Biased BBC: OPEN THREAD

OPEN THREAD

>> Monday, July 13, 2009

Here's a bumped thread for your BBC observations. The floor is yours!

202 comments:

nrg 9:06 PM, July 09, 2009: Now I can understand why this would be covered by an American new outlet, but why is it on BBC News UK site?

Do the Beeboids not realise that Obama is not president of the UK?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8141870.stm

Africa texts Obama before visit :
Barack and Michelle Obama
Mr Obama's planned trip has ruffled a few feathers in Nigeria

US President Barack Obama has received thousands of text messages about Africa after he asked people to send questions before his trip to Ghana on Friday.
Stuart 9:34 PM, July 09, 2009: Caught a trailer for some upcoming drama called Freefall, apparently a searing account of the current financial crisis, I saw champagne swilling city types and someone being smooth talked into a mortgage then a subsequent clip of the same person shouting "Why did you let me buy this when you knew I couldn't afford it!"

Looks like it will be another dreadful drama written from smug recieved opinion rather than mustering any originality. Almost looking forward to it, it sounds like it might just be as laughable as last years mental eco-dirge 'Burn Out'
GCooper 9:51 PM, July 09, 2009: NRG is right - the BBC's obsession with the Obamessiah is getting to the point where it's worth considering the entire news team for psychiatric treatment.

Is there some secret ruling that mandates at least three appearances of the POTUS on the Corporation's 'news' front page at any one time?
Nightwatch 10:17 PM, July 09, 2009: Shall be interested to see how the BBC report this.

Young Racists' Bomb Threat To Immigrants

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Northern-Ireland-Young-Racists-Bomb-Threat-To-Immigrants-In-Belfast/Article/200907215333965?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15333965_Northern_Ireland%3A_Young_Racists_Bomb_Threat_To_Immigrants_In_Belfast
adam 11:12 PM, July 09, 2009: Mildly interesting watching this. Normally Hardtalk is quite dry but obviously this issue was going to take on emotional content at the beeb and the tinge of disbelief is quite clearly there.

Barack Obama critic Lynn Forester

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00lmdp2/HARDtalk_Lynn_Forester_Lady_de_Rothschild/
GCooper 12:23 AM, July 10, 2009: With a characteristic lack of imagination, the BBC's lazy online news team choose to illustrate their latest website piece on 'global warming' with...?

Why, a picture of cars!

Even the most credulous believers in the AGW scam no longer try to claim cars are a major contributor to their beloved scam.

And to think how BBC like to pretend superiority over fellow hacks on the tabloids!
Ratass shagged 1:26 AM, July 10, 2009: Can I use this thread to follow up on a reply given to me by sue many topics ago. I was commenting upon subjects posted in the main threads by eagle eyed contributors that were extremely important examples of BBC bias but then promptly ignored by most other contributers. A few days later it becomes a main topic without any mention of the original poster. Worse still, it then suddenly becomes a subject of discussion even though it was previously ignored.

To some, this smacks of a herd mentality. Is the bias only worth commenting on when the main contributers declare it?

Sue, you mentioned guest postings. I think that's an excellent idea, but why not just cut and paste some of the topics often covered comprehensively by some of the more lucid posters on this forum.

I particularly enjoy Reading cassandras posting. She has a handle on the mind of the beeboid like none other and I would like to see her as one of the main contributers on the front page of this site.
cassandra 6:48 AM, July 10, 2009: Ratass Shagged,

I thankyou for your fine compliment, you have made my day(and a half), its good to know that my humble offerings such as they are understood as intended!

I am certainly content to contribute with all the other fine 'witnesses' and wouldnt begin to think that I could even approach the high quality of the current writers, but many many thanks for the show of support.

Meawhile back at the ranch, the sad demise of the BBC continues apace, spin'N'lies and smears seem to be the order of the day with a four year old non story rehash by the ragged leftovers of the newlabour smear unit!
How low does the BBC have to sink into the stinking mud before it drowns in its own filth?
The BBC is all at sea with the G8 mother of all muddles, even on maximum spin the failure is impossible to hide, the ecofanatics have failed miserably in their quest, the battle lost in the run up to the Copenhagen summit and yet the war is far from over.
The political parasite class have looked at the polling numbers and found them against the planned draconian cuts in a harmless trace gas, ordinary people are turning against the luddite ecomentalist mumbo jumbo, even the ecofanatics are unhappy at the blatant hijacking of their religion by the carpet bagger capitalists who see £££$$$ easy money in the AGW scam.
The two opposing creeds increasingly at odds with the political classes withdrawing as they witness the inevitable collapse.
The watermellon whackos see us living in wattle and daub huts eating grass while the carpetbaggers just see money for nothing $$$£££ kerching, the parasite commissars see tax revenues and perpetual power over the hated prole scum voter.
The internal stresses and contradictions of a corrupt ideology and money/power grubbing scam using faked up psuedo science as cover is proving to be fatal to it, the BBC however still clings to the sinking wreckage with a will, the BBC have nailed their collective colours to the mast of AGW/MMCC so firmly that they simply cannot change their position, the ever more desperate cobbling and stitching together of the inherrent contradictions is comical and yet tragic to witness.
David Shukman reduced to pimping for some snake oil salesman flogging indulgences(tree planting) in Africa, what goes through his mind when he is forced to report such obvious trash when he cannot even explain the basic principles of how a tree uses CO2 and photo synthesis for heavens sake without reducing it all to infantile over simplications.

Sit back and enjoy the show folks, there is going to be lots to report on from now on, the final showdown and reckoning is on the horizon for the BBC.
Anonymous 7:03 AM, July 10, 2009: Fair play.

Someone at Aunty does have a sense of fun.

Loved the choice of photo from all that could have been selected:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/2009/07/thanks_for_all_the_responses.html#comments

Brown [heart] Obama
North Northwester 8:04 AM, July 10, 2009: It appears that the ANC government wants a black South African to head Anglo- American Mining. The BBC is keen to point out this morning on radio 4 that the South African government is being ignored.

Hey, wanting a fully qualified accountant or a mining expert or an international trade specialist in charge of your shareholder value is SO racist, right? It's hardly worth the BBC pressing this point, it's so obvious.

Next week, Trevor Philips and Lee Jasper perform open heart surgery on the BBC political correspondent of your choice.
Anonymous 8:30 AM, July 10, 2009: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/steve-richards/steve-richards-theres-trouble-when-the-spin-doctor-becomes-part-of-the-story-1740127.html

Mr Richards being his usual loyal BBC supporter of their honesty.
David Mosque 9:04 AM, July 10, 2009: It is sickening hearing Nicky Campbell eulogising about the Royal Show this morning and how wonderful the countryside is, when if he thinks about it, the metropolitan liberal elite of which he is a part has been constantly and systematically undermining it.
George R 9:49 AM, July 10, 2009: EGYPT.

BBC refers to this:

"'Hijab martyr' rally due in Cairo"

- BBC does NOT refer to this, but 'Jihadwatch' does:

"Copts in Egypt: 'Security has declared war on the Church'"

[Extract]:

"Currently Coptic affairs are, largely, the responsibility of the 'Coptic division' of the State Security Intelligence."

"All the better to enforce the demand of Qur'an 9:29 that unbelievers 'feel themselves subdued.' That is an open-ended command, as is evident in this story and elsewhere: Whether the local non-Muslims are subdued 'enough' depends on the whims (and paranoia) of the Muslim leadership at a given time and place."
George R 9:58 AM, July 10, 2009: Oh, now BBC recognises the flaws in Labour's car scrappage scheme:

"The pros and cons of car firm subsidies" ('Business' page.)
mickfly 10:07 AM, July 10, 2009: They were going to run with the picture of 'Mikaeel' Jackson wearing his favourite burka, but chose the next best one of him honouring Arafat.
Can't wait for the BBC to get the story, which, if it turns out to be true (doubt it) would become a beeboid/Islamic jizfest, unparalleled in recent times, and a free ticket to a couple of hundred event 'reporters'.
Story here... http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/02/77599.html
mickfly 10:11 AM, July 10, 2009: Sorry, I should have said, the story is about a possible Muslim funeral for Jacko.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/02/77599.html
Tom 1:10 PM, July 10, 2009: Nah - that's not bias:

The BBC :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8140947.stm

The actual story:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/08/ofcom_3gmap_suppressed/

I think the OfCom bottled water is a nice touch ....

One bunch of peculating half wits congratulating another then?
Grant 1:57 PM, July 10, 2009: Mickfly 10:11
A muslim burial should be as soon as possible after the death, usually the next day at the latest.
Guess the excuse for Jacko is the need for an autopsy !
North Northwester 2:03 PM, July 10, 2009: Mickfly 10:11
Guess the excuse for Jacko is the need for an autopsy !

Or for the wreckers to strip him for parts...
Anonymous 3:30 PM, July 10, 2009: Seen this?

The neo-Nazi 'asylum seekers'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8010537.stm

quote...

"One was an unrepentant woman hater whose racist and anti-Semitic views were too hard-line even for the British National Party."

Brilliantly done, I must say.

Of course the story isn't, 'Men sent to prison for years for authoring website.'
piggy kosher 3:40 PM, July 10, 2009: Gcooper:
Todays prize for the most grotesque usage of the obamamessiah in a report, "Dutch Economic crisis Sees Calvinist Revival". Ho bloody ho.
Anonymous 4:31 PM, July 10, 2009: From:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8010537.stm

"One was an unrepentant woman hater whose racist and anti-Semitic views were too hard-line even for the British National Party. "

OK, so the word "even" indicates that the writer knows the BNP to be racist and anti-semitic. Except the BNP publically claims that it is neither of these things. Nothing wrong with a journalist taking a firm opinion that the BNP is in fact racist and anti-semitic and then writing from that perspective... except this is the BBC, the organisation that reports the triumphs of the Taliban with equal respect as those of the British Army on the basis that they are brutally even-handed. Hmmm, brutally even-handed to the Taliban, brutally biased to the BNP. You can't have it both ways.
piggy kosher 4:40 PM, July 10, 2009: What about admitting then, that hamas,hesbolah, fatah, etc etc are also anti- semetic and racist?
Simple, because home grown nazis are easy targets, dispicable as they are, but the much greater danger, which impacts on the politics of the ME every day, is the very same poisonous rascism which eminates from Islamic capitals every day. Aided and abetted by the BBCs often obscene coverage of the region.
DB 5:21 PM, July 10, 2009: Great confessional article about media coverage of Sarah Palin. The comparisons between the press savaging she endured and the reluctance of journalists to report the failings of Biden and Edwards is especially relevant to Justin Webb.
Grant 5:52 PM, July 10, 2009: I guess BBC accusations of "anti-semitism" are a smokescreen to cover their own institutional anti-semitism.
Right-wing anti-semitism = bad.
Left-wing antisemitism = good.
George R 6:20 PM, July 10, 2009: Yes, that fits your 'multiculturalism', BBC: give GADDAFI better treatment than WILDERS:

"Gaddafi and Brown in first talks" ('Europe' page.)
piggy kosher 6:22 PM, July 10, 2009: Please read "Inside France's 'Barbarian trial'"
(currently on beeboid Africa page)
for a good overview of current BBC thinking on anti - semitism.
Its not anti -semitism if its done by an African, especially if you mention Paris council estates and a flirtation with Mohamidism in your report. Oh and dig up a lefty "sociologist" who tells us it wasnt anti- semitism, its just that we all know "Jews are supposed to have money and to look after their own"
Right. Thats O.K then.Nothing at all to see here.
George R 6:32 PM, July 10, 2009: BBC and AFRICA: 'not taking the Islamic flak' -

- There's plenty of BBC coverage about Obama's future trip to Ghana, but nothing from the BBC on this in Somalia:

'Jihadwatch'-

"Somali Muslims behead seven people for being 'Christians' and 'spies'"

[Extract]:

"In accord with Sharia rules. But there will be no problem with bringing Sharia into the West, now, will there? 'Somali Islamist hardliners behead 7 'spies'"

"MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline Islamist rebels beheaded seven people on Friday for being 'Christians' and 'spies' in the latest imposition of strict sharia, Islamic law, by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group, witnesses said. "
Craig 8:00 PM, July 10, 2009: Piggy, and the BBC line becomes even clearer by singling out one opinion for special attenion (isolating it in a box with block quotes):

"Initially it wasn't about expressing hatred of Jews"
Michel Wieviorka
Sociologist

The article undermines itself. The sociologist spouted this crap AT THE START OF the trial. He didn't give us his opinions AFTER hearing the evidence presented in court. He just 'knew'. What a dick.

Here's the offending passage in full:

'But Michel Wieviorka, the author of a book on anti-Semitism in France, says the motive for the murder was money first.
"Anti-Semitism added to what happened," he told journalists at the start of the trial.
"Initially it wasn't about expressing hatred of Jews... the target was a Jewish man because Jews are supposed to have money and are believed to look after their own, so they'll pay up."'

Yeah, right. Mind reader, are you Wieviorka?

Elsewhere in the article we learn that the killer "bombarded the magistrates investigating the case with letters full of anti-Semitic insults."
George R 8:23 PM, July 10, 2009: More BBC pro-Islamic propaganda:

"Between Islamic and contemporary art"
(inc. video clip, 'Middle East' page.)

A CRITIQUE of the BBC's pro-Islam, anti-Christian contibution on British education:

"Islam, the BBC & Propaganda "

(by Paul Weston)-

[Opening extract]:

"Although the BBC has a reputation for bias, dishonesty and the promotion of infantile ideologies designed to destroy civilised society, they appear to have surpassed themselves in their attitude to Christianity and Islam on their GCSE Bitesize revision website which is so fantastically biased, so hatefully anti-Christian and so perversely pro-Islamic that when one considers it is aimed at the unformed minds of young school children it must surely be tantamount to child abuse."

('paulweston101.blogspot.com').
John Bosworth 8:41 PM, July 10, 2009: This will never be seen on the BBC. It is against their narrative. Please watch it all the way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfRO_z79a1g
A. J. Moss 9:02 PM, July 10, 2009: This Week (the late night chat show with Andrew Neil) ended on this story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_week/7700556.stm

"And - is it the end for men? We'll be hearing from the comedian Amy Lamé, in the week scientists did men out of the only job they're still good for - and created sperm in a lab. Would the world - and politics - really be better off without the less fair sex?

