Compare these reports. The BBC website is upbeat about the Palestinians’ latest measures to heal the feud between Hamas and Fatah. Mahmoud Abbas is ready to go to Gaza, and Hamas has welcomed the move. Hoorah! The second paragraph reads: “Both parties seem to be responding to the recent demonstrations that were inspired by the uprisings elsewhere in the Middle East, reports the BBC’s Jon Donnison from Ramallah.” Then why … Continue reading
Hillary Clinton told CNN the other day that she won’t be working for the President if there is a second term in 2012. Not just that she doesn’t want to be Sec. of State again, but wants no position at all in His Administration. She told Wolf Blitzer that she doesn’t want to be Sec. of State again because she has the best job in the world right now. Because … Continue reading
This is an update to earlier blogposts by David Preiser about BBC coverage of the troubled passage of deficit reduction legislation in Wisconsin (see here, here, here). Media double-standards over Wisconsin have become so blatant that even a left-leaning blogger on Huffington Post, Lee Stranahan, has expressed his distaste: Why isn’t the mainstream media talking about the death threats against Republican politicians in Wisconsin? …Ignoring the story of these threats … Continue reading
The weekend beckons so here is a new Open Thread to lead us into it…. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
I chuckled at this interview on the BBC this morning. You can feel BBC outrage at the fact that more and more Brits are living longer than ever despite our obesity/unhealthy eating/incorrect drinking/you name it. It’s so unfair that people thrive despite the Nanny State the BBC would impose on us all! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The BBC’s ability to wilfully miss the parts of news stories that do not fit in with “the narrative” is always amusing. A Biased BBC reader notes; “We have headline stories of government cuts damaging Britain’s education by limiting foreign students …Mark Easton labelling it a ‘scathing critique’ and another story about the ‘doubling’ of student debt….and another about teenagers getting lessons in how to get a good night’s sleep…and … Continue reading
Now that the..ahem… “world’s highest moral authority” the UN has finally gotten around to authorising “all necessary measures” – short of soldiers going in – the BBC has instantly responded in tried and tested manner. Mark Mardell was on Today just after 7am telling us that thanks to Obama’s decision not to show leadership, this has enabled the UN to show leadership. However whilst the BBC pays tribute to Obama … Continue reading
Question Time tonight comes from Eastbourne, which boasts of being the sunniest place in Britain based only on a freak statistic from 1911 and is the location of the third most popular suicide spot in the UK. The ashes of Frederick Engels were scattered there upon his death. Marvellous. On the panel tonight we have…well, it’s just surreal. Question Time’s favourite minority box-ticker Baroness Warsi, the Labour guy who posed … Continue reading
Is The Arab World another world? Separate from the ordinary one?I thought the world was just the world, inhabited, but not owned, by various groups, creatures and vegetation. But if I was wrong, and the Arabs own a world, or part of the world I occupy, who owns my bit? Should we call it the Infidel World?Or is the Arab World like the World of Leather, not a world at … Continue reading
On Fridaynight, 11th March, a family of Jews werekilled in the West Bank. Once more the world saw Jews being killed forbeing Jews. Three of the victims werechildren, the youngest a baby of 3 months. This photoof the victims has been readily available since the 12thMarch. Nowhere has it appeared on BBCOnline. It is normal that photos ofmurder victims do appear in reports on their murder. It humanises the victims and … Continue reading
