Question Time LiveBlog 27th October 2011

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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 →

GILES FRASER

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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 →

JOURNOLIST 2.0 – THE UK VERSION?

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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 →

BBC AND THE EU

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“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 →

EYES WIDE SHUT

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Half the story, all the time. B-BBC contributor Alan writes;“The Unions, the IFS and the BBC have come together to put the boot into the government cuts. The BBC has been giving much air time to Union complaints over the last few days…all of which seem to be part of a concerted plan. First there was the Border Guards who claim that government concentration on immigration meant more drugs and guns … Continue reading →

SUGAR ME

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An outraged B-BBC reader brought this to my attention. It’s on the BBC Children’s TV site and it seems to take quite a positive spin on young girls pandering to the sexual needs of dirty old men. What say you? This could be seen as a virtual advertisement for a very murky activity. Surely someone in the BBC should have raised a concern over such encouragement to licentiousness? Then again…. … Continue reading →

Occupy Wall Street Up Close

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At last, a slideshow of my photos from Zuccotti Park.  I went down there on Sunday, and spent a couple hours among the Occupiers. I spoke to a lot of people, asking questions, debating a bit, and trying to figure out where they were at with all of this. And oh, my, did I learn a lot. This post is just photos with my comments, based on my conversations with … Continue reading →