From a discussion about crime, punishment and rehabilitation on Kate Silverton’s Radio Five Live show this morning: Laurence Lee (solicitor for Jon Venables): It goes back in my opinion to maybe the sixties, lack of parental discipline. I don’t want to sound too right-wing here… Silverton: No, carry on because we all get accused of being too left-wing here so we like a bit of the other. Yeah, a “bit” … Continue reading
Part of the menace of the BBC lies in how it willingly, even joyfully, allows itself to be a propagandist for terrorism. The IRA milked this (still does) for all it was worth, so do radical Islamists, and now we have ETA making sure that it lets the BBC know first that it is to stop murdering. Of course, it has made similar claims before, and then gone back on … Continue reading
Interesting story here. ABC News apologises for running a story claiming that melting ice is making Mount Everest dangerous. But can you guess where ABC got the idea that this was true? Yes – the BBC! ABC has retracted the story. acknowledging it has no factual basis. The BBC remains mute. Lucky all that bias Mark Thompson now confirms lies in the past. Click through to read and contribute comments … Continue reading
The BBC will go to any lengths to say it is not biased, as Mark Thompson has graphically shown this week with his faux confession that the corporation was guilty of bias in the past but not now. The Leviathan wriggles, it bends, it contorts, it grimaces in pursuit of that central tenet. We on this site know that such defensiveness is a load of hogwash, but it’s nevertheless very … Continue reading
The BBC Thompson unbiased mindset is made up of a complete set of nanny-state values that is based, in turn, on fantasy views of science and human development. One of the central axioms is that life in nature and the past was idyllic. People grew their own food, didn’t produce any carbon dioixide, didn’t burn nasty fossil fuels and lived in constant orgasmic stasis (or whatever tendy word is in … Continue reading
Craig in the comments has already noted how Mark Mardell has posted a BBC online diary entry which is biased against Sarah Palin. I am having a go at analysing why it’s so unfair, because it has some elements of straight reporting combined with deeply suggestive comments which slant the whole thing. No one could accuse Mardell of being stupid, so let’s look at what he does. It’s the kind … Continue reading
Best laugh of the day. Labour called for ”clarity and reassurance” from the BBC after the director general of the corporation was photographed going into a meeting in Downing Street to apparently discuss coverage of government spending cuts. Cue four years of the BBC going out its poisonous way to attack the Coalition in order to prove how unbiased it is. Everybody….”Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,We’ll keep the red … Continue reading
First of all we had the headlines about Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s pledge to kill more Israelis, but they used the phrase “Israeli targets” which subtly lends legitimacy to their murderous intentions.Of course the real threat is to Israeli civilians, but the BBC would rather we didn’t realise this. Then they announced that right-wing Israelis were angry with the prime minister for stating that Mahmoud Abbas was a partner for … Continue reading
Interesting to read Andrew Gilligan’s critiques of the BBC’s love-in with radical Islam. ‘Why does the BBC air Islamist propaganda?’ Andrew Gilligan13 March 2010The Islamic Forum of Europe is decried by most Muslims as vicious and unrepresentative, says Andrew Gilligan. So why did Any Questions air its views? ‘The BBC’s propaganda for fundamentalist Islam ‘ One of the main conclusions I drew from my Telegraph/Channel 4 Dispatches investigation of the … Continue reading
OK, I’ve vented my spleen at the BBC for the day and now I invite you to share with us the bias you are picking up! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
