It seems like a good moment to update David’s excellent post below about the ongoing voicemail hacking change my password? Meh, why bother? nonsense in the news at the moment. Compare and contrast what the BBC sees as a priority – indeed the Top News Story: …and what the Great British Public are reading about (under threat of imprisonment for non-payment) The BBC want to use this story to discredit … Continue reading
In the Open Thread, Anthony Masters calls our attention to Jonny Dymond’s hate-mongering piece about an alleged “explosion” in hate groups in the US because we have a black President. Stop me if you’ve heard this Narrative before….. I say it’s hate-mongering and not reporting, because the intent here is to make you hate millions of people like me by falsely associating them with a few ugly extremists. This isn’t … Continue reading
Quite the red carpet treatment from the BBC for Arianna Huffington as she launches the UK version of the Huffington Post this week. Last night Newsnight: This morning BBC Breakfast and an interview for Radio 3. Tonight Radio Five Live’s Richard Bacon will be hosting a Huffington Post event (and naturally he’s impressed with the new site). Let us know if you’ve spotted Arianna on the BBC or have seen … Continue reading
The BBC agenda is clear. Rebekah Wade must be sacked, Andy Coulson should be imprisoned, NOTW should be shut down and NewsCorp must NOT be allowed to take 100% shareholding in BSkyB. Oh, and David Cameron is unfit to be Prime Minister since he has people judgement is appalling. The hysterical tone adoped by the BBC in the past 24 hours on the phone-hacking issue seems to have reached a new … Continue reading
Compare and contrast the way that Richard Black – the current BBC so-called environment correspondent- and David Whitehouse, a former BBC science reporter who, unlike Richard, actually has a science degree, handle a report which shows that – despite all the fanatical outpourings of greenies – there has been little significant warming since 1998. Mr Black is red hot keen at the very beginning of his report to savage sceptics … Continue reading
If I were writing this story, the headline would be clear: “Tory eurofanatics kill UK train-building industry”. For the BBC, however, the real meat is little more than a footnote in a quote from a union spokesman to the bloody-minded, blinkered decision by the callous Cleggerons to stick to EU tendering processes and award a train-building contract to the Germans, thereby condemning thousands of people in Derby to the dole … Continue reading
Great stuff. (h/t Sres) Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Nothing at all at the BBC website about Guardian contributor Kia Abdullah’s crass and heartless twitter comments on the tragic death of three British students in a road accident in Thailand. ‘Is it really awful that I don’t feel any sympathy for anyone killed on a gap year?’‘I actually smiled when I saw that they had double-barrelled surnames. Sociopath?’ All across the twitterverse and blogosphere within hours and hitting the … Continue reading
A new week and time for a new OPEN thread for your edification. Off you go…. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
A statue of Ronald Reagan being unveiled with a quote from Margaret Thatcher – the BBC’s worst nightmare. BBC covers this on BBC1 by getting on a few “experts” to complain about how awful many statues are around London – the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square being highlighted as an example of the “right” sort of art. Over on Today, they interviewed Geoffrey Howe about Reagan and Thatcher (Howe being … Continue reading
