Mark Bolland ran the Press Complaints Commission from 1992 to 1996.  He has some damning views on Leveson, that celebrity led witch hunt backed by the BBC: Politicians destroyed the PCC to take revenge on the media, says the man who helped to create it Today we are all supposed to be “Leveson compliant”. I am not sure why, when large chunks of what The Economist rightly condemned as … Continue reading →

    It is remarkable that a document, Meeting the needs of Muslim pupils in state schools (save to open), written by someone now central to the claims about a ‘Muslim Trojan Horse’ plot to Islamise schools is now ignored by the BBC….the document proves that this person had the intent to Islamise schools….and yet the BBC instead prefers to suggest another document professing the same Islamising agenda is fake … Continue reading →

  Just a reminder of what a small world it is, a very incestuous world where Politics and the Media mix and are increasingly hard to tell apart.   Sue Inglish is the BBC’s  Head of Political Programmes, Analysis and Research Sue Inglish has managerial and editorial responsibility for the BBC’s political programmes, and news analysis and research. She is responsible for 200 staff producing political news and programmes on … Continue reading →

    This is from BBC journo Nick Jones who is keen to see the licence fee retained and ‘to explore the factors that led executives to detach themselves from the ethos of a public service financed by a compulsory licence fee,‘ but has some other interesting thoughts on the BBC:   How did the BBC end up being controlled by so many selfish and incompetent executives? For me the … Continue reading →

    A perspective on Israeli military action that you won’t hear from Al Beeb (From Tom Gross): Video dispatch 21: Al-Jazeera: Why can’t Arab armies be more humane like Israel’s? “Why don’t they learn from the Israeli army which tries, through great efforts, to avoid shelling areas populated by civilians in Lebanon and Palestine? I attach a remarkable new video from Al-Jazeera (the Arabic version of al-Jazeera) in which … Continue reading →

  You might have thought it strange that the independent BBC is a member of the CBI….but it was, still is in fact for now:   BBC suspends CBI membership over its no campaign in Scottish referendum The BBC has joined the exodus from the CBI after the employers’ organisation registered as an official no campaign in the Scottish independence referendum. But the BBC said its suspension would only come … Continue reading →

    Thanks to #88 who draw my attention to the snakelike Andy Burnham….who lives by the motto that in every disaster there is opportunity.   Burnham, he who ducks and dives when questioned about Stafford Hospital, has suddenly found the time to be ‘outraged’ about something…the altering of the Hillsborough Wikipedia page….and the BBC are happy to give him plenty of …er…rope you might call it…….. In fact the … Continue reading →

    Today the BBC announced that a report that someone, from 2009 to 2012, using a government computer, had altered the Hillsborough tragedy’s Wikipedia page  adding insults to it, was the BBC’s lead story. Indeed it did seem to be so with a not inconsiderable amount of coverage for what might seem a small story in the scale of things…though naturally distressing to the families….. though the abuse was … Continue reading →

My thanks to David Keighley and Andrew Jubb for this most interesting report on BBC bias over at Civitas. Make sure you read it…. “In this report Newswatch finds that the BBC’s independent Prebble report1 – which the BBC Trustees claimed gave a clean bill of health to the Corporation’s coverage of the EU,2 immigration and religion – is seriously flawed. Newswatch has unearthed ties between Stuart Prebble and the … Continue reading →

Yesterday, the BBC obligingly ran with the Labour line that Comrade Ed and the gang had taken the moral decision to move away from the long historical link to the Co op Bank. However it seems not all was as the BBC reported; As pieces of political spin go, it was up there with the best – even if it concerned the dry subject of Labour’s banking facilities. This morning, the … Continue reading →