This is a guest post by Biased BBC contributor Graeme Thompson aka Hippiepooter. “B-BBC regularsmay be aware that I think BBCRadio Five Live is excellent. Commentsand digs here made against 5Live presenters leave me baffled and confused. As far as I’m concerned it has some superb presenters,strongly committed to impartiality. I get a smidgen that Shelagh Fogarty is a bit of aconservative but may be wrong. Veryimpartial. Great pleasure to … Continue reading
From our own correspondent’s Nick Danziger tells us that the Afghani people are the most wonderful people he knows. It’s women who continue to suffer the worst of the conflict. Outsiders make the same mistakes as most Afghan men, they don’t listen to women. Not a single one wants the Western forces to leave. “As the West rushes to exit the quagmire, they deserve continued support.” Consider today’s demo in … Continue reading
There’s a fascinating thread on Harry’s Place about the left wing’s ever increasing association with Israel-bashing and Jew hatred.Mentioning it here, on what is supposedly a right-wing blog – though some dispute this – could be seen as schadenfreude, where one party delights in another’s misfortune. In this case, the left’s misfortune is allowing their own self-criticism to be snatched, nay, cherry picked, by the so-called right, (me) and used … Continue reading
The BBC’s contrasting coverage of the party conferences seems to have been at its sharpest with ‘Today’. Here’s why I think that’s the case (at somewhat exhausting length!), concentrating on the Labour Party conference in Liverpool and the Conservative Party conference in Manchester: Setting the agendaThe introductions to each edition of the programme were revealing: The Labour conference editionsMonday 26/9: Opened with James Naughtie saying “The shadow chancellor Ed Balls … Continue reading
2 Arabs arrested for the double murder of the Palmers. Israel arrests Palestinian suspects in settler deaths. Compare these two headlines for a minute. Did you learn English grammar? If so, draw on the clause analysis that you might have come across once upon a time. I never did, so forgive me if I’ve got it wrong, but in headline number one, I’d say: “2 Arabs arrested ” is the … Continue reading
I know, a plethora of posts and the old Open Thread vanishes! So, here is a NEW fresh one for you to populate… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
I know this one has been running for a while now but I just wanted to mark it out here on B-BBC. It concerns the BBC’s suggestion that religiously “neutral” terms should be used instead of “BC” and “AD” during discussions of history on air. “The semi-official newspaper of the Holy See, L’Osservatore Romano, described the guidance from the BBC’s ethics advisers as “enormous nonsense” and accused the broadcaster of … Continue reading
I was shocked. The BBC were actually running a sympathetic story about Jews being attacked. But, hang on, turns out the attackers were…other Jews. Kevin Connolly treated us to the story of how groups of ultra-orthodox Jews have been shouting and abusing children and their mothers on their way to a girl’s school in Jerusalem. Of course there is never an excuse for any such behaviour but I have been … Continue reading
This is worth a little thought; “Asher Palmer, and hisone year old son…you may have heard of them but not from the BBC. They were killed over a week ago by Palestinians and like the slaughtered Fogelfamily these murders went unreported by the BBC. The BBC did however report the burning of a piece of carpet in a Mosque andused that story to denounce Jewish settlers…. “The words “Revenge”, “Price Tag” and … Continue reading
A few days back, the US Congress froze cash to Hamastan. B-BBC reader Edna notes; Consider how the BBC reports the story. The article only gives the view that the freeze is terrible. There is not oneexplanation of why Congress decided to do it. It seems the Palestinians werewarned that this would happen if they reneged on negotiations, and decided toact unilaterally.Consider how another media outlet provides context. It doesn’t take a … Continue reading
