Here you go, a new Open Thread. I see the BBC are virtually orgasmic about the latest UKIP “revelation” and I heard them discussing on the Today programme whether there was a core UKIP support that is indeed homophobic and racist. Plus ca change. Meanwhile, BBC doing all they can to suggest that a devout Muslim has been taken hostage by coffee extremists in Sydney! The floor is yours…
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I couldn’t really bring myself to watch the Sports Personality of the Year award show last night, but did see the starting segment. The advance trailing and the choice of potential winners just turned me off.
Quite a few came from what I would describe as worthy yet minority sports and several I had either never heard of or fell into the category of having to delve back into the old memory bank to recall what they actually did (Lizzy Yarnell for instance won gold at the Winter Olympics but hasn’t done much of note since).
How can some of these be classified as personalities OF THE YEAR? Maybe they did interview well at the time, or match expectations at the time but that doesn’t constititute personality of the year status!
The whole thing has just become horribly outdated and much too bland. Why, for instance, was Ronnie O’Sullivan not given the chance to win something? He represents a popular sport, has been pretty successful at it and has something about him, surely?
What this ceremony really needed was some transparency around the criteria for entry, and transparency around the results. Both were lacking… who chose the entrants, what were the measures for success and how many voted for each I wondered?
‘What this ceremony really needed was some transparency around the criteria for entry’
Well nomination for entry used to be done by a poll of press sports journalists. Then suddenly the BBC had a fit that it was all looking far too blokey and off-message. Now we have a BBC sponsored Common Purpose box ticking panel to select who it is we should be allowed to vote for.
Watch this space – I forsee a time when the BBC moves to cut out the public vote element in favour of something more to their liking. Already I noted a BBC News Channel anchor muse rather dejectedly : “Doesn’t a public vote just mean the most popular sportsman gets to win?” Seems the seeds of doubt are already sown. By instinct the BBC can’t trust the public to decide.
‘cut out the public vote element in favour of something more to their liking’
Being professional sport at this level is the most competitive race (in all senses) to be seen as the best on merit (drug cheats excepted), it will be interesting if future title winners feel that being accorded it on the basis of a BBC LGBT advisor’s Calvin Klein’s getting a bit moist is quite the peer accolade they are seeking.
Still, if another raft of BBC execs can tuck away some lucre by using public money to secure public donations to the BBC, the unique funding aspects of the BBC will remain preserved.
Anyone who has participated in this ‘BBC Trust’ review of Radio 4/ 5 – which every contributor to this site ought to – will have seen questions relating to their coverage of minority sports.
https://consultations.external.bbc.co.uk/bbc/speech-radio
You can see where the BBC is going with this (and of course where the BBC goes, the BBC Trust too)
Well, the tortuous efforts in the last two years – polling 5% and 8% – to get Mo Farrar to the Personality was painful to observe. The public did fail to do their duty and the establishment found it very difficult to hide their feelings about the voting public.
Team of the year – England’s Women’s Rugby Union?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Biggest stitch up since Qatar 2022
One is sure everyone’s first thoughts are with the hostages.
Certainly the police and authorities grappling with their safe release.
I don’t know for certain who is responsible as that is playing out, likely just as planned, but the efforts devoted to who it isn’t (based on poor graphic design, amongst other things) by almost all media is astounding. Victims more an afterthrought..
The Indy seems obsessed with a taxi firms poor PR. Classy.
A bunch of others appear to feel scouting the rooftops to provide advance warning of any rescue activity is the way to go.
I now leave you with this tweet for why I tend now to hold all media in utter contempt not just for their agendas or ratings hunger, but their simple absence of professional integrity.
Inspector Gadget @InspGadgetBlogs
I wonder if journos in the background of the live feed here http://www.channel4.com/news/sydney-siege-hostages-held-in-central-cafe- … know hostage families can hear them laughing & joking?
Expect the BBC to run this with ”Extreme Right Wing Jihadist’s ” as the heading for the coverage.
Or “Religious Conservatives” which is one they have used many times before.
Sports personality?…there hasn`t been one since Ian Botham has there. so it`s an oxymoron.
Maybe tax-dodging badge kissing phonies who please those moist fragrant types that do womens sports( Book of Partridge!) are all that need to be garlanded-poor poppets don`t get ENOUGH slavering or money from the BBC and selected fawning institutes like DCMS.
Is Hamilton using one of his thirty days residency here in the UK to get the prize-or are they using 3D printers nowadays?
And no-car driving isn`t a sport-bad for mother earth, fuels the Saudis and breaks every EU HSE directive known to man(and woman of course).
Where are the women racing drivers then..can`t ALL be reversing out of Tescos can they?
It`s not a sport!
I cannot agree. Tony McCoy is pure class through and through.
Gives his very best every horse race however minor or major. Has just come back from bad injuries. Just the same.
The best jockey I will ever see and the most modest and courageous. Just class .
Lay off the cyclists!
I do not understand how anyone dependant on a car being inherently faster than a rivals, (due to more funding) or not breaking down or someone dependent on a horse being quicker than another can ever be a true sportsman or sportswomen. Jo Pavey would be my choice, especially as so many of her competitors are mire in possible drug cheating accusation.
Strictly speaking snooker and darts are games not sports …
Donning flame retardant underwear in 3 … 2… 1…
Not bias as such, but as with SPOTY so the same applies with Strictly where defined measures for success and greater transparency is needed.
In circumstances where people are invited to phone in and vote, and the cost of phoning in is quite high with a suspicion that either the BBC or a BBC organisation of choice (be it a charity or whatever) might be deriving some financial benefit from the volume of calls made, then there should be some onus at the very least on the BBC to define properly the measures for success and the voting outcomes?
Some might say that Strictly has lost a degree of integrity these last couple of weeks with the voting outcomes, and some transparency might help to assuage some of these concerns?
Let’s be honest, if the spotlight shone elsewhere the BBC would be among the first to castigate the organisation and event concerned.
I watch and enjoy SCD but I doubt many people trust the voting system. I certainly don’t. I would only trust it if run by a 3rd party separate from the programme production and that ain’t gonna happen.
Yes, same here…
One for the conspiracy theorists? Who knows, but I don’t suppose too many would bet against it..
https://uk.celebrity.yahoo.com/gossip/omg/strictly-come-dancing-2014–jake-wood-goes-from-favourite-to-eliminated–is-tour-snub-to-blame-160221214.html
It would be interesting to do an analysis of the contestants and the stage at which they are dumped off the show.
