Here we go, middle of the new week and time for a NEW Open thread on which to detail the bias!
MID WEEK OPEN THREAD….
Bookmark the permalink.
Search Biased BBC
Recent Comments
- JohnC April 27, 2024 at 1:35 am on Weekend 27th April 2024Agency failures contributed to park deaths - coroner https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-england-68903521 These articles make my blood boil. Th...
- Zephir April 27, 2024 at 1:03 am on Weekend 27th April 2024https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQWbRrFrzKg&list=PLSj2DAFh5XsHLiUiCQg8pC3d6Td1e8EU7&index=2
- Zephir April 27, 2024 at 12:37 am on Weekend 27th April 2024@ Eddy Booth I love classical music and also love it when used in other ways. Some not so much,...
- Zephir April 27, 2024 at 12:25 am on Weekend 27th April 2024I was only replying to the phrase "Lucy was bad" Some semantics involved there, but not knowing her personally would...
- StewGreen April 27, 2024 at 12:17 am on Weekend 27th April 2024@Zephir there was rather large omission in your post (I) SG did not reply to Lucy Rather SG (I) turned...
- Zelazek April 27, 2024 at 12:11 am on Weekend 27th April 2024Right from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century, the Proms have always had a good policy of presenting not...
- Zephir April 26, 2024 at 11:59 pm on Weekend 27th April 2024Palestine marches in London spring to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU
- StewGreen April 26, 2024 at 11:58 pm on Weekend 27th April 2024The BBC has admitted that its reporting of “civilian” casualties in Gaza was inaccurate and its figure also included the...
- Zephir April 26, 2024 at 11:58 pm on Weekend 27th April 2024Just wondering how far we are away from witch ducking it’s working well on twitter in a digital form. Maybe...
- Zephir April 26, 2024 at 11:56 pm on Weekend 27th April 2024Goodness sake SG I would rather call Lucy an optimist, and in the near future maybe a close rival to...
Categories
agw anti-American anti-conservative anti-Israel anti Israel. pro Palestinian Antisemitism BBC - sickeningly biased at all times. BBC agenda BBC bias bbc bias and balance. bbc bias by omission BBC censorship BBC Question Time BBC selectivity bias Biased BBC climate change dhimmis general thread immigration Islam israel Mark Mardell obama obama bias Obamalove open thread pro-labour pro-palestinian pro EU pro Hamas pro Islam pro Labour bias pro Obama PRO OBAMA AT ALL COSTS. pro Obama BBC agenda question time question time live Richard Black save gordon. USA politics US economy US News US politics US presidential elections
Another gem from Shame…Shame…Shame…Shame:
Your Pretty Race Is Going To Hell
Great ‘news’ story on Beeb website about tv not being diverse enough. They seem to have at least one such story every day, always whining about exactly the same things with the same muddled thinking.
Equality of opportunity is noble; equality of outcome is unfair, as you should get what you give and not every group makes the same contribution. Why should Winkleman be rewarded the same as Chris Evans when he works longer hours and has a harder job? If she wants to start getting up at 4am every day and coming up with a new show every day which gets ten million listeners then it would be reasonable to expect her to be paid the same. You have to compare like with like.
If one group does not work hard at school how is it fair they then walk into a media job?
We are treated to endless statistics about the make up of staff in certain departments compared to that of the general population, and how shocking this is. Can’t they just leave us alone and trust us to give the job to the best person?
What is truly shocking is that the equalities industry hoovers up over a billion pounds a year – how many hospitals could we buy with that?
What would be interesting is to see how many people who work in the media are related to other people who work there. That really would be shocking and is a howling injustice; somehow I doubt the Beeb would ever do such research.
Jay Rayner (son of Claire.)
The Coren siblings.
The Dimblebeys.
The Snows.
John Pienaar’s daughter has just landed a cushy job.
You could go on and on. It is the same for the Labour Party. It is bad to discriminate against minorities, but to discriminate against anyone who is not your son or daughter is a whole other dimension of unfairness.
The BBC do not discriminate against minorities. They discriminate against the majority. So there!!
Apparently Katie Hopkins is going to be on the Jeremy Vine show, but of course certain people are petitioning to stop her being on the show, freedom of speech anyone.
The Lefties – so much love, peace, hope, freedom, equality, diversity BUT if you say ANYTHING they don’t approve and you’re DEAD.
Lefties expect rather much from ordinary folks just trying to get on with it. A dictionary of approved words, opinions and actions is they least they could offer. I ‘m sure the bbc could help out, after all they have plenty of money – our money.
Abortion
Avoid pro-abortion, and use pro-choice instead. Campaigners favour a woman’s right to choose, rather than abortion itself. And use anti-abortion rather than pro-life, except where it is part of the title of a group’s name.
Religion – BBC Style Guide
Associative Press Style Guide ….
“Words related to terrorism are sanitized in the AP (Associated Press) Stylebook. Militant, lone wolves or attackers are to be used instead of terrorist or Islamist. ‘People struggling to enter Europe’ is favored over ‘migrant’ or ‘refugee.’ While it’s true that many struggle to enter Europe, it is accurate to point out that they are, in fact, immigrants or refugees.”
// {old post}
Famous Liberal-tolerance
Since Aug 19 dozens of tweets of same phrase promoting the ban KThopkins from Vine show tweet
That looks like bot army, or real people acting like bots
So far 70K signatures
Bit of projection in their intro
What! You mean the dozy wimps are afraid of the opinions of a mere woman? Shame on them.
