Biased BBC

OPEN THREAD

By David Vance | November 18, 2011 - 1:40 pm |October 6, 2012 open thread

Very busy here so time for a fresh Open Thread. The site is buzzing but I just do not have enough time to cover all the material the BBC so generously provide! Over to you…. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

NOTHING LIKE A DAME

By David Vance | November 17, 2011 - 10:03 pm |October 6, 2012 Dame Eliza Manningham Buller

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You can understand WHY the BBC are so entranced with Baroness Manningham-Butler. First, she recommends that we talk to the Taliban. Now she wants to see illegal drugs legalised. Yip, she’s there kinda gal. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

QUESTION TIME LIVEBLOG 17TH NOVEMBER 2011

By David Vance | November 17, 2011 - 9:24 pm |October 6, 2012 question time live

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Well, Question Time comes from the vowelly-challenged Aberystwyth and on the panel we have Grant Shapps, Chris Bryant, Elin Jones, Will Hutton and Sir Simon Jenkins. Regardless of that line up of dross, I am sure we will all gave a good time so come along, bring a bottle (or more, I fear you may need it!) and join the good natured banter. I’m hoping ASE and David Mosque will … Continue reading →

BBC VERSUS REALITY

By David Vance | November 17, 2011 - 6:12 pm |October 6, 2012 climate change

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This is most excellent – give it a view! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER?

By Robin Horbury | November 17, 2011 - 5:19 pm |October 6, 2012 Uncategorized

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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 →

BBC Surprisingly Unfazed About White House Shooting – I Wonder Why?

By David L Riddick - The Aged P | November 17, 2011 - 3:44 pm |October 6, 2012 obama bias, Occupier Violence, sarah palin, Tea Party, Tucson killings

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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 →

ALL CHIEFS, NO INDIANS

By David Vance | November 17, 2011 - 3:06 pm |October 6, 2012 UNIQUE FUNDING

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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 →

THAT ASIAN MOMENT

By David Vance | November 17, 2011 - 3:05 pm |October 6, 2012 Shielding Obama at all times

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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.

BBC NEWS-FIXING ROW – FURTHER REVELATIONS

By DB | November 17, 2011 - 12:54 pm |October 6, 2012 Conflict of Interest, FBC Media

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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 →

WHEN EXTREME IS MODERATE

By David Vance | November 16, 2011 - 4:19 pm |October 6, 2012 Ennahda, Tunisia

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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.