BBC DG: Olympic Coverage Is Too Patriotic, Must Now Support Other Nations

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This was brought up in comments thread of  the “Nearly Back” post by Number 7, but I think it’s worthy of a full post itself and deserves discussion. We are too focused on Team GB: Astonishing memo from ‘increasingly unhappy’ BBC boss over patriotic tone of news coverage BBC chiefs have ordered their news teams to stop focusing so much on Team GB’s stunning Olympics success. Director general Mark Thompson … Continue reading →

I Liv’d In Hole Int’Road Lad Before I Became A BBC Star

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Was going to do a post on this bit of BBC anti-Tory class war but ‘The Commentator’ has beaten me to it: ‘Once again the BBC has decided to make a documentary exploring British youth on the right. Once again they have gone to that bastion of obnoxious Tory boys known as Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA): the home of a particularly voter-repellent sliver of the right in this country. No … Continue reading →

A Sympathetic Ear

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Taekwondo World no 1  and a current European champion Aaron Cook was denied a place in the British team in favour of  Lutalo Muhammad, ranked 59th in the world in the weight he is competing in at the Olympics.  Listen to this interview by Victoria Derbyshire  (3 mins 40 sec) with Aaron Cook, this is the second she has done.  The first was unsympathetic and unfriendly, this second one was exactly … Continue reading →

Olympics…A Fantastic Advert For Multi-Culturalism

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Almost choked on my cornflakes this morning from laughing…no not at Evan Davis saying he was going to watch the Greco-Roman wrestling at the Olympics…that is probably a usual night’s entertainment in the Davis household. What was laugh out loud funny was the Davis claim that the upsurge of Britishness  displayed during the Olympics must be a bad thing for the Right Wing.  The sense of ‘belonging, community and shared … Continue reading →

Mardell On Message

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At last, someone at the BBC has mentioned the President’s “You didn’t build that” gaffe, which has haunted His campaign for a couple of weeks at least. The revealing Collectivist statement has inspired a series of mocking responses from small businesses and ads from the Romney campaign. It was in all the major US media outlets – they had to come to His defense, after all – yet the BBC … Continue reading →

BBC SNOOZE

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Shame probably the world’s biggest news organisation is no longer interested in news or investigative journalism…even of  the most simple and obvious kind…such as asking one of the corporate sponsors of the Olympics exactly where their money goes, who gets the sponsor’s seat allocation and are their drinks really just liquid sugar poisoning our Youth? Never mind…..we have the Telegraph to enlighten us and provide balance to the BBC’s anti-business polemic: … Continue reading →

TEAM GB

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Andy Murray wins tennis Olympic gold with straight-sets destruction of Roger Federer The Team GB effect has given Andy Murray wings. At Wimbledon today he pulled off one of the most extraordinary results of the modern era, as he destroyed Roger Federer – the king of Centre Court – by the scarcely believable scoreline of 6-2, 6-1, 6-4, to claim a deserved Olympic gold medal.   I don’t think anyone … Continue reading →