Come on all you rabid feminists. Give our Katie a bit of support, she is being abused and victimized.
So the petition was organsied cos as they say “all she does is spit bile”
Yet see the comments signers left, don’t they “spit bile” ?
Typical LibMob #Projection
BTW The petition has 70K comments in 26 days , an average of about 2800/day
yet only 4 of them leave a comment each day
That makes me think possibly a lot of the 70K are bots.
This particular ‘Herbert’ says, ‘Shut her up.’
Deeply troubling.
The bBC and how it makes Somali gangsters into poor little victims of prison life:
Inmate killed in Pentonville prison ‘smuggling dispute’
A prisoner was murdered by three inmates in a violent feud over control of a “lucrative smuggling route” into a prison, a court heard. Basana Kimbembi, 35, Robert Butler, 31, and Joshua Ratner, 27, deny murdering Jamal Mahmoud, 21, at London’s HMP Pentonville on 18 October 2016. Prosecutor Mark Heywood QC told the Old Bailey that Mr Mahmoud “was killed with calculated brutality”. Mr Heywood said the group specifically targeted him and those with him.
Now I remember this from a year ago. The bBC went out of their way in which to paint Mr Mahmoud as a poor little lamb who died due to a failure of the prison to keep him safe:
The family of Jamal Mahmoud, a 21-year-old of Somali descent who was killed on Tuesday, hit out at the prison for “neglecting him”.
Mahmoud’s cousin Aisha Salah, said: “I blame the prison, it’s very disturbing. I just hope that place gets shut down as soon as possible because it’s not safe.”
And here is what the bBC conveniently left out:
A 21-year-old inmate was killed at Pentonville prison in a bloody battle to control the wing’s “lucrative” contraband route, a court heard. Basana Kimbembi, 35, Joshua Ratner, 27, and Robert Butler, 31, allegedly murdered new father Jamal Mahmoud, at the north London jail on October 18 last year. He said: “He was killed with calculated brutality by a group of men armed with weapons that went to find him and those with him. “That lethal violence was quite deliberate and expected. “The sheer determination of the killers is indicated by the fact that neither the location, the security or the presence of prison staff served to stop it or deter the violence or the weapons used to drive it home.“ The Crown’s case is that these three defendants together armed themselves in advance and went to confront Jamal Mahmoud and his group who also were armed. The victim was seen by another inmate to visit Butler and Kimbembi in a cell. During their discussion, Kimbembi allegedly pulled a large combat knife from a sheath and told him to move back. Mr Mahmood left, saying “We’ll see what happens” and Kimbembi allegedly looked up and said “I am going to kill you”.
This was all about the contraband trade inside prison, something Grayling listening to the Prison service tried to rectify, here is how the bBC reacted:
Poet laureate leads protest against prison book rules
The thing it was nothing to do with books, rather it was all about small parcels:
“Under the changes, prisoners can no longer be sent small parcels containing items such as books, magazines and underwear.”
Funny how the bBC has been unable to link the two.
On that note, I wonder if all the f-ing snowflakes who made the above about books will issue an apology for the murder of Mr Mohammed.
Will Brexit affect their ability to trade freely I wonder?
Do we have links with Somalia?
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/907724965914529793
Women opening their own phones ? Don’t be stupid
No, You have to hold it to your male guardian’s face so he can login and inspect your social media posts at the same time.
Think I`ll buy shares in mascara, eye shadows and lash curlers…less so re lippy and rouge.
Isn`t one of them John Simpson? One of the fat bookends in the photo?
So Ofcom is changing its name to FUCEM.
That’s the, Futile Useless Complaints to people Employed by the Msm
Wonder if the bBBC will highlight this….
UK terror arrests rise almost 70% in a year to reach record high, new figures show – The Independent
https://apple.news/A92PLrpwxQRuYzo2iTeY0yQ
Probably all Nazis being apprehended.
Yes, Including the ultra Nazi East Grinstead Women’s Knitting circle, the Paisley Origami society and other such organizations which should be banned immediately!
Ah, but how many of them were let go due to lack of any kind of evidence?
Left-wing BBC anarchists at work on WATO today, trying to undermine the Grenfell Fire Inquiry before it starts. Rather than supporting a rational inquiry that will dispassionately examine the causes of the fire and identify the problems that led to it, the BBC seems to want some multi-culti emotion fest with lots of diversity and rap songs. How will the expression of local anger and lamentation (justified though it may be) contribute to a forensic examination of the circumstances and causes that will enable the authorities to ensure there is no repetition of that tragedy?
Isn`t it interesting just how many rappers, artists, activists and MPs seem have been besties with the Grenfell Tower victims?
I`d round them all up, and charge them with aiding and abetting illegal tenancy breaches of contract as well as not telling the authorities about what was going on there-being friends does not mean you had no need to tell us all about the mattresses, cardboard piles and bong lighting paraphernalia.
Start with David Lammy.
The threat to the UK from international terrorism is severe. {gov.uk 14sep2017}
low – an attack is unlikely
moderate – an attack is possible but not likely
substantial – an attack is a strong possibility
severe – an attack is highly likely
critical – an attack is expected imminently
MI5: The current threat level for international terrorism in the UK is SEVERE.
