ALL A MATTER OF SUBJECTIVITY?

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

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

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

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

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

PRESSURE DROP

There was an interesting story on the news this morning about the best way to diagnose people to see if they suffer from high blood pressure. A quarter of patients may find visiting a GP stressful, leading to misdiagnosis and being given drugs they do not need.Patients in England and Wales will be offered extra checks using a mobile device that records blood pressure over 24 hours, says the watchdog … Continue reading

A RIGHT SIR ANTHONY….

We are not the only people who see the bias that so characterises the BBC output. Take the recent Radio 4 programme “The Reunion”. A B-BBC contributor notes… “I didn’t listen to this programme because you can only take so much…and you know exactly the direction these fellow travellers will take when discussing Communism….lucky for me Charles Moore has done the hard work and has put the BBC well and truly … Continue reading

WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS…

Of course it is not just Evan Davies who has interests that are not immediately obvious; A Biased BBC contributor notes… “Reference Evan Davis and his membership of the SMF board….John Humphrys is a shareholder in ‘YouGov’ the polling company. Any conflict of interest there when the BBC is telling us Labour is surging in the polls according to YouGov perhaps? ‘Humphrys, who has worked on programmes such as ‘Panorama’, … Continue reading