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
Robert King – a former jailed Black Panther murdering terrorist, a bigot, a race hustler, and an honoured guest on the BBC’s “Hard Talks.” Give this a whirl if you have a strong stomach. Hat-tip to the Biased BBC reader for the heads-up. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Biased BBC contributor Alan observes… “Interesting to hear Nicky Campbell on 5Live this morning keep telling us that Capitalism is in crisis. Is it? Capitalism is thriving…..China, India, Brazil, Poland, Canada, Mexico…..all seemingly booming. Capitalism is working because it follows the profit…when the West made itself too expensive for manufacturers they went looking for cheaper labour forces and less red tape. What is in crisis is Socialism.READ MORE “It is … Continue reading
Wonder what you make of this article by Peter Oborne in the Telegraph? I agree with some of his points but think he fails to grasp the overwhelming bias of the Corporation. “There are very few institutions – maybe only the monarchy, the Armed Forces and Parliament – that express what it means to be British more than the BBC. The state broadcaster enjoys a very privileged place indeed at … Continue reading
Question Time tonight comes from Winchester. David Dimbleby is joined by Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith – who after the EU referendum rebellion declared yesterday that he will not vote against his Eurosceptic principles again. We also have ex-GMTV presenter, permanent feature on Guido’s political totty reports and occasional Labour politician Gloria De Piero, Deputy Leader of the Liberals in Scotland Jo Swinson (oddly an absentee from … Continue reading
Check out the BBC’s profile of Giles Fraser. I was just wondering what the odds are of him getting his own BBC series within a year when I saw that Toby Young had had a similar thought: “…no opportunity for Giles Fraser to air his Left-wing views in the media is ever neglected… Perhaps the BBC can find him a berth. He’s already a regular on Thought for the Day … Continue reading
Is the UK’s NUJ developing its own more radical version of the now-disbanded left-leaning JournoList group from the US? Thanks to BBC London journalist Jane Bradley (first seen on Biased BBC a couple of weeks ago) my attention was drawn to an event called Reclaim The Media which took place last night. Fresh from interviewing St Paul’s protesters for her employer, Jane asked yesterday if any of her colleagues would … Continue reading
Some people think that the BBC is a tad biased against the Great Satan. I wonder WHY? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
“Why might the BBC be reluctant to criticise the EU? Could one reason, apart from ideology, be that it has received over £15 million in grants from the EU since 2007. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/279097/Why-is-BBC-funding-Somali-radio-station- Much of it goes towards media training for environmental pressure groups. £600,000 of that money was given to Palestinian groups. The BBC says ‘To conflate the work of the BBC World Service Trust and the BBC’s coverage of the EU … Continue reading
Here is a new Open thread, I have some posts to follow. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
