I notice how quickly yesterday’s Open Thread has filled up so here is ANOTHER one for you!

My on my but the BBC must be sweating as Savilegate gets deeper and deeper. Did you read THIS in the Mail today? “Screen legend Leonard Rossiter is the latest celebrity name to be embroiled in the sex scandal engulfing the BBC. The Rising Damp star, who died in 1984 aged 57, has been accused of performing a sex act as he watched three BBC staff trying to rape a male TV extra. An anonymous male accuser … Continue reading →

Here’s something to wait up for….  ‘Influence By Degree’  on BBC World Service next Tuesday (6th) at various times: ‘Is academic freedom at risk? Is academic integrity under threat? Across the developed world, government funding for universities is drying up. That means universities are having to seek finance elsewhere. One such model can be found in USA. US universities have been raising money from their alumni for years. Princeton University … Continue reading →

When the US jobless figures came out last month showing a drop in unemployment, this was the BBC’s headline: Today’s figures show the unemployment rate has gone back up to 7.9%, so this time the BBC headline concentrates on jobs created instead: Note the phrase I’ve highlighted above. A few minutes after taking that screengrab I noticed the page had been updated (although the timestamp remained the same): Someone had … Continue reading →

On time and all ready for you to complete..a new OPEN THREAD to detail the bias from the State Broadcaster.

Have a read of THIS letter of complaint to the BBC from Conservative MP Peter Lilley concerning his treatment on Newsnight.

I wonder if anyone else shared my misfortune and watched Question Time last night? I thought it was a remarkably biased edition, focusing on matters American. The BBC’s Obama cheerleading came through with an outstandingly skewed panel and audience.  Did you see it? Thoughts? Was it fair and balanced?

Thanks to Alfie Pacino in the comments for pointing this out: BBC left-wing political bias illustrated through UK political funding revelations A freedom of information (FOI) response seen by The Commentator has revealed unjustifiable bias in the BBC’s approach to UK politcal parties. The freedom of information request shows that over the past 10 years, the BBC has spent £335,000 with the Labour Party, £295,000 with the Liberal Democrats and … Continue reading →

Let’s strip the BBC of its automatic right to the license fee and its status as ‘State Public Broadcaster’…let’s put that out to tender…’privatise’ the BBC….if it won’t change let’s change it!   The BBC is no longer the upright pillar of the community that it is supposed to be, and indeed still thinks it is. It is rotten and corrupt to the core…and that rottenness starts at the very … Continue reading →

A recent Washington Post poll found that nearly 3/4 of Americans support voter ID laws. The old, the poor and non-whites all back the measures: Moreover, big majorities of those whom critics see as bearing the brunt of the laws are supportive of them, including about three-quarters of seniors and those with household incomes under $50,000 and two-thirds of non-whites. In the Democrat state of Illinois even the president was … Continue reading →