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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 David Vance # General BBC-related comment thread! Please use this for comments about current BBC programming and activities. N.B. This is not an invitation for off-topic comments, rants or chit-chat. Suggestions for stories would be appreciated! Comments may be moderated. Comments: 20 (unread) - Biased BBC Home David Vance # WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WEEK MAKES! Well now, did you catch the boy Cameron being interviewed on the Today programme by newbie Evan Davies? Interviewed is probably the wrong word - harassed is perhaps more accurate. He was not given a chance by Davies, he was constantly interrupted, his answers were dismissed, his agenda thrown aside - all in all it was an attack piece. How things can change in a week. Last week, we had the fragrant Sarah Brown and her allegedly statesman-like husband, Gordon. Solid and reliable. This week we have the hated Tories and they have been treated appallingly by the BBC, in my view. I say that as someone who has grave reservations about Cameron and co but I also speak as someone who believes in fairness. True BBC colours shine through folks, even in Evan Davies. Comments: 36 (unread) - Biased BBC Home David Vance # THE BULGING POVERTY INDUSTRY. I was reading this BBC report which is little more than a PR item for those in the ever expanding poverty industry. Basically it just presents the little fantasy dreamed up by Unicef, Barnardo's and co that there are"millions" of children here in the UK suffering from "poverty." In a wonderful example of creative maths, they estimate that this could be almost 10% of the total UK population and..wait for it..up to 98% in some areas. Well, before we contact Band Aid to seek them to reform to re-record "Feed the World" (UK remix) maybe the BBC could try and find the space for those who dispute the phony statistics behind all this nonsense from these fatcat charities. They are retailing a liberal invention- "relative poverty" - and trying to pass it off as if it were real poverty. It is nothing of the kind. But why does the BBC only allow one side of this debate to be heard? The suggestion I make is that the liberals in the BBC are actually propagandising on behalf of the poverty hustlers and refuse to countenance another point of view. Comments: 25 (unread) - Biased BBC Home Monday, September 29, 2008 David Vance # WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD. Oh dear - on the day that Prudence Brown decides to buy the toxic debtof the Bradford & Bingley and manages to crash the UK banking shares market comes the news that the lower house of the US congress has rejected the Bush bail out of Wall St toxic debt! Looking forward to the BBC now pleading for everyone to support Bush! Comments: 65 (unread) - Biased BBC Home