‘As early as the first paragraph of the Introduction he claims that “never a thought is given to Gaza” in the city of Tel Aviv.’ I lifted that from ‘Philosemite’ Chas Newkey Burden’s blog post about Gideon Levy’s book “The Punishment of Gaza”, which elicited a lively response from people who think of Levy as an obnoxious self serving liar. Seeing as how Gideon Levy has been hobnobbing with Jeremy … Continue reading
Back in May the BBC reported the following: A cartoonist whose work inspired an internet campaign inviting people to draw images of the Prophet Muhammad has apologised for her role in the row. Writing on her blog, Molly Norris said her satirical cartoon was “hijacked” and that the campaign was “offensive to Muslims”… Molly Norris drew a cartoon in April to protest against the decision by a US television channel … Continue reading
On last night’s Newsnight Kirsty Wark had obviously been instructed to sex up the “savage cuts will cause the death of millions of women, children and old people” narrative by wheeling in a trio of rent-a-whiners waving shrouds on behalf of defence, the police and, naturally the NHS. As Kirsty wielded her remote each of these Duracell bunnies leapt into life to squawk about the horrors to come. Former Brown … Continue reading
On his blog, Cash Peters is taking a stand against “the nutjobs and loons”. He has responded to my post about him yesterday by comparing it to “Opposition arsonists who spread fear, irrational and baseless rumors, and a raft of lies about Obama in the hope of destabilizing his power to govern and discredit him and his administration.” Gosh! And armed only with his trusty raw vegetable and a healing … Continue reading
Our old favourite – Question Time is back tonight! Not just any jewel, but the very Koh-I-Noor of BBC bias returns with a peach of a broadcast: a Labour leadership special where the five candidates will be on the panel facing questions from a hand-picked audience. You should all have received your new-season Buzzword Bingo cards by now. For the first programme you’ll need the set which has a picture … Continue reading
Daily Politics reporter Giles Dilnot is the stand-in presenter on Radio Five Live’s Up All Night this week. On this morning’s show he and the show’s regular conservative-hating US TV reviewer (and New Age goofball) Cash Peters discussed the new right-leaning TV network backed by Kelsey Grammer. Here’s the sneering, mocking exchange in full: Listen! Sweet irony – Cash Peters deriding a broadcaster for being one-sided when the BBC has … Continue reading
A B-BBC reader notes… Did you note that yesterday ‘Today’ referred to Billy Wright…..Loyalist terrorist…’exceptionally dangerous and who continued to murder Catholics as mainstream paramilitaries edged towards peace….in some circles his death could be seen as productive.’ Shame the BBC couldn’t bring themselves to condemn Hamas in such tones after the murder of 4 Israelis recently….would the BBC agree Israel was being ‘productive’ in the peace process by killing these … Continue reading
Phew – we made it to Wednesday and a brand new Open Thread! Make sure you file your observations of BBC bias here! Don’t hold back… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Anyone catch this report from Jeremy Al Bowen as he strolls around the streets of Jerusalam to “find out the mood of the public towards continuing peace negotiations”? Bowen parrots the Palestinian demand that Jerusalem must also be it’s Holy City (as much as it is Israel’s) if there is to be peace – this equivocation is so ludicrous only Bowen could make it. If Palestinians wanted a publicist who … Continue reading
Now then, this was never going to be comfortable issue for the BBC to tackle – perish the thought that State workers are living off the fat of the economic land, enjoying substantial salary benefits over their private sector colleagues with feather bedded pension provision to boot. So, what to do, thinks the State workers in the BBC? They invite on Carl Emmerson from the Institute of Fiscal Studies who … Continue reading
