Mark Thompson has got a new job…as Chief Executive Officer, and President, of the New York Times…the US version of the ‘Guardian’…and equally loss making. How much might the man who presided over the anti-capitalist BBC be paid? Well look at what his predecessor got paid and her ‘retirement’ fund: Robinson’s compensation in 2010 totalled $4.48 million, an 8 percent drop from $4.86 million in the prior year, based on The … Continue reading →

THE NEIL REPORT STATEMENT BY THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS For the BBC impartiality is a legal requirement. BBC journalists will report the facts first, understand and explain their context, provide professional judgements where appropriate, but never promote their own personal opinions. We will make our journalistic judgments for sound editorial reasons, not as the result of improper political or commercial pressure, or personal prejudice. 　　 “At the moment every newspaper … Continue reading →

Out of 40 tweets from Mardell 28 are about Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney. For ‘two boring white men’ Mardell certainly finds a lot to talk about on them….not so much on Obama…..how’s his campaign going then? Just as well we have a Guardian hit on Obama to even things up in one fell swoop (The BBC haven’t let it bother them): ‘This swiftboating of Mitt Romney disgraces Barack Obama … Continue reading →

The BBC finally admit ‘someone’ jumped an Olympic torch bearer and shouted Allah Akbar whilst doing it: ‘A boy who tried to grab the Olympic torch as it was carried through Kent has been ordered to pay compensation to the torchbearer and a police officer. The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, attempted to grab the flame in Rochester Road, Gravesend, on 20 July The court heard as he went … Continue reading →

No sign of this story from the world’s biggest news provider, which is unusual, as they are normally pretty keen to dig the dirt on Tories falling out…..   Climate committee chairman Tim Yeo under pressure over industry links Conservative MP Tim Yeo is facing a backlash from his colleagues on the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee over his paid roles within the renewable energy sector, it was reported. … Continue reading →

The BBC continues its demonisation of the EDL with a ‘report’ that is merely an excuse to try to malign and abuse EDL supporters and label them all as racist…no such thing as a ‘moderate’ EDL member apparently. According to this report they are all drunken, racist hooligans….really? Note the positively scary Big Brother attitude of Leeds City Council which sacked an EDL member for being in the EDL….apparently his … Continue reading →

Funny how Germany and France’s fall from economic grace is caused by their export market to southern Europe collapsing….whilst the British economy stagnating is all the fault of Osborne’s Plan A and nothing to do with European economic meltdown on our doorstep at all (or Gordon Brown).  

BBC not happy that Government is using CPI rather than RPI as inflation measure to calculate public sector pensions, amongst other things. Jonty Bloom had an item on Today this morning about this with the not so subtle meme that basically this change will drive us all into poverty. Talk about inflating hype!  I suppose expecting the BBC to look at it from another perspective, namely cutting the bloated Public … Continue reading →

The BBC is always rigorous in its work when it comes to certain subjects….Israel, George Bush, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and undermining the Tory Party…it is also well known for attacking ‘America’ itself, its values and customs, its legal system and health care, its gung ho attitude to life. Here is an ex-pat American, who has now fled back to America (presumably because he knew one day Justin … Continue reading →