Front page news: Broadcaster David Dimbleby gets first tattoo aged 75 Not front page news, in fact not news at all on the BBC: Roma migrants could cause riots in cities, warns Blunkett British cities could face race riots as an influx of Roma migrants creates “frictions” with local people, David Blunkett warns British cities could face race riots as an influx of Roma migrants creates … Continue reading
The reliability and predictability of the licence fee has been a huge reason for the News Division’s success. MarkDamazer ex R4 Controller Andrew Marr, BBC journalist recently voted top political reporter by Press Gazette describes “we have become too powerful, too much the interpreters, using our talents as communicators to crowd them (politicians) out. On paper we mock them more than ever before and report them less than … Continue reading
The 181,880 people prosecuted last year for not paying for a TV licence, presumably some of the poorest in the country, will be delighted that if they had paid up their money would have gone into Labour Party coffers, or representatives of, and would undoubtedly be put to good use campaigning for the poor and needy: BBC pays seven times more to Labour MPs, figures show The corporation … Continue reading
Here you to, let’s start the week with a new Open Thread to populate! Off you go…
Who wants to be a Slumdog waif and stray?…well it seems quite a lot of Indians don’t mind so much despite the best intentions of those who know what is good for them…and you and me. The BBC has given Miliband a free ride over his ‘Living standard’s crisis‘, pretty much allowing him to get away with murder whilst making headline grabbing claims for policies that even the … Continue reading
The BBC has often helped to spread the belief that the next generation is going to be poverty stricken whilst the baby Boomer generation live the Dolce Vita. BBC journalists have gone as far as to ask why the young aren’t out on the streets ‘protesting’…whatever that might mean. In 2011 Alvin Hall reported in a similar vein: Alvin Hall: The generation poorer than their parents Many young people … Continue reading
Is ‘Falkirk’ the Scottish tragedy that no one at the BBC dare mention any longer in case disaster follows? Disaster that is for Ed Miliband: Why Falkirk is a ‘cesspit’ for Ed Miliband On the 5th November, which seems to be the last time the BBC visited this story, Nick Robinson had this headline: Falkirk – the row which simply won’t go away The BBC however does … Continue reading
Astonishing that Paxman is allowed to get away with his political comments, especially as he is one of the BBC’s most senior political interviewers….here he is not talking about a past election but the next one and is expressing what are self-evidently highly political views… Paxman says that we “ignore the democratic process at our peril” and believes people should vote. However he is also damning about the … Continue reading
The BBC (& others) have been enthusiastically hyping the storm in the Phillipines as the strongest in history…then moderated it to ‘one of the most powerful‘….but still giving wind speeds incorrectly: The storm made landfall shortly before dawn on Friday, bringing gusts that reached 379km/h (235 mph), according to the US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center, with waves as high as 15m (45ft), bringing up to 400mm (15.75 inches) … Continue reading
To my mind, the BBC have taken a perverse delight in the conviction of a UK Marine for killing a Taliban terrorist. Their airwaves have been full of the pious passing judgement on the actions of this soldier and yet, as we draw closer to Remembrance Sunday, part of me remembers that war IS hell, it IS savage and brutal, and many many British soldiers showed no mercy to the … Continue reading
