Jimmy Carr earns £3million before tax, and earns nearly £3 million after tax. Jimmy Carr has been caught red handed and is now very red faced …because he was caught. Remarkable how the Celebrity World rallies round and gives voice in his support. How strange when not so very long ago they were baying for, not just Banker’s blood, but that of highly successful businessmen who received bonuses. 5Live today … Continue reading
Was it just me or was there definitely an impression given by the BBC (certainly on 5Live) that the unemployment figures going down by 52,000 was possibly a bad thing……as one reporter suggested…it was only a good thing ‘on the face of it….you have to ask how is it possible (to have falling unemployment) when we are mired in a double dip recession’. ….and the figures only give ‘mixed messages’. … Continue reading
Here is a slightly deeper look at ‘38 Degrees’ mentioned in a previous post. It is the campaigning group that seems to embody every value that the BBC itself likes to promote….and is attempting to influence who gets the BBC Director General’s job when Mark Thompson goes, as well as trying to influence the outcome of the BSkyB bid. Its campaign’s page looks as if it is the schedule for … Continue reading
‘Reed’ in the ‘Open Thread’ brings to our attention the welcome news that the BBC is to be included in formal reviews of media ownership by OFCOM: Google, the BBC and Facebook should be included in reviews of media ownership, regulator Ofcom has ruled. The BBC has an internet news audience of 57% of the total number of people who go online for news in the UK. The regulator … Continue reading
In the run up to the 2010 election the BBC decided to give Gordon a boost by giving him an uplifting appraisal and testimony, unfortunately it seems that his legacy is somewhat uncertain.
But then again the BBC has always been keen to pretend that 13 years of Labour Party economic, social and constitutional destruction never happened.
The BBC’s prediction of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Ukraine and Poland has been proved much exaggerated….the Ukrainians it turns out are really rather nice. I’ll let Brendan O’Neil do the talking: ‘Another day, another newspaper article branding England’s football fans as “SICK”. What have they done this time? Beaten up little old ladies? Trashed a bar? Urinated on a war memorial? Nope. All they did was stage a protest against BBC … Continue reading
If you’ve spotted some BBC ‘Bull’ let the world know on Wednesday’s Open Thread!
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. What did Paxman say in 2007 about the standard of journalism these days?…. “In this press of events there often isn’t time to get out and find things out: you rely upon second-hand information-quotes from powerful vested interests, assessments from organisations which do the work we don’t have time for, even, god help us, press releases from public relations agencies. The consequence is that … Continue reading
The last post was somewhat short and interesting…this one is going to be long and dull and worthy. The Beeb loves to quote Balls and the Labour Party mantra that Osborne has robbed the poorest in society in order to pay for a tax cut for his millionaire chums by lowering the top rate of tax. The BBC may or may not have done an in depth analysis of the … Continue reading
Gordon Brown knows which he prefers and is intensely relaxed about everything on the occasion of his retirement.
Discuss……..