The contestants seem to fit categories. Fit young actress/singer, fit sportsman, plucky TV presenter who has a crisis mid season, fatty (for laughing at) and at least two ethnics and one other person to hate and humiliate.
I’ve often suspected their exits are carefully planned, barring accidents or non compliance.
Still, it is not like the BBC has a history of fixing phone ins or competitions is it?
For INBBC, re- Islamic jihad hostage-taking in Sydney-
“Islamic flag on show as hostages held in Sydney cafe”
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/islamic-flag-on-show-as/1530304.html?
Supplementary.
Pamela Geller has:
“Australia hostage-taker is ‘self-proclaimed IS extremist’ known to police ”
– See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/12/australia-hostage-taker-is-self-proclaimed-is-extremist-known-to-police.html/#sthash.yPOr4rVX.dpuf
At least, Sky News flags up the significance of the Islamic jihad black flag-
“Sydney Siege Flag Examined For Terror Clues”
http://news.sky.com/story/1392048/sydney-siege-flag-examined-for-terror-clues
As with the Sydney police commissioner, INBBC doesn’t know what the black flag of Islamic jihad represents.
‘Jihadwatch’ has-
“Sydney police commissioner on jihad flag: ‘We’re still trying to work out what exactly it stands for'”
Robert Spencer comment:-
“It stands for jihad. It stands for the Islamic confession of faith, ‘There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet’.”
“But in a political culture that is determined to ignore the patently obvious regarding Islamic jihad, the police commissioner has to scratch his head and say that he just can’t figure out what could possibly be motivating these jihadis in the Lindt Chocolat Cafe.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/sydney-police-commissioner-on-jihad-flag-were-still-trying-to-work-out-what-exactly-it-stands-for
No doubt Beeboids are deferring to INBBC Arabic TV on this, as we speak, to get ‘the truth’ about Islamic jihad and black flags.
More on Islamic jihad black flags for INBBC, from Glenn Beck-
“Do You Know the History Behind the ‘Black Flags of Jihad’?”
(2013.)
(inc video clip.)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/25/do-you-know-the-history-behind-the-black-flags-of-jihad-theblazes-buck-sexton-breaks-it-down/
“Jihad” stands for personal struggle, e.g. a sort of Muslim Weight Watchers.
It’s amzing what you can pick up at the Beeb.
According to the Wikipedia article jihad there is not even agreement amongst the most devoted Muslims on what the term means.
I suspect that suits the BBC down to the ground as they can pick which ever version suits their purpose at the time.
Don’t you just hate it when your local terrorist can’t get the right flag to put up to spell out who he is, so instead just flies some random rag with a cryptic quote on it giving no clues. Oh for some Poirot or Holmes who might be able to figure something out.
Where I live the shops stock and happily sell a full range of terrorist banners – I’d have no trouble getting one.
Yes, Endsieg for the BBC over UKIP must be nigh if the smug chortling on Today is anything to go by. Baldy Nick was even “joining the dots”, cutting to the core of the matter with his razor sharp mind. Apparently, it’s “power”. What enlightenment! Baldy Nick has also been “joining the dots” in the case of the Sydney siege – it’s a UKIP black op to discredit the Religion of Peace.
Maybe, Baldy Nick is on prescription sedatives too.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/bbc-changes-their-story-slightly/
Not ‘changes’… evolves.
And it is entirely legitimate if in good faith as facts change too.
Thing is, say one thing often enough that turns out to be more scare than accurate, you start to get a reputation for pushing propaganda, especially on the back of secret ‘settled science’ gatherings.
And it doesn’t help that the BBc has a habit of ‘evolving’ stories via overwriting what they pushed before, so it no longer registers.
Except on the internet, or if dragged from archive.
Luckily for the BBC, they still control ‘the now’, no matter how inaccurate or rigged their versions are.
Such trust and transparency perceptions may be on thin ice now.
Originally in the early hours of this morning I was switching between sky & BBc about the Sydney siege. It was stated an ISIS flag was being used then the description switched to a Shahada flag. When I last saw BBc were describing it as a flag with “Arabic writing”.
I too was intrigued by the BBC’s sudden interest in the finer points of vexillology. Holding hostages + Islam inspired = Islamic Terrorist. QED. Self-radicalised? – Maybe, who cares? Despite BBC disclaimers I’m assuming this is not simply an arabic speaker with a home made Jolly Roger
‘Lone Wolf Attack’
Speaking of flicking between the two:
BBC H and W @bbchw
NEWS:5 men have appeared in court, charged with fraud & terrorism-related offences – 3 of the men were planning to fight for Islamic State.
Lots and lots of ‘men’ about today.
Plus, now, a ‘Man’:
Sky News @SkyNews
Man Haron Monis, named as the #sydneysiege gunman, may have a “fetish for self-publicity”. http://news.sky.com/story/1392286/sydney-cafe-siege-gunman-is-named …
I await other gobsmacking insights from our media…
This guy nails it for where Jezza & Jon should be ‘investigating’…
Edmond Dante @edtheball69
@RT_com a Mossad agent
BBC R4 news at 6am reporting on the UKIP candidate, Perry Smith’s, resignation, informed us what a disastrous week it had been for Nigel Farage starting with the ‘mocking’ of his claim that roads were getting jammed up because of immigration.
Funny, the only ‘mocking’ I heard was from the Left, so it’s interesting that the BBC should choose to portray it as a general reaction.
Humphrys was nauseating this morning on “The Today Programme” after the 8 a.m. headlines when they started talking about UKIP’s personnel problems. His tone of voice changed, there was chortling, derision, almost as if he always knew that the alleged UKIP ‘train-wrecks’ were going to happen. He never discusses the Labour Party and the useless Miliband in such a tone.
The UKIP man, called Mr Wolf, put up a fair defence. On the subject of wolves, would Humphrys and the biased BBC ever admit the argument that, as with their own reports of Islamic violence, the problem people within UKIP are not typical of the party but merely “lone wolves”?
BBC news has just told me Australian muslim groups are horrified by the siege.
Am I expected to conclude that the rest of the population isn’t?
Or is this comment just a variation on the ‘not every muslim is a terrorist’ reminder which the BBC trots out every time we get episodes like this?
The BBC want to remind you that the real victims here are muslims and the ones to blame are the police/intelligence services/government.
Why doesn’t the BBC ever let ‘real’ muslims speak for themselves then.
