignation from the GWPF Academic Advisory Council has received wide coverage and raises important issues.’     ‘received wide coverage’?…..but not from one of the world’s biggest and best resourced news organisations. And a matter that ‘raises important issues’…….so important that one of the world’s … Continue reading →

  Danny Cohen has revealed that junior staff will sit on senior management interview boards to break up the “hierarchical” working structures at BBC television. The director of television wants to send out a “powerful message” about giving less experienced employees a louder voice in the organisation, including a stake in some of the BBC’s biggest recruitment decisions. Cohen outlined his idea, which he has picked up from studying US … Continue reading →

    ‘Is the BBC biased’ notes this comment from Rod Liddle about Newsnight:   I don’t think Rod Liddle was very impressed with last night’s Newsnight. “It was bad on a whole new level of badness”, he said. Presented by an Afghan-Australian woman called Yalda Kasem, of whom I had never heard. Yalda was hampered in her presentational debut by being unable to string a sentence together; nor did she … Continue reading →

  Extraordinary…not a peep out of the BBC about this story…despite a great deal of coverage  by most of the other media outlets. Here’s the BBC’s best effort…… News Sorry, there are no results for ‘Lennart Bengtsson’ in the category ‘News’.   Guess it is not only climate scientists who are engaged in a cover-up.    

    It’s almost certain that everyone reading this has heard of ‘manufacturing of consent’, if you haven’t, read on for the perfect example of this in action which has surfaced from Labour’s very own ‘think tank’ the IPPR…..always curious how the IPPR is a ‘think tank’ whilst Migration Watch is a ‘pressure group’ in BBCspeak.   The IPPR has produced a classic of its kind.  You can see the … Continue reading →

    When the story broke that Gary Barlow had been avoiding tax what was the one feature that the BBC emphasised first and foremost? That David Cameron didn’t think Barlow should lose his OBE.   This line led every report on this throughout the day and I thought at the time that it was probably a less than subtle attempt to link Cameron to the super rich and suggest … Continue reading →

It’s Friday and time for the final OPEN THREAD of the week. Has the BBC been annoying you? If so, share your pain here!

  When confronted by a story like this you might think the BBC would be all over it but you’d be wrong: It is a constitutional scandal of the first order. From the Telegraph: EU officials plotted IMF attack to bring rebellious Italy to its knees The revelations about EMU skulduggery are coming thick and fast. Tim Geithner recounts in his book Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises just how … Continue reading →

        A scientist who joined the board of the GWPF has been intimidated and hounded out by the climate lobby: Shameless Climate McCarthyism on full display – scientist forced to resign   But the BBC has remained resolutely silent about this. This is the same BBC that is more than ready to claim scientists are silenced by climate sceptic’s ‘vitriolic attacks‘, as Evan Davis put it… Is there … Continue reading →