(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?
Wonder how the BBC views THIS then….? Just WHAT has been covered up by the BBC? Isn’t it time for a Judicial-led Independent Leveson style enquiry? BBC seemed keen on that when it came to the Murdoch empire so am sure they will will agree. Hang on, Patten has ruled it out….
Last week, as Labour prepared for their conference, the BBC shilled about how “united” they were. One week on, as the Conservatives prepare for their conference, the meme is “division”…oh, and “cuts”…. “Further cuts to welfare, including curbs on housing benefit, may be needed to help fight the deficit, David Cameron has warned. Speaking on first day of the Conservative Party conference, the prime minister said housing benefit may be … Continue reading
Just as they hid Savile’s abuses to keep a legend going and the whole edifice that was built up around him on the road the BBC does the same for Marx and the Left. Which is more sinister – The Swastika or the Hammer and Sickle? Some thoughts on the death of Professor Eric Hobsbawm Peter Hitchen’s asks a question that the BBC never does….. ‘Sometimes I see a … Continue reading