Just for once, I would like the BBC to actually interview a ‘real muslim’ who says, on camera, that ‘real muslims’ deplore violence committed in the name of Islam, and that the muslim communuty of wherever wholeheartedly disapproves of it.
Better still, how about some sort of BBC ‘feature’ on a local mosque leader that says, actually, you know, we don’t preach about or condone violence undertaken in the name of Islam, everyone in my mosque and local community disagrees with it, and no-one in my mosque or local community has gone to Syria to fight.
On Sunday night, flicking through BBC TV red button or teletext or whatever, I was surprised to find that across all areas in the Midlands and in many other regions, a prominent ”news” item was ‘Brand confronted by brother of UKIP MEP’!
You will all recall this refers to the QT programme last Thursday in Canterbury Kent, yet the BBC still features it, days later in regions hundreds of miles away.
Never any mention of the SWP Harradine, shouting her vile comments, nor any mention as exposed on these pages of her political affiliation, want any more expose of BBC bias?
Monday evening at 10.30 and the ”Brand News item ‘ is still there on the Hereford and Worcs. BBC site! Four days with the exactly the same item, imagine a newspaper running exactly the same biased piece for four days on the trot; everything else has been changed.
What an apology for current local news!
BBC too frightened to talk about immigrants (says John Humphreys in the Daily Mail today (he of Radio 4 today fame). And then he goes a lot further in stating that Labour got it wrong by underestimating the amount of immigrants by ten times (here to save face is referring only to The Poles who have since arrived and settled). This is all obvious stuff but why is it that a BBC presenter has to wait until he is on the edge of retirement to state the really blindingly obvious? Like Paxo before who retired from BBC Newsnight, they seem only able to speak freely on the point or ‘retirement’ when most of us are only too aware of the problems for at least ten years. That speaks volumes of the BBC imperial censure that nobody can speak their mind on any subject the BBC disapproves. This is state censorship by any other name. Humphrey is not the first, but the BBC will speedily retire him now for speaking out on an urgent public concern.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2873484/Radio-4-s-John-Humphrys-admits-BBC-ignored-mass-immigration-fearing-branded-racist-critics.html
I agree that the article is a confession that the BBC deliberately chose not to report or scrutinise the policy of mass immigration for a decade. Humphrys says that was because they didn’t want to offend anyone! The BBC shows no such concern about offending anyone who isn’t from the left, eg UKIP, or Lady Thatcher and the millions who think she was a great PM. Of course we know why the BBC chose to look the other way, it was because they did ,and still do, fully support the policy of mass immigration even though this had no democratic manadate from the British people.
So we have a senior BBC insider confessing that the corporation deliberately chose not to report ,and indeed to mislead the public ,about the most serious issue facing this country since WW2. Surely this must destroy any residual trust that the British people have in the BBC.
The BBC is despicable and it must be got rid of as soon as possible to prevent it from doing more damage to our democracy.
I think Humphrys is being disingenuous and putting up a false argument – this is just a continuation of the BBC/Labour agenda which has re-framed the immigration debate as a purely EU issue, quietly sidelining the bigger threat to our culture arising from the huge number of immigrants from the Indian sub-continent and sub-Saharan Africa.
Sly, sly, oh so sly.
One of the subjects forgotten from the party conference …
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29339581
Here’s one of his followers. Not wishing to jump to conclusions but the warning signs were there,maybe or something.
Al Azhar refuses to denounce the Islamic State as “un-Islamic”
Al Azhar … the most authorities voice in all of Sunni Islam?
just a minute!
Is that the … “nothing to do with Islam”, un-Islamic, “so called” Islamic State … that the BBC keeps waffling about?.
Who continue with this helpful obfuscation
“Sydney gunman identified as Iranian,
The gunman holding people hostage in a Sydney Cafe has been identified as an Iranian refugee.
who was on bail for a string of ahem violent sex offences …
and who is a totally isolated figure
and who is acting alone …
what? … was his motivation? etc etc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-30481241
Hmm … You can put that in the bullshine, box … along with
the Grainard s
Aus PM Abbott: “ don’t know the motivation” for cafe siege”
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2014/dec/15/sydney-siege-reports-of-hostage-situation-inside-martin-place-cafe-live
“Yes … just ignore that black flag of Islamic jihad that the hostages were forced at gunpoint to hold up at the window.
We have no idea what its significance could possibly be!
But we do know that it has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with Islam!”
R Spencer
Sydney police commissioner on jihad flag:
“We’re still trying to work out what exactly it stands for
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/sydney-police-commissioner-on-jihad-flag-were-still-trying-to-work-out-what-exactly-it-stands-for
He wasn’t a banker, but heh why should the BBC let the truth get in the way of the narrative…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30475232
Update on BBC News and now, radio 5Live …
unbelievably on BBC this is breaking news.
There has been …
“a report of a flag with ahem … Arabic writing on it”
that s it … bit vague eh!
Is there no one at Al Beeb who can read and translate this flag?
Where is the ‘Gardener’.
“ironsides” he s hiding under his chair
Have they trotted out the tried and tested islam means peace sura 5:32 yet?
The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom.
Ooops,my bad that’s 5:33
Oh! come on … repeat after me
“it definitely positively, absolutely has nothing to do with Is …
all together infidels …
The Palestinian minister for uncontrollable rage
sings Jihad Bells … Merry Christmas Kaffirs
Brilliant.
Fantastic!
Unfortunately LATMA the satirical Israeli Internet programme responsible for this video folded through lack of finance and the refusal of Israeli television stations to take the programme mainstream.
I may have done OFCOM an injustice, thinking they were just another old-boy quango to protect those they are meant to oversee from the public…
http://order-order.com/2014/12/15/ofcom-james-obrien-guilty-of-anti-ukip-bias/
One can see why certain media feel keeping such things ‘in-house’ and hush-hush is much the better way to remain.
Miser… Jasmine does love company, stupid-wise, doesn’t she?
As a matter of perverse interest, the actual tangible penalty for trying to pervert democracy via the power of media is what now?
“As a matter of perverse interest, the actual tangible penalty for trying to pervert democracy via the power of media is what now? ”
Your own regular slot on the Beeb I believe.
Oh, the humanity.
Bet that learned ‘im.
Just arrived at my in box:
Police storm Sydney siege cafe
Australian TV pictures show police storming cafe under siege in Sydney
I can only hope this ends well… for all.
And the usual suspect hyenas don’t immediately engage in a ‘heads we win..’ media orgy of blame not matter what.
