A LITTLE PROBLEM IN GERMANY….

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It’s the cringing selectivity of BBC news coverage that so enrages; Take this, sent in to me; “Democracy undermined, treaty violations…lack of democratic legitimacy…legally and politically questionable actions…..not a BBC journalist in sight when you need one….too busy investigating a self serving story on Murdoch that none of the public are interested in no doubt. “Germany fires cannon shot across Europe’s bows” German President Christian Wulff has accused the European … Continue reading →

FRENCH TURKEYS NOT QUITE VOTING FOR CHRISTMAS..

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Fascinating sleight of hand by the BBC here, picked up by an eagle eyed BBC contributor; “Whilst the BBC ignores a big story from Germany making serious criticisms of the legality of Europe’s bailout schemes the BBC are headlining a story from France that the ‘Rich’ are being taxed more to pay for the deficit….a whole 3% more. What the good old Beeb miss out is what the rate was … Continue reading →

BBC INTEGRITY?

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Some interesting comments here from Mark Thompson. “Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC, went on the offensive against James Murdoch and other critics of the public broadcaster, effectively accusing News Corporation of lapses of integrity and warning that the collapse of the BSkyB takeover was not an excuse to start a debate about the scale and scope of the BBC.  Writing in the Guardian, just ahead of the … Continue reading →

SOUTH AFRICA TO THE RESCUE

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The BBC seem a tad embarrassed by the news that South Africa – that wonderful rainbow nation – is refusing to accept  a UN motion to unfreeze $1.5bn of Libyan assets to fund emergency humanitarian aid. I wonder why South Africa seems reluctant to help the Libyan Rebels? We may never know. Here’s Nelson “I shall therefore take the liberty to invite our guests to rise and raise their glasses … Continue reading →

GHADAFFI IS SADDAM

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BBC meme is clear; Libya is the new Iraq and chaos will descend. I listened to Robert Fisk (Sigh – who else) being interviewed on local BBC news channel and he was given free rein to indulge his every hard left whimsy, with no challenge, Then this morning, the BBC has been talking to a Manchester doctor who is in Tripoli (Driven there by hateful Tory cuts?) and he was … Continue reading →

ALL A MATTER OF SUBJECTIVITY?

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Here’s an interesting letter of complaint from one of our readers to the BBC; “Hello, like many of your readers/contributors, I listened to the surreal experience that was the Today programme last saturday (20.08.11) which studiously avoided any mention of fridays arrest of an officer involved in Operation Weeting. This prompted me to make a first time complaint to the bbc as follows. ‘Dear sirs, given the importance the BBC … Continue reading →

BBC Censorship And The Economic Delusions Of Mark Mardell

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Andrew has already mentioned this (Pg. 3 of the open thread @ 9:28pm GMT) list of White House attack points on Rick Perry posing as an editorial blog post by Mardell, but now there’s a nice BBC censorship angle to add, so worth a full post. The BBC US President editor wants you to know how to understand Rick Perry’s claims that his non-Left policies helped not only to keep … Continue reading →

SHAMNESTY KNOW BEST

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Been away all day but listened to a debate on Radio5 Live this morning concerning the fate that awaits Ghadaffi. Best laugh was when the Amnesty International mouthpiece came on. Her view was that he should be tried in the Hague because there were “problems” with the Libyan Judicial system. It would take a few years to fix them to the high standard that Amnesty deigns to accept. She was … Continue reading →

Breach of the Peace

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The BBC has written a report about the ruling that led to the conviction and subsequent expulsion from St. Andrews University of a young history student who put his hand down his pants and rubbed it on a Jewish student’s Israeli flag. His mate and co-culprit got off more lightly – he was merely suspended for a year. Was this just a silly prank by two drunken ‘hey Jimmies’, which … Continue reading →

UNTRUSTWORTHY…AGAIN

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More digging…it turns out that the outfit that was hired by the BBC trustees to monitor BBC output in connection with the Steve Jones whitewash report on science coverage was the Imperial College Science Communications Group (SCG). Surprise, surprise, they are active in promoting climate change communications. And you can read SCG report co-writer Alice R.Bell’s guide to indoctrinating children about climate change on her blog, here. It seems that … Continue reading →