The same story is appearing on the BBC3 news bites every hour, with the same BBC spin that the world no longer needs men.
George R 11:40 PM, July 10, 2009: BBC uncritically reports Islamic Turkey thus:

"Turkey attacks China 'genocide"

(which isn't a 'genocide'.)
'asia-pacific' page.

-But, BBC does NOT report Islamic Turkey's real genocide:

'newenglishreview.org' -

"What Constitutes a "Genocide" for Erdogan"

[Concluding comment, by Hugh Fitzgerald]:

"Do the deaths of 156 people, most of them Han Chinese killed by Muslims running murderously amok, constitute a 'genocide' of those same Muslims?

"And surely it is of note that Erdogan and many other Turks furiously deny that the mass killings, of more than a million Christian Armenians, by Muslim Turks, with Muslim Kurds joining in, and later, Muslim Arabs attacking the suriving stragglers in the Syrian Desert, constitutes a 'genocide.'

"So that's what Erdogan calls a 'genocide' of Muslims -- Muslims rioting, going on a murderous rampage, beheading and burning alive Han Chinese, while the killing by Muslims, especially Turks, of a million Christians, is not genocide.

"Keep that in mind as you consider whether or not you think Turkey should be admitted as a member of the European Community."
George R 12:07 AM, July 11, 2009: Re-piggy kosher's correct comment 6:22 pm above:

BBC report, in which the words "Islam" and "Muslim" do not appear!:

"French 'Barbarian' killer jailed"

('Europe' page.)

Even the name of the BBC reporter responsible for that editing has been erased. The name of the BBC's Paris correspondent is Emma Jane Kirby.

To get a more accurate understanding of the nature and motivation of the Muslim murderers of the innocent Jewish man:

'Jihadwatch'

"France: Muslim ringleader of gang who tortured and murdered Jew sentenced to life in prison."

[Extract]:

"Predictably, this story does not call attention to the role of Islamic anti-semitism in Fofana's acts. The words 'Islam' and 'Muslim' are not mentioned despite Fofana's own words quoted below, and the fact that the torturers chanted Qur'anic verses, and Fofana shouted 'Allahu akbar!' in court. 'Gang leader gets life in anti-Semitic murder case, from France24."
fewqwer 1:24 AM, July 11, 2009: Somewhat frivolous in comparison with the above comments, but if you search the BBC's website for the name Mayara Tavares, you won't find it.

One is left to speculate on how the BBC would have treated a similar gaffe by GWB.
fewqwer 1:31 AM, July 11, 2009: Re the above, I just watched this, which seems to explain the photo.

Apologies for false alarm.
John Stephens 2:19 AM, July 11, 2009: Three cheers to Charles Moore! THis ought to make a new thread. Perhaps the rebellion against the BBC starts today!

No you can't have my £142.50 I'll see you in court
George R 7:27 AM, July 11, 2009: Further to BBC's relegation of Muslim/Islam link to horrific murder of Jew in France (see: 12:07 am, above), here are two counter-references:

1.) 'atlasshrugs':

"France: 'Muslim Barbarian' ringleader Fofana sentrenced to life in prison"

[Extract]:

"Atlas reader Noelle has been following the latest breaking news on the trial of the brutal torture, kidnapping and murder of Ilan Halimi. Please see all of my coverage on this horror here: Ilan Halimi: Islamic Jew Hatred in France. The worst manifestation of Islamic Jew hatred. Noelle wrote me, 'Ms. Geller, let me assure you that such a tragedy as befell Ilan Halimi would have been totally unthinkable during the 32 years that I lived in France. The country is now under siege'.

"The trial of the 'Muslim barbarian' ringleader Fofana and his 26 accomplices (it was more like 50) had been suspended: in a shocking display of proud Islamic Jew hatred (consistent with the most sacred teachings of the Koran), the brutal Halimi murder trial was suspended after the defendant spewed vile invectives and threw his 'Arab shoes' across the courtroom at the jury. Throwing shoes at someone is a powerful insult in the Arab world."

ALSO:

'standpointmag.co.uk' -

"Paris: Prisoner of the Barbarians"

(by Nidra Poller.)
George R 7:46 AM, July 11, 2009: MUGABE and white farmers.

BBC: I understand why you don't report the following: you would have to discuss black on white racism, which in the BBC book, doesn't exist.

'Times'

"President Mugabe is questioned by Trevor Gifford of CFU over land grabs" ( by Jan Raath in Harare.)

"Mr Mugabe’s last encounter with the CFU [Commercial Farmers' Union] was in April 2000, soon after his 'revolutionary land reform' began. Union officials pleaded with him to assert the rule of law after the first white farmer was murdered. The delegation of farmers was threatened with violence and the next day Mr Mugabe declared on state radio that 'white farmers are enemies of the state'. "
Craig 8:01 AM, July 11, 2009: George R @6.32pm,

The Somali story is featured on the 'Times Online' site as well (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6683148.ece) and the article gives us useful information above and beyond the particular story:

"— Less than 1 per cent of Somalia’s population is Christian, with the rest Sunni Muslim. Most Christians belong to the Roman Catholic Church or Church of the Nazarene

— Somali Christians keep a low profile, mostly worshipping in house churches, but have been the target of mob attacks and kidnappings

— A Somalian who had moved to Britain was shot dead in his home country in April last year; Daud Hassan Ali’s widow said that it was because he had converted to Christianity

— Christian pressure groups say that five Christians were killed for their religion last year"

I've rechecked the BBC News Website and still zip, zilch, nada, diddly-squat on the story.
Craig 8:14 AM, July 11, 2009: The story is also featured in the ‘Telegraph’:

“Islamist insurgents behead 7 Somalis for 'spying on government and abandoning Islam'” (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/somalia/5799339/Islamist-insurgents-behead-7-Somalis-for-spying-on-government-and-abandoning-Islam.html)

Also, Sky News’s website features the story:

‘Somali Rebels 'Behead Spies And Christians'’ (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Somalia-Al-Qaeda-Linked-Al-Shabaab-Isamlic-Rebels-Behead-Spies-And-Christians-Witnesses-Say/Article/200907215335004?lpos=World_News_Second_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15335004_Somalia%3A_Al_Qaeda_Linked_Al_Shabaab_Isamlic_Rebels_Behead_Spies_And_Christians%2C_Witnesses_Say)

I can't find anything in the Fiskite 'Independent' or in the the 'Guardian'. Then again, they're the BBC's soulmates in denial.
Craig 9:58 AM, July 11, 2009: So, the big Somali story that George R. alerted us to features not only on Sky and in the ‘Times’ and the ‘Telegraph’, but also in ‘The Scotsman’(‘Al-Qaeda link as Somali Islamists behead seven for being Christians’) and The ‘Irish Times’ (“Somali rebels behead 'spies' and 'Christians'”).

It's also featured on the ‘Al Arabiya’ News Channel website: ‘Victims executed for being 'Christian followers' and 'spies'’.
(http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/10/78336.html).

The BBC's Arabic reincarnation, Al Jazeera, does feature it but downplays the 'Christian' bit of the story & concentrates on the 'spies' bit instead: "Somalia's al-Shabab beheads 'spies'. ("http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/200971017742924625.html")

The BBC ignores it.

Good spotting, as usual, George.
George R 11:00 AM, July 11, 2009: The dumbed-down BBC.

Last week, the BBC was glorifying American pop performer, M.Jackson; this week, the BBC spotlight turns to Z.Ball, BBC's pop music presenter, because:

"BBC presenter Ball is pregnant."

('Entertainment' page!)
George R 5:54 PM, July 11, 2009: BBC report:

"Brown 'knackered' says Labour MP"

[Extract]:

"Gordon Brown is a 'knackered' prime minister and should take a month's holiday, a Labour backbencher [Austin Mitchell] has said."

Only a month?
It's all too much 6:09 PM, July 11, 2009: Three things to rant about.

I was visiting a relative and had the misfortune to see an episode of "Torchwood" on BBC 1. This had me shouting at the TV - so much about it was engineered to deliver the BBC agenda

1) Aliens demand 1 in 10 of the children in Britain - we have a) A proposal to use unaccompanied asylum seeking children, and b) a lecture from a cabinet minister saying - select the under performers from poor schools and save the 'productive' ones, "after all, that is what school league tables are for"
2) 30% of the cabinet is BME
3) Protracted seen at the death of gay partner

and so on

Can they not see that the 'utopia' they have created is falling apart about our ears?

I hard the Shappi Khorsandi (sp?) "comedy show" on radio 4 - one long rant about how vicious and stupid indigenous Britons are. Tired old material about the "immigrant experience" in the UK. This is racist rubbish and only gets commissioned because it ticks a few diversity boxes. Do you think the BBC would commission a UK woman to do a show telling the world about her experiences in modern Pakistan("eve teasing" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_teasing)

The "Now Show" was on - FFS! how does this marxist sh*t get air time? They sneered at a headline saying "EU bans cakes" going on to explain, with no detectable irony, that they only banned the consumption of cakes containing eggs, butter or cream and that the Nazi Daily Mail were all bastards. Correct me if I am wrong but what percentage of cakes contain eggs?
George R 6:10 PM, July 11, 2009: The TV programme the BBC tried to bury: 'The Death of Respect', next Thursday, BBC 2, 11:20 pm.

'Mail', debate section ':

"Yes family breakdown IS behind broken Britain"

By John Ware

11th July 2009

[Introductory extract]:

"Last month, one of Britain's most senior Family Court judges described family breakdown as a national tragedy and argued marriage should be promoted by the Government to help stop 'social anarchy'.
"Sir Paul Coleridge also took the extraordinary step of attacking the BBC for suppressing debate over the relationship between family breakdown and social ills by burying a TV series on the subject in a late-night slot.
The documentary series had already been put on hold until after May's local elections because of its sensitive political nature.
The Mail, which for 20 years has passionately argued that the breakdown of the family and marriage have been hugely damaging to society, invited the respected BBC journalist behind the series to reveal his findings. . ."

[John Ware's article follows at 'Mail' link.]
It's all too much 6:19 PM, July 11, 2009: Can someone ask the BBC to explain why they have taken the following policy decisions on behalf of the British people.

Trident is useless and affordable at £20bn over 30 years.

the Olympics are a 'good thing' at £20bn for a two week beano where a few drug boosted, over paid, self important 'athletes' jump over sticks and run around in circles.
George R 6:43 PM, July 11, 2009: Sympathetic BBC report on Labour's Jacqui Smith and porn:

"Jacqui Smith 'quit over porn row'"

('Politics' page.)

-Still she can always be proud of standing by her principles, and banning GEERT WILDERS from Britain.

Talking of Mr. Wilders:

"Wilders In Wonderland"

(by Paul Weston).

[Opening extract}:

"When Alice fell down a rabbit hole and embarked on her adventures in Wonderland, she discovered a thoroughly surreal environment in which the White Queen was able to advise the Mad Hatter that… 'quite often subjects are punished before they commit a crime, rather than after, and sometimes they do not even commit it at all.'

"Welcome to Wonderland, Mr Wilders, where Holland’s sober lawmakers appear intent on out-fantasizing Lewis Carroll on acid. The fact that they are hell-bent on subjecting Geert Wilders to a criminal prosecution is more than just absurd. It is insane. Totally, utterly and mind-bendingly insane."

('paulweston101.blogspot.com')
George R 7:43 PM, July 11, 2009: BBC to break with Obama politically over Africa?:

'Telegraph':

"Barack Obama tells Africa to stop blaming the West for its woes on historic Ghana visit"

[Extract]:

"Barack Obama has delivered the most challenging speech by a US leader in Africa for decades by castigating the continent's leadership for creating a culture of 'brutality and bribery'. "
George R 8:07 PM, July 11, 2009: Prompted by Obama's speech on Africa, here's a comment on the BBC's TV parody of the BBC's typical reporting on Africa, as in Episode 1 of 'Taking the Flak' (last Wednesday):

'TIMES' review, extract -

"The jokes and satire went one way and after an hour of in-jokery, you did find yourself wondering: if the BBC is so keen to mock its own news operation, using recognisable presenters and graphics, why should we trust the real thing? (…)”

{Episopde 1 available at BBC i-Player.}

http://iplayerlist.mibly.com/tv/taking-the-flak
Anonymous 1:00 AM, July 12, 2009: BBC Alba - a Scottish Gaelic tv channel, that makes Scottish Gaelic programmes, at a cost of (estimate) 16 million quid, as there are only (estimated) 50,000 gaelic speakers in Scotland, thats 320 quid each, what a bargain !
Anonymous 1:13 AM, July 12, 2009: Re. the not-very-funny comedy science fiction series set in Wales; Torchwood: The series was originally set in London, but when BBC commissioning editors saw the first few minutes of the original series they moved the whole awfulness to Wales, as then any criticism could be classed as racism against the Welsh.
piggy kosher 2:08 AM, July 12, 2009: LOL I really must watch one if its so bad. Merely for research purposes.
Anonymous 3:04 AM, July 12, 2009: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8010537.stm

"One was an unrepentant woman hater whose racist and anti-Semitic views were too hard-line even for the British National Party. "

OK, so the word "even" indicates that the writer knows the BNP to be racist and anti-semitic. Except the BNP publically claims that it is neither of these things. Nothing wrong with a journalist taking a firm opinion that the BNP is in fact racist and anti-semitic and then writing from that perspective... except this is the BBC, the organisation that reports the triumphs of the Taliban with equal respect as those of the British Army on the basis that they are brutally even-handed. Hmmm, brutally even-handed to the Taliban, brutally biased to the BNP. You can't have it both ways."

Anonymous, 4:31 PM, July 10, 2009

The article you mentioned also gratuitously concludes with the statement:

"The irony of two racists attempting to exploit the immigration and asylum system was lost on no-one who followed the case."

This conclusion only makes sense if criticizing the exploitation of the immigration and asylum system is a racist act.
John Stephens 3:21 AM, July 12, 2009: BBC Alba - a Scottish Gaelic tv channel, that makes Scottish Gaelic programmes, at a cost of (estimate) 16 million quid, as there are only (estimated) 50,000 gaelic speakers in Scotland, thats 320 quid each, what a bargain !

