Biased BBC

What is Roger Harrabin doing?

By DB | January 12, 2011 - 4:09 pm |November 5, 2012 Roger Harrabin

Seeing as Robin Horbury, our own expert analyst in these matters, is on holiday we’ll let Autonomous Mind pick up the slack. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

OLBERMANN ON THE BBC

By DB | January 12, 2011 - 3:15 pm |November 5, 2012 Keith Olbermann, Palin Derangement Syndrome, Rhod Sharp, Up All Night

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This is another post about the Tuscon shootings, but I’m not apologising because the BBC seems to be getting even more partisan about the affair, difficult as that may be to believe. Tuesday’s Up All Night on Radio Five Live gave Keith Olbermann the best part of twenty minutes to slag off the American right while presenter Rhod Sharp tossed up softball questions and agreed with every pompous sanctimonious comment … Continue reading →

OPEN THREAD..

By David Vance | January 12, 2011 - 2:22 pm |January 12, 2011 open thread

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Seeing as how the previous thread is surging up towards the 200 mark, for your ease, here is a new open thread for this era of “civil discourse”…. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

By David Vance | January 12, 2011 - 2:20 pm |November 5, 2012 thought for the day watch

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Wonder if you caught “Thought for the Day” with Shaikh Abdal Hakim Murad, Muslim Chaplain at the University of Cambridge (Where else?) this morning. I so enjoyed his comments on how the use of martial images in politics has a long history. I guess he could also have pointed out it also has a long history in religion, not least Islam. However his treatise focused on the American “right-wing” (Natch) and … Continue reading →

QUOTE FOR THE DAY

By David Vance | January 12, 2011 - 2:12 pm |November 5, 2012 Nazi appreciation

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This was brought to my attention by a B-BBC reader. It’s the BBC quote for the day. “Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.” Who said that? Yes, Martin Bormann. So, quoting from Nazis. What could be more normal for the State Broadcaster? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

Question Time LiveBlog 13th January 2011

By All Seeing Eye | January 12, 2011 - 7:27 am |January 12, 2011 BBC Question Time, question time live

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A reminder, as if we needed one, that the grim horror of Question Time returns tomorrow Thursday the 13th for the first show of 2011. It’s BBC bias in the raw; at its most blatant and visceral. As usual we’ll be hosting a live chat here starting at 10:30pm and followed by the unspeakably awful yet strangely unmissable This Week with Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo. If the wine hasn’t … Continue reading →

A Reminder For Mark Mardell

By DB | January 11, 2011 - 7:51 pm |November 5, 2012 Mark Mardell, Palin Derangement Syndrome

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The tragedy in Tuscon has given BBC North America editor Mark Mardell the opportunity to bang on and on and on about the “harsh rhetoric” of the American Right. Mr Mardell should take a look at this BBC report from October last year. He may find it familiar. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

OPEN THREAD

By DB | January 11, 2011 - 9:36 am |January 11, 2011 open thread

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BBC Editor Removes Anti-Palin Tweet

By DB | January 11, 2011 - 9:00 am |November 5, 2012 Palin Derangement Syndrome, Rachel Kennedy, Twitter

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BBC News editor Rachel Kennedy has removed the tweet, highlighted here, in which she expressed hope that recent events would “do for” Sarah Palin (h/t John Horne Tooke). In case you missed it here’s the screengrab: Kennedy will now be attending a “masterclass” by BBC Twitter tutor Sue Llewellyn (who was herself quite keen to associate Palin with the Tuscon shootings): No doubt the licence payer will be picking up … Continue reading →

Another Thing The BBC Don’t Report

By Laban | January 11, 2011 - 8:09 am |November 5, 2012 anti-republican

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While the BBC look for the Palin connection, at left American magazine Mother Jones, reporter Nick Baumann interviews an old friend of Jared Loughner, Bryce Tierney : On Sunday, federal prosecutors charged 22-year-old Loughner with one count of attempting to assassinate a member of Congress, two counts of unlawfully killing a federal employee, and two counts of attempting to kill a federal employee. Giffords was the target of Loughner’s rampage, … Continue reading →