BLUE ON BLUE

The BBC have been delighting in a bit of ‘Blue on Blue’  in the Tory camp as Nigel Lawson suggests that George Osborne should give up some of his other roles and concentrate on the economy, and the BBC have been reporting his advice as often as possible. Fair enough…Lawson did say that…but Lawson also said that the reason the last budget was an ‘omnishambles’ was that unlike single party governments … Continue reading

ALLAH’S LITTLE HELPER

A Biased BBC from Wales angrily writes.. “Suleman Arshad jailed for 16 months for sex related offences against a young girl “He had befriended “a naïve and shy” young woman” Regional paper report here. Regional BBC website…… Nil. They link other, lesser, stories about crime (inc 1700 ‘caught’ with no TV Licence)  from the Daily Post website though.” All about priorities….    

MAKING SENSE OF THE CENSUS

A Biased BBC reader was listening to the PM yesterday and has this to say.. “Towards the end of the PM programme we were promised they were going to talk about the census figures, which they admitted showed the biggest ever population increase (although still obviously a gross under count, no mention of the 1.4 million forms that weren’t returned). I guess the BBC thought they’d done their bit to … Continue reading

A Photograph Never Lies

Just adding to David’s post on J’lem (via The Commentator)….the BBC has a profile of each country and illustrates them with a photograph. This is Israel:   And this is Palestinians:   You get the message….brutal Israeli oppressors armed with machine guns and tanks being heroically resisted by desperate, young Palestinains fighting for their freedom with all they have left to them…stones, bravery and determination.   How about that old colonial … Continue reading

ALLAH IS GREAT…

Oh joy. The Olympic Torch arrives in London and guess what, yes, someone tries to grab it whilst shouting Allahu Akhbar. Compare the BBC’s coverage here with this here. Almost as if they wanted to underplay the event…surely not. By the way, I see Owen Jones is on Any Questions. He’s a guy you rarely see on the BBC….

J’LEM

Wonder what you think of the BBC’s coverage of the Ldn games? Where? Oh, just trying for consistency… Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s spokesman Mark Regev sent a letter to the Director of the BBC’s Bureau in Israel, Paul Danahar on Thursday after the BBC Sport page failed to identify Israel’s capital city as Jerusalem. Until Wednesday afternoon, the page offering information about the Palestinian Olympic team referred to its capital as ‘East Jerusalem’, … Continue reading

Doomed All Doomed

BBC’s doom mongering over the Olympics is gathering pace. Plenty of people contacting the Today programme to complain….such complaints have been flooding in for over a week as noted in a previous post. The BBC’s response?  It was to wind up the rhetoric even more…immediately after Montague read out a complaint (and one praising the coverage) she linked to a story in Der Spiegel which said that the London Olympics … Continue reading

Mark Easton, Tory Stooge

  Mark Easton has surely been abducted by Tory Central Office and replaced with someone more willing to sing to their tune. First he betrayed the BBC narrative and  admitted that The Big Society, in some respects, may actually be working, encouraging communities to become active and to work together towards a common goal rather than have the dead hand of government tell them what they need. Now he has … Continue reading