B-BBC favourite Andrew Marr gave his fellow BBC interviewers a masterclass this morning in how to be biased. He interviewed both the chancellor George Osborne and the new shadow chancellor Alan Johnson. Compare the introductions to each each interview and you will get a very good idea of what the actual interviews were like: Johnson: “Well from one legendary rocker to another. No, not quite. But though the new shadow … Continue reading
Did you read that expenses claims lodged by Peter Horrocks, the director of the World Service and BBC Global News, show he travelled business class for a British General Election reception on May 6th held at the British Embassy in Washington DC. He flew back to London the following day. The flights cost £1,780 with an additional £181.49 spent on his hotel room. Mr Horrocks, who earns £242,800 a year, … Continue reading
Well, the big question the BBC asks this morning via the pouting Suzanne Reid on Sunday Morning Live is..”Should the age of consent be lowered to 14″? Peter Tatchell was on to pontificate on this subject, hardly appropriate for a Sunday morning but the BBC seem to get excited about it. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Whilst figures such as Lady Thatcher and Ronald Reagan have always attracted BBC opprobrium, Nelson Mandela has been one of their heroes, beyond criticism, a knight in shining armour. Did you catch this latest gushing tribute to the elderly Marxist? It’s not that I think it fair enough to discuss Mandela but the sort of starry-eyed hero worship continually served up by the BBC does not provide the full story. … Continue reading
As the story of the rescue of the Chilean Miners unfolded I realised that behind my hope that it would be successfully resolved lay an ever deepening dread – that the BBC would somehow find a convoluted way of placing the blame on Augusto Pinochet, one of the key figures in the BBCs pantheon of evil. Watching Friday’s Newsnight my fears were vindicated when a breathless Wark interviewed Ariel Dorfman, … Continue reading
Last week the BBC World Service commemorated the highly significant 43rd anniversary of Che Guevara’s death by asking former KGB-funded commie-sympathising Guardian journalist Richard Gott to offer his adoring version of the “Christ-like” psychopathic thug. Be warned, you may need a bucket for this one. (Thanks to Marky for the clip; further hat-tips to Abandon Ship, Rueful Red and John Horne Tooke). Over on Townhall.com Humberto Fontova also marked the … Continue reading
Have a giggle as we enter the weekend by reading Mark Mardell’s latest love poem to Obama. It strikes me yet again that poorer black Americans have infinitely more patience than those who are new to economic hardship, (Mmm……is he trying to say w-h-i-t-es?) and they don’t expect change to happen overnight. But they, too, await results. There is little doubt that Mr Obama’s image is not all it was when … Continue reading
I bring you this via the Libertarian Bulldog… “The BBC has made available on its website a 54 minute recording of the discussion in Parliament about the quangos situation. The page is headlined: Quango reform will cost jobs, warns Maude No, really? Wow, who would have thought it. I’m not watching the entire discussion so cannot say whether Frances Maude did or did not make such a warning. What I’m pretty sure … Continue reading
It’s propaganda, not news. So off into the weekend with a new open thread! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Anyone catch the easy ride afforded to Nicola Sturgeon during this interview on the BBC? Note how Evan Davies gets lippy to start with, is given a verbal slap by the not so lovely Nicola, and then allows her to trot out one economic inanity after another without serious challenge. SNP delusionalism is given free vent without so much as a demur murmur. Click through to read and contribute comments … Continue reading
