North of the border, the BBC is also very busy breaching its own guidelines; “A BBC Scotland radio presenter is facing claims he breached the corporation’s guidelines on advertising after appearing in an STV advert for the Glasgow Science Centre.Colin Kelly, who fronts an early morning news show on Radio Scotland, appeared in an advertisement for the Science Centre which is being shown on STV this week. The presenter is … Continue reading
Here is an interesting analysis of a BBC News bulletin provided by a B-BBC reader; “The one o’clock news bulletin on BBC television today, the twelfth August 2011, was merely typical of all BBC news bulletins, but it would be useful to put it into a specimen bottle, for examination when- that is never!- the editorial slanting of BBC news reporting is subjected to full and detailed analysis. In this … Continue reading
The second-most important election in human history is a mere 445 days away, and the BBC is already focused on informing you how awful the President’s potential opponents are. They’re especially focused on telling you how awful the people are who will vote against Him. The BBC Narrative picks up right where it left off after the mid-term elections last November: racialism and fear-mongering about Christian Evangelicals. The first sentence … Continue reading
Welcome to the working week! Monday morning dawns and a new Open Thread for your edification. Got something to say about the BBC? Say it here! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
A B-BBC reader observes; “The BBC’s pro Islam, pro radical Islam, stance has been notice by numerous people, even Harry’s Place: ‘Anyone looking for proof that Britain is being ‘Islamised’ and that we’re all doomed need frankly look no further than the murky world of Tower Hamlets politics of which Rahman is the central figure. Yet the BBC presented Rahman as the voice of moderation. This is really poor on … Continue reading
During the Labour years,our universities were turned into third rate academic factories as more and more young people were lured into participating in the chase for next to useless degrees. Sensibly, the Coalition has tried to tackle this problem and this was always going to provoke the ire of the BBC. On Today, 7.50am the BBC does everything possible to get the head of UCAS to criticise government policy. The … Continue reading
You just KNEW the second that David Cameron had the temerity to talk of the “moral collapse” that afflicts our society BBC knives would be getting sharpened. So when Iain Duncan Smith appears on the main prime time slot on Today this morning, the interviewers key objective was to see if he could get IDS to deny Cameron’s assertion. In the BBC world view of moral relativism one must never … Continue reading
Kaye Adams, the BBC broadcaster, has been accused of being unfit to present a top current affairs programme after she tweeted in response to Boris Johnson’s suggestion that rioters should face tough punishments, “P*** off back to boarding school, Boris”. Hmm. The former presenter of Loose Women, the ITV talk show, who presents a popular Radio Scotland show, was on holiday in Tuscany when she made a series of expletive-filled … Continue reading
Is the staid cosy world of Radio 4 topical comedy really being forced into a tokenistic gesture to fend off criticism of its blatant political bias? I don’t know how truthful that tweet is but it would be amusing to think that, after all these years, Hardy and pals suddenly found that even their smug little lefty enclave was not beyond the reach of the BBC’s Diversity Strategy with its … Continue reading
Today’s Telegraph reports that Steven Sugar’s widow is to take on his battle with the BBC over the Balen report. In the article a BBC spokesman is quoted as saying: “If we are not able to pursue our journalism freely and have honest debate and analysis over how we are covering important issues, then how effectively we can serve the public will be diminished.” I’m not entirely sure whether this … Continue reading
