Compare and contrast the current top stories on BBC and Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/9625623/British-al-Qaeda-gang-from-Birmingham-planned-another-911-in-UK.html Subheading in the Telegraph: ‘An al-Qaeda inspired gang of British Muslims planned to carry out “another 9/11” in the UK with up to eight suicide bombers, a court heard today.’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20007532 …but on the BBC, they’re just ‘men’. Or ‘Birmingham men’. The only mention of Muslim or Islam is at the end of the story, to tell us … Continue reading →

Further to Alan’s post below, Savilegate continues to damage the BBC. “The Newsnight editor responsible for dropping a report into claims Jimmy Savile sexually abused people is stepping aside, the BBC has said. Peter Rippon’s move is for the duration of an inquiry into Newsnight’s handling of the planned report last year. Earlier this month, in a blog, Mr Rippon explained the editorial reasons behind his decision to axe the report. The BBC has now issued … Continue reading →

On Thursday the latest GDP figures will be released and it is widely expected that they will show a rise. Whilst GDP was falling, however slightly, and employment rising, the BBC was constantly questioning how employment could go up in a recession…..they concluded that Britain’s industry was failing….productivity must be falling….and therefore government industrial policy was failing….we need a Plan B. Many others suggested that the GDP figures were wrong…the BBC … Continue reading →

Sort of interesting day if you like to listen to the BBC relentlessly eviscerating itself  whilst at the same time  they try to apply a field dressing to the gaping wound and carry on as if nothing happened. There are though still plenty of attempts to play down the Savile affair and the subsequent Newsnight bungle. Nicky Campbell suggested that no one knew a thing about Savile, not a clue…the general view at … Continue reading →

Unlike a BBC satirical panel show this thread is open to ALL views.

In PMQs  Miliband concentrated on the angry exchange Tory Andrew Mitchell had with a police officer…for which Mitchell has apologised, apology being accepted by the Met and by the officer concerned.  Surely that is the end of the matter? So why does Miliband concentrate on that and not on producing some policies to improve the economy, and why when we come to the wash up by the BBC’s John Pienaar does … Continue reading →

The UK’s employment figures hit a 30 year high but the BBC play it down. The headline here  gets in the 2.53 million unemployed figure ….but shouldn’t the headline be ‘Employment at Record High’? or would that just give the Tories too much credit?  No such reluctance when giving the figures for temperatures when they reach ‘record highs’. It was interesting following the BBC’s coverage of the release of the … Continue reading →

Savile’s own epigraph: “When I’m gone, they’ll say: ‘I always thought he was straight but he wasn’t – he was crooked.’ ”   I imagine that’s one that could equally apply to the BBC. The BBC have been pushing the story that the Newsnight programme wasn’t really about Savile personally and that senior management didn’t know, did not want to know and shouldn’t know what was going on at Newsnight….due to … Continue reading →