BBC NEWS-FIXING ROW – FURTHER REVELATIONS

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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

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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.

I Didn’t Wanna Do It

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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 →

LAURA TREVELYAN’S OCCUPY POSTER BOY IS RAGING ANTI-SEMITE

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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 →

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER

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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 →

ALL IN THE HEADLINE

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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.

#OccupyFail: Three Occupiers Exercise Their Freedom of Speech by Bringing Mortars in Glass Jars

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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 →

BBC VIEWERS "HOODWINKED BY ‘SERIOUS’ CONFLICTS OF INTEREST", SAYS THE ‘INDIE’

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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 →

OPERATION; GET MAY!

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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 →