If you go on iplayer, probably a fifth of the programmes are in Gaelic from BBC Alba, obviously because the broadband connection is so fantastic on a couple of tiny rainswept islands in the outer hebrides. For example, in the following 'factual' category, 4 of the 12 programmes listed are in Scottish Gaelic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/factual/other/tv

I suppose we should be grateful that the BBC provides subtitles for the ignorant 99.9% of the population for whom this is a foreign language spoken by a handful of diehards.

Look out for the Manx and Cornish BBC minority outreach channels coming up soon. All part of the Marxist plan to disintegrate the United Kingdom.
Anonymous 3:34 AM, July 12, 2009: Good article on the utter pointlessness of the BBC's obsession with Gaelic broadcasting:

BBC Alba demonstrates power of tiny Gaelic lobby

I say language but Gaelic isn’t one, not really. Its vocabulary is tiny, with no form of saying yes or no and attuned to a distant, pre-technological world. It’s essentially a kind of rural patois, a bonsai idiolect; a way of specifying concepts central to a particular, highly codified way of life...

'The Gaelic lobby is powerful in Scotland because there are a lot of fairy tales about the suppression of the culture and how terribly fascist it all was,” says historian and author Michael Fry. “The culture died out because the Gaels themselves did not want to maintain it. They all decided to emigrate and go where the weather was better. So, all this is kept going by a small circle of Gaelic-speaking intellectuals who want to create jobs for themselves.'
Anonymous 6:44 AM, July 12, 2009: What's an audience to think? All the news that's 'fit' for purpose:

Sunday, 12th July.

Guardian - Brown set to reinforce troops in Afghanistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/12/afghanistan-taliban-troops-emergency-review-ministry-of-defence
Two thousand troops could be sent to Helmand following a review after the bloodiest day

Indy - Revealed: Brown's secret plan to cut Afghanistan force by 1,500
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-browns-secret-plan-to-cut-afghanistan-force-by-1500-1742747.html

I wonder which Aunty will go with? The truth, one hopes.
Battersea 8:43 AM, July 12, 2009: Al-BBC just now has got that nutter and shill for the Iranian regime Yvonne Ridley on Breakfast now.

And she looks like an utter loon, swathed in rags.
Ron Todd 8:56 AM, July 12, 2009: Peter Sissons in the Mail on Sunday

'[BBC] can't see the difference between reporters' opinion and the facts'
Anonymous 9:48 AM, July 12, 2009: Prepare for a new statistic about to become fact.

Whilst air travel only accounts for 2% of global CO2 emissions, the government (aided by some Ginger twat on BBC News yesterday) state that the figure in UK is 13%.

Yet more taxes anyone??
Gary 9:53 AM, July 12, 2009: report on Bolshevik tv this morning about some scarf wearing raggy in Germany being stabbed in court,and the rabid dog mozzie reaction out in nowheresville

all an example of rising "islamophobia".....notice the subtlety.....if you reject the nutcase religion,you're mentally ill acording the the Bolsheviks(much as if you object to the dykes,homos and "don't know what they are-s" which seem to pervade everything like a plague in nutcase media land)on the grounds that they are disgusting,you are also "mentally ill"(homophobic)

no I'm not, on both counts-I'm not irrationally scared of either-I am scared of Islam for obvious and perfectly rational reasons ie I don't want to be blown up by some headcase,but weirdos just disgust me
Roger C 9:54 AM, July 12, 2009: Well done BBC (I never thought I would say this) Marr had Griffin on! he wasent very good, But credit where credit is due.
Gary 9:57 AM, July 12, 2009: see Irreverend Millipede on now with today's missive from the worldwide church of AGW with a message for the faithful
Anonymous 10:07 AM, July 12, 2009: Got to give the BBC full marks for sycophancy of 'on message' support for their favoured son, but perhaps less for good taste:

Deaths not halting success - PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8146327.stm

I can't help but think the sacrifice of those who are dying fighting under the orders of, and with the limited 'support' his cosy government might have seen this phrased a tad better.
JohnA 10:13 AM, July 12, 2009: Ron Todd

Peter Sisson's attack on the BBC is sizzling ! Among other things, he says that it is effectively BBC policy to stifle critics of the consensus view of global warming. ........."The Corpration's most famous interrogators invariably begin by accepting that "the science is settled" when there are countless reputable scientists and climatologists producing work that says it isn't".

dailymail.co.uk

or

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1199104/Peter-Sissons-BBC-standards-falling--bosses-scared-it.html

I suggest his article is worth a thread at this site - some super quotes.
Craig 10:23 AM, July 12, 2009: JohnA,

Yes, the bit about AGW is a real punch in the face to the BBC and its defenders.

Besides the bits you quote, Peter Sissons also says, "But it is effectively BBC policy... that those views" (ie. skeptical ones) "should not be heard". Which, of course, is exactly what posters here have been saying for ages.

To add to your request for a thread, maybe David could consider using some quotes from Sissons to accompany Jay, Marr and Paxman at the bottom of the blog!
Craig 10:29 AM, July 12, 2009: And as proof of Sissons's point that 'the Corporation's most famous interrogators invariably begin by accepting that "the science is settled"', Andrew Marr asked Nick Griffin what should be done about African migrants as more and more will be coming to Europe "because of climate change"!!!
Gary 10:54 AM, July 12, 2009: if I ever have a day go by without some prat on the BBC ramming this crap down our throats,I'll faint

George Orwell-where are you when we need you???
Martin 11:35 AM, July 12, 2009: Why can't the BBC put these scummy little toe rag politicians on the spot? Continually when asked about how many more helicopters are going ot Afghanistan the answer comes back "We've increased the number of flying hours by 84%"

A helicopter can't be in 2 places at once, when undergoing maintenance it can't fly. All it means is the helicopters are flying more to evacuate the dead and injured. If a taxi does a few short trips a day it can service many people, but if it has to do a round trip of say 300 miles for one person the number of hours it operates for might have gone up, but in reality it's less effective.

The fact that this bunch of corrupt twats is allowed to spin this rubbish just shows how useless the media is at holding the Government to account.
George R 12:15 PM, July 12, 2009: France: Muslim Barbarian trial, and BBC -

'new english review. org':

"French Justice Goes Easy on the Gang of Barbarians"

[Extract]:

"The verdict in the trial of the Gang of Barbarians, accused of the atrocious anti-Semitic murder of 23 year-old Ilan Halimi, held hostage and tortured for 24 days, was pronounced after 10 PM on Friday, at the start of the July 14,the holiday weekend. Youssouf Fofana, self-named 'Brain of the Barbarians,' sentenced to what the French call life in prison, will be eligible for parole in 22 years. Sentences for his accomplices ranged from 6 months suspended to 18 years. Yalda, the young lady who lured Ilan Halimi into the well-prepared death trap, received a lenient nine years; she could be released for good behavior two years from now.

"The victim’s mother and sisters, who are observant Jews, were not present to hear the verdict pronounced after the beginning of the Sabbath. Their counsel, Maître Francis Szpiner, adamantly urged the Ministry of Justice to appeal the sentences, which fell short of the already modest recommendations of the Avocat Général.
"Was the timing accidental? Three years of investigation, two months of hearings, and a verdict that falls when the media are glued to the Tour de France and holiday goers stuck in traffic jams? State-owned France 3 TV unashamedly admitted that the verdict was announced during Shabbat in order to avoid incidents.
"Meanwhile, in the small town of Firminy, enraged Muslims rioted for three nights, torching cars and buildings after a 22 year-old arrested for extortion hung himself while in police custody."
(New English Review'.)

-And the BBC report follows the dhimmi route by avoiding the words "Islam" and "Muslim" in this report:

"French 'Barbarian' killer jailed" ('Europe' page.)
Gary 12:25 PM, July 12, 2009: just came across this interesting article on the REAL agenda behind the church of global warming

from climatedepot.com

Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.”
“I bring you good news from the U.S., “Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.
“Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,” Gore said, noting it was “very much a step in the right direction.” President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth's temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.
Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.
“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.”

Gore's call for “global governance” echoes former French President Jacques Chirac's call in 2000.
On November 20, 2000, then French President Chirac said during a speech at The Hague that the UN's Kyoto Protocol represented "the first component of an authentic global governance."
“For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance,” Chirac explained. “From the very earliest age, we should make environmental awareness a major theme of education and a major theme of political debate, until respect for the environment comes to be as fundamental as safeguarding our rights and freedoms. By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace,” Chirac added.

this is the crap the Bolsheviks are rammng down our throats day and daily
GCooper 12:41 PM, July 12, 2009: Interestingly, the full Sissons article is unavailable on the Mail's website. The news story trailer is there but the Mail's link is either broken, or they have pulled the original piece.

On another Mail related story, I see the BBC has chosen not to report the attempt by 13 doctors to force a proper coroner's inquest into the alleged suicide of Dr David Kelly. The original inquest having been prevented by Tony Bliar's former flatmate 'Lord' Falconer.

A little to sensitive for the White City Wonders, is it?
JohnA 12:49 PM, July 12, 2009: GCooper

Yes, the full Peter Sissons article is missing when you try to use the link at the Mail.

Maybe the BBC has sicked their lawyers on him ?
GCooper 1:07 PM, July 12, 2009: 'too' not 'to'....

Must proofread, must proofread, must proofread...
Robert S. McNamara 2:00 PM, July 12, 2009: I always mistook Sissons' disillusionment and cynicism - which you can detect in his teleprompter reading - for typical BBC arrogance.
George R 4:19 PM, July 12, 2009: More BBC pro-Islamic reporting:

(Extract from 'donalblaney.com'):

"Last month, the police officer behind the Night Jack blog, DC Richard Horton, was disciplined by Lancashire Police for simply writing a blog about his experiences as a police officer. Fair enough, you might think.

"And yet yesterday - in a story the BBC has chosen (surprise, surprise) to ignore in favour of more Bush/Cheney bashing - we learned that Azad Ali, the civil servant who is the President of the Civil Service Islamic Society and who delighted in publishing jihadist views, is being allowed back to work without even a slap on the wrist."
iain 4:57 PM, July 12, 2009: Martin said...
Continually when asked about how many more helicopters are going ot Afghanistan the answer comes back "We've increased the number of flying hours by 84%"
**********************************

Yes - just a shame the number of troops has doubled over the same time.

I detest these sc*mbag politicians lying thru their teeth while our brave lads are out there getting slaughtered because of inadequate kit.

Time we had a National Snatch-Landrover Day to commemorate those that have died in them.
John Horne Tooke 5:10 PM, July 12, 2009: Not BBC.

"Muslim who justified killing British troops back at Treasury"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5810703/Muslim-who-justified-killing-British-troops-back-at-Treasury.html

This does not suprise me one bit, but what does is this:

"Sir Gus O'Donnell, Britain's most senior civil servant and patron of the Civil Service Islamic Society.."

It seems that Islamification is now well on its way.
John Horne Tooke 5:28 PM, July 12, 2009: This is the first I have heard of this "non-political" civil service group. Who seem to be anything but political, for instance:

"There are a number of demonstrations and petitions we can take part in to raise awareness and demand for an immediate ceasefire. Following the UN resolution which calls for an immediate ceasefire we should all be writing to our MP’s and our Government to push this agenda forward. The links below provide a means to carrying this out, it’s very simple and very quick! There is also some information on the demonstrations taken place so far."
http://csislamicsociety.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/special-bulletin-from-csis-council-of-management/

Will these people also be covered in this:

"Civil servants who are members of extremist groups such as the BNP will face the sack if they “bring their politics to work” and refuse to promote ethnic diversity under a revised code of conduct, The Times has learnt. "
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6488106.ece

Now try and find a "Civil Service Christian Society" or a "Civil Service Jewish Society"

No - didn't think they would exist.
JPT 5:34 PM, July 12, 2009: I quote from the BBC today the story of an Olympic athlete in New Zealand who, to fund his Olympic bid has opened a brothel!
The BBC totally unbiased as ever: 'Prostitutes in New Zealand are not forced to walk the streets'.
No bias there.
George R 5:51 PM, July 12, 2009: In 2007, the BBC gave plenty of licencepayers' money to Muslim Rageh Omaar (since moved to Al Jazeera English) to produce a propaganda TV series, 'An Islamic history of Europe'.

Where is a BBC-produced counter propaganda version, giving an 'Anti-Islamic history of Europe'? Nowhere.

The BBC ignores evidence like the following and goes on building 'Eurabia'.:

"Did Islam Destroy the Classical Civilization? "

by John J. O’Neill

" While Islam is viewed as the savior and nurturer of the Classical Greek Civilization, there is an alternative story to this near-universal widsom of our time. Islam may well have had initiated the death of the Classical Civilization. Find out why.

[..]

"Who or what had produced this situation?

"As early as the 1920s Belgian medievalist Henri Pirenne located the proverbial smoking gun. But it was not in the hands of the Goths or Vandals, or the Christian Church: it was in the hands of those people whom it had, even then, become fashionable to credit with saving Western Civilization: the Arabs. The evidence, as Pirenne was at pains to show in his posthumously published Mohammed and Charlemagne (1938) was incontrovertible. From the mid-seventh century the Mediterranean had been blockaded by the Arabs. Trade with the great centers of population and culture in the Levant, a trade which had been the mainstay of Western Europe’s prosperity, was terminated. The flow of all the luxury items which Pirenne found in the records of the Spanish Visigoths and the Merovingians of Gaul, came to an abrupt end, as Arab pirates scoured the seas. The flow of gold to the West dried up. Gold coinage disappeared, and the great cities of Italy, Gaul and Spain, especially the ports, which owed their wealth to the Mediterranean trade, became mere ghost towns. Worst of all, perhaps, from the perspective of culture and learning, the importation of papyrus from Egypt ceased. This material, which had been shipped into Western Europe in vast quantities since the time of the Roman Republic, was absolutely essential for a thousand purposes in a literate and mercantile civilization; and the ending of the supply had an immediate and catastrophic effect on levels of literacy. These dropped, almost overnight, to levels perhaps equivalent to those in pre-Roman times.

"Pirenne stressed that the arrival of Islam effectively isolated Europe both intellectually and economically. And with this economic paralysis came war: the Muslim conquests were to unleash a torrent of violence against Europe. As a direct result of the Arab advance, by the seventh and eighth centuries, Christendom, the area within which Christianity was the dominant religion, diminished almost to vanishing-point. This catastrophic loss of territory – everything from northern Syria to the Pyrenees – took place in a space of two or three generations."