Fingers crossed.
It appears over, bar the recriminations.
Here’s the BBC’s latest thoughts:
Are you in Sydney? Have you witnessed the hostage situation? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.
If you are willing to talk to a BBC journalist, please leave your number.
Or comment here:
Have your say
Pretty sure the BBC filter will ensure the vox pops who do get in touch are vibrant.
As to the HYS… hope it stays open if things veer off BBC slopes (as in ‘on piste’, not Top Gear).
Some plonker on Five Live…Dan Walker commenting on the ending of the Sydney siege gives a painful rendition of how difficult it is to balance the hard cold facts within the BBC’s, liberal multi-cultural filter.
I thought that I was hearing things when he described the hostage taker as the ‘gentleman’, but then he followed up five minutes later speculating whether ‘Mister Monis’ had been brought out.
Gentleman* FFS? Gentleman. The BBC twisting and turning, making sure that no sensibilities are hurt. No doubt, they’d have him on Newsnight if they could, so he could speak ‘Jihad unto Nation’.
*BTW: Please feel free to substitute the word ‘gentleman’ with your own alternative noun, or select from the list below (none of which have obviously been approved by the group thinkers at the BBC):
Terrorist
Suspect
Hostage taker
Jihadist
Criminal
Suspect
Bastard
C**t
Attacker
Radical**
Assailant
Wanker
**Apologies, ‘radical’ is of course on the BBC approved list, as it ‘freedom fighter’.
The Islamist terrorist has been described by the BBC as an Iranian refugee.
Meanwhile, back in the UK, the BBC is doing its best to help Labour in the run up to the GE:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30474521
The comments are fantastic and show, yet again, that the public has not been fooled.
Comments like this?:
45. Complete and utter horse
The BBC is misrepresenting this:
Labour have said that:
1. They want to make immigration number 2 of their 5 main policy pillars.
2. (In secret) Their activists need to move the conversation off the subject as soon as the public bring it up.
This is a scandal… why are the BBC not tearing them to shreds for flat out lying to the public?
If the mods don’t get busy I anticipate a closing before too many more get home from work.
This one is also fabulous:
9. Paul Colefield
5 HOURS AGO
“Ed Miliband: ‘Exploiting migrants will be crime’.”
So, Labours policy of actively & deliberately seeking & encouraging unskilled migrants to come to the UK (at the expense of British workers), purely to boost the Labour vote was obviously NOT Exploitation & or Criminal?
Labour, the all-time, undisputed leaders of the premier league of utter Hypocrisy.
I think the BBC may get the message. At least the ‘comments’ have not been edited ‘out’ although the BBC article is complete hogwash and makes Milliband even more unelectable by pretending that he has any answers, as if he was (or ever could be) a patriot rather than a muppet.
For another take on Ed’s speech
Nigel Farage will be on Channel 4 Gogglebox at 10.00pm tonight. I wonder if it’ll be a stitch up, hatchet job. The media industrial complex always uses the most unflattering photo’s of him.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/11/nigel-farage-appear-googlebox-spin-off
David,
The good thing is, the left treats the majority of people in this country with such contempt they can’t understand why trying to belittle Farage is futile. The left, and its MSM allies, have been rumbled by Joe Public. Let them pick on UKIP and, as they see their efforts fail, they will just get ever more desperate. This will result in the mask slipping so much even hard of thinking Labour stalwarts will start to have doubts.
Farage appears every week on ‘Gogglebox’ usually so the dim-witted Scally can call him a racist and other liberal approved epithets.
This spin-off will be interesting as they have chosen the two ‘toffs’ to host Farage rather than, say, the oddly womanless Muslim family or the overweight white working class family or the two black lasses. C4 are not that brave.
I suspect it is in the ‘toffs’ contract somewhere to be careful about being too ‘right-wing’ and this will be a Louis Theroux style stich-up of carefully edited and context free ‘faux pas’ moments to be repeated ad nauseum until May.
Fortuanely, its no going to work.
BBC/left-wing snobs think of him as “beer-swilling” Farage. But I look at that photo and think: good old Nige, a connoisseur of real ales enjoying a pint of one of the UK’s most outstanding products.
Anyone who prefers Hereford Pale Ale to Carlsberg lager has my vote !!
I wanted Rory McElroy to win , he deserved it , but lewis Hamilton gets the diversity vote, the award is really pointless , it’s not endorsed by FIFA , F1. Or the ECB, what about Ronnie o Sullivan? The BBC have been licking Hamiltons ass for a long time now,jenson button is long forgotten
I can’t take SPOTY seriously since the well known stitch up in 1988 and the BBC ignoring the votes cast for Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards in favour of the more accptable Steve Davis (personality? what personality?)
I know this a website about the BBC, but I know many of you watch the wider media too.
Does anybody know how Sky’s Lorna Dunkley just happens to be in Sydney?
Maybe Lorna was on vacation , or on loan to Sky News Australia . But I did wonder about that too .
She was only on TV a day or so go. 🙂
I will have to adjust my tinfoil hat. 😉
But isn’t she just lovely! Did you see her reporting the floods earlier this year, she smiled the whole way through the whole mess.
I have just been watching the developing events surrounding the mad, islamic, sex assaulter, kidnapper/hostage taker in the cafe bar in Sydney and it has given me the opportunity to compare and contrast the two types of news delivery by the inbbc and Sky news…………Already the bbbc are padding down their well trodden path of immediately questioning the actions of the police/security forces in the way that they have dealt with this creature. Already, I have heard words/phrases from the bbbc such as ‘he had a history of mental illness’ ‘Is this incident and the way it was dealt with a ‘miss’ for the police /security services?’, ‘Perhaps the truth will come out in the subsequent inquiry’. They are already questioning the decision to go in with force and deal with this evil perpitrator……Not one word of praise for the brave members of the emergency services who risked their lives to protect the innocent or one word about the life threatening plight of the victims of this wanker.
Sometimes I really do think that this bbbc/inbbc is nothing more than a subversive, treasonous organisation. They report, say and write things that are so destructive to the common good……..
The sooner the organisation is cleansed from top to bottom the better…….
Or do I have distorted thinking?
I was going to post on here that the BBC will be running the “Diminished responsibility” line by ten o’clock but you have pretty much beaten me to it.
BBC predicted reaction:
Could not the police have prevented this?
