BBC VERSUS REALITY
This is most excellent – give it a view! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
This is most excellent – give it a view! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
This man, Robert Lamb, appears to be at the heart of the BBC’s environmental programmes scandal. Surprise, surprise, he was trained as a BBC producer in the 1980s and has since become a one man blizzard of greenie programming. Two of the companies he has has set up and run have been named by the BBC trustees as “causing concern” because they accepted funding from external sources in alleged breach … Continue reading
The man supected of shooting at the White House last Friday had become obsessed with President Barack Obama, officials have told US media.It is thought Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, 21, believed God had given him a personal mission to attack the White House, said law enforcement sources.A US Park Police bulletin said he was “unstable with violent tendencies”. You would have thought that someone bringing a rifle with him and shooting at … Continue reading
Did you see this? The BBC may have embarked on some of the most dramatic cost-cutting in its history, but it seems there is still some way to go. There are almost 4,500 job titles in existence at the Corporation, it has emerged, and almost 2,000 of its staff have the word manager in their title. It is thought there are even more staff on top of this who are classed as … Continue reading
Can’t wait for the BBC’s much loved “comedians” to poke fun through good natured banter at Obama who is under the belief that Hawaii is in Asia. On a good day perhaps you can see it from the White House, right? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
From today’s Independent: The London-based television company being investigated by Ofcom over a global news fixing row tried to “cultivate” a world-famous environmental economist and other leading opinion formers in the green movement for the documentaries it made for the BBC and other news broadcasters.FBC Media claims in its promotional literature that it targeted Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York, to be … Continue reading
Words; they are the ammunition the BBC uses to disguise profound and systemic bias. The BBC on numerous occasions via website & television, describes Ennahda, the Islamist party that won the recent Tunisian elections as moderate. For example see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15438945 Click here to see just how “moderate” Ennahda is. Hat-tip to Martin. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
You made me write thisI didn’t want to do it, I didn’t want to do itYou made me do thisand all the time you knew itI guess you always knew it. I know. I’m no Judy Garland. But I really wish I didn’t have to bother addressing the ridiculously biased reporting of yet another publicity stunt by Palestinian activists.‘Freedom Riders’Look at that photo! What do they look like? Not Rosa … Continue reading
As requested, a new open thread. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
From Laura Trevelyan’s “At the scene” report: Daniel Klein shows me his bruised face and his broken ribs – a casualty, he said, of last night’s eviction of Zuccotti Park by the NYPD. Daniel is back, and intends to stay in the park overnight, somehow – though he can’t sleep here. She’s put his picture on Twitter (although there she calls him Daniel Maslwosky, but it’s definitely the same guy … Continue reading