This is interesting. Terry Smith on his blog Straight Talking has engaged with someone posting a comment on how the BBC in the interests of “balance” is not helping provide a serious forum to discuss the issue of austerity and cuts. Give it a read! “Where does Ann Pettifor come from? The information I can find online suggest she has never held a job in the real world by which I … Continue reading
Morning world. A new week dawns and time for the Monday Open Thread. So, has the BBC been bothering you? If so, let’s be hearing from you….now!
Roger Harrabin is quite the card. Here he is on the BBC this morning warning that “Environmentalists” now fear that the UK government’s draft energy bill to be published on Tuesday will end in a new “dash for gas”. They want the bill to be guided by the government’s stated wish to almost completely de-carbonise the electricity industry by the 2030s. But there has been no guarantee such a target will … Continue reading
You have to almost admire the brass neck of the BBC. This morning, we were treated to the thoughts of Ed Balls, interviewed by Sarak Montague. on Today @ 7.34am. He was allowed to spout his usual playbook mantra which reduces down to attacking Cameron over and over again for a “lack of leadership” and now condemning Germany for it daring to insist that Greece honours its debts. Just ten … Continue reading
It’s time for another one. This one lasts 16:15. I try to keep them down to 15 minutes, but I don’t have the benefit of all those BBC editors and producers. As always, it’s meant to be a rebuttal to BBC coverage. Life In These United States – No. 5 (Audio hosted by EyeTube) SOURCES: Insurers Must Credit Obamacare When Isuing Rebate Checks Health insurers to pay $1.3 billion in … Continue reading
Wonder WHY the BBC seem a tad reluctant to report this story? “An emergency medical crew narrowly escaped being lynched this week while responding on the scene of an injurious car accident near Jerusalem, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday. The fateful call came on Tuesday; a car carrying a group of Palestinian youths from DNA match found in TA rape case.” One wonders if the reverse scenario had occurred and Jews had carried … Continue reading
Some pithy comments here about the BBC from Christopher Booker.. “Boris Johnson calls for a Tory director-general to knock sense into the BBC. Perhaps he has forgetten that it already has a Tory chairman – that tireless Europhile and global warming zealot, Lord (Chris) Patten. As a footnote, to illustrate how trivial so much BBC coverage has become, its political correspondent Nick Robinson last week reported David Cameron’s claim to … Continue reading
Wonder what you think of this report from the BBC on the just announced death of the Lockerbie bomber? Is it just me or does this seem quite….sympathetic?
It’s the sheer infantilism of it that offends. The BBC glowingly reports that… US President Barack Obama has said there is an “emerging consensus” that European countries must now focus on growing the State and the number of State workers jobs and growth. Speaking after the G8 summit of some of the world’s leading economies, he said the US was confident that Europe can meet its challenges. President Obama said … Continue reading
For reasons best known to them (probably), the BBC World service came up with a poll to measure selected countries’ perceptions of certain other countries’ influence. Israel comes out slightly above Hell on Earth. Since the BBC and the BBC World Service have been pumping out selected information about the aforementioned countries, and withholding certain other selected information, it throws up an analogy thus: I run a monopolistic campaign to … Continue reading