Conservative, Orthodox, Militant, Rebel, Revolutionary ’ Assailant, Sexual Assaulting, Sexually Indecent, Wife
Killing, Army Wives Abusing … “Trader” of Diminished responsibility ………….. if you don t mind 😀
I tell you what …
good job he wasn t Muslim
No, you’ve hit the nail on the head and even from this morning the BBC were working on “damage limitation”.
I had to go to Sky News this afternoon to find out if there were any fatalities when the cafe was stormed.
The BBC is still not reporting that two people are dead.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/12/15/BBC-Belies-Endemic-Bias-By-Broadcasting-The-Assassination-of-Margaret-Thatcher
The BBC sinks to a new low. They are bordering on Evil
I find it amazing the BBC should show this piece of fiction. Wouldn’t it be better if the BBC showed other pieces of finction such as:
Gordon Brown does a full days work
or maybe
Hazel Blears pays her Council Tax
Or lets have a programme about Margret Hodge allowing Peadophiles to run childrens homes in Islington during her time there. Oh wait that last one isn’t fiction.
How many hours will it be before the Aussies are accused of failing to ensure the safety of the Muslim nutjob there in Sydney?
Human Rights surely violated for this vulnerable marginalised humble asylum-seeker or refugee who was only provoked the the Aussies attempting to deal with his murdering the wife, that run of sexual offences.
See what happens when UKIP don`t instantly sack their candidates for being racist homophobes…best to ban UKIP so such repetitions don`t happen.
Oh-was the Muzzie off his meds?…then we can ask for more money for the hard pressed psychiatric services in Slough or Bradford…in our globalised world, Sydney suffers as long as Cameron is still in power.
Is Chukkibutty on the move as we speak, Chris?,
and there are … ahem, growing concerns about possible “backlash”
Didn t take long …
“Expert” warns of reprisals against Muslims in wake of Sydney jihad hostage crisis –
“The pattern never changes: in the wake of a jihad terror attack or plot, Muslims in the West do not do what they should do: redouble their efforts against jihadi s in their own communities, and their cooperation with law enforcement officials.
Instead, they claim that they are being victimized by a “backlash” in order to seize the spotlight as victims”
R Spencer
But on the Islamophile quislings at the BBC.
“As a gunman holds people hostage in a cafe in Sydney, thousands of messages of support have been posted online for Muslims in Australia who are afraid of an Islamophobic backlash”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-30479306
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/reprisals-against-muslims-likely-expert/ar-BBgODJE
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tensions-surface-australian-muslims-fear-sydney-siege-backlash-133944159.html
Exactly – gunman siezes hostages at gunpoint, threatens death, some die. He looks exactly like a Muslim, but the B-BBC say he is an ‘Islamist’ (whatever that may mean). Now the main thing that the B-BBC fear is a ‘backlash’ (whatever that may mean).
I guess they must mean tit-for-tat bombings and beheadings, like we’ve had in the UK (not).
Quite.
One of the best things about our country is that we don’t fall for the terrorists’ ploys and go round smashing up corner shops or burning down mosques. Retaliation against the wider Muslim community is what the terrorists want, its why they do it after all.
They want to start a sectarian war.
Agreed, but why are our own native followers of that faith not so vociferous in condemning the actions of the bloody butchers, murders, and slaughterers of that religion?
Yet when someone draws a cartoon or merely mentions a word wrongly, they take to the streets.
For a number of reasons minority communities have been oppressed by multiculturalism and see themselves as living with in distinct, separate community. Add in a cultural conformity that is enforced by deep seated emotions such as shame and familial loyalty and there is a distinct reluctance for the average Muslim to step outside the box and integrate. It just doesn’t pay for them to do so as the one thing they really don’t want to do is to bring shame on those that they love.
Add to that a growing number of nut jobs determined to bring their Third World forms of oppression here and the problem just gets worse.
To counter this the wider community needs to educate them, through whatever means , to accept that they don’t need to stay within their own third world islands and can be just as happy away from them. There are plenty of those who do BTW but the ‘multicultural police’ aren’t that keen to let the rest of the country see Muslims like that.
If you have spent anytime with Muslims or in Muslim countries then you’ll know that whilst 10 thousand half-wits are burning down churches and the wrong embassies after been wound up by the latest nothing 10 million Muslims are rolling their eyes and getting on with their desperate Third World lives. They keep quiet because, despite being the majority, they know the consequences of disobeying that demonic portrayal of Allah so loved by the nut jobs. Just look at what happened to that Army School in Peshawar yesterday. Infamy beyond belief and its not even the first time Muslims have done this; Beslan should never be forgotten.
I’ve no solutions to this problem but blaming the majority for the minority is a failsafe way of fanning the flames. All it does is push those closer to the border of nut-jobbery across it and thereby increases the number of terrorists to deal with.
Then the question must be asked, where are their religious leaders, their community leaders, or indeed the leaders of The MCB?
Slough is hell on earth, some parts resemble Delhi or Lahore, the area also has a large population of gypsies who steal anything that isnt bolted to the ground, as a whitey I feel like a stranger surrounded by all the vibrant enrichment, I will vote UKIP, but it’s already too late , Labour have demolished England, now millipede and co are muttering about immigration
And the BBC have never challenged Labour on their mass immigration policy. I can only think their army of ‘world’s finest investigative journalists’ are stiil combing the fine print of Blair’s 1997 election manifesto (‘surely it must be in here somewhere….’).
I think by now it should be quite evident that Al Beeb are pro immigration and open borders. How many times have we heard Al Beeb showing the ‘plight’ of asylum seekers in France ‘desperate’ to get in to this country.
Pure propaganda.
yes Ive been to Slough I had to walk on the road because the Gypsies would take up teh whole pavement and refuse to move. I thought it was a dump and I come from Burnley FFS
Re the UKIP candidate who`s stepped down after being “secretly recorded”, being beastly to Essex people and gays, yada yada.
Are the BBC happy to leave it there?…surely we need an independent public enquiry at the very least…
Remind me again…what does a feminist look like?…seems they`re all hiding and unwilling to discuss their slave labour T-shirts!
Go UKIP!
No one should be beastly to Essex people , we are a net contributor to the Treasury & the economy . Anyhow if Millipeed becomes PM we are declaring UDI , Labour & Bbc can just F.O .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30474521
LOL yea right I believe…NOT!
On a similar note; I’ve just seen an HMG advert for ‘super broadband’.
The backing music was ‘Won’t get fooled again’ by The Who. I’m surprised I could hear it over the irony klaxon; Townsend wrote it as a polemic against politicians when Wilson tried to co-opt them as Labour supporters before the 1970 election.
