Right folks, here is new OPEN THREAD for you to take us into the wide blue yonder of the weekend. Also to let you know that I will be appearing on BBC Sunday Morning Live tomorrow morning discussing whether Prisons are too tough/not tough enough.
The BBC stands indicted concerning precisely who knew what and why some did NOTHING during the decades of alleged sex abuse carried out by BBC star and national treasure Jimmy Savile. I don’t know about you but I think this response is utterly inadequate… “The BBC is to launch two inquiries surrounding sex abuse claims made against Sir Jimmy Savile, director general George Entwistle has announced. The first into why … Continue reading
Stephanie Flanders, has notoriously has slept with both Ed Milliband and Ed Balls. She is “nauseated” by Conservatives. So she is ideal as the Economics Editor of the BBC then. “In his speech Cameron talks about the NHS but can they tell us how many of the Cabinet have private health insurance?!” So Stephanie … do you? We know you send your two children to public schools so it’s not … Continue reading
A new one of these for you!
BBC DJ Liz Kershaw was on Nicky Campbell’s show this morning giving a good account of herself regarding the BBC culture in the 1980’s….a time when PC and health and safety were rapidly becoming a fixture in the workplace….so even if you were inclined to say ‘Well it was the times’, that’s just not true…it was not the 50’s when a woman knew her place nor the swinging 60’s era of … Continue reading
Bodo in the comments has highlighted this article in the guardian reporting that the BBC is to instigate a new investigation into its isupposed mpartiality. The report will look into the BBC’s coverage of Europe, immigration and religion. Now it may just me being cynical but this is just one in a long line of such reports which seem to be purely designed to cover up more than they reveal. … Continue reading
This programme is one that should see the new DG in the dock at OFFCOM if any BBC programme would. Evan Davis has ensured that the BBC has taken sides in one of the biggest political and economic arguments of the times. The BBC has become openly political and partisan. A programme that was dreamt up as a clever ‘Trojan horse’ to ‘nudge’ us into accepting a certain … Continue reading
(UPDATED, see below the fold) On Wednesday’s open thread, DB posted a tweet from BBC journalist, Jude Machin, expressing her hope to wake up in the middle of the night to watch her beloved Obamessiah debate His enemy for the first time. The point DB was making is best expressed visually, so I’ll reproduce it here: I’m going to set my alarm for 2am to watch the Presidential #debate on … Continue reading
The BBC seem to be still downplaying the Jimmy Savile affair. George Entwistle this morning on ‘Today’ said that Newsnight was right to not broadcast the allegations about Savile and that he wasn’t in the business of using the benefit of hindsight to try to blame people for their ‘mistakes’. Could have fooled me…isn’t the British Empire and all that regularly run through the mill for its perceived … Continue reading
Start the week with a new one of these on-time!!! What has been bothering YOU with the BBC this morning? The floor is yours…
