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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 David Vance # MISSING SADDAM I was reading this report on the welcome conviction of Tariq Aziz, for many years the public face of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime, who has been jailed for 15 years for his role in the execution of 42 merchants. If you read through the report, however, you get to the pay off lines..."Saddam Hussein himself was hanged in December 2006 in a separate case. Human Rights Watch issued a report into the trial of Saddam Hussein, concluding that the process was flawed and its verdict unsound because of "serious administrative, procedural and substantive legal defects". There you go, poor Saddam. His only crime was, erm, genocide but hey. the shills in the BBC use a biased Human Rights Watch report to convey the impression that Saddam was a victim. Comments: 0 - Biased BBC Home David Vance # NO DIFFERENCE? "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which...." I am advised that Mark Popescu, former Editor of Daytime News at the BBC, is joining the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) as Head of News at the end of this month. "I am really excited by the challenge of joining Defra and will be working with the news team to develop the department's communications strategy across all platforms." Mark replaces Mark Devane, who is joining the BBC Trust as Head of Communications at the start of April." Impossible to say which was which.... Comments: 2 (unread) - Biased BBC Home David Vance # 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: 35 (unread) - Biased BBC Home David Vance # MISSING IN ACTION. HI folks. If I seem quiet at the moment it is because recent events in Northern Ireland have resulted in a massive surge of traffic to my Tangled Web blog and it is taking up a lot of my time managing all of this. With the Daily Telegraph and - gasp - the BBC! - linking to my site, life is very busy. Please bear with me - I have not abandoned you! Comments: 7 (unread) - Biased BBC Home Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Laban # "the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas" Karl Marx's dictum sprang to mind as I listened to tonight's opening episode of Radio Four's "Call Yourself A Feminist", the first of 'three discussions tracing the development of feminist ideas from the 1960s onwards'. Those ideas have over the last forty years made enormous differences to the way of life - and death - in the western world, and as such are well worth examination. The programme, however, was not an examination, but a celebration. Next week, Linda Bellos and Bea Campbell on feminism in the Thatcher years. I can't imagine what that'll be like - can you ? More of the received view of history - William Gazy reviews the BBC News reporting of the miners strike, 25 years on. "It was presented rather in the manner Soviet TV must have recalled the 1917 revolution – bloody, glorious, necessary and united against the forces of reaction." Comments: 28 (unread) - Biased BBC Home sue #