It is always apparent that any programme that uses audience participation either in a phone in or like Question Time, actually imports an audience, is vulnerable to those people who under cover of being someone unaffiliated with any agenda are in fact political, big business, religious or other activists or lobbyists peddling their own interests.   With that in mind it should be encumbent on the likes of … Continue reading →

  Just how much work does the BBC put into researching any subject in preparation for an interview?  When interviewing someone about a report that criticises the interviewee severely it might be well to read that report and test what the interviewee claims against what that report actually says.   On the Today programme today Jill Finney, former deputy chief executive of the Care Quality Commission claimed that: ‘As soon as Grant … Continue reading →

  The BBC’s top story all day has been the alleged police attempt to smear the Lawrence family. Listening to their reporting you would have the impression that this was ‘fact’…the police had been investigated and the allegation found proven. As always the BBC seem all too ready to attack the police when they get the chance…evidence of wrong doing, or the lack of, not being much of an impediment … Continue reading →

Time for a new one….  

    The BBC seems to be up to its old tricks as it fails to mention ‘Labour government’ in relation to yet another health scandal from the time of the last Labour government. Not only failing to mention Labour and its failures in charge of the NHS but actually facilitating their attack on the present government. Labour has picked up on a small phrase in the report by Grant Thornton … Continue reading →

BBC spent £28m of licence-fee payers’ money gagging 500 staff The BBC has used licence fee payers’ money to buy the silence of more than 500 staff with payouts of up to £500,000 each   Never mind the £300,000 spent concealing the inconvenient findings of the Balen Report….which reporters would have received pay offs along with their P45s if that had been published?

    There’s an ongoing furore over the ever more bloated international aid budget whilst things at home are austerity stricken. Perhaps Cameron might have a change of heart and start repatriating some of that money to help the homegrown refugees that the BBC has discovered roaming British cities. ( 9 minutes in)   Yes that’s right, British refugees. The BBC tells us that Birmingham has  ‘increasing numbers of refugees from the South East, … Continue reading →

       I suppose I could just put up this heading from an article on the BBC’s website and let you work the rest out for yourself…. Criminal tendencies The psychopathic traits that make some prime ministers great   …but you might have been confused by that ‘great’…you would have thought…BBC….doing an article on psychopathic Prime Ministers….it’s got to be Thatcher…but they wouldn’t call her ‘great’…so maybe not…it couldn’t … Continue reading →

Former BBC presenter Robin Page has uncovered a blatant piece of agenda-driven editing in a recent edition of the BBC’s Countryfile: The woman talking about hedgehogs to John Craven was the excellent Rebecca Willers from the Shepreth Wildlife Park – she too was featured in my last Diary. On the programme she attributed hedgehog decline to road kills and loss of hedgerows, and then it was clear to me that … Continue reading →