UNIQUELY FUNDED

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Reported in the Telegraph: The BBC’s annual report, published tomorrow, will show that it paid 19 presenters, actors and journalists more than £500,000 last year, at a cost of £22 million. However, despite promising MPs that it would reveal how many stars are paid between £500,000 and £750,000, as well as the number on £750,000 to £1million and those on more than £1million, the broadcaster has now dropped the plans. … Continue reading →

What You Won’t Be Told About The U.S. Budget Deal

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There won’t be a fantastic budget deal tonight, and the President won’t get His big economic victory. The BBC seems to think that only the “newly empowered Republicans” are causing ideologically-driven obstacles to agreeing on a debt package. When the Congressionally-set debt limit has been reached in the past, Congress has voted to raise it. This year, however, newly empowered Republicans are determined to prevent any tax increases and want … Continue reading →

PC Puzzle

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A B-BBC reader says “There’s much puzzlement in Hampshire about what section of the community feels it is acceptable to put an old pony in a trap and force it into a lake in order to drown it.” Pony ‘beaten’ into Hampshire lake dies. (Or should that be ‘dies’?) When the BBC finally has the monopoly of newsgathering and reporting how will anyone ever know what’s behind the politically correct … Continue reading →

BLACK DISRESPECT…

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There’s no doubt whose side the BBC is on in Julia Gillard’s attempts to force her country into economic suicide by taxing “carbon” output. Australia is a “worst polluter”, so of course such measures are right. A picture of horrendous, belching CO2 (actually, most likely steam, but never mind – the message has to be rammed home by the BBC thought police) has been carefully selected to show just how … Continue reading →

MONOPOLY

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There’s a surprising interview from the ‘Today’ archive (from 2009) between James Naughtie and Will Hutton. Naughtie asks Hutton to speculate on the future of newspapers in the U.K. Hutton replies: Well I think there is going to be a transitional period. It could last 10 years, it could be as long as 20 years, in which the way we’ve done it over the last period is plainly going to … Continue reading →

TOXTETH REVISITED

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I noticed that the BBC ran an item on the Toxteth riots. Odd that an organisation with all the vast resource of the BBC can’t even get the decade in which this happened right. More to the point, note the way in which the BBC sets the story up….it was all caused by “perceived heavy handed” policing. I mean, is it possible to even blame the gentlefolk of Toxteth as … Continue reading →

PULLING WHOSE STRINGS?

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The BBC is hysterical in the sustained attack on Murdoch. Give THIS a listen to if you want to hear the comrades in full battle cry. I was particularly amused when Humphrys pointed out the global reach of the evil Murdock empire. So unlike the BBC!! And if that was not enough, try THIS if you have a strong stomach. There is NO pretence of balance here, just unrestrained bias … Continue reading →

ACE KELLY

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I beg your indulgence for another hacking scandal post. The topic on Nicky Campbell’s phone-in this morning on Radio Five Live was: “Will you mourn the News Of The World?” Kelly from Stafford was good value: Nicky Campbell Phone-in, R5L (mp3) Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.