Pounce has spotted this: Simon Amstell apologises for Mandela comment on Radio 1 What did he have to apologise for? The comedian suggested there was racial segregation between Radio 1 and sister station BBC Radio 1Xtra. He said: “Mandela would not approve of the situation at the BBC.” His comments came during a link on the show. Amstell said: “What is going on? We’re next to 1Xtra, it’s … Continue reading
Nelson Mandela has died…but don’t worry…he has apparently been reincarnated as Gordon Brown. That was certainly the impression I got when Brown turned up on Victoria Derbyshire’s show (10:20) telling us how grateful he was to Nelson Mandela for helping him to save the world. Incredible how the BBC can unearth the shy and retiring Gordon Brown when it wants to….it seems remarkably reluctant to seek him … Continue reading
Here you go, amongst the wailing and gnashing of teeth at the BBC concerning St Mandela, a new thread to complete.
Interesting listening to the aftermath of Osborne’s budget speech on the BBC…you’d hardly know that Ball’s got a pasting or that Labour had been soundly trounced. You’d have no inkling that Osborne’s budget was based on a solid recovery and gave help to all levels of society….no inkling that under Labour 7.2% of the economy was destroyed. Some key phrases from the OBR report upon which the budget … Continue reading
95 year old man dies after long illness. BBC goes into full on Saint Mandela mode with Mark Mardell calling him “a secular saint”. It’s been amazing watching the sanitisation of Mandela’s life with the very notion that he supported terrorism verboten. As I watch Newsnight he is being compared to Lincoln.
This is going to make Diana’s death look like The Man Who Never Was. There’ll be at least a month of enforced national mourning, including the public stoning of anybody wearing a tie that isn’t black. A one-off tax to pay for the erection of gilded statues of the great man in every London Borough. The BBC will disappear up their own backside. Mandela is lucky he’s going to miss … Continue reading
Here you go, middle of the week and time for a new Open thread! Share the bias as you see it!
A new week of bias from the State broadcaster to monitor! Off you go…tell us about the BIAS.
Pity poor Wyre Davies. Having spent a few years as a BBC Heroic Palestinians vs. Jew-Nazis Middle East correspondent, where he must have felt like he was walking on eggshells stacked precariously on top of eggshells, he’s now back to his area of university study, Latin America. Except now he’s clearly having to, as they say, file with his editor in mind and give Venezuela’s descent into Pol Pot territory … Continue reading
Is the BBC just doing PR for Labour politicians with sagging reputations? Alistair Campbell was resurrected by the BBC in the public sphere…as noted before, an investment well made as he now defends the BBC. Brown and his disastrous reign has been conveniently written out of history by the BBC. Miliband has Desert Island Discs put at his service to pimp his geeky Marxist image as he lags … Continue reading
