OK folks, here we go with a new Open Thread. Enjoy…

Hi folks. I am currently on vacation in Australia but I just couldn’t let this one pass. Here is the considered view of Mark Mardell as regards our website Biased BBC, and as contained in an email shared with yours truly. What a disgusting website ! Talk about lies and bias! Just what irked Mark to abandon his famous impartiality…? Well, it seems that this post caused him to damn … Continue reading →

        Can anyone explain the difference in treatment that the BBC gave Tom Herndon whom they believe undermines the case for Austerity,  here on the Today programme (08:49):  Last week Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff paper that showed that growth slows dramatically if a country’s debt goes over 90% of its GDP was found to contain significant errors. Tom Herndon, a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, … Continue reading →

  Romany Blythe, 45, a drama teacher, urged thousands to join in “demonstrations of disapproval” around the country after creating a Facebook group called The Witch is Dead. “In normal circumstances celebrating someone’s death would be reprehensible. But we are generation X, upset people that left school to find hopelessness and despair.” What she actually found was a council house that she bought and made a whacking great profit on … Continue reading →

  According to the Associated Press  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has admitted that his attack was motivated by religion: ‘Interrogators questioned him at the hospital, letting him write down his replies, and his answers led them to believe he and his brother were motivated by religious extremism but appeared to have no major terrorist group connections, said U.S. officials’   The Guardian thinks otherwise: ‘Can an act of violence be called ‘terrorism’ if … Continue reading →

    The government wants nurses to have a year honing their caring skills before starting their training proper. The BBC report that the Royal College of Nursing has ‘ridiculed’ this idea…and called it ‘really stupid’. In fact the BBC seemed so pleased with that phrase, ‘A really stupid idea‘, that they couldn’t repeat it enough times today. It probably is a really stupid idea but that’s by the by….if … Continue reading →

    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 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 →