(John J. O’Neill’s is the author of upcoming book, "Holy Warriors: Islam and the Demise of Classical Civilization" (Felibri, August 2009).

-from 'Islam-watch.org'.
nrg 6:10 PM, July 12, 2009: Just heard really weird and hastily cobbled together extended hatchet job on Andy Coulson / David Cameron on R4, dressed up to sound like a shoddily made profile / documentary. Lots of accusations, suggestions and insinuations, but very few facts. The bias reeked.

And you had to pay for it!
George R 11:40 PM, July 12, 2009: Get ready for BBC's big propaganda push on Wednesday to support Labour's costly climate panic:

'Mail'

"Air travel and driving costs to soar under Labour plan to curb global warming"

By Tim Shipman.

[Extract]:

"The cost of air travel and driving is set to soar to pay for the government’s plans to curb global warming due to be unveiled this week.
"Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband warned of rising fuel prices as he outlined Labour’s bid to move Britain on to a low carbon economy.
He said people will have to enact ‘big changes’ in their lifestyle.
"Labour is also planning to turn the screws on those who refuse to cooperate with the green push. "
John Horne Tooke 11:58 PM, July 12, 2009: "Labour is also planning to turn the screws on those who refuse to cooperate with the green push. "

I wonder if this will be be another infringement on free speech. Is refusal to agree with the AGW theory going to become a crime?
CeannP 6:27 AM, July 13, 2009: Oh dear, one of their favoured 'comedians' has done wrong:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8146527.stm

Never fear though...he'll be back in a few months just like Ross, Brand, Thatcher...er scrub that last one.

Very odd that someone immediately comes out with the comment - "Nobody has accused me of sexual harassment".

Did anyone actually mention it to him or did he just proffer it?

Out of interest...when they said Thatcher's ban applied only to the 'One show' has anyone seen her on any other BBC programmes since? Or is she strictly persona non grata?
Anonymous 6:51 AM, July 13, 2009: John Horne Tooke
"Sir Gus O'Donnell, Britain's most senior civil servant and patron of the Civil Service Islamic Society.."
5:10 PM, July 12, 2009

Saw him on the Politics Show, introduced by a clearly lovestruck Mr. Sopel.

What I thought was going to be an interview seemed a several minute long corporate video cramming in about every cliche possible, from how diverse the Civil Service is to how much fun it is to work there... YOUR COUNTRY'S TAX PAYERS NEED YOUR INDEX LINKED PENSION BURDEN NOW!
DB 8:06 AM, July 13, 2009: BBC: Obama engages the world
By Michael Zubrow
Michael Zubrow is a foreign policy expert at the Center for a New American Security, a non-partisan, independent, national security think tank in Washington, DC.

Wall St Journal, November 2008:
The Center for a New American Security, a small think tank here with generally middle-of-the-road policy views, is rapidly emerging as a top farm team for the incoming Obama administration.
When President-elect Barack Obama released a roster of his transition advisers last week, many of the national-security appointments came from the ranks of the center, which was founded by a pair of former Clinton administration officials in February 2007.
Mailman 8:56 AM, July 13, 2009: Over at Hotair is a funny video of a CNN reporter getting owned by a field reporter in Africa around Barry's visit there this week.

What was funny, as you really do have to watch it, was his reaction when he tried to big up Barry, only to be told that no, GW was greated in the same manner too (watch him jump)!

www.hotair.com

Mailman
George R 9:17 AM, July 13, 2009: Who wrote this good sense?

"Challenging gang culture"

[Extract]:

"The values of black gang culture are as warped and vile as anything preached in al-Qaeda's terror camps. The death and suffering which follow from its violent, misogynistic dogma are no less devastating. "

[..]

"These are the features of a parallel morality, a distorted interpretation of the creed of capitalism where bling is king, where tolerance is weakness, where women are whores, where a criminal record is a badge of honour, where lack of 'respect' justifies bullying, torture and even murder.

"It is a form of imported fundamentalism as alien to democratic society as the views of the most hard-line Islamists.

"When fighting al-Qaeda-inspired terror, the focus is not on the weapons but the ideology. When fighting murderous gang-culture, it seems to me, the focus is not on the ideology but the weapons.

"Politicians obsess about knives and guns but do far less to counteract the values which inspire the behaviour.

"British gang culture models itself on the criminal underworld of black ghettoes in America. There are, of course, white and Asian youths involved in gang violence and crime here in the UK. But look at its victims. Look at the mug-shots. Overwhelmingly they are black - tragic black youths corrupted by a culture which should have no place here.

"So why do we tolerate the preachers of black gang culture?"

Wow! The author is the BBC's MARK EASTON.

I have three quibbles:

1.) What took him so long to get here?

2.) Where's the vital link to mass immigration policy?

3.) Surely what holds for Obama holds for Brown?:

.."President Obama's strategy, you may recall, when asked on MTV last year to comment about a municipal ban on 'saggy-pants', the low-slung trousers designed to echo the beltless clothes of prisoners.

"Brothers should pull up their pants", he said. 'There are some issues that we face, that you don't have to pass a law, but that doesn't mean folks can't have some sense and some respect for other people and, you know, some people might not want to see your underwear - I'm one of them.'

"Gordon Brown couldn't get away with saying something like that, of course. But black British writers, commentators, artists, musicians, designers might."

( BBC Mark Easton blog.)
Ralph 10:05 AM, July 13, 2009: Here' s a fun game for all the family. I posted the below on Justin Webb's blog:

'170: 'The state of Illinois is largely a Democratic state. Which is why it is so corrupt.'

No, the corruption comes from being a one party state, and the media ignoring it.

Obama chose to become part of the most corrupt political machine in the US, he chose to join a church where the pastor made racist sermons (which oddly Obama failed to hear), and chose to launch his political career at the house of a terrorist. Justin Webb and much of the media chose to ignore all of that.'

What in it fits the excuse to remove it:

'Comments posted to BBC blogs will be removed if they are considered likely to provoke, attack or offend others; are racist, sexist, homophobic, sexually explicit, abusive or otherwise objectionable; are considered to have been posted with an intention to disrupt; contain swear words (including abbreviations or alternative spellings) or other language likely to offend.'
Anonymous 10:25 AM, July 13, 2009: The BBC does do some things well - like a certain light entertainment programme Strictly Come Dancing. But they have sacked Arlene Phillips from the judging panel & appointed the pop singer Alesha Dixon to replace her. Phillips has decades of dance experience as both a dancer & choreographer but is in her sixties. Dixon's only dance experience is as a competitor & winner of SCD 2 years ago. all she knows are the set routines she learned by rote. This is a clear case of ageism & sexism by the BBC. They have not sacked either Len Goodman or Bruce Forsyth who are both older than Arlene. This has really put me off watching the next series of SCD which previously differed from other reality shows in that the competitors were actually learning a skill & were being judged by those with a competence in that skill.
james 10:55 AM, July 13, 2009: Headlines from google news this morning about the HBOS/RBS bailouts. See if you can spot the odd one out!

http://img13.imageshack.us/i/googlenews.jpg/

BBC bias at its best.
nrg 11:36 AM, July 13, 2009: The BBC has teamed up with the Guardian to commission an opinion poll regarding public opinion on the Afghan war. Is it appropriate to be working with such a politicised newspaper on such a sensitive subject? When was the last time there was a BBC / Telegraph or Mail co-production. It is hard to see the join between The Guardian and the BBC these days.

The Afghan war poses a problem for Beeboids, who are generally sympathetic towards the ethnic minority Islamic fundamentalist Taliban and hostile towards British military. However as the government is on the ropes over its handling of the war Labour has mounted a PR operation to get the public back onside so the BBC / Guardian obligingly report: “The mounting number of casualties in Afghanistan has not led to increased public hostility to the war, according to a new ICM poll for the Guardian and the BBC's Newsnight.”

Which broadly translates as “Save Gordon”
Millie Tant 1:07 PM, July 13, 2009: ANON: 10:25 AM, July 13, 2009
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There are a few more aspects to this Strictly farrago. One is that Alesha Dixon, a failed group/solo singer, has a Jamaican mother. She is therefore, in the BBC's eyes black, even though she is in fact half white, half black, or to you and me, mixed race.

The BBC threw the full weight of the machine behind her, relentlessly promoting her on the show and its related spin-off show to make her the winner of Strictly.

Since then, they have continued featuring her and promoting her and her singing career (newly revived on the back of her Strictly promotion and success) at every opportunity on BBC shows.

Now this obseesive promotion culminates in the ludicrous action of sacking an accomplished professional and expert in favour of appointing a favoured amateur who brought nothing to the dance but a pretty face, a flashy smile, a vulgar cackle, a crude raunch, displayed in monotonous routines to hideous "music", in place of the sensuous sway and sizzle of the Latin dances, and a passable imitation of ballroom dance style and accomplishment when decked out by the BBC to look like the belle of the ball and extravagantly overpraised by the complicit judges.

It will be noted that on the judging panel, they already had three male judges and one female judge, so the egregious Jay Hunt, controller of BBC One (ridiculed for her pompous and idiotic comments at the time of the Carole Thatcher Naughty Word affair), pops up with the foot-in-mouth comment that Arlene (the lone female judge, don't forget), was the obvious one to go.

Yes, folks, it is not obvious to the viewers but it is somehow obvious to Jay Hunt... and the BBC. And another thing I nearly forgot to mention is that two of the three male judges are homosexual. I suppose it is obvious too to Jay Hunt and the biased BBC that it wouldn't do to sack one of THEM.
Ady 2:25 PM, July 13, 2009: Might interest one or two people in here...

UK ends Israel weapons contracts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8147377.stm
JohnA 2:27 PM, July 13, 2009: Millie Tant

You could not make it up if you tried !! BBC nonsenses like this are just a parody.
Philip 2:40 PM, July 13, 2009: Only in the Middle East section for now, but surely on the al-Beeb front page in 3...2...1...

Of course, I have a little bit to say on the matter too ;)
Anonymous 3:40 PM, July 13, 2009: Re: Afghanistan & Helicopter debate.

The BBC has just posted this report - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8147679.stm - on the ongoing political spat about military resources in Afghanistan. There are a number of problems with the BBC report – which surprise, surprise – help reinforce the GVN’s position in the debate.

1. The report quotes the PM’s official spokesman, who this morning claimed that helicopter capacity had ‘almost doubled’. The actual figure which the BBC do not quote (although it is in the public domain) is 83% - some way short of 100%. The BBC also fails to mention that this uplift in flying capacity is almost meaningless, because it has not been offset against ever-increasing troop numbers i.e. our helicopter may be flying for longer, but we also have more troops to ferry around. So this figure would only be meaningful if the GVN provided a ratio of helicopter hrs per solider or platoon etc…but they haven’t and the BBC haven’t asked why not - I wonder why?
2. The BBC report also fails to note the disparity between American helicopters and British helicopters. Both countries have around 8,000 soldiers in Helmand, but whereas the U.S has 120 helicopters, it is believed that the British have around 15 serviceable Chinooks and a handful of other choppers. [Figures that a minister in the MOD did not dispute on the Daily Politics]. Surely this disparity is pertinent to the debate? Especially since U.S casualty rates from IED’s [road-side bombs] are LOWER than the British – because of course, they have more helicopters and therefore drive around the countryside less!!!
3. The BBC also quote Lord Ashdown as saying – “no helicopter could have saved the casualties of the last few days”. A helpful quote for Labour and yes, Lord Ashdown did make this statement. However, having watched his interview in full – I also know that he agreed with the Tories central point that we do have too few helicopters in the field, and that this deficiency will cost a number of British servicemen’s lives. The BBC does not mention this – why?
4. The BBC report also fails to mention that Gordon recently refused a request from the Generals for an extra 2,000 troops; again I’d have thought that this fact was extremely important in the context of this debate. Likewise the critical comments of Sir Richard Dannatt – serving head of the British Army - have been expunged in this report from the debate. Again helpful to Labour.

So please Beeboids – could you explain these deficiencies?

BTW I posted on another thread about the BBC’s obituary to Robert S McNamara. For once the BBC has accepted that their piece was flawed, and the offending article has been corrected. Although quite how a broadcaster with £3.5 billion annual budget can make such mistakes is beyond me. Still a small victory…
North Northwester 4:21 PM, July 13, 2009: John Horne Tooke said...
"This is the first I have heard of this "non-political" civil service group. Who seem to be anything but political, for instance:"

You astute comment and research shamelessly copied and reposted over at my place..
Anonymous 4:24 PM, July 13, 2009: BBC gives nutter headline because it fits their own conspiracy loon agenda.

http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/07/13/embarrassing-misprint-on-bbc-news/#comments
George R 5:16 PM, July 13, 2009: BBC: re-HARMAN -

"Northern quotas for board denied"

[Extract]:

"The Government Equalities Office said they wanted more northerners on such boards but 'had no plans to introduce new rules or regional quotas'.

"'We are simply saying we want a diverse mix of people and talent from around the country,' a spokesman said.

"'Through the campaign we are running to get more women, ethnic minorities and disabled people to apply for public appointments; we hope to attract interest from people in different regions.

"'Public bodies with a mix of people and talents make better decisions for our communities.'"

IN CONTRAST -

'Daily Mail'

Melanie Phillips re- HARMAN:

"What has poor old Britain done to deserve Harriet Harperson?"

Daily Mail, 13 July 2009

[Extract]:

"Has there ever been a more preposterous figure than the Equalities Minister Harriet Harman?

"Scarcely a week goes by when she does not dream up another monumentally irrelevant yet intrusive or oppressive wheeze to make life in Britain that much more unjust and insufferable.

"Not content with setting herself to eradicate discrimination against women, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered, disabled or black people as well as all ethnic minorities, she has now discovered yet another form of prejudice — discrimination against Northerners.

"Ms Harman wants to introduce rules to stop ‘discrimination’ against people from the North and other regions, and has instructed her department accordingly to stop Londoners and other Southerners from ‘lording it’ over the rest of the country.

