There’s nothing like kicking a man when he’s down and Steve Hewlett is giving George Entwistle, and Mark Thompson, a bit of a thumping in this interview with Sheila Fogarty about the new DG, Tony Hall. (From 55 mins) He also vividly demonstrates the visceral hatred and antipathy for Thatcher (PBUH) that still runs through the blood of any veteran BBCer. What is notable about this interview is that Thompson … Continue reading
I read these tweets and then read a report on BBC Watch which relates what the BBC’s Kevin Connolly has been saying on the Jeremy Vine show…..that it is not insignificant that the Israeli elections are nearing…..but there is a distinct mismatch between the outlook from the Israeli tweets and Connolly…..reading the tweets would indicate that if this was a war launched as part of an election campaign … Continue reading
A fresh Open Thread for Wednesday
‘Perception of bias can be as damaging as the reality’ Met. Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan Howe This is from a document from the BBC (via Guido) which is making the case for them not revealing their spending but it also reveals their level of management reduction which you might bear in mind as you read the interview by Victoria Derbyshire with the Met. Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan Howe….. … Continue reading
Paul Mason has set up a Tumblr account. You may like to have a look….either to try and dig some ‘dirt’ or just out of interest…..it does in fact look, from a spectator’s point of view, quite a diverting and absorbing site…just remember the Devil has the best tunes…don’t be fooled and sucked in. One thing Mason does admit is that Orwell “…would have ripped the **** mercilessly … Continue reading
A little light relief from Gaza etc ….. Newsnight editor Paul Mason up for Bad Sex book award BBC Newsnight’s economics editor Paul Mason has been shortlisted for the Literary Review’s Bad Sex Awards 2012 for his debut novel. The Guardian enjoyed it: Reading the passages rich in masochistic sex, you easily imagine Mason joyfully kicking free of BBC fact-checkers. but…. The BBC are a bit … Continue reading
What the BBC’s Jon Donnison does link to is interesting…an ‘Economist’ (a Leftie publication) run down of the ‘numbers’ from the Israel/Palestine conflict. Jon Donnison @JonDonnison MT @WyreDavies Number-crunching. #Gaza and #Israel in stats, from The Economist. http://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2012/11/israel-and-palestinians?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/gaza_abacus … … The emphasis is that the Israelis suffer very few casualties whilst the Palestinians are being mown down…. ‘Total number of Israelis killed by rocket, mortar or anti-tank fire … Continue reading
BBC journos are all too ready to show victims of Israeli ‘brutality’….or even vicitms of Syrian bombings dressed up as victims of Israeli ‘aggression’. Will they show this and the true nature of Hamas/Palestinian animals…..(Graphic photo) a half dozen men on motorcycles just dragged the body of a man down a main street in #Gaza. They were yelling he was a spy for Israel— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) November … Continue reading
The BBC has been caught once again peddling Hamas propaganda. If they cannot be certain of the origin of a photo then should they be so ready to use it…especially of such an emotive subject? The BBC knows, just as Hamas does, that the ‘tears of a child say more than words ever can’. A picture of an injured or dead child is ‘currency’ in the world of Hamas propaganda … Continue reading
One of the themes for the defence of the BBC and its management is that the BBC is ‘accountable’, that no other organisation would investigate itself so thoroughly and that top management took responsibility for the recent crisis. Entwistle only went because he was ‘pushed’, and ‘pushed’ by his own side in the shape of John Humphrys. In that interview he tried to evade all responsibility just as he did … Continue reading