Kim is threatening to sink Japan and turn America to ashes. He’s racing ahead with his weapons and experts say there is no way to stop him.
In light of that, a war will set back climate control for sure and raises a question for the left/green/hope not haters – Just what would you do?
Stop all imports/exports – shut North Korea down for a week.
Drop books all over the country with Android Tablets for the population to access the real World during that week.
See what happens – not sure if it would work but worth a try. It’s been stuck in a totalitarian ‘Kim’ phase for so long it needs a big kick.
All countries say that if anything takes off from the ground in the next week it will get shot down by all countries – China, Russia, USA, South Korea and Japan.
…
“Independence, peace, and solidarity are the basic ideals of the foreign policy and the
principles of external activities of the DPRK.” {pdf}
…
If only we could see what their real intentions are? If only North Korea could give us a hint of the future they seek, what message they tell their people day in and day out …. if only … {youtube}
Big ‘but’ though – whatever sanctions, China will support NK on the quiet like it has all along.
24/7 Satellite/Boat/Airplane Surveillance by all countries – broadcast on TV for everyone to see.
Shutdown.
Redline drawn.
Assets frozen.
North Korean workers out of the country given option to be educated on world outside of North Korea – UK has an infinite amount of land and resource we can take them all (joking here).
All eyes on North Korea for a week with broadcasts of all the mass human graves and stupid laws like hard labour for pulling down a poster.
Diplomacy, Dennis Rodman-style: Ex-NBA player gives Kim Jong-un Trump’s book ‘The Art of the Deal’ {telegraph.co.uk jun2017}
That takes numbers 3, 57, 49, 76 and a certain sort of odd flavoured rice off the menu as far as I’m concerned, Gax!
Talking of British institutions hijacked by SJW Ctrl-Left
National Trust = National unTRUSTworthy
Couldn`t Linda claim that looking like a post-op makes her an oppressed minority?
Sorry Linda-it`s been a long day!
I’m surprised the word “blacklisted” isn’t verboten.
Didn’t that kid’s colour scheme become a logo for a great company called Clothkits many moons ago?
Why have people like the lgtgdfifythysgt crowd of losers got hold of it and why do they think it’s funny?
I want my colours back!
‘Pound surges against dollar….after hints from BofE at rate rise’ says yet another bit of fake Beebery. In fact, as anyone watching the currency markets will know, the pound has been steadily rising for the past fortnight, from 1.26 to 1.33 (it was 1.31 yesterday, before any earth-moving suggestions from the BofE) without any help save from a buoyant economy. An economy that has risen despite the pernicious lack of help from Carney, or Osborne, both of whom will probably think their brilliant ‘quantitative easing’ is responsible. That and a euro that has been artificially inflated – when wasn’t it? – in order to make the EU look impressive.
Anybody able to tell me why NASA are getting a free pass on crashing their Cassini space exploration contraption into Saturn, now it`s running low on battery?
We`d call that interplanetary fly tipping where I come from…and be subject to a fine if we couldn`t get some travellers to tip it into a Crossrail drillhole.
No-let`s hope the Greenies will take the science junkies on-Martha Kearney seemed all too happy to forgo the moral implications of this wasteful vandalism.
Now I know what the BBCs game is, it`s always a joy to go to the sources for their soundbites and clips.
What stories they prewarn us of, and which ones last up until Newsnight. So Junckers creepy plans for the EU got no real dissection yesterday.
All he said backed the Brexit case last year by 100%…and his Frankfurt plans for 2020 are exactly what Brexit said would happen. Hence no mention on the BBC yesterday.
Ditto with Corbyns confusions in Brighton as he rambled on to the TUC-again, you need to go to the original full “speech” before you see what the BBC choose to tell us and what they`d rather we not know about.
In both cases-Juncker and Corbyn-the BBC cover for them, and we need to get finding out for ourselves.
Grenfell today, public sector fuel flamings again soon-no wonder they won`t look at what Corbyn and Juncker intend for the nation should they ever get a whiff of power in this land.
Noticed on the BBC news last night it’s all about sprinklers in flats (not cladding, wrong cladding, EU authorised cladding, cheap cladding with same fire safety specs.). But wait, it’s now ALL councils (Labour/Conservative) so it’s no longer the cuts or austerity.
It’s bad decisions from successive Governments with old buildings not meeting new regulations.
If somebody is found responsible for the fire at Grenfell due to cladding and costs, it’s possible (if the person is not rich or important and they require some underling to blame and let all the rich and important people off the hook) then, if he (she, it etc), if guilty and sentenced to a term in prison, it would set in motion a string of events.
Every other block in the Country will have a person doing a similar job regarding safety and will be responsible in the same way as the Grenfell person.
Just because they haven’t all caught fire yet should make no difference because all, including Grenfell, will have the same conditions and it could be any high rise that caught fire.
All these people would have done (or not done) the same things regarding safety so all should be as guilty as each other.
If a different block had caught fire and not Grenfell then the blame would fall on the person in control of safety in the different block and the Grenfell person would be unaffected.
This means that either:
Nobody will be charged or made accountable for Grenfell
or
Every person in the UK in charge of high rise safety should be charged if their blocks are similar to the Grenfell block. They are just lucky their block hasn’t yet caught fire unlike the Grenfell safety officer’s block.
They have all done or not done the same thing so should they all be treated the same?
