Open Bias

    Is the BBC biased? looks at a suggestion in the Telegraph: Of course people at the BBC are biased: why not make a virtue of it? We need the BBC to be more like the newspapers – open about the unavoidably political beliefs of its staff   Not sure it would work.  The point of the BBC is to try, I say try, to provide a gold standard … Continue reading

LABOUR ALL THE WAY…

BBC breathlessly informs us that  Labour has become the second-largest party on Norfolk County Council after winning the Thetford West by-election. BBC not so quick to discuss the fact that ALL but one of Labour’s prospective MEP candidates for next year are linked to UNITE.   

HEAR NO EVIL SPEAK NO EVIL.

Over here in Northern Ireland, the BBC has been pushing the World Police and Fire Games. Heard of them? No? Me neither until the Stormont Executive got hold of the idea that hosting such a strange event would be a wizard wheeze. Met with almost universal indifference over here, the BBC has been doing its best to hype the event, going so far as to give us recorded highlights of … Continue reading

LESS CASH POST RECESSION…

With several shoots of green indicating that the UK economy may be on the recovery, the BBC has had to find new ways to dampen any positivity people might have so today they have been pushing a survey that claims that half of UK adults are struggling to keep up with bills and debt repayments and this number has worsened since….2006. One assumes that the recession created by Labour might … Continue reading

Rottweiller or Lapdog?

    The BBC’s Rottweiller turns out to be a bit of a lapdog. John Humphrys fresh from his carpeting by the BBC Trust for being too right wing is proving his loyalty to the Corporation by pulling the wool over listener’s ears. The BBC had steadfastly ignored recent reports of the hacking of phones by private investigators for hundreds of companies, as well as law firms and other organisations…..might … Continue reading

HALF THE NEWS, ALL THE TIME

We know that the BBC has issues with Islam and that is a prime source for Islamophilia. However when the world’s most prominent Islamic scholar calls for jihad to be waged in Egypt, one would have thought all those world class journalists that we pay for MIGHT have found the story. It seems they missed it. How convenient. I suppose they are too busy hunting down Islamphobes? “Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi—one … Continue reading

ARMAGEDDON ON A DAILY BASIS

I have to agree with Grant Shapps just for a change! The BBC’s coverage of the Government’s welfare reforms has sought to paint them as ‘Armageddon’ for the nation, a senior minister said yesterday. Tory Party chairman Grant Shapps accused BBC bosses of letting their ‘personal views take hold’, covering the Coalition’s attempts to rein in the welfare bill as though the world were ending. He spoke out amid a row over … Continue reading