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’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