Emmanuel
If another tower block had gone up in flames, full of native Brits and not “enrichers”, I suspect that the BBC would have lost interest long before now.
Unfortunately, it’ll make the ‘professionals’ in Local Authorities even more politically correct now, especially as they will have to kowtow to the councillors, and the monstrously paid ‘executives’.
Back a few years, I had to deal with several of these bloated, ineffective ‘organisations’, and after the third opportunity, I decided that my company just walked away from them because they were so thick and entangled in lefty concern – and that was the Conservative ones! Luckily, a Grenfell Tower wasn’t around otherwise we’d have wasted even more of our (taxed) income.
And while on the subject, the National Trust were the the worst of them all on one particular project which was guaranteed to bring jobs and prosperity to one of the worst benefits areas of Kent. They were an absolute disgrace at one meeting, so we decided to say ‘sod them all, and don’t expect any support from the Scrobs machine’! Luckily, ‘members’ are leaving the NT in droves, so that’ll be another bbbc-like poll tax on the horizon no doubt.
“Brexit: UK will ‘soon regret’ leaving EU argues Juncker”
My message to Junker……………………………….
Pound surging and employment levels at a record high and the USA are supporting us during Brexit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41266528
My second message to Junker is……………………
UMPA, UMPA, STICK IT UP YOUR JUNKER !
😀
Al Beeb puts its foot in it!
ZERO predates Islam by hundreds of years
Carbon dating reveals earliest origins of zero symbol
Carbon dating shows an ancient Indian manuscript has the earliest recorded origin of the zero symbol.
The Bakhshali manuscript is now believed to date from the 3rd or 4th Century, making it hundreds of years older than previously thought.
Earlier research had dated the Bakhshali manuscript to the 8th and 12th Century, but now carbon dating has shown it to be centuries older.
oh dear how will they repair the damage?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-41265057
Perhaps the winged horse was really a Tardis, and Mo was able to travel back in time.
That would explain it ……
R4 at 9:30pm Patrick Wright meets the philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, who argues that the EU has encroached on the fundamentals of Englishness: the landscape, and the common law.
And he hears from others who question the idea that the European Union has encroached in this way, including Martha Spurrier, the Director of Liberty, author Robert Winder, and Greg and Teresa Malciewicz, editor and publisher of UK-based Polish-language weekly New Time.
That was a good listen (this a.m.) but I was unfavourably impressed by Martha Spurrier. She claimed that lawyers go into Court blind because of the way Common & Case Law (she just called it Common Law) held sway alongside Government legislation.
I seem to recall that the whole point of a Law Degree plus reading for the Bar exams meant that on admittance, in a case within one’s specialty, one had the training and knowledge where to find to find the relevant record of Statute and Common Law and the previous cases impinging thereon, if any. Definitely not going in blind but instead, prepared.
LBC : Pakistani born guy has just phoned Nigel Farage
“Why are you sending aid money to Pakistan ?
It just goes to rich people getting richer, it doesn’t help the poor village people”
Naaah! I can’t believe that happens ……..
“It just goes to rich people getting richer, it doesn’t help the poor village people”
Serves them right for that awful YMCA song!
Small giggle.
Sons here pre-uni.
In Morrisons buying dinner, decided to buy ‘Dunkirk’ on DVD.
Watching it now. Not the one anticipated, but an opportunistic punt from ages ago.
From the BBC. Using Benny Cummy.
This one? BBC TV Movie 2004.
Mrs 7 was watching it on dvd the other night. As soon as I saw Cumwatsit was in it I retired to another room to watch some better rubbish in Drama.
Yes. Sneaky marketing by Morrisons and opportunistic cooperation by BBC.
Fool me twice territory.
As you will see below, Benny still firmly in the BBC fold. He knows who can keep the money rolling in.
There was an interesting scene in the first ‘episode’ (three bolted together to make the movie) where a group of Tommys who surrender to the Germans are rounded up and slaughtered by the new EUropean army.
Quite the metaphor.
“Hurricane Irma: UK calls for urgent aid rule changes”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41266189
Our Foreign Aid is wasted each year on corrupt nations, at the same time the ‘Liblabrodites’ are shouting that we have poor at home living on food banks and a shortage of housing.
Well I say its time that we spent all the money at home and on our British Overseas Territories.
Let the do-gooder ‘Liblabrodites’ set up and support a new charity and call it ‘Foreign Aid’ funded by voluntary funding. After all, ‘Charity Begins at Home’.
This nation needs a new leader with common sense and a spine.
I have recently tried another browser.
Windows laptop, so I also changed a few IE settings.
Since which, whenever I visit TWMTB site up pops a little window asking for permission to track my location.
Just the AlBeeb site.
Permission denied, I do not remember this before. Is it new?
All comments and explanations welcome.
Truthseeker,
I get that on some sites. Even completely apolitical ones. Sometimes it’s about marketing. I couldn’t say if anything more sinister is going on with it but I do get the pop-up from time to time.
Use a proxy server.
Another good reason for Brexit…………..
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/4466157/arsenal-vs-cologne-fans-soho-police-officers-brawl-europa-league
Has Al Beeb covered it yet ? No?
Perhaps their researchers will pick it up here ?
Something tells me that the BBC doesn’t like the President of the USA …………….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41265803 also…………………………………..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41267926
Putting those URLs into the Twitter Search Box gives me
BBC Licence Fee = UK media POLL TAX
..that is given to Ctrl-Left Activists to spread their LibSupremacist Dogma
So true
Anyone watching the pledge tonight?
