Suggest you get some popcorn in for Mark Thompson’s appearance in front of the Public Accounts Committee today! Given the verbals between him and Patten, given Lucy Adams poor memory (cough) and given that this is presided over by BBC heroine Margaret “millionaire” Hodge, this should prove a brain melter for the comrades.
The BBC have come up with a clever ploy, a new line to change the way we look at the overstretched and under pressure services in A&E. Previously the overstretch was due to too many patients… immigration and GPs not providing the proper service being to blame for too many people coming to A&E, many unnecessarily. That of course placed the blame at Labour’s door on both counts…immigration and … Continue reading
Selina Scott takes a great big running kick at the ‘golden balls’ of the ‘sexually corrupt’ BBC where the ‘often Oxbridge- educated powerful male elite behave in a predatory way towards attractive and ambitious women seeking to move up the Corporation’s greasy pole.’ Scott notices something that is the major problem when trying to reform the BBC and eliminate its bias: I wish Lord Hall success in … Continue reading
“The road to Paris and London lies via the towns of Afghanistan, the Punjab and Bengal” Trotsky A politician has woken up to reality: LIAM FOX explains why Pakistan is the most dangerous country on earth I’m not holding my breath but maybe the BBC will start looking to places in the world other than Israel for bad news stories, perhaps it will stop pandering to the likes … Continue reading
The Government has waited a long time but it looks like it will take the opportunity to wield the knife and cut off the BBC’s head…the head that always looks the other way when difficult questions are asked of it. Ther Sunday Times reports that they plan to hand regulation of the BBC to Ofcom removing the BBC Trust from its double headed position of being both champion and regulator … Continue reading
As the President of the United States continues to fail in drumming up international support for bombing Syria, and the failure to win now-vital Congressional approval looms on the horizon, the BBC’s Mark Mardell is having a crisis of faith in which he reveals personal bias on the US, war, and the President. He also makes serious factual errors which reveal either his incompetence as a journalist or that a … Continue reading
You would need a heart of stone NOT to chuckle at this; Lord Patten faced demands to quit or be sacked last night as civil war tore through the BBC. The chairman of the BBC Trust was given an ultimatum after being accused of ‘fundamentally misleading’ Parliament over the scandal of excessive pay-offs to Corporation fat cats. But the defiant former Conservative Party chairman said he had ‘no concerns’ about the allegations … Continue reading
Hi all. Yes, I am still around but have taken a break this past week. The stress of running websites can get to you. Anyway, here’s new thread for you to fill.
It’s almost touching to watch how the BBC does all it can to present Sen John McCain as the standard bearer for the GOP. McCain, the guy who likes to play poker on his phone during important debates on Syria, the guy who thinks those who chant Allahu Akhbar are no different to those who attend Church and give thanks to God, is very much the hero of the hour for … Continue reading
Oborne in the Telegraph lays into the BBC: Television launched a direct, head-on attack on our traditional institutions (Parliament, monarchy, Army, Church), diminishing them, and then occupied the public space they were forced to vacate. Concepts such as truth, honour, duty, self-deprecation and service were mocked and replaced by a mixture of sensationalism and the cult of celebrity. Only a very few institutions, of which the most successful was probably … Continue reading
