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…
Monday morning on the biased BBC and Osborne meets Naughtie. The BIG point that the BBC want to hear Conservatives repeating is that they will force “the rich” to pay even more in taxes than they already do. I suppose Osborne is triangulating a bit when he says that he WILL make them pay more insofar as this can be achieved by reducing the top rate of tax a bit … Continue reading
Here’s an interesting little video which shows just why climate sceptics have an uphill battle against the BBC. Richard Black is ‘informing’ fellow journalists of the ‘facts’ surrounding various controversies….’myths’ as he calls them. Note how he does not raise the very considerable questions that pour doubt upon the credibility and impartiality of the various inquiries into the CRU email hacking saga. Black raises the ‘research’ done by B.E.S.T … Continue reading
Flanders rounds off her portraits of influential economic thinkers with a Marxist mirage. Ostensibly about Marx it was really just a vehicle to propagate the usual BBC rhetoric about inequality, Thatcher and the rich getting richer. Flanders, like Marx, seems to have no interest in finding the truth but more in proclaiming it. She embodies the virtues that Marx displayed…the poet, journalist and moralist….producing a fascinating fusion of visual … Continue reading
Wonder what you make of this cheerily pro Palestinian puff piece from the unbiased BBC?