What a load of left wing shite.
I thought debate type shows were supposed to have differing points of view, not agreeing with each other.
5 gina millar fans for instance.
It’s a bit like qt with the heavily biased panel.
Only when Carole Malone and Michelle Dewbury are on do I hear anyone talking sense, occasionally Nick Ferrari.
EG, different topic but The Reunion tomorrow morning R4, 9am, is about Northern Rock Bank. If it’s not too painful for you, have a listen in case there are some clues about what compensation, if any, is available.
I’m sympathetic to your plight but lost rather less than you. I was a Bradford & Bingley dissenting shareholder.
Sky was a superb news channel until just a few years ago. Calm knowledgeable and desperate to be fair.
Then a guy was put in charge of Sky news who immediately saw the problem:
All its presenters were hideously white, appallingly male, and dreadfully middle aged – (ie had been around long enough not to get excitable and to be able to put politic events into perspective.)
Now Sky news has diversity, youth, and no one knows anything. The pledge might as well be called the Guardian with One Alternative Voice Show.
“had been around long enough not to get excitable and to be able to put politic events into perspective”
I notice that many younger people don’t seem to understand the need to have any awareness of events before they were born. Me me me me me, I suppose.
Newly posted review on the last few days’ news:
The BBC still trying to derail Trump.
The Moscow prostitute story died a death. But the BBC keep on trying.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4112512/Outrage-BBC-claims-SECOND-Russian-dirty-dossier-Trump-amid-claims-trying-derail-presidency-starts.html
We are forced to pay the BBC for this constant Alt-Left cobblers.
BBC Radio Four on Facebook:
“For 25 formative years the Prophet Muhammad remained faithful to one woman.”
This does not seem like something to run as a major news piece. Is this the night shift?
GW
A BBBC contributor has already pointed out that, after these” formative” years, the Muzzie crackpot spent all the time he was not murdering Jews, raping little girls.
Todays Muzzies still seem expert in murdering Jews and raping little girls.
But do not be concerned, it’s approved in the Koran.
Sorry, my mistake, it’s compulsory.
ah that was before he married three younger women, in turn, to replace her. Including a 6 year old child. But please don’t think he did anything wrong, he didn’t shag the arse off the little kid until she was 8 or 9. Because, I guess, he was just that sorta guy. Did the BBC Facebook mention this?
Nick has found a fan, and is grateful.
Not sure the logic holds up too well.
I also initially read that as him being deemed a ‘leader’, which is doubtless where the Nick-name ‘Toenails’ originated.
Oops. Wrong URL. Will try to unravel.
Doing well today. Sorry about the duplicate.
Hopefully here is Nick in full modest hero victim mode.
“One of tomorrow’s leaders: if @bbcnickrobinson is getting under the skin of politicians such that they squeal foul, good! ?? @BBCr4today”
– In the Newspaper image it says “he’s (Nick Robinson) made a smooth transitions to the agenda-setting Today programme on Radio 4”
– So the title of the piece in Yorkshire Post is ‘In defense of BBC’s Nick Robinson’ and it says the BBC programme is ‘agenda-setting’ – what does the columnist imply from this? That Nick is biased? That the BBC is biased?
– The ‘Burgeon’ issue was that some interviewers give an easy ride to some politicians … which is unbalanced.
Agenda setting for a discussion is acceptable but in this case it refers to the bbc Lefty agenda for how they are intent on remodelling the country and the world.
We just know how Today interviews will go and we are never disappointed. Everyone is aware of this. Those who claim otherwise are liars.
‘…we’ve ran out of time.’ agenda setting?
‘More Labour than Conservative.’ agenda setting?
‘Talk over people.’ agenda setting?
‘Not reporting on news items’ agenda setting?
‘Showing photos rather than full video footage’ (Gavin Hewitt 2015) agenda setting?
– Not sure which ‘agenda setting’ he means, that was all.
Call it what it is, propaganda. Not even from an overbearing state like China or Saudi but an independent media organisation that would not exist but for us fools and weak complacent politicians.
Oops. Wrong URL. Will try to unravel.
No @GuestWho not your fault
It’s just that way that Tweets show up here is slightly different to on twitter.
When you post a tweet reply here, the thumbnail of the original tweet shows underneath, EXCEPT when the original has an image in.
…. So the trick is to paste the reply URL and then underneath paste the URL of the original tweet.
Guess what the BIG news for the BBC is?
Japan again sabre rattling over friendly Kim ICBM flyovers? No, sillies, it’s…
“This test came as a surprise to nobody.(NK firing another missile)”{bbc.co.uk 15sep2017} – But the UN have add sanctions that will stop this nonsense?
“This test came as a surprise to nobody.(NK firing another missile)”{bbc.co.uk 15sep2017} – But China who control 90% of NK imports/exports said it will be controlled through diplomacy.
“This test came as a surprise to nobody.(NK firing another missile)”{bbc.co.uk 15sep2017} – But NK have gone over sovereign country without permission
multiple times and this should be treated as an act of war.
At a minimum the missile should be shot down over the waters between NK and Japan.
To put it bluntly, so long as we stay well clear of the lot of them, I don’t care.
They won’t stay away, their whole existence is to prove they are better without comparing their failings to other countries. One week of complete isolation might solve it. Plus dropping leaflets or Hello Magazine over the country.