I wonder if it is a coincidence that Townsend was later investigated for child porn after turning down an opportunity to pass on his wealth to Labour?
Nothing ever seemed to come of the allegations … I wonder why?
Meanwhile the BBc finally reports what’s going on in Germany http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30478321
Yes, but they will never say “thousands of people join anti-Islam demo in Germany”. Instead they say “Germany tense over … remanufacturing the news in their own image, again.
Yes, PEGIDA, Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, have been subjected to the usual castigation from the smug leftist German TV . The Dresden protesters have adopted a very simple media policy. They simply tell any ARD, ZDF hack who approaches them to “fuck off”, as anything PEGIDA said would be misrepresented. The “German Dimblebum”, Günther Jauch seemed to take this personally on his show on Sunday, inceduluous that anyone could think that anything other than the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth could flow from his lips. Usual crap that PEGIDA was scared to expose its shameful ideology to public scrutiny etc.,etc. The massive influx of refugees from Syria is causing disquiet amongst the “hoi polloi” who are not so joyous about enforced vibrancy and enrichment as the progressive elites think they should be. In fact, I think the ZDF has been running “Hallo Toleranz”-themed programmes recently.
Initially mistrustful and anxiety-stricken peasants in a Bavarian village come to realise that a newly returned Jihadist beheader from Syria has seen the error of his ways and just wants to become a cowherd and share in the bucolic idyll. The village priest/doctor/teacher is usually on hand to provide moral lectures about tolerance and how not to “other” one’s Mitbürger mit Migrationshintergrund.
Maybe Eastenders is not that bad?
Sickening – the BBC News Channel is running its usual ‘muslims are scared of a backlash’, meme and has given the hashtag, with evidence of sympathy, to some campaign in Australia. They do this before we even know the outcome of the breaking of the siege, we don’t know how many casualties nor how much horror the Islamist fanatic performed on the hostages.
Just when is some action going to be taken about the BBC. Its reign must be ended and quickly.
BBC NEWS 24 15/12/14 time 17.26 –
News item regarding ‘a social media’ ‘response’ #illridewithyou in response to a story of an Iranian refugee (with ‘form’) with an IS flag holding hostage people in a cafe. Possible 2 dead. Bodies not cold yet. BBC – no humanity, no future.
Or is it just me? Am I going mad? I know I’m getting mad.
From coverage today on the World Service you would think that the hash tag was bigger news than the hostage crisis.
Can anyone tell me what the World Service is for ?
Propaganda, dear boy, propaganda!
Yes, but who’s propaganda?
The BBC giving a lot of coverage to the murder in London of a 52 year old man by 5 teenagers. No mention of race but on air a reporter let slip that the victim was Irish.
Could mean nothing, but the BBC will know the race of the attackers.
H/T to the poster above who flagged it, but here’s a hoot:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30474521
1. Wayne
3 HOURS AGO
1023. omegaman
11 MINUTES AGO
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After… 3 hours.
Phew. Much later and some licence fee payers without access to the internet at work may have got back.
Bask in the trust. Gaze at the transparency. Feel the cold, dark hand of censorship descend…
Thanks for the heads up
I loved No3 kidology, obviously there are plenty who cannot see the ironic side of this post which is closer the truth than most.
He also posted at No 42
Just what the BBC loves to hear, and what all sane people are fearing:
“Milliband is right and furthermore, it’s time for the UK to give up being a country, we’d be much happier as a state of Europe anyway, even if the average person doesn’t get it yet. Think about it, who would be British when you can be EUROPEAN instead?”
I don’t like how you have to sign up to comment.
And there is no reason to close the comments on any thread.
The BBC with their budget can afford the IT costs.
Oh it is not employers undercutting the NWM that is the problem. It is those “workers” who work as sub contractors (at best or just off the books) that under cut decent wages. If you have somebody who costs you £15 per hour to employ and somebody who would cost you £7.50 per hour if you are unscrupulous who are you going to employ? That the former has a home and bills to pay for while the latter lives a dozen to house and sends money home to a cheaper economy doesn’t seem to factor in to Westminster’s calculations. The same bunch of idiots who are wondering where all the British tradesmen have gone without noticing that kids that went into trades now are told to go university. And the trained tradesmen we do have are emigrating as fast as they can get their papers cleared because the country is going to the dogs. WHY IS IT SUCH A MYSTERY? WHY? WHY?
As the media exposes yet another UKIP ‘scandal’ the BBC picks up on the Labour Councillor selling herself by sex in Rotherham, (is she mad, does she never take a taxi?), on Jeremy Vine [1:45:15].
But where are the anti-‘page three’ campaigners on Labour’s front bench? Where is Beatrix Campell?
Instead we get a friendly chat and a chance to plug the councillor’s cafe business.
Also, why is it a story today when it was a story in The Daily Mirror on 23rd September?
Another enjoyable Six o’clock News, featuring first, the lovable bumbler Ed, followed later by the BBC’s fave frontman, Balls. Only disappointment was that neither piece started off: “Labour says …” I do look forward to the smiling eloquence of that well practiced intro. Makes me go all gooey and receptive.
By the way, did the Government not do ANYTHING worth the BBC’s attention today?
Just turned over to the One Show. 8 ballerinas in courtyard, 7 white, 1 coloured – who just happens to be right in the front. Random positioning, pure chance – 1 in 8, or perhaps another subliminal attempt at “education”. And purely without malice I did think she looked a bit chunky for a ballet dancer
Mike that sort of thing has been going on for years and years now. I’ve come to the conclusion that it is illegal not to show an “ethnic minority” face in anything in the media.
8 ballerinas in courtyard, 7 white, 1 coloured
I don’t suppose the possibility that she was there on merit occurred to you. No, you leapt for the race card straight away. But oh no, you’re not racist at all. Shall we be generous and say it’s just the usual Biased BBC level of paranoid idiocy, rather than racism per se?
Ah Mark Kermode , I claim my £5 , your teddy boy hair style is rubbish , didn`t you use to beat up Mod`s, at Clacton in the 60`s ?
Possibly, Filmfan, my point was that she was at the front; the odds are 7 to 1 but strangely it happens quite often that a similar disposition occurs with the Beeb. And I am certainly not a racist, just that I dislike unnecessary “education” from the Beeb with me paying for it!
There’s no such thing as ‘Racism’.
