98 Responses to OPEN THREAD

  1. George R says:

    Like INBBC, Channel 4 hates the English Defence League, and has a political soft spot for ‘radical Islam’, i.e. Islamic jihadists:

    “Radical Muslims given Channel 4 slot ”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/8165311/Radical-Muslims-given-Channel-4-slot.html

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  2. Guest Who says:

    The few BBC apologists that do venture from the bunker really are getting desperate.

    Like a compo-on-legal aid slapper trying to spin a rape trial from an imagined boob brush in a crowed tube train (when working), they emerge to try and wangle some silly point of order once in a blue moon, and even if valid ineptly, and in so doing merely emphasis that 99.9999% of the critiques here are incontrovertible and valid.

    Unlike the 99.9999% of views as news that the £3.6B national broadcast propaganda machine mis-issues daily as ‘fact’.

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  3. kitty shaw says:

    Pounce, I think that Tescos looks suspiciously like the its the one near to my work. If so, you can be sure I will use it more now, unless they cave in to the Islamists demands, in which case I will boycott them!

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  4. George R says:

    Radio 4  ‘Desert Island Discs’* indicates political ingrown toenail stuff as guest R. Harris mentions that both he and Beeboid ‘Today’s  J. Naughtie are each married to BBC-NUJ producers at ‘Newsnight’.

    (*Repeat Friday 9 am.)

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  5. Martin says:

    I was out at work this morning and I swear I’ve never been so cold (north Kent) even when down in the Falklands many years ago.

    Global warming, my arse.

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  6. Martin says:

    Richard ‘mong’ Bacon just did a classic, talking to some bloke who wrote a book on John Lenon Bacon said that the “book was almost as long as the Bible” and when the author said “and as truthful” Bacon laughed and said “not very then”

    Now I’m not a god squad member so I think the bible is a pile of crap anyway, but so is the Koran, but I can’t imagine Bacon ever saying a similar thing about the Koran.

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    • NotaSheep says:

      With the surname Bacon I wonder if he would be allowed to even the hold the Koran without someone taking ‘offense’?

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  7. Martin says:

    Hoe typical that the BBC leads off by telling us that George Osborne has got it wrong and that the worlds greatest economist (Postman Pat) has got it right.

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  8. Pounce says:

    How the bBC provides a dumbed down news reporting service.
    bBC version 
    Iran says nuclear programme was hit by sabotage
    Fox version:
    Mystery Surrounds Cyber Missile That Crippled Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Ambitions

    Now I have to accept the fact that my assessment of the above may be biased because of the story. Yet taking that into account which article is the one you’d expect to see written by an impartial world reknowned news agency?

    I rest my case.

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  9. james1070 says:

    There was actually an excellent documentary on BBC2 this evening.
    Ian Hislop’s Age of Do-Gooder, very informative and balanced. It was a very different approach to history, with excellent and informed talking heads. And considering the topic not all that preach. Ian’s presentation beats Andrew Marr’s anyday.

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:

      I found the topic to be very preachy, and noticed that every time closer examination of his subject’s dreams made things look a bit closer to light fascism, he shied away and played the morality card again.

      (Excluding the segment about the reformation of the Civil Service, that is.)

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      • james1070 says:

        I liked the bit were he had the Scottish Romantic critique Robert Owens utopia. This gave the programme a bit of balance and Hislop generally agreed with many unfashionable points such as welfare dependency.

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