While everyone is enduring yet another full day of BBC reporting negatively about the nasty cuts forced on the poorest by the Conservative-led Coalition, it’s also necessary to check out the BBC’s reporting on budget policy developments in the US.Barack Obama unveils US budget plans for 2012 US President Barack Obama has unveiled his 2012 budget, describing the proposal as a “down payment” on future cuts to the US budget … Continue reading
Attacking Israel with malice aforethought is one of this country’s favourite pastimes. From grave political misrepresentation emanating from MPs and broadcasters, to gossip and urban myth perpetuated by press, television, journalists and chatterati. For example, a misdiagnosis of the PaliLeaks revelations is firmly embedded in public consciousness. Despite being filtered through sources with infamously anti-Israel agendas – the Guardian and Al-Jazeera – the consensus is that the Palestinian negotiators were … Continue reading
From Michael Buerk’s intro to the Moral Maze this week (via Bishop Hill): “not long ago, to question multiculturalism… risked being branded racist and pushed into the loathesome corner with paedophiles and climate change deniers” Is Buerk really comparing climate change “deniers” with paedophiles, or is this observation from Saul Jacka in the comments at Bishop Hill closer to the mark? With respect, isn’t Michael Buerk something of a controversialist?In … Continue reading
Reviewing a day’s output (6.00am-10.00pm) of the BBC News Channel might perhaps give another perspective on the endemic problem of BBC bias. In the comments field below you will find a detailed run-through of the channel’s coverage of one particular story on Monday of this week and how that compares to their treatment of a seemingly similar story on the following day. Then a number of other stories featured as … Continue reading
The old Open Thread has fled to Sharm el Shiekh. A new Open Thread has been installed. Let the protests against the reporting bias of the BBC continue! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
A little bit more on the BBC promoting an exhibition of photographs by the German propagandist photographer with the chilling rictus grin and the “who, me?” shrug.I first heard it advertised on Radio 4’s night-time World Service programme on the arts, “The Strand.” I mentioned it in my previous post, and several commenters mentioned it again on yesterday’s Open Thread.See what Robin Shepherd has written, watch the video, and weep. … Continue reading
In the month of January, there were 268 arbitrary arrests and detentions of peaceful opponents of the Castro Regime in Cuba. At least 268 arbitrary haltings of pacific opponents happened during the past month of January, revealed a report disclosed in Havana by the Cuban Commission of Human rights and Reconciliación Nacional (CCDHRN). All the prisoners were released after some hours or of several days, but four of them were … Continue reading
Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper today told the House Intelligence Committee that the Muslim Brotherhood is “largely secular“. I don’t think even the Brotherhood’s cheerleaders at the BBC have gone so far as to say anything that stupid. It’s causing waves in the American media and blogosphere, and yet the BBC’s account of proceedings fails to mention it. UPDATE FEB 11. The administration has “clarified” Clapper’s remarks. Nothing … Continue reading
Tonight Question Time comes from Bristol, birthplace of failed singer Nik Kershaw, failed comedian Lee Evans and failed lesbian Julie Burchill. It was also the destination of the final Concorde flight. On the panel tonight we have the dripping wet Francis Maude MP, senile old fool Menzies Campbell MP, expenses fiddler and porno merchant Jacqui Smith, the always-wrong Mehdi Hasan and the only concession to reality on the panel Douglas Murray. … Continue reading
Former BBC newsreader Michael Buerk, quoted in the Telegraph: “If you’ve been hired because you are young and pretty, because you are mincingly camp, because you’ve ticked a particular ethnic box and then you are no longer young and pretty or the fashions have moved on and you suddenly don’t have a job – get over it. It’s showbusiness… The problem is that at the other extreme of the argument. … Continue reading
