I was going to leave this alone today, but it’s just too egregious to resist. Check out the BBC’s Q&A page for the debt crisis. We’ll just go Q by Q, as it were. What is the proposed deal? Under the the agreement, the US deficit will be reduced by at least $2.4tn over 10 years. The ceiling for US borrowing will be raised by about the same amount in … Continue reading
The great thing about the BBC is that provides all shades of opinion…..get this catch from an eagle eyed reader! “America is apparently on the brink of economic armageddon and about to bring the next apocalypse upon us and the BBC brings on an actor to tell us all about it and how it could be solved. Weekend Breakfast on 5Live at 2 hrs 20 mins, tells us that everybody … Continue reading
Interesting catch from a Biased BBC reader here;“Piece on 5Live today about the Hight Speed Train line to Manchester. We were treated to the views of a ‘businesswoman’ from Manchester who told us how vital the new line would be for her. This woman turned out to be Cat Lewis, producer and film maker….who makes films for the BBC. Isn’t Salford, where the BBC’s new media centre going to be, … Continue reading
I seem to have missed the announcement that Keith Vaz is back in the government. You too? The reason I assume Keith is back in Government is that the BBC couldn’t get enough from him. During the TI frenzy over the past few weeks Keith was one of the go-to guys and let’s face it, who can speak about integrity with more gravitas and experience than Vaz? Today he was … Continue reading
A frustrated B-BBC reader writes; “Is the BBC making no mention of some important protests by large numbers of people all round a country, proof of bias? 24 hours ago, Saturday evening, in Israel 150,000 people protested in at least five cities about the cost of living – food, housing, childcare, baby and child necessities and others. it’s a major happening in Israel, the PM cancelled a trip to Poland … Continue reading
Some BBC journos are on strike today so I am following their example. The floor is yours.. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Greenery continues to infect every part of the BBC. Last night the Dragon’s Den was back. The centrepiece project – introduced in awed tones by poisonous host Evan Davis – was an eco-conman from Halifax, who off the back of the feed-in tariff (a subsidy from the government under which money from jacked-up energy bills is given to those who can afford to install solar panels – i.e. robbing the … Continue reading
So the US Congressional leadership has agreed to a budget deal – the first real one since the President took office, as it happens – to temporarily stave off a default and financial ugliness. The agreement will raise the debt ceiling by $900 billion, and create and a cut of $1 trillion in spending over the next 10 years. Most media seem to be qualifying it as an “immediate” cut, … Continue reading
It seems like we’re about to get a deal of some sort to temporarily alleviate the debt crisis. I say temporarily, because there’s no telling how it’s all going to work out over the next two years. In any case, it’s not done yet, so it’s a couple days early to start mocking the BBC’s coverage with “Lo! The Conq’ring Hero Comes”. What I’d like to do is provide some … Continue reading
Alison Hastings, ex editor of the Newcastle Chronicle and former member of the Press Complaints Commission, is BBC trustee for England. She is also chairman of the BBC Trust’s editorial standards committee, and as such arguably holds the corporation’s most important position in the adjudication of complaints about BBC bias – in effect she is the final arbiter. One of her most significant tasks over the past fortnight was in … Continue reading