"After ‘class war’, we now apparently have ‘location war’. If this idea is allowed to progress beyond Ms Harperson’s terrifyingly one-track mind, hundreds of public organisations will have to have special quotas for Yorkshirepersons or Cornishpersons whenever a vacancy occurs."

[...]

"Now she may even be left in charge of the country while the Prime Minister is on holiday. One shudders to think what might happen if she is actually required to do anything. We’ll probably all return to find she has replaced the Order of Merit by the Ribbon of Equality, and the Queen by a transgendered Geordie with a limp."

(www.melaniephillips.com)
GCooper 5:41 PM, July 13, 2009: Mz Harperson ought to turn her frosty gaze on our very own BBC, where it appears it is a London accent that is most discriminated against on R4.
DB 5:47 PM, July 13, 2009: Stephen Glover on the News of the World phone-bugging story:
Most of this story was old. We already knew eight-tenths of it, though we had probably forgotten we did. Nonetheless, it was imaginatively repackaged by those symbiotic organisations, The Guardian and the BBC, and sold as new. The Corporation had been put on red alert by the newspaper at a senior level well before the story broke.
Last Wednesday, when I turned on BBC 2’s Newsnight, I knew something was up. Kirsty Wark was practically panting with joy, like a foxhound with the scent of the fox full in its nose.

Symbiotic is correct. Who did that poll about Afghanistan that's been all over the BBC today? Oh yes, the BBC and the Guardian. Compare that symbiosis with the response Peter Sissons heard from his producer when he said he was going to ask the BBC's beloved Harperson a difficult question:
'The most senior of the producers asked me directly what other issues I would raise with Miss Harman.
No problem, until I mentioned the last question I wanted to get in: why the Queen had not been invited to the 65th anniversary commemoration of D-Day. The response shocked me. It was suggested that it was not a topic worth raising because it was only a campaign being run by the Daily Mail.'

Guardian good, Daily Mail bad.

June circulation figures:
Daily Mail = 2,201,088
Guardian = 336,034
DB 6:25 PM, July 13, 2009: From a discussion about Sarah Palin on CNN's Reliable Sources yesterday:

Howard Kurtz: Does she have a legitimate gripe about the way she’s been treated by the media?
Matt Frei: Not really.

I beg to differ, Matt.
DB 6:36 PM, July 13, 2009: More from his appearance on CNN's Reliable Sources...

Matt Frei: Obama sees the Pope and you kinda wonder is the Pope gonna kiss Obama's ring, or is it the other way round?

You only "kinda wonder" that sort of thing if you believe all the hype about Obama that media outlets like the BBC have been spewing out.
Craig 6:45 PM, July 13, 2009: One type of media bias has been called 'Bias by Labelling'. Part of this involves labelling a person the reporter or commentator disapproves of as, say, 'right-wing' but, conversely, not labelling someone the commentator approves of as 'left-wing' but instead, say, describing them as 'independent' or an 'expert'. (Thanks to John Horne Tooke for this information).

There was a textbook example of this on tonight's 'PM' programme.

Kenneth Jost, Law Professor at Washington University and author of 'The Supreme Court A to Z', was invited on to give a short talk about the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, & the Senate hearings that will scrutinise and approve her appointment. This was a lecture-in-miniature. No alternative viewpoints were sought. No questions were asked.

Is he the impartial, dispassionate academic 'PM' would have us believe?

Here's the passage that gives the game away:

"Republicans and conservative advocacy groups are calling Sotomayor 'a liberal judicial activist'. Independent experts say her decisions stick closely to the facts and to precedent."

A little look around the internet leads you to a recent article by Professor Jost, which confirms that he is opposed to the 'Republicans and conservative advocacy groups', & on the side of the 'independent experts', on this issue at least:
http://jostonjustice.blogspot.com/2009/05/sotomayor-choice-belies-critics.html

Jost's bias, then, is matched by the BBC's bias. Just as he would have us believe that those in favour of Sonia Sotomayor's appointment are 'independent experts', so they too would have us believe that Professor Jost is an 'independent expert' too. (In a sense - his own sense - he is!)
Martin 6:46 PM, July 13, 2009: Lies lies and more lies from the BBC 6PM News.

firstly the BBC/Guardian poll (I'm always suspicious of any poll done for those two bunch of corrupt drug using twats) on Afghanistan. At total odds with the ITN poll and all the other newspaper polls I've seen.

Then the BBC defending the lies of McGay. There are no more Chinooks in Afghanistan now than there were 12 months ago (about 8). The truth is the RAF can't send any more. They will already be cannibalising the ones in the UK for spare parts for Afghanistan and to increase the numbers would put an ever greater pressure on spare parts and servicing regime. Not only that but the RAF would have to increase the number of personnel out there to provide backup.

AS for vehicles, most of the shit the British forces have is rubbish as McShit lied when he said that he'd always given the forces the money.

Lies lies and more lies. Yet the BBC offered no dissent tonight on the 6PM news.
George R 7:50 PM, July 13, 2009: BBC: ignoring update on the crimes of Muslim Barbarians in Paris -

'France 24'

"'Barbarians' gang members face re-trial for brutal murder"

[Extract]:

"Fourteen members of the 'Barbarians,' a self-styled Paris gang, will be retried for their role in the brutal murder of a Jewish man, according to French officials, following complaints that their sentences were too light.

"The announcement followed a statement by French Justice Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie earlier Monday that the sentences handed down to some gang members were too lenient.

"Alliot-Marie was responding to Friday’s sentencing of members of the self-styled 'Barbarians' gang who kidnapped, tortured and killed Ilan Halimi, a Jewish mobile phone salesman, in 2006. The details of the attack were particularly horrifying and sparked a public debate on hate crimes in France."

The BBC does have a Paris correspondent, one Emma Jane Kirby.
George R 8:11 PM, July 13, 2009: BBC misleading on Israel's road signs:

"Row over 'standard' Hebrew signs"

('Middle East' page.)

COMPARE, BBC Wales:-

"You'll see that most of the road signs in Wales are bilingual. Welsh highway authorities choose whether they English or Welsh priority, and the language having priority in the highway authority's area appears first on signs. Most of south Wales is English-priority while north Wales is Welsh-priority."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/livinginwales/sites/howdoisay/roadsigns/
George R 8:19 PM, July 13, 2009: Without demur, pro-Islamic BBC reports positively on Labour's UK-Libya relations:

"Gaddafi and Brown in first talks"

and BBC reports negatively on Labour's UK-Israel relations:

"UK cuts Israel weapons contracts".
J B 8:24 PM, July 13, 2009: Well done to the British Government for cancelling arms contracts to Israel

I can now report from Palestine without having to worry about being hit by missiles from indisciplined IDF soldiers
piggy kosher 8:38 PM, July 13, 2009: Its parts for the incredibly unstrategically vital 20mm oerlikon
cannon (think WW2)
Only 4 contracts have been put up for review out of 135.
Mcbroon has thrown a bone to the camel corps and the dhimmified parts of the H of C. even the BBC isnt giving it much exposure, that I can see.
No reason to be phoning out for extra rent boys and cocaine tonite beeboids.
Craig 8:58 PM, July 13, 2009: Here was the complaint I sent to the BBC on 3rd July:

"I wish to complain about David Dimbleby's aggressive interruption of Ian Duncan Smith on last night's 'Question Time'. Watching the i-Player from 14.26, we see Harriet Harman whisper something to Dimbleby (just after Duncan Smith has started speaking eloquently). Dimbleby makes eye contact with her & Ms Harman smirks. Three seconds later Dimbleby interrupts Ian Duncan Smith and begins a sustained attack on him. Can you explain this sequence of events as anything other that shameless collusion between a government minister and a BBC presenter? What did Ms Harman say to Dimbleby? If David Dimbleby interrupted Ian Duncan Smith at Harriet Harman's request he should be sacked."

The reply came today:

"Dear Mr ...

Thank you for your email regarding 'Question Time'.

I understand you feel the broadcast on the 2 July showed an unnecessary attack on Ian Duncan Smith by David Dimbleby which you believe may have been provoked by Harriet Harman.

While I appreciate your concerns, I can assure you this interruption was not provoked as a result of Harriet Harman's comments. Prior to this interruption, David Dimbleby actually interrupted Harriet Harman to allow Ian Duncan Smith to speak. It is his role as chairman to ensure that discussions keep to the specific topics raised, and on this occasion he felt Ian Duncan Smith was not keeping strictly to the issue of Government spending through the recession. Despite this challenge, Ian Duncan Smith was allowed to finish his comments.

We appreciate you taking the time to contact us nonetheless and I'd like to assure you that we have registered your comments on our audience log. This is the internal report of audience feedback which we compile daily for all programme makers and commissioning executives within the BBC, and also their senior management. It ensures that your points, and all other comments we receive, are circulated and considered across the BBC.

Thanks again for taking the time to contact the BBC.

Regards

Ross ...
BBC Complaints
www.bbc.co.uk/complaints"
nrg 9:19 PM, July 13, 2009: We are not alone:

http://order-order.com/2009/07/13/bbc-guardian-co-branding/#comments
Anonymous 9:30 PM, July 13, 2009: Listened to R4's feedback show driving back from the Cotswolds last night. There was a debate supposedly started by a listener who wanted to know why there was not an agnostic/atheist turn on 'Thought for the day' - the ensuing debate was wound up by saying that the matter was up for review by the BBC trust.

Having read the article in the DT today http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5819668/BBC-plan-for-non-religious-Thought-for-the-Day-sparks-controversy.html

I suspect a clear case of using the Feedback programme to start a fake debate which will lead to the outcome already decided by BBC execs.

An interesting fact I learned from the show is that the R4 audience is mostly over 55. Given that most people I know have 'found out' the BBC by that age, I can only assume that R4 listeners are all ex-senior public sector workers, for whom the diet of NHS and Education stories are a reminder of what they used to do before they took early retirement on 75% pay.
George R 9:33 PM, July 13, 2009: 'Telegraph':

"Trains stopped as prop from BBC Spooks causes bomb scare"

[Extract]:

"Trains were delayed for an hour after a passenger spotted a suspect package - but on closer inspection it turned out to be a prop from BBC spy drama Spooks."

( BBC blames Israel? )
Martin 10:12 PM, July 13, 2009: Craig: The c**ts at the BBC just employ some 21 year old spotty shit to churn out standard replies.

'Ross' probably never even looked at the recording.

I'm never amazed by the arrogance of the BBC management when questioned about the content of programmes or the balance in reporting.

They never accept that anything is wrong publically, YET often you will see subtle changes take place.

These wankers just can't admit to ever being wrong.
George R 10:35 PM, July 13, 2009: BBC, Nick Griffin, spaceship and lifeboat:

"Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor"
by Garrett Hardin.

[Opening extract of 13 page essay, in pdf format.]

"Environmentalists use the metaphor of the earth as a 'spaceship' in trying to
persuade countries, industries and people to stop wasting and polluting our natural
resources. Since we all share life on this planet, they argue, no single person or institution
has the right to destroy, waste, or use more than a fair share of its resources.

"The spaceship metaphor can be dangerous when used by misguided idealists to justify
suicidal policies for sharing our resources through uncontrolled immigration and foreign aid.
"In their enthusiastic but unrealistic generosity, they confuse the ethics of a spaceship with
those of a lifeboat.
"A true spaceship would have to be under the control of a captain, since no ship
could possibly survive if its course were determined by committee. Spaceship Earth
certainly has no captain; the United Nations is merely a toothless tiger, with little power to
enforce any policy upon its bickering members.
"If we divide the world crudely into rich nations and poor nations, two thirds of them
are desperately poor, and only one third comparatively rich, with the United States the
wealthiest of all. Metaphorically each rich nation can be seen as a lifeboat full of
comparatively rich people. In the ocean outside each lifeboat swim the poor of the world,
who would like to get in, or at least to share some of the wealth. What should the lifeboat
passengers do?
"First, we must recognize the limited capacity of any lifeboat."

There is an important debate here somewhere. Is the BBC prepared to have it, or will the BBC merely resort to denunciations?

http://greenkorea.org/zb/data/column/hardin.pdf
Anonymous 10:59 PM, July 13, 2009: I agree entirely that the BBC is biased, but there is more to people than religion, for f**ks sake. Who gives a stuff if someone is Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Jedi, or a follower of Origin? Speaking as an atheist, it all seems very silly to keep beating on the christian/jewish/muslim dick-waving contest.
I find the political bias of the BBC to be far more relevant to Britain than the idiots (of both sides) on the Eastern coast of the Med.
John Horne Tooke 12:30 AM, July 14, 2009: Anon - It does matter - its a matter of culture. Britain was once a christian country, our laws and morals were based on that tradition. Just look where we are now. High teenage pregancies and abortions, lack of any moral standards and no counter balance to the creeping islamification.

If the Church had stuck to its core Christian values and not turned into wooly liberals where every religion (and none) is of equal value a lot of Britains moral decline could have been stopped.

The BBC are at the forefront of fostering upon us alien culures all in the name of diversity to the detriment of our own.

You just have to see the BBCs "White Season" to see how it is used against us. A young girl finds safety and a sense of belonging in an Asian family rather than her own people, who are made up of dysfunctional misfits.
Craig 7:06 AM, July 14, 2009: Justin Webb's latest post contains this: "..the really difficult link between the God-awful screw-ups (Iraq etc) and the staggering ability of the place to revivify and refresh.."

So Bush's Iraq policy was a "God-awful screw-up", according to Webb. He may be right, he may be wrong. He shouldn't be saying it though.

Justin Webb, biased and not bothered who knows it.
George R 8:35 AM, July 14, 2009: Trust the BBC: reporting on illegal immigration (BBC's 'migration') into Europe, from the illegal immigrants' point of view:

"Migrant wave wanes with Spain's economy"
('Europe' page).

But still, as 'Migrationwatch' points out, relating to the UK:

"Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said:

'The main parties talk tough on immigration, but they are trying to ‘con’ the British public. According to Government figures, we can expect almost another 10 million people in England in 20 years time of which seven million will be due to immigration – equivalent to seven cities the size of Birmingham. Current Labour policy won’t begin to address this. The Conservatives are barely better: despite their rhetoric, they have a lightweight policy that sounds tough but won’t deliver.

