Poor Jeremy Bowen. He was hit by shotgun pellets as he provided us with his particular brand of impartial reporting from Cairo.   The Middle East editor was photographed with a bandage around his head and blood on his face. He tweeted after the attack: “Thanks for the messages. I’ve been hit by a couple of shotgun pellets. Am fine and heading out.” Now, I wish no harm to anyone, … Continue reading →

  The Telegraph gives Marcus Brigstock a comedy checkup and finds no sign of real life, breadth of vision or  common touch, and predicts a lifetime existing on the life support provided by the generosity of the BBC Licence fee donors….like Unite members, signed up without their consent to project Utopia. The Telegraph explains the thinking behind the programmes….  ‘…..little short of a licence-fee funded attack on Coalition policy and an … Continue reading →

   Via Jihad Watch Don’t know what you might make of this BBC report…but to me it seems the BBC has lost its moral compass in the search for a ‘scoop’. A heart warming human interest story?  An explanation of an atrocious, murderous act?  Just something to fill the web pages up with a gruesome tale from the war in Syria? Who knows what the BBC’s Paul Wood thought he was … Continue reading →

Poor BBC. The Falkirk debacle presents them with a problem. On the one hand, we all know that Miliband is in situ thanks to the votes of the Unions, but on the other hand, BBCt have to pretend that big brave Ed will stand up to Red Len and, as the BBC analyst puts it … ” is trying to turn the row into something defining and positive.” Really? In what way? … Continue reading →

  The BBC spends £175,000 producing a report that essentially says nothing at all about anything very much….and spends £300,000 to prevent the publication of another report that probably says an awful lot about the BBC’s DNA and the monsters it breeds.   Time for an independent BBC regulator with legal powers to force the BBC to act upon its recommendations. The BBC Trust is clearly not up to the … Continue reading →

  Thoughtful in the comments links to this story in the Manchester Evening News: Twenty people a day are being hauled before the courts for TV licence dodging in Greater Manchester. Figures from the Ministry of Justice show nearly 7,000 people were prosecuted last year for failing to pay the charge.   What was really interesting was this: The vast majority of non-paying viewers were hit with fines, but none … Continue reading →

    Kipling talked of the “the truthful well-weighed answer that tells the blacker lie”. The BBC are the masters of deploying the truth to hide the truth. Whenever the BBC reports something verbatim without further explanation or background colour and context you know they are trying to sweep something nasty under the carpet.   Labour’s little spot of trouble with their Union sponsors, Unite, hasn’t really kept any BBC … Continue reading →

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I can’t resist sharing my glee at the BBC’s obvious horror that Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood puppeteers are on the run in Egypt.  I know it is very unclear where things may go but the BBC meme that the “Arab Spring” is an irreversible force for good has been shattered and all we get is BBC talking heads bemoaning the loss of “democracy”.  Watching Jeremy Bowen has been a … Continue reading →

Remember this? “I always think that impartiality is in our DNA – it’s part of the BBC’s genetic make-up.” That was Helen Boaden, the then director of BBC News. It was 2011 And then today…. Helen Boaden, the BBC’s former news director, has admitted the corporation held a “deep liberal bias” in its coverage of immigation when she took up the role in 2004. Oh my.