The BBC has been hailing the efforts of John Kerry in the past few days as he cobbles together another doomed set of “peace talks” in the middle east between Israel and Palestinians. The BBC have been pontificating about the tough choices that BOTH sides have had to make to even get this far. On examination (mine!) this reduces down to Israel releasing 100 Palestinian criminals (bad call, btw) and … Continue reading
When it comes to the ongoing friction between Spain and Gibraltar, and in particular the current bully boy tactics used by the Spanish Government to inconvenience Gibraltarians crossing the border, it will be interesting to see the BBC approach. I thought this was a pretty fair commentary on it but am aware that Today are covering it later this morning and one can’t help but feel rather in the Argentina/Falklands … Continue reading
Yes, here is an Open Thread ON TIME! Enjoy it and fill it.
BBC Sunday Morning Live was particularly appalling this morning. The lead debate asked whether whether Muslims were being demonised. We had Mehdi Hasan asking the question and talking over everybody else. We had Anne Atkinson who agreed Muslims were being demonised and Douglas Murray who opined that they weren’t. We had Fiyaz Mughal, from Tell Mama, lined up to back the meme but when the poll result came in, once again … Continue reading
The BBC reports that Biased BBC has another ally in the war against misinformation and media manipulation: So many faked images are circulating in Egypt that Facebook sites have been set up with the goal of separating fact from fiction, writes BBC Monitoring’s Dina Aboughazala. The sheer volume of disinformation has led to the creation of verification pages on Facebook, such as Da Begad? – or Is This … Continue reading
From the BBC: World’s media lament decline in freedom ….but not a single mention of Leveson and the huge opposition to his conclusions and the attempts to railroad the Press into being ‘regulated’ by those honest custodians of our freedom…the politicians….and the BBC and its cohort of drug and booze addled, sexually liberated celebrities who wish to remain anonymous.
This is a look at what the papers say…from the BBC’s ‘Editor’s choice’: The Independent also claims to have gained access to confidential information. It says it has seen a secret list – passed to a parliamentary committee – on the activities of big corporations like banks and pharmaceutical firms. The paper alleges that companies from two of the country’s biggest industries have hired private investigators to unlawfully … Continue reading
What is the world coming to? My prejudices have been well and truly challenged and appropriately adjusted this weekend. Forced to listen to the BBC’s ‘News Quiz’ in a diversity training package I came to ‘see’ the other side, to appreciate the world from a different perspective other than my right wing narrow minded and bigoted little Englander viewpoint. Well, actually that’s a load of bull….but what did … Continue reading
I see that our resident contrarians spent the best part of a day trying to persuade readers that the BBC is entirely innocent of any anti-Israeli spin in its preferred choice of questions for a Gallup poll. I think a more informed, impartial and rational look at the information tells the true story. The excellent BBC Watch has come to the same conclusion that Biased BBC did when it … Continue reading
Honestly, you would need a heart of stone not to laugh at the overt bias this item exudes at 8.10am (prime time listening) on the Today programme exudes! It is the latest attempt by the BBC to thrown as much gloom and doom over any nascent economic recovery as is possible! In an attempt to point out that “the squeezed middle” is not becoming “the eased middle”, the BBC pick two … Continue reading
