Here’s the sort of thing that appeals to the BBC’s Europe correspondent Matthew Price, he deemed it worthy of retweeting. aturally his tweets say nothing about the BBC. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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Sheikh Ali Gomaa. Who is he? Well, he’s the kind of guy the BBC likes to champion as a “moderate”- one of those voices in the Islamic world that cries out for peace love and harmony. Unless you are a Christian in which case, I am afraid, he declares you are “an infidel”. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
You can always rely on the BBC to paint Israel in the blackest colours. Take this headline currently running on the BBC portal “Israel strikes Gaza after “truce”. You have to do some reading to understand that this is all a consequence of Hamastan firing rockets into Israel in the hope of some random killing of Jews. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The English-language news station France 24 with its youthful, well-informed presenters makes BBC News 24 seem parochial.France 24’s extensive coverage of Gilad Shalit’s homecoming was, from what I’ve heard, broadly similar to the BBC’s. It was the main topic for the best part of two days. The French are conscious that the Shalit family are French-Israeli, but nevertheless their coverage of the released Palestinian prisoners and their families, and the … Continue reading
BBC bias flows from the top of the corporation. Lord Patten, the chairman of the trustees – that body that supposedly polices and enforces impartiality- is a foaming-at-the-mouth Europhile, as this interview shows. And now it has been revealed that Diane Coyle, his deputy – a fatcat quangocrat and former Indy financial journalist cosily married to BBC reporter Rory Cellan Jones – has accepted a role as advisor to the … Continue reading
Where to begin? First, let me say that of course I went down there with some preconceived notions and certain expectations, based on everything that’s been in the news and online about the Occupiers. My intentions were twofold: show what was going on without prejudice or cherry-picking, just letting the scene speak for itself, as well as engage in conversation with as many people as I could, asking questions to … Continue reading
Two protesters from Occupy Birmingham – Chico and Thomas – were the studio guests on this morning’s BBC West Midlands 9am phone-in show with stand-in presenter Adrian Goldberg. Towards the end of the programme someone called in to offer advice to the guy claiming to be an ex-serviceman. Something about Chico’s response didn’t quite ring true. Luckily for him Goldberg was not interested in pressing the matter. Quite the opposite … Continue reading
Friday is here and so is this new Open Thread. Ready, aim….fire. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Reality tends to have the nasty habit of puncturing the BBC’s fantasy “Arab Spring” narrative so this report from them on the current situation in Tunisia is a tad tortuous. Islam is good, Islam is moderate and most definitely in favour of women’s rights, if not gay rights. Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, Melanie Philips spells out some realities for the gravity based community! Click through to read and contribute comments … Continue reading
