So as not to clog up the Open Thread, the comments field below contains some figures on this week’s edition of Question Time from Birmingham, where Baroness Warsi (pictured, for Bupendra!) faced a jeering David Dimbleby – oh, and a jeering audience too. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Biased BBC Clameur de Hero writes… “Could anyone fail buthear Naughtie giving virtually uninterrupted air-time on the Today prog thismorning to the whingeing bleat from David Walker, the (thankfully soon to beex) spinner-in-chief of the Audit Commission? Walker clearly felt that his politically-charged rant last month in the journalPublic Finance against the wise decision of Eric Pickles to scrap Walker’snon-job hadn’t resonated enough, hence the second go this morning, courtesy … Continue reading
Did anyone else have the misfortune to listen to this on Today this morning? Nice and balanced, so long as you hate the Coalition. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Further to Robin’s post earlier today, I received this very interesting follow up from a Biased BBC contributor which exposes further deadly bias. As you state the usual bias is there and quite clear, I do however feel the need to point out the grotesque inaccuracy of the graphic which is embedded in the story (titled “chemical breakdown of sludge”). As someone who carries out chemical research and has a … Continue reading
Here we go, one slightly delayed Red Ed approved Open Thread.. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The Splattergate saga continues, and I have been doing a little further digging about BBC connections. I’ve already mentioned Richard Curtis, scriptwriter of the snuff movie and BBC luvvie par excellence. But the 10:10 team behind this odious camapaign also has on board an ex-BBC chap, one Alexis Rowell, who, according to his biog, worked for ten years as a BBC reporter before becoming a pain-in-the-derriere eco-nut campaigner. He was … Continue reading
Yesterday, it was Deepwater Horizon which – in the BBC narrrative – was “one of the worst disasters in US history”. Today, our corporation friends give the open mike to Greenpeace to blast out a superlative-filled anti-industrial eco-nut rant against the chemical spill in Hungary: Herwit Schuster, a spokesman for Greenpeace International, described the spill as “one of the top three environmental disasters in Europe in the last 20 or … Continue reading
A nice little bit of investigation by B-BBC contributor Billy Blofeld, who has been busy with the FOI requests. The BBC have now provided him with up-to-date data broken down by how much they spend on recruitment advertisement with external organisations. 30% is quite a shocking slant of payment towards one particular source, but if you isolate only national newspapers this rises to a staggering 70%. From his blog: The BBC … Continue reading
Question Time tonight comes from Birmingham, largest council in Europe and which has seen the invention of gas lighting, custard powder, Brylcreem, and the magnetron. On the panel tonight we have an entirely unelected bunch: Baroness Warsi, Charles Clarke, Susan Kramer, Max Mosley and راجح عمر (Rageh Omaar). For those playing the Buzzword Bingo, we’ll be playing the ToryBashing Rules which means that pro-Tory remarks will score double because they’ll be as rare as hen’s … Continue reading
Jenni Murray on Woman Sour rewrites the Mayor of Casterbridge : “The Mayor of Casterbridge, written in 1886, opens in the market square in the town of Dorchester, where a drunk Michael Henchard is offering his wife for sale” OK, who’s ignorant – Jenni, the scriptwriter, or the researcher? As any Hardy reader kno, Henchard sold his wife at Weydon-Priors fair, miles from Dorchester – and the book opens with … Continue reading
