I had to laugh at the BBC’s treatment of US General James Conway’s remarks that Obama’s deadline to get out of Afghanistan is encouraging the Taliban. The General was speaking common sense, of course, but he has committed the unspeakable crime of contradicting Obama and the BBC was not impressed. He was dismissed as “a maverick” on the Today programme. Yes, leave the expert opinion of those in the theatre … Continue reading
The BBC leads the Radio 4 news this morning with the shock horror revelation that the June budget will hit poorest families hardest, or so alleges the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Yes, those Nasty Conservatives are back in power and instantly hurting the poor and disadvantaged, thank goodness we have the BBC to repeat this claim. Tomorrow. Tories eat their own babies? It strikes me that the BBC has become … Continue reading
The excellent Dan Hannan MEP raises the issue of BBC bias in the issue of directly elected police chiefs on his Telegraph blog today: There was a snotty, sneering, superior piece about elected sheriffs on Radio 4’s PM programme this evening. Inevitably, it included an interview with Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona. Sheriff Joe admires the Republicans, thinks there is too much illegal immigration, is beastly to scoundrels and … Continue reading
Writing on her blog in 2006 Katia Moskvitch says “In about a month I will finally graduate and become a “real” journalist!“ How’s that working out for her? Becoming a Russian reporter for the BBC was only the start – having demonstrated her scientific prowess with this Junior Wikipedia and GCSE textbook-fueled report on nuclear power we now witness her inevitable rise to: BBC News – Geoengineering ‘not a solution’ to … Continue reading
A Biased BBC reader writes… Newsnight (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tkx6p/Newsnight_23_08_2010/13 minutes in) had a go at explaining how the niqab is an empowering choicemade by Muslim women without pressure from husbands or brothers or indeedclerics. (Yes, seriously) I watched it and then by coincidence was clearing out old newspaper clippingswhen I found one from the Sunday Times in 2006 about the teacher, Aishah Azmi,who wanted to wear the veil in class. She at … Continue reading
B-BBC readers may recall a small furore over my tweet a few months ago that the Hate Flotilla should be stopped in it’s tracks and “no messing this time”. Gosh but the BBC were so VERY keen to hear what I meant by that with my political opponents claiming that this was “incendiary” and indeed verging on “bigoted” and “hate speech”. I rather got the impression that the dear old … Continue reading
Here we go, such is the stunning demand, a NEW Open Thread! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Marie Stopes, the birth control pioneer, is an icon of BBC lefties, feminists and trendies, as this glowing tribute posted today on the BBC website makes clear. Reporter Howard Falcon-Lang shows his breatheless admiration for what he portrays as a saintly pioneer of Darwinian science (thousands of brownie points in the BBC lexicon)and ensuring that women should be “liberated” through sex manuals (another brownie point subject, especially for contemporary ones … Continue reading
The BBC reports that Northern Ireland’s Police Ombudsman is due to publish his report into the alleged involvement of a priest in a 1972 IRA bombing in County Londonderry.Nine people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed in the village of Claudy in one of the most controversial incidents of the Troubles. I covered the topic here. It was such an atrocious act that even writing about it now angers me. … Continue reading
Have a read of this report from the BBC on the nature of the “dissident” IRA threat. The Dissidents claim thatthe vast majority are it’s members are ex Provisional IRA but on the same page the BBC’s correspondent says there is a small number of ex Provisional IRA. How odd! It’s almost as if the BBC is lining up behind the peace process establishment which would, of course, be bias. … Continue reading
