Anyone catch the BBC 10 News coverage of UNESCO’s decision to recognise the imaginary state of “Palestine”? The reporter was gushing in her excitement, although warning that the US decision to reduce funding may lead to illiteracy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
When Melanie Phillips details a specific instance of biased BBC reporting, there’s nothing more to add than to direct B-BBC readers straight there, and to the follow-up piece. Denis MacEoin is well-known for writing letters defending Israel against defamation, and his letter to the BBC and the reply he received from Tarik Kafala the BBC’s online editor are just worth an extra mention here.Dr. MacEoin wrote to the BBC to … Continue reading
Interesting insight here by B-BBC contributor Alan; “BBC loves the idea of a borderless Europe with free movement of people all living in harmony and peace, bringing diversity and sparking exciting, innovative new ideas off each other…..as long as you don’t want possessions or a ‘homeland’…or maybe even a home….wouldn’t it be more efficient to ‘hot house’ and merely temporarily live in any house…ready at an instant to move onto … Continue reading
Yes, it’s Greg Palast: “The BBC won’t let me tell you where I am. Just that we’re doing another investigation following from evidence in Vultures’ Picnic.” Here’s Palast speaking at the lefty Fighting Bob Fest in September this year: “This is Wisconsin, this is the place where you had some guy pour a beer on the head of a Republican state senator? No, no, no, that’s all wrong. You can’t … Continue reading
Guido had the goods here yesterday and now the Mail today. B-BBC contributor Alan makes some very valid points here.. “The recent ‘BEST’ report, not peer reviewed, on world temperature changes, was cited as evidence by Richard Black that the sceptics are wrong…..and that Phil Jones of the CRU has been proven to be a truthful and honest reporter of facts (despite absolute evidence from the emails and indeed the … Continue reading
When you look at this video and then you read this BBC story, you wonder if we are living on the same planet. BBC staff should don Keffiyehs when reading out every story on Israel as the visual cue for what is a patently underlying contempt for Israel and a cloying support for whatever trash the Palestinians put out. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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Even Kevin Maguire thinks they’re overdoing it: Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Here’s the sort of thing that appeals to the BBC’s Europe correspondent Matthew Price, he deemed it worthy of retweeting. aturally his tweets say nothing about the BBC. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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