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Thursday, March 19, 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: 108 (unread) - Biased BBC Home Wednesday, March 18, 2009 David Vance # A NEW QUAGMIRE! Given that more people have died needlessly at Stafford Hospital than in the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan COMBINED, I was wondering why the BBC is not running a new campaign to get the Healthcare out of the "quagmire" that is the NHS? No blood for bureaucracy? Comments: 27 (unread) - Biased BBC Home David Vance # THE REAL PHONY Did you see that the BBC have been giving great prominence to the rebuke issued to David Cameron by the repulsive Gorbals Mick in the Commons today? It all concerned Cameron using the word "phony" with regard to Brown's refusal to accept culpability over his role in creating the current dire economic circumstances. Now I could think of manyharsher words to describe how the Dear Leader is dealing with economic events but the thing that struck me most about this was that by turning this a Speaker vs Cameron event - the BBC manage to divert attention away from the shocking behaviour of Brown and his squad of incompetents. Comments: 19 (unread) - Biased BBC Home David Vance # OBAMA WORSHIP. The BBC dutifully reports that Obama is "angry" at those AIG bonus payments and it has been spinning Democrat outrage like mad for the past two days. The aim is to show us just how principled the new administration is compared to the evil Bush. I wonder why it is that with all those expensive world class - ahem - journalists working for the BBC, nonetheless they fail to report that senior Democrat Chris Dodds actually wrote the AIG exception into the "stimulus" bill and Obama signed it? A better journalist might enquire WHY President Obama is "angry" about legislation that he signed into law..but of course the courtier scribblers at the BBC show no such desire to go after the real story. Comments: 14 (unread) - Biased BBC Home David Vance # BETTER ONE INNOCENT MAN GOES FREE.... ......than the BBC leads with the truly shocking UK unemployment figures now showing two million + unemployed! Do you share my surprise that the BBC has been LEADING the news agenda today with the release of Sean Hodgson, convicted of murder in 1982, based on new DNA evidence? I can understand that his release is not a minor story BUT I would have thought that with hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs that was deemed a more significant news story for the UK public? Perhaps the BBC was doing the Dear Leader a little favour today by elevating a story about the miscarriage of justice that so concern our dear liberal BBC friends? Comments: 4 (unread) - Biased BBC Home David Vance # BIAS, BIAS EVERYWHERE! In the opening words of one of my favourite songs "Oh I just don't know where to begin......" (Can you guess the classic malady from which these words linger?). I've been very busy trying to ensure that at least some UK business operates successfully without the obliging hand of the State so hence ongoing lack of posts from yours truly! That said, I HAVE been listening to the BBC dutifully and today alone I was struck by several instances of what I perceive to be BBC bias, so prepare yourselves... Comments: 4 (unread) - Biased BBC Home