A BBC VIEW RARELY HEARD ON THE BBC!

Despite the relentless opposition to the liberation of Iraq, just occasionally the odd sensible comment gets through the propaganda machine.. Frank Gardner, BBCsecurity correspondent tells us what he thought of the 2003 invasion of Iraq…46 mins in. ‘….a massive mistake on many fronts….but having been there we knew what ahorrible regime it was. One of Saddam’s cronies kept a mangle through which hewould feed his enemies feet first. The removal of … Continue reading

TRAINS, PLANES AND AUTOMOBILES…

Here is a programmethat is on the face of it a harmless trip back in history…but there is anagenda…certainly from the BBC….pro nationalisation, anti-car and pro AGWbelief. ‘Ian Hislop goes off the rails’…first broadcast in 2008 and again this week. The timing surely to coincide with the non-Labour government’s plans to makecuts and improve efficiency in public services. Hislop rounds off the programme with this appeal…. ‘How far do you go with … Continue reading

Rape by Deception.

Israel faces a perplexing conundrum. How to absorb potentially hostile citizens into the population without a peep of discrimination. Until Arabs give up vowing to eliminate Israel it won’t go away. We face a similarly intractable problem, albeit on a different scale. You may or may not believe that Israel is no more racist than any other country, and very much less than many.The BBC perpetuates the theme that Israel … Continue reading

SANGATTE INSECTS…

Richard Black’s relentless search to attribute every event in the universe to climate change continues unabated. Today, he’s reported the lunatic findings by the British Dragonfly Society (no less) that the rather charming and beautiful dainty damselfly – a relative of the dragonfly – has returned, after an absence of almost 60 years, to a habitat in England, in Kent. The reason, Mr Black predictably reports, is global warming; Britain … Continue reading

DRONE DRONE DRONE..

Sunday Morning Live replaces the awful Big Question. Hosted by the lovely pouting Susanna Reid, it kicked off this morning with the usual BBC mantra – time to get out of Afghanistan. In fact the line being debated was “Are our soldiers dying in vain”. The BBC is keen to use the loss of soldiers lives over there to whip up support for their militant pacifism and evidently care little for … Continue reading

Impartiality, ahem

It was wrong; it was stated as fact by a BBC journalist; but because said journalist also reported someone else saying it was wrong it was not biased. John Rentoul in the Independent summarises the BBC’s defence of lying for effect misquoting in their news coverage of testimony to the Chilcot enquiry. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.