As has been pointed out to me, €16bn in Aid for Afghanistan is reported here by the BBC in jubilant tones whilst the Taliban denial of the brutal execution of a Muslim woman is parroted. Just in case you got the idea the Taliban are murderous savages.
‘Today’ (0850) finished with a bit of barefaced cheek, or complete idiocy, having decided to discuss Osborne’s sparring with Balls in the Commons. The complaint was that surely the politicians should all be getting together to work out how to deal with the recession rather than engaging in a political bunfight, point scoring off each other. Well perhaps…but then how does ‘Today’, Britain’s premier political bunfight programme in its own right, … Continue reading
The BBC, acting in its capacity of being the UK extension of Barack Obama’s “Palace Guard” (aka the US mainstream media) led on the website with an item headed Romney and Republicans raise $100m in June Under the headline the text confirmed that Mitt Romney, the likely Republican candidate in this coming November’s Presidential election, had raised more money than Obama. At first glance one could have sensed from this … Continue reading
‘One lesson well understood in both Stalin’s Russia and Nazi Germany was that propaganda is most effective when it is backed by terror.’ In Britain today there are over two million National Socialists living mainly in large enclaves separate from the rest of British society. Their lives are guided by the tenets taken from a book that orders them not to make friends with anyone who is not a National … Continue reading
‘Today’ asks is Russia becoming more autocratic?: ‘Russia’s lower house of parliament will be debating a draft law later today which, if it is adopted, means that any non-governmental organisation in Russia receiving funding from abroad and considered to be engaged in political activity, will be labelled a “foreign agent”. Vyacheslav Nikonov, an MP from the leading party and one of the authors of the bill believes Russian democracy “needs … Continue reading
Friday arrives and so does an Open Thread to see us off into the blue yonder of a biased weekend from the BBC. Report what you find here!
Amazing amount of favourable publicity afforded to the Sutton Trust’s latest report on the Today programme this morning. Also used as an opportunity to mock Michael Gove. Yet isn’t the Sutton Trust a reliably left wing organisation? Why DOES the BBC get so excited about it’s press releases? Is it because any opportunity to somehow “do down” Gove is grabbed with relish? If our children really ARE lagging so far … Continue reading
Question Time tonight comes from Derby. On the panel we have Conservative MP Louise Mensch, Energy and “climate change” Secretary Ed Davey MP, former postman and occasional home secretary Alan Johnson MP, Sunday Times and Independent columnist Dominic Lawson, and John Lydon, former lead singer of the Sex Pistols and founder of the band Public Image Ltd. This Week will follow, and we have the standard lineup of Andrew Neil … Continue reading
Never quite sure about the ‘Wake Up To Money’ crew on 5Live….are they real financial journalists or have a bunch of school kids clambered in through a studio window to bluff us with gems from Google and Wikipedia? Apart from a determined effort to ignore any Labour connections to Libor a discussion about the new ‘Shard’ building in London caught my attention. What really started me thinking was their comment that … Continue reading
Today had an expose of a national television network that broadcasts propaganda for the government…..Syrian not British. Ghatan Sleiba, an ex-correspondent from a government affiliated news channel, met with the BBC’s James Reynolds near Turkey’s border with Syria and provided some insights into how the government controls the media’s message. The final words made me smile…. ‘The people can’t trust us…..the Syrian nation is a simple nation…they believe who ever … Continue reading
