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
I was tied up yesterday when this story about the BBC trustees investigation of dodgy environment programmes broke. This morning, I’ve been digging further, and I suspect we only know a fraction of what’s gone on. I think there’s evidence of a a frantic but very extensive cover-up. The Television Trust for the Environment (mentioned here in the BBC’s sanisitised version of their investigations) was for years one of the … Continue reading
Bias? What bias? “Clark “surprise” at May ignorance” They just can’t help it, can they? Brodie Clark is the hero de jour of the BBC, a battering ram they are using to try and claim May’s scalp. I don’t recall the same enthusiasm to undermine Home Secretary’s when Labour were in power, do you? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The BBC will never report this, because their thought-leaders in the US media and Left-wing blogosphere won’t. 3 men claiming to be Occupy Portland protesters arrested in Marion County for possession of explosives Inside the car, the deputy also found a number of firecrackers and two commercially made mortars inside glass canning jars, designed to be fired into the area during professional pyrotechnic displays. One was found in the floorboard … Continue reading
Many thanks to Clarence in the comments for steering us towards this fascinating article from Ian Burrell, media editor of the ‘Independent’: BBC ‘cheap programming’ scandal exposed “The BBC has owned up to a “nominal fee” programming scandal in which viewers of 15 editorial programmes were hoodwinked by “serious” conflicts of interest of programme makers and a failure to declare that documentaries had outside sponsors. The programmes were made for … Continue reading
I invite you to listen to this debate on the BBC this morning on the issue of the UK Border Agency. Consider the way Alan Johnson gets to open the debate without any interruption from Naughtie. Then, Conservative Mark Reckless gets as far as his first sentence and …bang on cue..interruption and heckle. (“People of Eastern Europe have a right to come and work here”) What is truly amazing is that … Continue reading
The BBC are upset that Mayor Bloomberg has finally been forced to take out the trash from Zuccotti Park. Give this a listen. Note the respectful silence afforded Big Sloth, no interruptions. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
If Richard Black is to be believed, he has a real world scoop; he’s got his eco zealot little mitts on a draft of the latest IPCC report several days before publication. Now in my journalist manual, that’s a hold the front page scoop if ever I saw one – especially as the BBC has been the main conduit of publicity for the IPCC’s faked exaggerations for more than a … Continue reading