'Until the main parties decide to be honest about an issue crucial to the future of our society and until they get real about the measures needed, extremist groups will continue to have a ball,' he said."
Roland Deschain 8:45 AM, July 14, 2009: Kudos to Evan Davies on Today this morning for asking the head of the Charities Commission if she was a member of any political party.

Why was I not in the least surprised to find she was a member of the Labour Party?
frankos 9:23 AM, July 14, 2009: It is ironic that Socialists seem to have abandoned the Comprehensive system, insisting that private schools take on "deprived" children.
She didn't answer the anomoly that taxpayers pay for both private school and comps.
The pity is that Labour will destroy the private school system for middle income aspirants as the costs will rise if the schools have to take on more free puplis.
DB 9:40 AM, July 14, 2009: More BBC/Guardian symbiosis:

Manchester International Festival and the Guardian have invited submissions for innovative schemes to help tackle climate change. All types of schemes are to be considered: technological, scientific and behaviour-changing... Both event and report will be prominently promoted by the Guardian and the BBC, raising awareness of the most promising schemes.
George R 9:48 AM, July 14, 2009: Greece, Europe and illegal immigration from Afghanistan:

BBC report:

"Greek police flatten migrant camp."

'Daily Mail' report:

"Greek authorities send in the bulldozers to remove illegal Afghan immigrant camp"

[Extract]:

"Police in Greece yesterday cleared a squalid immigrant camp mainly inhabited by Afghans hoping to sneak on to ferries bound for Italy.

"Bulldozers moved in around dawn to clear makeshift structures and rubbish that had been piling up in the camp in the western port city of Patras.

"A fire broke out but was put out after an hour or so and by the afternoon the area had been completely cleared."

[..]

"Greece had already seen a major wave of immigrants from Albania and Eastern Europe in the 1990s, and is now experiencing a second wave from Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan.
"Immigrants, once very rare, now account for more than 10 per cent of Greece's population of 11 million." ('Daily Mail'.)

From 'Wikipedia':-
"According to the 2001 UK Census, there were 14,875 Afghan-born people residing in the UK, with The Guardian estimating the number of ethnic Afghans in the UK regardless of birth place at 40,000. Also worth of note is that there are an estimated 75,000 native Northern Pashto speakers in the UK, although this language is not only spoken in Afghanistan.

"The Afghan community in the UK is one of the fastest growing of any national groups. In 2007, 10,555 Afghans were granted British citizenship. This is the third largest number from any nation on earth, only just behind the number of Indians and Filipinos granted British citizenship respectively.

"The Afghan British population is likely to be one of the most compact ethnic minority groups in the UK, with around 73% of all Afghan British people residing in London, with the majority concentrated in the Western Boroughs. Harrow alone has 10,000 Afghans. Outside of London, only Birmingham has a population of Afghans in its thousands. According to the 2001 Census, the single largest Afghan community in the UK was West Southall where 1,121 Afghan born people and many more of Afghan descent live."

And there's the Gordon Brown/David Miliband mantra, supported by BBC:

'British troops are fighting in Afghanistan to keep Britain safe.'
will2001 9:48 AM, July 14, 2009: UK annual inflation fell in June

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8149227.stm

No it didn't, the CPI, RPI & RPIX indices all rose. The rate of inflation declined.
Mailman 10:47 AM, July 14, 2009: DB,

I got a scheme. Im planning on taking billions of pounds and giving very little back (sorta like Al Beeb).

Reckon I got a chance of getting it approved? :)

Mailman
JohnA 11:07 AM, July 14, 2009: DB, Mailman

My idea for the BBC/Guardian competition falls in the "behaviour-changing category".

I would require all BBC staff to read a selection of articles and reports putting the case AGAINST the climate change hysteria. I would set tests to see if they had actually read them. And I would set 5 simple questions eg why is the temperature now falling ? Even if there were a few people whose eyes were opened, there could be a reduction in all the energy wasted on arguing the case for hysteria.

I would also ban all flights or other travel by anyone to climate-change conferences and symposia - politicians, scientists, whoever. They can't have it both ways. If the "science is settled" why do they need to discuss it ? What's wrong with email ?

I would also ban the publication or broadcasting of all articles or pieces by people with nil expertise in climate science - and sack all those with spurious claims to expertise.

...............

here's a short historical perspective on our ever-changing climate.
JohnA 11:09 AM, July 14, 2009: article on the ever-changing climate :

http://www.scsun-news.com/ci_12823404
George R 12:14 PM, July 14, 2009: The reality in France, which BBC censors.

The BBC does NOT carry this accurate headline:

'Muslims riot before Bastille Day'.

Instead, the pro-Islamic BBC behave as censor, and provides dhimmi headline:

"France unrest before Bastille Day"

{-No BBC mention of role of 'Islam' or 'Muslims'.}

('Europe' page.)

A non-BBC comment:

'New English Review'

"The Summer Riot Season Kicks Off In France."

"As we know, Muslims are never responsible for riots and if riots do happen to spontaneously break out in Muslim neighborhoods, its the fault of a) the police, b) city government c) the state or provincial government, d) the national government or e) the entire Infidel world and its unremitting hostility to Islam. In this case it is obviously the fault of the police who arrested a young Muslim extortionist. The details of the extortion, of course, are not reported."

"'LYON, France (Reuters) - Youths in the southeastern French town of Firminy burned cars and destroyed a social centre on Wednesday night as protests over the death in police custody of a young man continued for a second night.

"'Around 200 riot police were deployed into the early hours on Thursday, with a helicopter circling overhead as groups of young people set fire to rubbish bins before moving on to torch cars and the social centre.

"'The protests followed the death on Wednesday of Mohamed Benmouna, a local man arrested for attempted extortion, who fell into a coma after what police said was a suicide attempt and died several hours later..."
Martin 12:25 PM, July 14, 2009: Craig: I was against the Iraq war (and I still haven't changed my mind) but it was really Rumsfeld to screwed up by not putting enough troops in to control the place.

However, once the Bush surge took place, Iraq has become a lot more stable and just may have a future.

The fact that the BBC cannot acknowledge this just shows they don't have a clue.
BaggieJonathan 12:47 PM, July 14, 2009: The Freudian slip?...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8149227.stm

"In the near future the BBC is urging the Bank of England to expand the scale of quantitative easing well beyond £125bn."

I wonder how long they will take to correct this, I assume the BBC is urging no such thing, well, not openly anyway!
George R 12:47 PM, July 14, 2009: BBC's pro-immigrant propaganda.

It's not only in Britain and Greece that the BBC empathises with immigrants, legal and illegal (BBC's word for them is 'migrants')- and is antipathetic to the host peoples; this propaganda also extends to, e.g. Russia:

"Job woes hit migrant workers in Russia"

('asia-pacific' page, for some obscure reason.)
Heads on poles 1:33 PM, July 14, 2009: Can anybody remember the last time a week went past without toilets Maguire appearing on a BBC channel somewhere spouting his Zanulabour propaganda?

Thought not, how much are we paying him I wonder?
anon126 2:21 PM, July 14, 2009: I think I can say I'm not the Beeb's biggest fan but they do have a interesting report, one which I deal with in my blog, that the UK has 29,000 politicos and cost us just shy of half a billion in wages.

which makes me think 'good grief'

as I said good stuff from the BBC....but it does not mention how many people work in BBC management and how much that costs....it must be a oversight on their part!!! Isn't it ?
DB 2:48 PM, July 14, 2009: I was just looking on Twitter to see if Peter Sissons' recent comments had provoked any reaction and found this:

Daily Mail: enemy of the people, enemy of the planet. And Peter Sissons can go Fuck himself
4:25 AM Jul 12th from txt.

Here's another recent offering from the same twitterer:

Pleased to see that some idiot animal-tormentor in Spain got gored to death by a bull. Victory to the bulls!
4:36 AM Jul 10th from web.

Nice chap, eh? His name's Nigel Woodstock and he was the Green Party candidate for Manchester's Moss Side during the local elections last month. You could've knocked me down with a feather when Google told me that he's a sociology and politics lecturer. According to his twitter page he's just finished marking a batch of Government and Politics A-level papers. Comforting to know that our kids' education is such fine hands, isn't it? Oh, and guess which organisation he's a big fan of...

Glorious uninterrupted coverage of a great tennis match. Thank the Universe for the BBC. Come on Roddick
9:35 AM Jul 5th from txt.

The BBC - loved by the loony left.
DB 2:56 PM, July 14, 2009: Re above - his name's Nigel Woodcock, not Woodstock.
DB 3:04 PM, July 14, 2009: BaggieJonathan said...
12:47 PM, July 14, 2009

They've changed it. Shame - that was excellent.
Richard Lancaster 3:10 PM, July 14, 2009: Well done DB, out of the millions of people who use the BBC you managed to find someone who has questionable opinions. Case closed, rofl. Bit pathetic, no?

I suppose in your ideal world everyone would have identical views, right? And I thought groupthink was a bad thing..
killaunty 3:24 PM, July 14, 2009: hilarious BNP story over at the times,
are the beeb covering it i wonder.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6707410.ece
dave s 3:45 PM, July 14, 2009: I read Peter Sisson's article in Sunday's Mail more than once and paid close attention to his words.
It seemed to be a dismissal of the BBC as a reliable news medium. Politely put, it was nevertheless an uncompromising account of a failing organisation.
Perhaps we may hear a rebuttal from the defenders of the BBC.
Many of us would not be concerned at the drivel and distortions routinely broadcast if the BBC was not so dominant and able to do so much harm.
Peter Sissons has done us all a service not least in opening eyes previously closed.
DB 3:51 PM, July 14, 2009: @ Richard Lancaster.

It's no coincidence that so many lefties love the BBC, Richard. Nigel Woodcock is just one example. That he happens to be a caricature figure - a Green Party sociology lecturer who holds animal life more sacred than human - makes it all the more satisfying to have stumbled across him.
Janka 4:21 PM, July 14, 2009: Mercenaries of London Killing with pens, key boards and cameras

This is from: a study on misappropriation of British tax payers’ money. The study (still underway as of 2009) is commissioned by UK Taxpayers Association (www.uktaxpayersassociation.co.uk) and covers UK’s government and public sector institutions including BBC and defense establishments.

You can download it from : http://www.filefactory.com/file/ahdg1d1/n/MercenaryJournalism_pdf

There are 4 segments, i have posted just one here.

-------------

An analysis of just one headline By Sam Reading (July 2009)

It is well known that space / time in media can be bought. Unfortunately it is always not only commercial advertisement opportunities that are sold. From an innocent looking headline to inches of news paper articles could come to being through journalists with vested interests. If you don’t believe, you can just ask the British publicist Max Clifford or similar companies in the industry. The danger behind this is most readers and viewers are inclined to accept what presented to them without questioning, establishing a lie or bent truth as facts. Purpose of this paper is to discuss one cunning aspect of ‘inventive’ headlines given to supposedly news items.

The headline we chose to discuss is “'Malnourished children' in IDP camps” ( Link1- http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2009/06/090623_idps_malnourished.shtml )

I ) Our key point is that the headline does not reflect the article represented by it. However at first we analyse the headline and the contents of the article is discussed later. First of all it should be said that the headline is factually correct and entirely legal. The heading sounds a concerned voice about poor children. At the same time it gives the impression that children in the IDP camps are not taken care of. As that responsibility rests with the government of Sri Lanka, and the IDPs referred are Tamils, subtle message intended by this headline reads as ‘Sri Lankan government mistreats displaced Tamil children’. And exactly that was the tone of many other web sites who picked up the article from BBC Sinhala site and used excerpts from it.

Apart from the obvious intention of discrediting the Sri Lankan government, this headline targets more viciously ordinary Tamil minds to sow hatred towards Sinhalese who seemingly controls the government, thus distancing the hopes of reconciliation further. For most colonial and neo-colonial powers who are meddling in Sri Lankan affairs, peace without ethnic segregation is a dreaded outcome. Hence the un-hindered campaign from their media and NGOs to recuperate the diminishing hatred continues. At the moment, as it is seen in this headline, they are brutally targeting Tamils in this campaign since Tamils are already been lead to a defeated state of mind by the same institutions. Thinking behind this approach is, that the people in such defeated state tend to hate others, therefore this is a good opportunity to strengthen the hatred.
frankos 4:33 PM, July 14, 2009: Daily Mail: enemy of the people, enemy of the planet. And Peter Sissons can go Fuck himself
4:25 AM Jul 12th from txt.

Here's another recent offering from the same twatterer:

Pleased to see that some idiot animal-tormentor in Spain got gored to death by a bull. Victory to the bulls!
4:36 AM Jul 10th from web.

Not only a twat but a twat with insomnia!!!
TPO 5:26 PM, July 14, 2009: Labour/BBC and the gruniard desperately seeking to keep the non-story alive, even to the point of smearing the police.

Paper accused of phone 'cover-up' .
Mr Davies told the Commons culture, media and sports committee: "News International have been involved in covering up their journalists' involvement with private investigators who are breaking the law.
"And it's very worrying that Scotland Yard do not appear to have always said or done as much as they could have done to stop that cover-up." .

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8149864.stm

This is the same Labour/BBC gruniard conspiracy that the BBC gave so much airtime to to slag off the police when they made arrests in the cash for peerages scandal.

And whilst Labour/BBC are running non-stories, they are desperately downplaying the underfunding of the UK commitment to Afghanistan.
TPO 5:34 PM, July 14, 2009: Here's another convenient manipulation of the news by Labour/BBC.

Tax exile party donations capped.
Tory donor Lord Ashcroft is facing fresh pressure to declare whether he pays taxes in the UK after the Commons passed new party funding rules.
The move, which was nodded through by MPs without a vote, will cap donations from non-UK tax payers at £7,500.
It will not directly bar Lord Ashcroft's gifts to the Tories, which are made through a UK-based firm.
But Labour critics believe it will be difficult for him to keep funding the party unless he pays taxes in the UK.
Lord Ashcroft was made a Conservative peer in 2000 after giving an assurance that he would pay UK taxes, but has since refused to discuss his tax affairs saying that they are private

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8148905.stm

Whoops Labour/BBC haven't you left something out of the article.