I guess the BBC World Service now broadcasting to North Korea will solve all the problems …
WordService Radio Programme – 15Sep2017 (in order as they appear on website)
The men who believe they are the second coming
Outlook – I Was Shot by My Student
Winning space photos
‘Misleading’ Information from Drinks’ Industry Over Cancer and Alcohol
Cow Candy : Let them eat cake? Why farmers feed sweets to their cows
Russia Conducts Massive Military Exercises
The German Schoolboy Arrested for Writing a
How do you make a new home in the African bush with a machete, rope and plastic?
Does it Pay to Be Nice in Business?
Tears of joy as Syrian family reunited
‘Why I chose refugees for housemates’
The Documentary – Die Klassen – Die Klassen: Die Trennung
30 ‘lost’ words you might want to start using again
Could Somalia be your next holiday destination?
Let them eat rabbit: Are Venezuelans persuaded to see rabbits as meat rather than pets?
“Many houses just exploded with the pressure” (hurricane)
A bullet train to modernise India’s railways
My year with Mabel the Goshawk
What it’s like to fly a golden eagle
The Inquiry – What Would War with North Korea Look Like?
The Inquiry – How Do We Stop People Dying in Floods?
Interesting little package on BBC news just now on the BBC-agenda-busting bad behaviour of German football fans in London last night. Which, naturally, ends with the BBC editorial line “there will be questions to be answered about ticketing”
Because England fans = bad, German fans = good – so there has to be some blame at our end, right?
It’s the tickets fault. The ticket made them nasty. If only it was a rainbow ticket with the words ‘let’s stop hate crime’ written on the ticket.
NHS workers demand 3.9% pay rise {bbc.co.uk sep2017}
– Demand! Demand! Why not 100%?
– “Enough is enough!” but in the Unions and NHS case it will be “Enough is never enough!”
Migrant crisis: Is Bilbao the new back door to Britain? {bbc.co.uk sep2017}
A growing number of migrants are trying to get to the UK by sneaking on to ferries at the Spanish port of Bilbao.
– BBC could use the word ‘illegally entering’ rather than ‘sneaking on to’
– ‘Growing number’ – so no idea and how long has this been going on?
– Is Spain letting this happen – is it open borders that’s causing the problem?
– So we do have a problem?
But I was told earlier this week that the migrant crisis was over!
Reality Check: Has the EU reduced migrant deaths? {bbc.co.uk 13sep2017}
The claim: The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said: “We have drastically reduced the loss of life in the Mediterranean,” in his State of the Union speech to the European Parliament.
Reality Check verdict: The estimated number of deaths has gone down this year, but for those who make the crossing the risk of dying is greater in 2017.
…
Obviously, it depends partly on how you define “drastically”.
Migrant deaths (as per BBC, no link to data sources)
2015: 3,771
2016: 5,143
2017 so far: 2,542
Migrant arrivals (as per BBC, no link to data sources)
2015: 1,011,712 (268 per death)
2016: 363,348 (70 per death)
2017 so far: 128,012 (50 per death)
BBC, why only go back to 2015 when Europol says this has been happening in 2014, and possibly earlier?
In 2014, the number of irregular (illegal? dreamers? undocumented?) migrants arriving in the EU surged, reaching more than one million migrants the following year. Europol believes this trend of rapidly increasing numbers is set to continue. {europol.europa.eu 2015}
BBC Question Time.
Well done Hartley Brewer, she stated that once again, on the BBC, she was the only Brexiteer on a panel of five.
Pity very few Tories have the guts to start speaking out against the BBC.
Karen Bradley -hang your head in shame you absolute coward.
According to the Express, Will Self sort-of supported JRM on QT last night in response to a comment from some smirky-faced idiot in the audience. I started posting a longer comment on this but the damn thing disappeared and I can’t be bothered typing it in again.
Now I’ve heard that there’s been an explosion on the tube. Off to buy a teddy bear and some candles just in case.
Explosion on a London tube. News just in.
http://news.sky.com/story/police-investigate-explosion-on-london-tube-11036235
and BBC think this is more important news…
Timber yard blaze brings rail chaos – BBC News
https://apple.news/AI0fyt69aRTGBV9uIOcaNtQ
Jeez 7 screen lengths just to say
‘There was a big fire at a Harrow timber yard
so today the rail line will be mostly closed so the retaining wall can be rebuilt.’
#overkill
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/faisal-islam-sky-news-political-editor-interview-racial-profiling-stop-and-search-a6901881.html
Faisal Islam, back in 2016, having a go at the police for the racial profiling of Muslims, including him, following the murderous July 7th attacks on the London Tube.
If he doesn’t know why Muslims were targeted by the security forces should he really be Sky’s political Editor? Does this explain why Sky’s news is so poor these days?
Hurt feelings are worse than dead bodies.
Yes, a strange choice I’ve always thought. Still, looking at the weight that Islam is piling on, one can assume he’s preparing himself for ‘fatty’ Bolton’s job !
‘Incident’ on the Tube.
They ranted and raved yesterday about how minorities are under represented in the media. Well this is one sphere in which there is a real over-representation of a certain minority, about which the Beeb is oddly reticent.
We will never be able to feel safe again. This is a sword of Damocles hanging over everything now – there is no time, place or method they will not use. We have the PC tyrants who made it thought crime to even discuss the problem. Now it is way too far gone to rectify. May they rot in hell for their betrayal.
