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Monday, February 16, 2009 ed thomas # General BBC-related comment thread. Please use this thread for comments about the BBC's current programming and activities. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog - scroll down for new topic-specific posts. N.B. This is not an invitation for general off-topic comments, rants or chit-chat. Thoughtful comments are encouraged. Comments may also be moderated. Any suggestions for stories that you might like covered would be appreciated! It's your space, use it wisely. Comments: 2 (unread) - Biased BBC Home Sunday, February 15, 2009 David Vance # STILL INSTITUTIONALLY RACIST? I see that the BBC gives considerable prominence to to empty-headed wittering of the left wing Runnymede Trust which once again accuses our Police of being "institutionally racist." At a time when criminals run rampant on our streets and justice is turned into a laughing stock the best the BBC can do is try and further undermine the integrity of those who at least try to uphold law and order by giving the Runnymede Trust a bully-pulpit to conduct their war on policing. Might it be possible to consider thebona fides of this Organisation when presenting their "report"? Could it be that Runnymede is institutionally biased against British Policing? I note the use of the image of Stephen Lawrence in this story, murdered "by white youths" as the BBC solemnly informs. But since then, sadly, many more black youths have lost their lives at the hands of " black youths" in London. You never get that context. The suggestion running through this entire article is that our Police are racists and the BBC seems very content to spew this out oxic poison out hoping enough of it sticks. Comments: 53 (unread) - Biased BBC Home sue # Join the Dots BBC radio 4. Sunday programme with Roger Bolton. Interview with John Mann, M.P. for Bettislow, chairman of the all-party Parliamentary Group against Anti-Semitism and co-founder of the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism. He is chairing an inaugural conference, co-hosted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of all places, on Tuesday. One hundred parliamentary representatives are attending, from over forty countries. The conference is about the alarming rise in antisemitism in UK and worldwide. Roger Bolton: “Some of the incidents are pretty low level.”......“relatively small amounts of physical assaults.” ......“ Israeli governments say any criticism of Israel is antisemitic.” etc. etc. World Service: Feedback type programme called “Over to You” Listener asks why the BBC sent hundreds of BBC people to report events in Gaza and hardly any to report events in Sri Lanka where there were far more casualties. News Editor: “People are more interested in Gaza.” Join the dots. Comments: 33 (unread) - Biased BBC Home ed thomas # BBC Climate Blog The extent of the BBC's faith in the global warming mantra was in evidence today as they worked up an article to claim that- contrary to all the actual trendlines of temperatures in existence- we are facing a greater threat from climate change than so far believed. It really feels like a flame-war between blogs- the more the BBC find their tendentious theory challenged by reality and by the people who inconvenientlly notice it, the more they ramp-up the rhetoric. Well, this is perhaps not totally fair to them- but earlier this week there was a report released by the Met Office and covered by the Guardianwhich criticised global warming exaggeration. I didn't hear anything about it on the BBC, and couldn't find reference to it on the BBC website- showing perhaps that the BBC are not afraid to diverge from their climate mentors when a sacred cow is threatened. Yet when one scientist squeals that global warming is underestimated, it adorns the Sunday morning frontpage of the BBC website. As the excellent Wattsupwiththat? website says, the BBC misreported the issue raised and misrepresented the qualifications of the scientist featured. Ignorance and bias going hand in hand, unsurprisingly. Comments: 48 (unread) - Biased BBC Home Saturday, February 14, 2009 David Vance # WORD ASSOCIATION. I was intrigued to read this BBC report on changes taking place in our..ahem..."ally" in the war on terror, Saudi Arabia. The sentence that caught my eye was the one that reads...."Sheikh Ibrahim al-Ghaith has lost his job as head of the commission, which enforces Saudi Arabia'sconservative brand of Islam, Wahhabism." Now then, Wahhabism is many things - evil, toxic, violent, savage, retarded, malignant....but not,in any way, conservative. However the BBC loves to play word association, doesn't it? Comments: 50 (unread) - Biased BBC Home sue #