Labour’s backbench MPs might reflect on non-domiciled donors like Lakshmi Mittal (pictured), Ronnie Cohen and Swaraj Paul – who during the Blair years gave the Labour Party £10 million. Lord Paul’s status is very confusing, is he now UK domiciled? Does he pay UK taxes on all his income and capital?

http://order-order.com/2009/07/14/ashcroft-law-wont-work/
George R 6:47 PM, July 14, 2009: BBC to add Lithuania to its hate targets?:

"Lithuania backs child censor bill"

('Europe' page.)
Martin 6:48 PM, July 14, 2009: Just caught Adam Boulton on Sky News talking about the Guardian's lies over Andy Coulson.

According to Boulton this is a story "now fading fast". Hmm. Take a look at the link on the Drug using rent boy site.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8149864.stm

Note the Headline

"Paper accused of phone 'cover-up'"

Yet if you dig down into the story....

"...Earlier, the Director of the Press Complaints Commission Tim Toulmin said there was no evidence linking Mr Coulson to crimes committed by Clive Goodman, the News of the World's former royal editor, and a private investigator, Glen Mulcaire..."

"...Assistant Met Police Commissioner John Yates has said "no further investigation" would be conducted into the allegations..."

So yet again we have the BBC running a non story, a story without any evidence (that Coulson either knew or approved the phone hacking) yet still the BBC try to get away with it.

Remember Peter Hain and his Police investigation? Remember my continual comments that the BBC totally ignored that story?

The problem is complaining. The BBC complaints is a joke. Some spotty drug addict at the BBC who responds on his laptop in between joints no doubt.

The BBC needs to be regulated by Ofcom not the BBC Trust.

Oh and all day on the BBC we've been haring about our brave soldiers. Yet not a single mention that the one eyed Scottish gay boy was the one responsible for not providing the money for the right equipment.
Martin 6:52 PM, July 14, 2009: ***********WARNING*************

Tomorrow Radio 5is going to give us the 'state of the British economy'

So we can expect endless comments about how the housing market is picking up, that unemployment is not as high as under the Tories 100 years ago and that Gordon Brown trousers is a great man and should lead us all to a Fourth Reich.

The Queen of Breakfast Radio (Niki campbell) will have his tongue so far up every Labour politician arse tomorrow he'll look like a Lolly pop
George R 7:10 PM, July 14, 2009: BBC's Harrabin, whom the BBC describes euphemistically as its 'environment analyst', does his unual sleight of hand 'reporting' for the green propagandists, today.

In the final section of today's masterpiece on 'dirty shipping industry', he lays out approvingly what the dictatorial, self-important, unrepresentative 'greenie' lobby groups demand of shipping; Harrabin says that shipping industry is unreasonably doing what the greenies and and 'scientists' don't want, QED, shipping industry is bad.

This is the BBC, Harrabin and the height of their green propaganda masquerading as 'science'.

(BBC's inappropriately named 'science and environment' page, today.)
Craig 7:29 PM, July 14, 2009: George R,

Another popular BBC euphemism is 'respected Islamic scholar'.
Roland Deschain 8:00 PM, July 14, 2009: 'respected Islamic scholar'

Isn't that an oxymoron?
Anonymous 8:31 PM, July 14, 2009: BBC controlled by Labour? You decide

http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/
Craig 9:10 PM, July 14, 2009: Did anyone see today's 'Daily Politics'? Anita Anand interviewed 5 of the candidates standing in the Norwich North by-election - Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem, UKIP and Green?

Only one was given a seriously hard time - the UKIP candidate, Glen Tingle. He was interrupted 3 times, despite only getting 1 minute and 8 seconds to speak!

Anita Anand asked him if his campaign had been "jingoistic, even racist" & then asked him another question in a similar vein.

By way of contrast, the Green and the Lib Dem were not interrupted at all.
Craig 9:14 PM, July 14, 2009: The BBC's favourite ex-copper Brian Paddick was on the 'The Daily Politics' today, talking again about the Guardain/News of the World 'phone-hacking scandal'.

Paddick has already discussed the subject on 2 editions of 'Newsnight', & has also appeared on 'The World Tonight'.

Aren't there any other ex-policemen out there who can comment on this sort of thing? Is the BBC's address book that select?
Craig 9:20 PM, July 14, 2009: Martin @6.52 pm. Thanks for putting that lollypop image into my head!
George R 9:25 PM, July 14, 2009: 'Telegraph':-

"BBC annual report: Sir Michael Lyons sees package rise 30pc"

[Extract]:

"Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust, has laid himself open to accusations of hypocrisy after his remuneration package rose by 30 per cent to £213,000 last year, despite his assurances that the Corporation was cutting costs."

Jeff Randall was also critical of latest pay rises for Lyons and Thompson on 'Sky News' this evening.
George R 9:38 PM, July 14, 2009: 'Financial Times' editorial:

"Oversee the BBC"

[Extract]:

"The position of Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, is particularly confused.

"The trust was set up in 2007 to act as 'the guardian of the licence fee revenue and the public interest'. It is supposed to be an overseer – not a cheerleader. Yet Sir Michael fretted that top-slicing would 'damage BBC output', rather than considering what it would do for viewers. He is a walking example of regulatory capture.

"If the trust is unable to demonstrate its dedication to the interests of fee-payers – rather than the BBC as an institution – its responsibilities should be given to Ofcom, the communications watchdog. At the moment the trust is serving the public broadcaster, not the public interest."
TPO 9:43 PM, July 14, 2009: The BBC's favourite ex-copper Brian Paddick.....
Craig

Paddick is favoured by the Beeb because he minces in step with the majority of them and was not averse to a puff.
I never met him myself but I knew a few of his subordinates (none of whom were homosexual). The line that came across was that Paddick was a bit of a bully.
Personally I thought he was an utter disgrace to the uniform and should have been bounced out years ago. He was effectively shunted off to counting paperclips before he retired. He was never "in the loop", so th speak, making him an ideal candidate to pontificate on BBC non stories.
Vic 10:18 PM, July 14, 2009: he's alomost as omnipresent as that left wing harridan Yasmin Alibhai Brown

that scum sucking bitch is never off the tv
Anonymous 10:20 PM, July 14, 2009: just on the news-bleating about how the BBC "top talent" will have to take a pay cut

who did they show at the mention of "top talent?"

Graham Norton

incredible-a talentless cackpipe cosmonaut.Is that really the best they can do?
George R 10:21 PM, July 14, 2009: 'Times':

"BBC chiefs accuse minister Ben Bradshaw of 'personal attacks'"

[Extract]:-

"The battle over the future of the BBC today descended into a slanging match with corporation executives accusing the Secretary of State of having a closed mind on the issue and launching personal attacks on them."
John Horne Tooke 10:31 PM, July 14, 2009: Actually Ben Bradshaw and the BBC have no right to squabble over how the TV Tax is spent - put it to a referendum and let the people decide.

If the TV Tax is spread over all broadcasting - it would be even more difficult to get rid of it. And even more broadcasters will be open to "influence" by governemnt not just the BBC.
GCooper 10:33 PM, July 14, 2009: Anonymous writes: "who did they show at the mention of "top talent?"

Graham Norton"

That would be the same Graham Norton whose latest show sank without trace, would it?

As I've written before, once the BBC appoints a chosen son, it seems they will stop at nothing to promote him.
Martin 11:03 PM, July 14, 2009: More horseshit from the BBC. Newsnight predicting that thousands of us a week will die from Swine Flu.

Why is it that no where else seems to have issues about this fictional flu? France, Germany, Spain?

Why us? Could it simply be that our Government with the help of the leftist media is talking this up to take the heat off McShit?
Martin 11:04 PM, July 14, 2009: Gcooper: "Top Talent" is those that like rear entry in sex.
Martin 11:06 PM, July 14, 2009: I wonder how many REAL criminals Paddick caught as a copper?
George R 11:19 PM, July 14, 2009: Daily Mail':-

"Revealed: The 383 BBC bosses paid £100,000 a year"

[Extract]:-

" Nearly 400 BBC bosses earn more than £100,000 a year, it emerged yesterday.
"Critics said it was shocking that the corporation had such a lavish pay culture in a time of recession.
"The number of executives on six-figure salaries stands at 383 - 33 more than in 2008."
piggy kosher 11:47 PM, July 14, 2009: They should all be tied to posts and shot with a blunderbus loaded with their own shite.
Gary 8:04 AM, July 15, 2009: another fine piece of anti Israel "reporting" on Bolshevik news this morning

23 anonymous people have said Israel committed "war crimes" in Gaza

so that's total fact then

no mention of the Hamas months long war crimes of firing missiles into Israel,or indeed the throwing off of roofs of members of the Palestiian Authority when they won the election.......

even handed reporting (cough cough)

thses tossers should be investigated for institutional anti semitism
JohnA 8:17 AM, July 15, 2009: Gary

That story about anonymous soldiers reporting hearsay stuff was actually the lead item through the night on BBC World Service - with Paul Wood reporting on it.

Like - a non-story takes precedence over a South American ex-President calling for insurrection, release of the leading "militant" in the Nigerian Delta, profits at Goldman Sachs (reported as a VERY BAD THING !), UK backpacker's amazing escape in Australia, the Sottomeyer hearings in the US etc etc.

No wonder this site has to carry so much about the Israel/Palestine issue. The BBC is obsessed with it - and utterly biased.
JohnA 8:33 AM, July 15, 2009: As the Israelis say, there is a sort of halo arount the NGOs that give them more credence, less critical review than they deserve.

It turns out that Human Rights Watch raises funds in Saudi Arabia - that well-known bastion of human rights. By telling the Saudios that HRW is attacking the Israelis.

So - HRW, shills for Soros and the bloody Saudis - and de facto for Hamas. HRW then gets the BBC to shill for it.

Bias - what bias ?

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443811032&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Roland Deschain 8:44 AM, July 15, 2009: Ed Stourton's interview with Ed Miliband on Today this morning was a masterclass in how to discuss climate change BBC style.

Mr Miliband was allowed to wibble on about creating 100,000 "green" jobs without being asked to provide specifics. He was allowed simply to repeat that he believed it to be possible and no challenge was given. Neither were the practicalities of meeting the CO2 targets by 2020 or 2050 even touched upon - no mention of existing jobs lost compared to green jobs created was made.

The phrase "dangerous climate change" was, naturally, able to pass Mr Miliband's lips without comment. The only criticism I noticed from Ed Stourton was that "some might say" the government isn't doing enough: clearly the heretical thought that they might be doing too much occurred to no-one.
frankos 9:19 AM, July 15, 2009: I notice that Milliband noted that there would be higher cost implications in a Green Future, not actual taxes but higher energy costs, so thats all OK.
The 100,000 estimate is far lower than the 1m new jobs confindently quoted by Brown.
I for one would like to pick the bones out of this business plan!!
Oh and it seems a few wind farm companies are suffering, even after their donations to Labour.
George R 9:30 AM, July 15, 2009: BBC's Stephanie Flanders' double act with herself here qualifies her to appear on BBC 2's 'Taking the Flak', 9 pm tonight.

"Flanders v Flanders: How green are your shoots?"

('Business' page.)

'I never wanted to be an economist, I wanted to be in show business like my dad'.
pounce_uk 9:42 AM, July 15, 2009: Is the bBC biased against Israel?
Last week the bBC aired a story a day about how bad the Palestinians have it in Gaza.
Yesterday morning the bBC aired a story about how a white supremacist was found living in Israel
Yesterday Lunch thy aired a story about how an Israeli bus driver was charged with murder over a bus crash
Last night the bBC aired a story about how guilty the bBC was of fading Gaza and the Westbank into a map of Israel. In fact it was the second story on the subject and if you read to the end you find the posters on which the maps were based have been taken down and in May they took the decision not to use them again, in effect not even a non story.
This morning the bBC headlines with soldiers speak out against Gaza.
In fact of the 13 (out of 39 news items) about Israel not one is a positive one. In fact everyone is negative.2 other stories which aren’t about Israel but mention them (Hamas/hezb-allah) again look at Israel in a negative light. Contrast that with Eygpt which is bigger in size of country,peoples, and news. 3 stories 1 postive,1 neutral and 1 negative.
Israel has a population of 6 million, Egypt a population of 76 million. In fact in Egypt there is a Coptic population of around 10 million people. They are much more persecuted than the peoples of the West Bank. Their population in contrast to the the people of Gaza is going down yet at the bBC Gaza is a genocide in making. Yet how much time and effort does the bBC give to them?
Right.
It is this steady drip,drip,dripping of hate the bBC passes for news which is responsible for making the UK a very anti-semantic state.
What will it take for the bBC to report the news instead of what its Mullahs unzips at morning prayers.
Gary 9:49 AM, July 15, 2009: I have to laugh at the "west bank"

I think they really mean "Judaea and Samaria"
nrg 10:19 AM, July 15, 2009: Sitting in Liverpool airport, half an ear on BBC news on the café TV. The impression being given is that Britain is in an economic upturn, business is booming, and all thoughts of recession are an illusion. Lots of the ruling party’s faces telling us that they are pleased and all is rosy in the garden. Seems something called a Thatcher was responsible for any problems that people might have imagined.

I am expecting good news on the tractor production figures any minute now.

- and Mark Oaten has just walked past my table!
George R 11:25 AM, July 15, 2009: BBC's wind power: Its greenie propaganda machine rolls into unconvincing action, via greenie 'reporter' Black.

BBC headline is NOT:

"Government to map high-tax, low-carbon road"

But IS:

"Government to map low-carbon road"

(On BBC misnomer page, 'Science & Environment'.)

There is NO BBC questioning of its Labour government's plans, except, predictably, from a 'greenie' position: the plans do not go far enough.

IN CONTRAST, here's an extract from an excellent article by Chrisopher Booker, whose analysis does not get the light of day at the BBC:

"Wind farms will be a monument to an age when our leaders collectively went off their heads"

[Extract]:

"Let us be clear: Britain is facing an unprecedented crisis. Before long, we will lose 40 per cent of our generating capacity.

"And unless we come up quickly with an alternative, the lights WILL go out. Not before time, the Confederation of British Industry yesterday waded in, warning the Government it must abandon its crazy fixation with wind turbines as a way of plugging this forthcoming shortfall and instead urgently focus on far more efficient ways to meet the threat of a permanent, nationwide black-out.

"There are a few contenders for the title of the maddest thing that has happened in our lifetimBut a front-runner must be the way in which politicians of all parties have been seduced by the La-La Land promises of the wind power lobby.