If it was one off then you could call us fascists/ racists etc , the BBC clearly has a diversity quota, that idio Lenny Henry is an example, he cries racism so the BBC agree to add more minorites , the only work Lenny can find is ads for beds, why should his opinion matter? The match of the day and football focus programs an example of BBC going diversity crazy, the token black exfoofootballers are pundits are treated as legends, they also have women pundits,
If anyone is racist it’s the BBC
With regards to black pundits I am not too bothered as Ruud Gullit is an excellent one and with the news of Henry going to Evil Sky that is also a good thing. If memory serves Paul Ince has appeared before and Sky have numerous black pundits but they have all played the game and know their stuff so it’s no problem…in fact I don’t even notice they are black until some liberal fool starts pointing it out
I won’t even get started on race baiters Garth Crooks or Jason Roberts however as they are a pair of wasters
Ever since the Andy Grey “scandal” the BBC have been putting women all over their sports coverage and we all know it is a tick box exercise
Andy Gray…
University Challenge the other night ; Glasgow versus Liverpool (that’s a laugh for a start but I digress).
Eight contestants, all white, and seven male to boot.
Disgraceful- Just what is our state broadcaster doing to nullify such obvious attempts at non-diversity?
And I don’t think any of them went to council-run schools in those cities.
” Just turned over to the One Show. 8 ballerinas in courtyard, 7 white, 1 coloured – who just happens to be right in the front. Random positioning, pure chance – 1 in 8, or perhaps another subliminal attempt at “education”.
Well it is the BBC, the Black Brainwashing Commissariat. There’s a perception in society / media that black people are seen as cool and hip while white people are all squares and boring. I don’t get it myself, have you seen these black hip hop rappers being interviewed ? two brain cells and that’s me being kind.
just looking at the BBC live feed of the Sydney siege and they chose to add a picture of 2 muslims praying (for who we dont know) . Could you get more insensitive if you tried http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-australia-30475711
Nearly every time I switch Radio 4 on during the day there’s some lefty agenda being ‘debated’.
This afternoon it was Beyond Belief where – and I know you’ll find this hard to believe – race relations in the US were being discussed.
The usual one-sided ‘blacks as eternal victims’ view was harmoniously agreed by all present in the studio and Al Sharpton unanimously voted as the leader all in the black community should be turning to.
Not a hint that maybe black people should be taking more responsibility for their perceived predicament, as per the not uncommon views of this black guy (posted at the end of the last open thread but worth a re-run here):
Then at the end we had the uber solution (note: put forward by the programme’s host), that what is really needed is ‘social justice’ for all disadvantaged groups, requiring more government spending on education, welfare etc.
‘Social justice’, eh? To you and me that’s re-distribution of wealth – you know, that old communist ideal – and it’s being promoted more and more by the BBC into the public consciousness. Along with anti-capitalism, it’s one of the twin pillars of the great global warming myth as we’re now seeing with tens of billions being diverted to ‘developing’ countries to help them fight the CO2 menace.
Never is any alternative right wing view sought because the BBC considers these – and similar – leftist concepts as absolute truths.
You know, BBC, if I want undiluted Guardian propaganda I’ll go out and buy it, but I don’t see why I should be forced to pay for it by you.
What lessons can Americans learn from the Bible?
How about Exodus 20:15? “Thou shalt not steal”
How about Exodus 20:16? “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour”. (Are you listening BBC? Are you listening people of Ferguson?)
How about Exodus 20:17? “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.” Are you listening Socialists, BBC, Rioters, Occupy Movement, Rev. Giles Fraser?
The Food Programme on R4 this afternoon was not as advertised: instead it was yet another piece about food banks, and yes, they managed to have a go at Mrs Thatcher!
Thatchwatch! That’s another sighting.
Just listened to “I’m sorry I haven’t a clue” and within a few minutes UKIP get mentioned in a joke suggesting racism. Later, a joke about an MP in trouble with a house showing true English colours. Not a word about the MP’s political party, which was of course Labour. How careful they were not to mention the Labour Party. Bias?
I AM SICK TO BLOODY DEATH with the Leftist-saturated BBC and media coming out with the same old crap ‘This is nothing to do with the peaceful religion of Islam’ and ‘This was an isolated incident’ ad infinitum… This is beyond a joke and is now, in my opinion, putting lives at risk by leading the public to believe that Islam is all peaceful and tolerant and that there is no problem. Christianity on the other hand… well it’s the root of all evil according to lefties.
Of course this incident was ‘isolated’, just like 9/11, 7/7, the Lee Rigby murder, bombs through church windows in Nigeria, Somali Islamists kidnapping, the kidnapping of school girls in Nigeria, grooming gangs, Isis beheadings, the Boston bomber, the Trojan Horse cases, extremist terrorists preaching in mosques… and so on and so on and so on. WTF is wrong with people? What will it take? We have become such big jessies that even if one of our family was being held hostage by a Muslim fanatic, we’d still blame it on the BNP.
I am SICK OF THE PATHETIC MULTICULTURAL LIES. It must stop!
Alex, you are so right, as we all know the multi cultural experiment has horribly failed and stinking Liebour are the traitors, soon the whites will be the ethnic minority.
Don’t mention the global Jihad……
We have become such big jessies that even if one of our family was being held hostage by a Muslim fanatic, we’d still blame it on the BNP.
Well either that or we’d blame the police for their racism or our hideously white culture for making Muslims feel oppressed and being driven to this sort of lone-wolf type behaviour. The poor things. All they want to do is sit down and pray for peace and bunny rabbits running about everywhere.
Repeat after me …. Nothing to do with Islam etc
Typically one-sided account of domestic violence here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-30433357
Despite the fact that crime stats show about a third of all abuse victims to be male, the BBC continues to dishonestly portray the problem as exclusively aimed at women. Disgusting.
And in todays Daily Mail I see the BBC have ‘five Live’ investigation declaring that one in seven arrests were ‘foreign nationals’ (is that racist?) and goes on to to blame the ‘Torys’ for lax border controls (which is untrue as this was Labour bending over backwards accomodating an EU ‘open border’ directive that its very keen on. Also Labour (2006) decided not to join the EU Schengen agreement alerting the police to european petty criminals who inevitably find a soft life on UK benefits ready and waiting this side of the channel. Police have limited powers due to EU rules that encourage criminals into the UK – as we are not allowed to have border controls. Now Yvette Cooper has the nerve to declare that all this is all the fault of UK border controls — something Labour somehow refuses to acknowledge as a national emergency and the BBC is happy to report that we need more EU ‘integration’ to combat ‘crime’. If only that were possible, or true. The BBC is always partial with the truth. We cannot close our borders (under Labour signed EU agreements) whilst Labour has made the UK a haven for criminals of all nationalities to claim asylum and benefits.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2873598/One-seven-people-arrested-Britain-year-FOREIGN-damning-study-reveals.html.
