Last week Washington saw the opening of Hemingway’s, an exclusive bar situated in the section of the Swiss embassy reserved for Cuba’s communist dictatorship. The master-stroke in this propaganda drive by the Cuban regime was its decision to invite the BBC to cover the event. In return for a few rum cocktails the Cubans have been rewarded with a couple of pieces of gushing PR that must have exceeded even … Continue reading
George here and welcoming you to a new week here at Biased BBC. I think a new Open Thread is in order so perhaps you would like to tell me what is annoying you with BBC coverage? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
There’s nothing like a biased intro to a BBC debate Can Capitalism have a heart? – asks Sarah Montague on BBC Today. She interviews the Church of England appointed Ken Costa, who seems a reasonable chap, but almost entirely from the perspective of Swampy and his pals. Not a word of the disgraceful behavior of those protesters who have turned Wren’s masterpiece into a public latrine, whose excrement has to be … Continue reading
I am sure you will have noted the FIFA ban on the England team wearing poppies at the weekend friendly against Spain. I tuned in to the BBC’s Nolan show this morning (Stuck in traffic and I’m a masochist!) and who was the guest expert commentator? Why none other than my old pal from the Sunday Morning Live green room, the former Biship of Hulme, Stephen Lowe. (You will recall … Continue reading
Articles appearing on BBC News online about the Herman Cain [R] sexual harassment claims in the 5 days after the story first broke on Politico: Herman Cain: Sexual harassment claims ‘baseless’Herman Cain denies sex harassment claimsHerman Cain: A ‘high-tech lynching’?Herman Cain: When in trouble, switch storiesHerman Cain ‘gradually recalls’ sexual harassment caseHerman Cain sexual harassment accuser ‘wants to speak’Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, and sexual harassmentThird woman claims inappropriate behaviour from … Continue reading
Has anyone else noticed that the BBC has gone totally silent about the Occupy Wall St. movement in the US? With the exception of a couple stories about the violence innocent exercising of rights in Oakland, where they shut down a shipping port and attacked police were victims of unprovoked brutality from The Man, there has been scarcely a peep from BBC News for days. After a flurry of encomia … Continue reading
Well, I didn’t make it onto Sunday Morning Live. I was the “stand by” for Angela Epstein. Angela was able to make it so that was fine. However I was present in the Green Room with the former Bishop of Hulme, Stephen Lowe. Had an interesting exchange with him. He is the guy who is “not sure” if this is an afterlife, he is the guy who defended Druid William’s … Continue reading
Quick warning/heads up that I may well be on Sunday Morning Live tomorrow discussing whether poppy protests should be banned. If you have any thoughts on this, post them here. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Here’s one for you: Internal Survey Confirms #Occupywallstreet Is Overwhelmingly White, Janeane Garofalo Unavailable For Comment Fast Company conducted an internal survey of the #OWS crowd and found it to be as white as the line-up at MSNBC. Specifically 81.2% white and 1.6% black. The funniest part? The survey results were made into an infographic which was being distributed by some #OWS members until other #OWS members looked at the … Continue reading
Talk about groupthink. I tuned in to the repeat of The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 this lunchtime. Presided over by Sandi Toksvig – who herself is quite leftist albeit with a lesbian twist – Jeremy Hardy and Andy Hamilton provided all the appropriate “jokes.” So, there was much praise for Rowan Williams, much castigation for George Papandreou and the predictable attacks on capitalism. (Do these comrades not get paid … Continue reading