Does this count as media representation? Writing plays or making music is haram, but some of the shows we have seen on the news over recent years have been really fantastic. This latest sounds like an English version of Face Off. I loved that film. How fantastic someone has contributed so much to our culture.
BBC don’t mention that we are in MI5: The current threat level for international terrorism in the UK is SEVERE.? Like the BBC don’t want to tell people something …‘Parsons Green: Explosion reported on London Tube train’ {bbc.co.uk 15sep2017}
BBC Breaking has reported it.
Others seems a bit more on the ball and detailed.
But we need to readjust our priorities and move our attention to ‘important’ issues such as, are those bags of Nutters sweets still on sale?
Amazing what a dire grade in one A level gets you. And where.
This is Abbott level delusion.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/14/bbc-political-influence-weak-defending-laura-kuenssberg-bodyguard?
Tone still got his detail after that nasty tweet from ‘somewhere overseas’?
Salman Rushdie has been under bodyguard protection since Feb 1989 for writing a piece of fiction … ‘It’s shocking that Laura Kuenssberg needs a bodyguard. BBC journalists deserve greater respect for still providing balanced news coverage for a divided nation {theguardian 15sep2017}‘.
“That’s all the more reason to defend its journalism against raucous assault in a country more viscerally divided than ever before.”
– But the public (me included) were against Salman Rushdie (author), and backed the sentiments of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (religious fanatic) in 1989.
– But the BBC don’t report on Ayatolla’s fatwa/bounty renewal in 2016 on an authors life for writing fiction in Feb-2016..
O/T but interesting: TheGuardian – First thoughts – 15Sep2017
– The Tories are creating homelessness – and we’re just letting them do it
– If public service workers have to strike, I’ll be supporting them. Here’s why
– Who cares about Paul Hollywood dressing as a Nazi when we have Nigel Farage?
– Why are 40 hardline MPs setting the tone of the Brexit debate?
There is a positive to take from the Rushdie fatwa – in almost 30 years the heroic martyrs have not been able to eliminate a single, evidently well guarded man. Their preference involves no direct bravery or sacrifice per se, simply taking out as large a number of unarmed and innocently bewildered people as possible. The only response to this worthy of any respect is derision and it’s high time this became the norm, most certainly replacing pianos and candles.
There have been casualties on the way – but 30 years to realise that language is important!
Failed assassination attempt and Hezbollah’s comments{wiki}
On 3 August 1989, while Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh was priming a book bomb loaded with RDX explosive in a hotel in Paddington, Central London, the bomb exploded prematurely, destroying two floors of the hotel and killing Mazeh. A previously unknown Lebanese group, the Organization of the Mujahidin of Islam, said he died preparing an attack “on the apostate Rushdie”. There is a shrine in Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra cemetery for Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh that says he was “Martyred in London, 3 August 1989. The first martyr to die on a mission to kill Salman Rushdie.” Mazeh’s mother was invited to relocate to Iran, and the Islamic World Movement of Martyrs’ Commemoration built his shrine in the cemetery that holds thousands of Iranian soldiers slain in the Iran–Iraq War.[47] During the 2006 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah declared that “If there had been a Muslim to carry out Imam Khomeini’s fatwā against the renegade Salman Rushdie, this rabble who insult our Prophet Mohammed in Denmark, Norway and France would not have dared to do so. I am sure there are millions of Muslims who are ready to give their lives to defend our prophet’s honour and we have to be ready to do anything for that.“[63]
On 24 September 1998, as a precondition to the restoration of diplomatic relations with the UK, the Iranian government, then headed by Mohammad Khatami, gave a public commitment that it would “neither support nor hinder assassination operations on Rushdie.”
– How to support both sides – “neither support nor hinder assassination operations on Rushdie.” – Mohammad Khatami
They only have to get lucky once.
Rushdie, and the rest of us, have to get lucky every day.
“Antifa is bad and should be condemned, yes, but the KKK has been killing and tormenting black Americans for centuries. There is no realistic comparison. Period.” {bbc.co.uk sep2017}
– The comparison is inciting violence is bad, on both sides.
– Violence is bad. On both sides.
– Hiding you identity to hide you actions is bad and usually means you are up to no good.
– Antifa is a young organisation and is only just getting started? Maybe?
– Oh BBC history, where are you? “They (KKK) were described as acting as the military arm of the Democratic Party and are attributed with helping white Democrats regain control of state legislatures throughout the South.{wiki}”
Your arguments must be weak if you need violence to back them up.
The quoted line is the last of that long BBC page
ie it’s the “take away” ie the brainwashing mem that you leave with.
‘Nazis were murderers, Stalin fought against them
.. therefore Stalin is a good guy ‘
That is the logic BBCNews
And Germany cut a nice deal with Stalin at the outset. Hang on – someone’s torn that page out of my history book.
Mark,
Centuries? How many centuries? The KKK can’t be more than a couple of hundred years old.
112 (157 – 45 year gap) years max … so Lucy is right … centuries ? … facts don’t matter …
The first Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s.
The second group was founded in 1915 and it flourished nationwide in the early and mid-1920s, particularly in urban areas of the Midwest and West. Rooted in local Protestant communities, it opposed Catholics and Jews, while also stressing its opposition to the Catholic Church at a time of high immigration from mostly Catholic nations of southern and eastern Europe.[6] This second organization adopted a standard white costume and used code words which were similar to those used by the first Klan, while adding cross burnings and mass parades to intimidate others.
