The BBC has standards…they might be double standards but it has them. It seems that for the BBC using social media or crowd sourcing news is bad practice leading to inaccuracy and potential dangers…Many are now asking: should “crowd-sourced investigations” be stopped?…unless of course it is done by a responsible news outlet….em…like the BBC perhaps who say about their own use of social media…’it helps us gather more, … Continue reading
What Jeff wants, he gets…a new open thread…..
The BBC’s top man in the US, Mark Mardell, has some questions for the FBI in the aftermath of the Boston bombing. And I have some questions for the BBC’s wrongly-titled North America editor. Questions begin for FBI over Boston The relief was palpable in a city where 19 April 2013 had been cancelled, paralysed, because of the manhunt for a terrorist. When the news broke that the second suspect … Continue reading
The BBC is eager, as we have recently seen from its behaviour when covering the Boston Marathon bombings, to suppress any speculation that Muslims may have been involved. This is merely a continuation of a policy that it has adopted and carried out in the UK for a long time in the hope of breaking any association between Islam and terrorism or indeed any activities that would reflect badly upon … Continue reading
Man made climate change is the result of fossil fuels burnt in Western Industrial nations……developing nations are to be ‘allowed’ to burn fossil fuels because it is only fair that they catch up on the ‘progress’ of the developed nations who otherwise would have an entrenched advantage for the foreseeable future. Michael Mann’s ‘Hockey Stick’ graph was said to be the ‘smoking gun’ in the evidence draw … Continue reading
And so it begins….Operation Smokescreen. When the 7/7 bombs went off the BBC went into overdrive to blame British society for the actions of the bombers….asking ‘What turned such bright, young British Muslims into terrorists?’ They had to change their tune fairly rapidly when they realised that wasn’t playing well with a Public that had just seen 52 people murdered and over 700 injured by men claiming to be … Continue reading
You couldn’t make it up……this from the BBC: Boston bombing: How internet detectives got it very wrong For the past 48 hours, internet users have been working with each other to piece together clues about the culprits of the Boston bombings. The result? They got it wrong – and left innocent people fearing for their safety. Many are now asking: should “crowd-sourced investigations” be stopped? Is this … Continue reading
The two Boston bombers are reported to be two Chechen brothers. They have apparently lived in the US for nearly a decade. Some background digging by the Atlantic Wire here: Note ‘Beliefs’….Islam The BBC made some startling claims, including that by their specialist security correspondent Frank Gardner, that the Boston bombers were most probably domestic, meaning white, right wing terrorists. This was based on no more … Continue reading
(Updates added below) Here’s how BBC Radio Five Live’s 1pm news bulletin dealt with the Boston bombing on Tuesday 16 April: listen to ‘BBC R5L news bulletin on Boston bombs, 16.4.13’ on Audioboo Jonathan Marcus: “The United States has a very large and well-developed group of radical extremists of their own. People I suppose you would categorise as being on the far-right, people who are opposed to federal authority, particularly … Continue reading
The BBC have given over acres of broadcasting real estate to the critics of Mrs Thatcher who claim that she destroyed the mining industry. I can’t say that they’ve given equal prominence to the fact that, as stated many times across other media, that Labour closed more mines than Mrs Thatcher. They do have space for this though: Why the fuss over George Osborne’s tears? Are they merely trying … Continue reading