The same goes for eating disorders, and fathers rights, they ridiculed fathers4justice, it shows how unbalanced the courts and media is that fathers have to dress up as batman and dangle from buildings just to draw attention to the cause, the bbeb also support maternity leave but say men shouldnt be allowed paternity leave, this is how man hating liberals are bred
# I ll ride with you ……?
The latest “poor me” propaganda, gleefully lapped up by the Islamophile BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-30479306
“she’d seen a woman she presumed was Muslim silently removing her hijab while sitting next to her on the train:
“I ran after her at the train station. I said ‘put it back on” …
… yeah right!
one has to ask why?, why on earth would you do that?
why pander to the wishes of every imam from here to Mecca?
propagate the subservient Islamic woman narrative?
hmmm … something very orchestrated going on kids
just caught Ch4 News they said quite clearly nobody knows if the tale is true or not.
If it’s a true story did the presumptious woman not consider that maybe the muslim woman welcomed the chance to remove her hijab once she was out of her home?
what she really said was put it back on! How dare you remove it without your husbands permission you jezebel
As regards the presence of such large and ever-increasing numbers of Muslims in the West:
“One has to wonder about the chances of survival for a civilization that plays host to such deadly forces of chaos.” Diana West ‘No Fear’.
Liberals only see the short term. Once the West collapses do they really think they will be able to pick up their skinny lattes from Starbucks or get their lentils from Waitrose?
Japan is part of the West, has close security ties with the US and there are many US bases there, yet I can’t think of any Islamist attacks against Japan. I’m sure that there must be a few discontented and unstable Japanese youths who could have been radicalized via the internet. Has this happened?
Perhaps this is one advantage of being a monoculture and keeping immigration down to levels that Cameron said he could achieve. Low immigration does not seem to have harmed Japan economically or socially to any great extent.
Strange this never makes the main stories on the News. I wonder why….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-28983417
Beboids must be upset, the top comments on hys regarding Millipedes immigration speech basically are saying how awful Liebour really are.
BBC Newsnight about 9 minutes in.
I’m lost for words.
“lone wolf” not islam etc, etc.
“oddballs” “misfits”
“become lone wolfs”
Orwell penned this.
BBC Newsnight: “by ISIS Standards” .
You couldn’t make it up!
A must watch!
Breitbart going to town on BBC today I see
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/12/15/The-BBC-Ignoring-Jihadism-Against-Israel
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/12/15/BBC-Belies-Endemic-Bias-By-Broadcasting-The-Assassination-of-Margaret-Thatcher
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/12/15/Claim-Smug-Middle-Class-BBC-Failed-on-Immigration-Because-They-Thought-They-Knew-Best
I read the Mail article by Humphries. Too little and far too late now to regret the censorship and evasions of the liberal BBC over the last years. The BBC has lost many of us for ever.
I hope it is in an existential crisis. There is always a moment when reform becomes impossible and change is the only answer. In the case of the BBC this means abolition of the tax and letting it sink or swim by it’s own efforts.
The way things are going this moment will apply to the whole of the liberal world. Impossible to reform the only way is to end it’s domination of our culture.
Now is the time to keep harrying and snapping at the heels of the liberal. The liberal has no arguments left except abuse. The liberal is going to lose.
Newsnight 18mins in.
No Miliband “immigration speech yet. But Ewan gets in UKIP straw argument #54 – this one’s on Eurotax use. £1.5mil to UKIP coffers.
Next, “road to Wigan Pier” meme – “its between Lab / Con”
This is Bias.
A must see.
BBC World tonight included …
Sydney siege where the Beeb found an expert to say that IS’s ideology is that supporters can carry out attacks where they are and don’t need to come to Syria. Well, that’s not ideology it’s tactics. IS’s ideology is Islamic theology and a caliphate. The Beeb did mention the ‘backlash’ though and #illridewithyou.
Then a sympathetic piece on Women without Borders having a get together of jihadist mums to work against radicalisation. The view summed up by the woman saying she didn’t think she was guilty for her son becoming a jihadi, but considered herself and her son as victims! No sympathetic BBC ear though for the mothers of the real victims of jihadi violence.
Room also for a critical piece on Russia’s attitude to gays. If only they threw them to their deaths off buildings or hung them from cranes like the enlightened muslim regimes eh? Instead the Russians call them names and have a law against promoting homosexuality to children. The evil bastards.
Other stuff included the dangers of right wing extremists influencing anti-Islamisation protesters in Germany and the EU interfering on the good side in Turkey’s internal affairs.
Bias? What bias?
‘Women without borders’ narrative also being pushed on Newsnight about 35 mins in.
No Miliband “immigration speech yet”.
One would think ‘Labour leader Exposed as incompetent Intellectual ameoba’ would be top billing as a political story today.
BBC Biased?
http://www.pprune.org/8784551-post182.html
No further comment as to what ought to happen to these “people”
It seems they start young, Sky News reporting a sex attacker possibly as young as 12 has struck 5 times in 10 days, they describe him as ‘Asian’
OK this might imply, he’s Japanese, Chinese, Hindu or Sikh, but that’s a damned sight more than the bBC have done, as the attacks have gone unreported by them. If and when they do they won’t go as far in describing him as such.
http://news.sky.com/story/1392493/sex-attacker-could-be-as-young-as-12
Geoff I saw that I’m sure it was on local BBc (North West) but as usual no description . You would have thought a description might have been useful,
Meanwhile this one now seems to be getting big enough for the BBc to not just ignore http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30478321 Indications were the “Large” counter demonstration was going to be larger than the Peigda turn out however it appears not. Instead the BBc decide to mention a completely different demonstration in Cologne.
BBc Breakfast appears to be referring to Monis as “Gunman ” and “man” but are missing the M word again.
Also back to having a go at banks again “RBS & LLoyds narrowly pass stress test” so they passed it then didn’t they?
Oh look there’s a phofit now http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-24589477
Think that is a different one Dave, the article is dated 2013…..copycat lone wolf….erm…isolated incident….nothing to do with….er….um.
Chop sorry, didn’t notice the date but there are obviously so many of these it’s very easy to get confused.