Happy Eid-e-Mubahila! Greetings to all readers celebrating this Muslim festival, marking a major ‘victory’ of Mohammed over the Christians. Shame on the BBC for not mentioning this. Anyone who thinks that events in Parsons Green is an Islamophobe, Waycist and probably voted Brexit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_of_Mubahala
Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) begins at sunset on Wednesday, 20th September .
Will BBC notice?
Explosion on underground? No one should be surprised. I was thinking it had been quiet. I guess even imported enrichers need holidays. Got rats? Got rat shit.
This kind of thing, I guess, is on the agenda set by the bbc. After all they are our mentors, there to guide not to simply observe.
I’m wondering if this incident is an accident being built up as a terrorist incident
..cos then they can do lots of reporting ..only for it to turn out not to have an Islamist angle “oh it was just an accident”
..and then that could be a kind of happy ending for the religion.
Then when the next big Islamist attack happens they’ll revert to type and play the incident down
“I’m wondering if this incident is an accident being built up as a terrorist incident”
Faulty goods from Lidl?
Apparently, there was a fireball and the injuries are burns. If nobody dies, this will be forgotten within days in spite of lives being ruined once again.
Meanwhile, the offending “community” will continue undisturbed. No “backlash” of any consequence.
I’m not sufficiently confident these days to state here what I think needs to be done.
I believe Cat Stevens was on the radio yesterday. Shame its not today as we’d all love to hear his excuses for this one but then again, as it was on the beeb it wouldn’t be mentioned anyway.
I’ve seen things similar to that when I’ve been dragged (unwillingly) to contemporary art galleries. Why all the fuss and hullabaloo? I’m sure Will Gompertz will be elucidating us regarding its true significance in the next few days.
Legacy media silent on this quite startling comment yesterday;
Juncker> My working hypothesis is that there will be a deal I don’t want to punish, sanction or make UK suffer
https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/eus-juncker-says-hard-brexit-unlikely/1146304
‘Brexit with the World using WTO deals’ or ‘Brexit with the World including EU deals’.
Let us remove the words Soft, Hard, Fast, Slow, in, out, quick, slow, extreme!
Tube explosion. No details are known but of this we can be sure:
The exploding bucket was white and therefore racist.
It was a lone bucket with mental health problems.
It had nothing to do with the religion of war.
It was probably a far-right attack.
OMG! There are hundreds of these Lone Wolf Buckets!
http://www.kaplanbarrelsandrags.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/DSC_0224-1.jpg
Or should we say: Bucketloads of Peace
And as our dear Emir pointed out, all part and parcel of living in a vibrant and diverse capital.
Emir might want a word with Allah as to why swearing on the Qu’ran during his inauguration didn’t bring the power of peace and love to the city?
Calling Sadiq Khan a Muslim mayor is a dangerous myth {thenational.ae may2016}
London does not have a Muslim mayor, writes Faisal Al Yafai. Indeed, it probably never will
…
On the day Mr Khan unveils a new manifesto based on Islamic principles, a “Muslim vision for London”, and wins, we should declare him a Muslim mayor. Until then, he is just the mayor of London.
… so Faisal Al Yafai (Journalist) is calling Sadiq Khan (London Mayor) a liar? …
“London chose me as their mayor, not just an ethnic minority, not just a religious minority, but a Londoner of Islamic faith.” – Sadiq Khan, {cnn.com sep2016}
“minority extremist” – someone in a minority group who feels the majority should bend to their own culture or traditional views using violence if necessary.
I think this word should be introduced so we can start segmenting minorities even more.
71 genders? 71 extremist minorities?
I could only find a few references in google for ‘minority extremist’.
“In Iran, for example, people are ruled by the minority extremist.”
What does the Ngram Viewer do?(about)
When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., “British English”, “English Fiction”, “French”) over the selected years. Let’s look at a sample graph:
See how terms ‘islam,christianity’ are referenced the books ….
See how the terms ‘minority extremist,islamophobia’ are referenced the books ….
Vince Cable foisted on Look North regional news last night
Reminiscent of what happens on R4Today sometimes, when it seems they have been ordered from on high to include a Global Warming item : they go to the item, and then just move on
Well last night’s Vince Cable incident was the same except the presenter and local political correspondent had to do the item.
“Vince Cable (who has no connection to our area) says there should be a second referendum..he says blah blah”
“Our area voted overwhelmingly for Brexit”
(It wasn’t the case that VC had done a speech in our region)
The presenters ummed and ahhed a bit and then moved on as if embarrassed at being forced to run the item.
– Was it only Hull that had the Vince Cable item foisted on them ?
Vince Cable is a Poundland version of an M&M.
Coincidence in what Twitter shows me trending
Suddenly showing World’s popular tweets are in Arabic : Celebrate Saudi, HappyFriday
and those about London terror attack
Do most attacks occur on Friday mornings, so they can impact the Friday night mosque crowds ?
Given BBC “Parsons Green: London Underground blast is terror incident” headline, I wonder if the BBC title “North Korea fires second ballistic missile over Japan” should be …
.
“Incident flies over country of Japan. UN investigating.* “
* not related to previous incidents * alternative BBC headline