"If you still haven't made your mind up about wind power, just consider some of the inescapable facts - facts which the Government and the wind industry do their best to hide from us all.

"So far we have spent billions of pounds on building just over 2,000 wind turbines - and yet they contribute barely one per cent of all the electricity that we need.

"The combined output of all those 2,000 turbines put together, averaging 700 megawatts, is less than that of a single, medium-sized conventional power station.
What's more, far from being 'free', this pitiful dribble of electricity is twice as expensive as the power we get from the nuclear, gas or coal-fired power stations which currently supply well over 90 per cent of our needs - and we all pay the difference, without knowing it, through our electricity bills.

"But despite its best efforts to conceal the fact that wind turbines expensively and unreliably generate only a derisory amount of electricity, the Government keeps on telling us of its megalomaniac plans to build thousands more of them - at a cost of up to £100billion." ('Daily Mail'.)

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1199535/CHRISTOPHER-BOOKER-Wind-farms-monument-age-leaders-collectively-went-heads.html#ixzz0LK2X5jPm&C
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JohnA 11:51 AM, July 15, 2009: Can I go back to the Peter Sissons revelations about life inside the BBC - yesterday I came across a copy of the Mail on Sunday and read the whole article.

First - it was the entire front-page lead "I drove out of Television Centre for the final time last month....and I don't have a pang of regret". Sounds like the book he is preparing could be fun !

2 big snip headlines at the side of the page : "How the BBC gives "free hits" to the climate change zealots"....and ..."can't see the difference between reporters' opinions and the facts"

..........

The long article across pages 2 to 4 included some interesting stuff

eg, re. his time at ITN..."The basic rules were - get there first, check it out, get it right, and never give just one side of a story". Clearly aimed at the one-sided pattern at the BBC ?

"The ITN for which I worked also provided other contrasts with today's practices : the way that powerful pressure groups, especially the environmental ones, now expect uncritical acces to the airwaves. No-one commanded ITN airtime as an entitlement. And the biggest offence for an ITN reporter of those times was to voice his or her opinions.

"Today, across all channels, the line between news and comment is often increasingly fuzzy, with the practice of interviewing your own reporters and inviting them to tell the viewers not just the facts, but what they think about them."

............

"....The BBC huge newsroom has too many people in it who are more interested in the technology of the multimedia world, rather than boring old things such as words. For too many of them, it is not a newsroom but a news-procesing [plant, shovelling the stuff out on all the BBC's various platforms - and tough luck for you, the licence payer, if you don't have broadband, or are not interested in having your life ruled by a PC or a BlackBerry.

................

amazing this ! ....."By the time I left, I had never met the current Director of News, who had been in post for nearly five years."

CONTINUED IN NEXT POST
JohnA 11:52 AM, July 15, 2009: CONTINUATION OF EXTRACTS FROM THE PETER SISSONS ARTICLE :

.................

"On a wintry Saturday last December, there was what was billed as a major climate change rally in London. The leader of the Green Party went into the Westminster studio to be interviewed ....she clearly expected what I call a "free hit", to be allowed to voice her views without challenge.

"I pointed out that the climate didn't appear to be playing ball at the moment. We were having a particularly cold winter, even though carbon emissions were increasing. Indeed, there had been no warming for ten years, contradicting all the alarming computer predictions. Well, she was outraged...told me angrily that it was disgraceful that the BBC - the BBC ! - should be giving any kind of publicity to those sort of views. I believe I am one of a tiny number of BBC interviewers who have so much as raised the [possibility that there might be another side to the climate change debate.

"The Corpration's most famous interrogators invariably begin by accepting that "the science is settled", when there are countless reputable scientists and climatologists producing work that says it isn't.

"But it is effectively BBC policy, enthusiastically carried out by the BBC environment correspondents, that those views should not be heard.....

"Politically the argument may be settled, but any inquisitive journalist can find ample evidence that scientifically it is not.

"I was not proud to be working for an organisation with a corporate mind so closed on such an important issue......For me, this is not an issue about the climate, it is an issue about the duty of the journalist."

Hmmmm. Not a bad counter to all the froth there will be today about Miliband's plans to ruin us financially and despoil the countryside. Obviously there no damn chance of any BBC journmalist asking Miliband "Why are we spending so much money, distorting our economy - all on the back of a THEORY about climate challenge that many scientists are challenging ? As Sissons says - this is now a hugely important issue - but the BBC is presenting only one side of the issue, as a matter of policy.
Anonymous 12:00 PM, July 15, 2009: Iran aircrash -- hmm, thinks Beeboids, how can we blame this on the west?

"Since Iran's Islamic revolution of 1979, trade embargoes by Western nations have forced Iran to buy mainly Russian-built planes to supplement an existing fleet of Boeings and other American and European models."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8151327.stm

Well, I suppose it's progress of sorts -- three years ago they'd have blamed the whole thing on just the US alone rather than "Western nations"
Anonymous 12:55 PM, July 15, 2009: Am I the only one who has noticed how biased Stephanie Flanders the "economics editor" is? Everytime she comes on, it's like watching some old Soviet propoganda. Another 300,000 out of work never fear, the policies are working, the economy is getting better, people are getting back to work. Long live Gordon. It's unbeliable.
Roland Deschain 1:29 PM, July 15, 2009: This post has been removed by the author.
Roland Deschain 1:34 PM, July 15, 2009: Is the penny slowly dropping, at least in some quarters of the BBC?

"Finally an heretical question that is rarely asked at all in the mainstream media: are we right to continue to place so much emphasis on expensive anti-global warming policies when average temperatures have been lower than the 1998 peak for every one of the 10 years since then (and this year is forecast to be lower too)? It's the sort of question a growing band of sceptics are asking ever more loudly..."

(Andrew Neil's blog)
Anonymous 1:37 PM, July 15, 2009: inevitably the bbc has to mention the aircraft parts embargo with this story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8151327.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-154M#Specifications_.28Tu-154M.29

There have been 63 serious flight incidents with Tu-154s, including 36 hull-losses with human fatalities.[15] Six of those incidents resulted from terrorist or military action, several from poor runway conditions (including one which struck snow ploughs on the runway), and mid-air collisions due to faulty air traffic control. Other incidents have resulted from mechanical problems (two cases prior to 1998), running out of fuel on unscheduled extended route, pilot error, and cargo fires. After the Tu-154 had been in service for 26 years (1998) and logged 21 million flight hours, it had a better than average safety record (1.7 times fewer incidents than the world average [ICAO stats]).
Roland Deschain 1:43 PM, July 15, 2009: Further to my previous post, one commenter on Andrew Neil's blog has added

"I am not sure I have seen a more infuriating piece on the Daily Politics show as todays section on climate change. It was so biased in favour of the environmental sceptic position. Where were the academics, either climate scientists or environmental political economists to offer a balance. The scientific consensus on climate change is now irrefutable by all but the most ardent skeptics and yet any viewers of the show today ignorant of this fact were led to think otherwise. Andrew states above, "Oh yes, you get every opinion on good old DP!!"; hardly!"

They really can't handle any opposing views, can they?
frankos 2:00 PM, July 15, 2009: Had the same braindeads on Vine.
A mad woman living in the depth of the forests of Wales producing prodigious amounts of kids whilst whining about the rest of us daring to drive, watch TV, eat meat walk + talk etc.
The BBC clownishly follows this pseudo religion
Then we have the usual anti-consumerist Lefties ringing in telling us we shouldn't pursue Mammon and instead live a Utopian simpler life devoid of profit making.
I have yet met one of these idiots who can explain how we are to pay for all the NHS,roads, public transport etc without taxes and profit.
It's all the same crap, trying to make us do what they want by using bogus science and mass hysteria.
The BBC has a lack of people from the real world--all fecking idealist idiots
Craig 3:24 PM, July 15, 2009: Roland Deschain,

Yes, they don't like it up 'em.

Sissons must have struck a real nerve. 'The Daily Politics' featured an interview between Anita Anand & Martin Livermore of the sceptical 'Scientific Alliance'. I never thought I'd see the day.

Admitedly he only got to speak for (exactly) 1 minute 45 seconds, but the BBC has to start somewhere.

Anita Anand's questions, though, were rubbish. (In fact, they were statements rather than questions):

"First of all let's talk about investment & numbers again because the Stern Review said if we don't invest now in tackling climate change it's going to cost a hell of a lot more in the future."

"Right, well, again, you know, adapting right now you can build dams, you can try and fend off the waves for a short time but if you allow the situation to degenerate you're never going to build walls high enough."

She needs a good long chat with Peter Sissons.
frankos 3:58 PM, July 15, 2009: just a thought; why are musicians and writers allowed to openly tout their products on the BBC (+ with U2 actually get financial support) whereas your average business isn't even allowed to mention their website or corporate name?
Does the stench of small business offend the BEEB?
Uwinsom Ulosum 4:06 PM, July 15, 2009: *** I put this on the BBC HYS forum - I wonder if the govt-funded 'moderators' will reject it...

A while ago headlines on the BBC news / radio were praising how 'well prepared' this Labour govt were and how we had the 'largest stockpile' of Tamiflu, and how well govt had contained it.

Now we see Tamiflu stocks looking like a bit of a waste as virus becomes resistant, have the third highest number of cases in the world, and that they are clearly not organising themselves properly... funnily enough coverage moves from government towards criticising medical chiefs. Nice diversion. ***
jeffD 4:36 PM, July 15, 2009: How do the bbc report the Iranian aircrash on their website?Simple.Blame those nasty Americans.....

JON LEYNE BBC News Reports....

'Iran has a notoriously bad air safety record. Because of sanctions imposed by the United States'
George R 5:59 PM, July 15, 2009: BBC'S BLACK PROPAGANDA ON CLIMATE AND BEYOND:

BBC propagandist Black is spending his whole day being subsidised by us to spin the untruth about his Labour chums' false utopia on climate.

The headline to BBC Black's latest propaganda headline does not state the truth. There is at least one word missing. It SHOULD read:

"Low carbon way forcibly 'to reshape lives'"

But the state compulsion element is crucially omitted, as BBC headline appears deceivingly as:

"Low carbon way 'to reshape lives'".

The repetition of the propaganda is re-enforced in this article, and in the equally exclusively one-sided propaganda of Radio 4 'PM' programme item was today with the witless M. Mair, not asking the obvious questions.

How dangerous is the BBC to the people of Britain and beyond?

Three aspects of BBC dangerous, irresponsible propaganda:

1.)'British must be made to accept the facts which the BBC and our Labour government provide on climate and make the sacrifices which we have proved are essential'.

2.)'There are nowhere near enough immigrants in Britain; the rate of mass immigration must be increased, despite any misplaced political opposition, which is merely BNP-type xenophobia.'

3.) 'Turkey's 75 million Muslims must be brought into the the E.U. as soon as possible so as to increase desirable Islamic diversity, thereby confronting Islamophobia, building bridges with Iran, and fulfilling Obama's wishes.'
John Horne Tooke 8:47 PM, July 15, 2009: "The strategies we are launching today outline the government's vision for achieving a low carbon future for the UK, reshaping the way we live and work in every element of our lives," said Business Secretary Lord Mandelson."

In fact all aspects of our lives, and who voted for it, who gave the unelected Mandelson the right to interfere in how we live?

And above all who gave the BBC the right to spread all this nonsense.

Its all good news for the "green economy" - millions for this millions for that - and not one word of how it will be paid for. This governemnt has already bankrupted the country, yet the BBC can spout all this pro-green rubbish as if it is going to be free.

Black and his chum Harrabin should be sent to live in a cave. How will they be effected, with a gurenteed salary paid by us, and hundreds of guest appearences at seminars.

What about the poor sod who will pick up the tab for this fantasy?

When this fantasy is burst open - I just hope that there will be stiff prison sentances for these "crimes against humanity".
John Horne Tooke 9:01 PM, July 15, 2009: Lest not forget whose figures the BBC rely on for their temperture data.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/14/giss-for-june-way-out-there/#more-9349

Dishonest to say the least.
George R 9:57 PM, July 15, 2009: BBC misrepresenting the political views of the unconsulted British people again:

"UK 'backs Blair for EU president'"

('Politics' page.)

BBC means that its Labour chums support ex-Labour PM. And who brings us this undemocratic announcement, but Labour's new undemocratic appointee to the Lords and to the Labour government -Mrs Kinnock, straight from her EU post.
Martin 10:45 PM, July 15, 2009: BBC Radio 5 right now is a classic. Richard Bacon (check his out on Google for his drugs experience) in full defend Liebour and Gordon Brown mode.

To a caller who claimed people were encouraged to take out huge mortgages on the basis that the Government had cured boom and bust, Bacon stated this wasn't the case.

Oh really

"...He declined to express regret for promising in 1997 that there would be "no more boom and bust", a reference to the recession of the early 1990s that followed the "big bang" of the Conservative-led 1980s...."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/4322033/UK-recession-Gordon-Brown-refuses-to-admit-return-of-boom-and-bust.html

Bacon then repeated several times that "it all started in America"

Northern Cock and the Bigfoot and Bungley had nothing to do with the USA Bacon you tool.

Then Bacon stated that there was no evidence that the Tories would have handled the financial system any better.

No evidence Bacon? So how many 120% mortgages were handed out under the last Tory administration? How many Building Societies and banks went bust?

Just WHO introduced the new financial regulation services Bacon you tool?

The fact that a limp wristed twat like Richard Bacon spouts this shite just shows how stupid your average beeboid is.
frankos 11:06 PM, July 15, 2009: BBC means that its Labour chums support ex-Labour PM. And who brings us this undemocratic announcement, but Labour's new undemocratic appointee to the Lords and to the Labour government -Mrs Kinnock, straight from her EU post.

All EU states would have to ratify the EU consitution, sorry Lisbon Treaty first --might be interesting to see old Blair lying his head off trying to get this one through. Good to see a bit of nepotism in the political classes
John Horne Tooke 12:23 AM, July 16, 2009: Democracy is a tabboo word at the BBC. They bandy around terms like "British support" as if only the left wing elite are Britain.

Neither Gordon Brown, Tony Blair or the BBC have been elected to speak for Britain.

There is a democratic deficit in this country which is getting more dangerous every year.

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