The BBC’s coverage of Khadar Adnan the Palestinian hunger striker closely resembles the extract from Al Jazeera highlighted by Elder of Ziyon, only the BBC’s version has been dumbed down, so that the public can understand it more easily. You know, large type and tiny paragraphs for those of us with poor comprehension.To help the public absorb the heroic nature of this martyr more fully and stop us being confused … Continue reading
The following probably comes into the category of ‘what the BBC won’t report’.Admittedly, few outside the Israeli press have covered the story, but it merits a little mention by the BBC because ill-conceived references to the incident in question still rear their heads in the course of the day-to-day Israel-bashing to which we have become accustomed. The news that the BBC ignores is that the French supreme court has acquitted … Continue reading
The BBC is a strange beast. The past few days have seen it giving lots of publicity to those trade unionists/marxists/hard leftists who oppose the Coalition plan to allow unemployed people to gain unpaid work experience. I guess falling unemployment is unhelpful to the Left but am less sure why the likes of the BBC Nolan Show (both on 5Live and Radio Ulster) seem intent on persecuting TESCO for having … Continue reading
Who’d have thought that journalists who wish to investigate, uncover and expose scandals and injustices without compromising their freedom or exposing their pet whistleblowers, would be subjected to the whims and fancies of the Supreme court in the course of its earnest deliberations over such things as the meaning of the word ‘predominantly’. Who knows what was on the minds of Lord Phillips and pals as they grappled diligently on … Continue reading
NEW Open thread. Will post more later… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
I was interested to read that a former BBC Middle East correspondent, Alan Hart, has concluded that 9/11 was carried out by…Mossad. Here’s the clip… Wonder where he got his ideas from???? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
It’s not often a BBC correspondent invites comparison to figures from Greek antiquity but B-BBC contributor Alan notes;“There will come atime when we have an answer to the climate change question. When that timecomes somebody may well sit down and write the history of this period intime…the history of the media coverage in particular. If they did what might they find? They would find a world respected media organisation with a … Continue reading
You can rely on the BBC to treat Israel with rigorous impartiality. Only joking! An irate B-BBC reader writes; “I was appalled to listen to Saturday PM (18 Feb)to hear an interview on Iran with S Joshi of the United Services Institute. The interviewer earnestly drew attention more than once to Israel’s threats and sabre rattling against Iran and looked to Mr Joshi for confirmation. Again Israel was made to … Continue reading
A new Open Thread for you to take us off into the blue yonder of the weekend! ENJOY. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
A while back, the BBC followed the lead of their brethren in the Left-wing US media and tried to get you to think the Occupiers were similar to the Tea Party movement. This was done because – to the media’s dismay – much of the country failed to hate the Tea Party movement and buy into the demonization promoted by the press. So, having resigned themselves to that fact, the … Continue reading
