Spot the missing President in this BBC report about the latest violent attacks by Guantanamo Bay inmates on their guards. We hear about the military not being able to decide what to do, as well as Congressional “restrictions” (translation: Congressmen simply don’t want to deal with the ensuing political mess if any of the POWTs are given a civil trial in their constituency), and we hear about how the hunger … Continue reading
See the old one is bulging at seams so here is a NEW one until Monday…
These are the BIG issues that concern the BBC; “Israelis have a reputation for straight-talking, a quality that visitors are not always prepared for. But what lies behind it?….”
Dd you see this? The Commentator has learned that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the British publicly owned news organisation, has forged student credentials for its journalists in order that they could gain access to the secretive North Korea. An e-mail from the director of the London School of Economics (LSE) on Saturday stated that the BBC used the visit to plant three journalists inside North Korea at a risk … Continue reading
The BBC has come off the fence on grounds of decency and taste: The Wizard of Oz song at the centre of an anti-Margaret Thatcher campaign will not be played in full on the Official Chart Show. Instead a five-second clip of the 51-second song will be aired as part of a Newsbeat report, Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper said. Sales of Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead have … Continue reading
Amused by this from the Beeb in 2005 when they were looking at the ‘Thatcher Years In Graphics’ The first graphic that they use to sum up Thatcher’s legacy? That’s right…Champagne sales to all those nouveau riche barrow boys who flashed the cash. The BBC could I suppose have had a graph showing how many ‘plebs’ with the wrong school tie were able to get jobs … Continue reading
I had the misfortune to listen to a few moments of this BBC production “Mark Thomas; The Manifesto” Pure blatant Marxism. Remarkable. With the BBC, the manifesto is always clear.
I wanted to create a specific post for Question Time tonight. ‘David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Lady Thatcher’s former constituency of Finchley. On the panel are Conservative Cabinet Minister Ken Clarke MP, Labour’s former Home Secretary David Blunkett MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Ming Campbell MP, Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and Lady Thatcher’s authorised biographer Charles Moore.” I can’t liveblog it but I can those of you … Continue reading
These fill up quicker than I can post them but here you go, a new Open Thread.
I wasn’t going to comment any more on the BBC and Mrs Thatcher but unfortunately the first thing I heard on the radio this morning was the voice of Justin Webb….not a good start to any day. When speaking to Conservative MP, Connor Burns, Webb said there was a trap here… that by eulogising her the Tories risked alienating those who didn’t like Mrs Thatcher. (8:58) In that simple statement … Continue reading
