The central part of BBC reporting of climate change is an unquestioning acceptance of the tenets of the green religion. Here David Shukman – enlarging his size nine BBC carbon footprint with a nice trip to Texas in advance of Cancun – admiringly tells us that there are more wind turbines in the southern state than almost anywhere else. Breathlessly, too, he trots out their output as if, without a … Continue reading
George is looking forward to the weekend and hearing what you have to say about the Biased BBC. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
With impeccable timing (cold weather is never “climate” to the BBC, only hot spells are), Roger Harrabin rushes to tell us about the alarmists’ pronouncement that 2010 is on course to be the hottest year ever, ever, ever, in the known history of the universe or anything. In usual lapdog fashion, he recycles the claptrap of the Met Office. Shame he did not pause for a second to look at … Continue reading
Naturally the BBC went orgasmic over Sarah Palin’s “gaffe” Former Alaskan governor and potential 2012 presidential contender Sarah Palin has made a gaffe on a radio show by saying North Korea is a US ally.Answering questions from host Glenn Beck she said, “Obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.” Notice the weasel wording. Even though during the rest of the interview she had been talking of the … Continue reading
Question Time tonight comes from Maidstone in Kent, once the parliamentary seat of Disraeli, location of the largest paper recycling factory in Europe and birthplace of the bloke who plays “Barry” in Eastenders. On the panel tonight we have Ken Clarke MP, ex-GMTV sofa-bunny Gloria de Piero MP, Nigel Farage MEP (presumably the token right-winger) “Lord” Ashdown, and someone called Kate Mosse….who has written a novel….about France. Maybe they tried to book the supermodel and … Continue reading
When Obama made his gaffe about visiting 57 states, his slip of the tongue about “my Muslim faith“, and displayed his ignorance about the military when mispronouncing “corpsman” (particularly embarrassing for the Commander in Chief), none of the incidents was reported by the BBC. When he appeared on Jay Leno’s show in March 2009, Obama’s description of his own bowling skills as “like Special Olympics” created many headlines and much … Continue reading
The Guardian’s favourite cartoonist.“Steve Bell – At the centre of our culture”(David Yelland. Today radio 4.)Update: New Sharon cartoon to replace previous image that wasn’t by the Guardian’s favourite cartoonist Steve Bell. Sorry for any inconvenience, and thanks to Mr Gregory for pointing out my mistake. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
As several B-BBC readers have pointed out, the BBC has spent countless amounts of our money developing a “carbon footprint calculator” – launched yesterday with the requisite worthy pronouncements about saving the planet – which henceforward all its employeees will have to follow. Not only that, the corporation in its wisdom now plans to foist this smug self-righteousness upon the television industry as a whole. My question is why the … Continue reading
I thought Nick Robinson’s coverage of the student thuggery in London was a disgrace. At every opportunity he did his best to excuse the thugs and you know why? Because the BBC loves the set to with the Coalition. Did you see it? Thoughts? Rather than focus on the students violence, it’s all about the Lib-Dems breaking promises. Undermining the Coalition is the BBC meme. Click through to read and … Continue reading
We tear our hair over the way BBC journalists misrepresent issues we care about, so maybe we should sympathise with poor old Hamza A Tzortzis who complains rather perceptively that decontextualised references aren’t fair. He has responded to John Ware’s Panorama ‘British Schools, Islamic Rules’ with a press release. (H/T Elder of Ziyon) “In short, the programme misrepresented established Islamic teachings on a range of issues in a manner that … Continue reading
