THE SECOND WAVE...OF HYSTERIA

 

ABOUT BIASED BBC

"Last year the BBC collected £3.2billion from licence-payers (pg. 82). The latest licence fee settlement will give the BBC at least £20 billion from licence payers over six years." 

"We get from time to time people saying you're biased in favour of the Labour Party. Every time I ask people - show me a case of that bias, explain to me where we got it wrong and why what we said was so unfair - they seem to be unable to do so",

Andrew Marr May 11th, 2001.

"The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias",

Andrew Marr

the Daily Mail, Oct 21st, 2006.

"It's not a conspiracy. It's visceral. They think they are on the middle ground",

Jeff Randall former BBC Business Editor,

in The Observer, Jan 15th, 2006.

"The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?",

Jeremy Paxman

James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, Aug 24th, 2007.

"People who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that [global warming] is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago",

Jeremy Paxman

Media Guardian, Jan 31st, 2007.

"I do remember... the corridors of Broadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles. I'll always remember that"
Jane Garvey

BBC Five Live, May 10th, 2007, recalling May 2nd, 1997.

THE SECOND WAVE...OF HYSTERIA

>> MONDAY, MAY 04, 2009

Why is the BBC still running as it's lead story the "It's the end of the world" hysteria because another handful of people have in the UK being diagnosed with swine flu? Ban ki-Moon and the rest of the UN bureaucracy must love this faux war - it's perfect for them, and the BBC are determined to keep this as the single biggest news story in the UK today.

COMING UNSTUCK

I see Lauren Booth has come unstuck from Gaza.
Oh, the folly of rushing to Facebook to declare your newly single status.
The relevance to BBC bias is that "She regularly reviews the UK newspapers on television for Sky News, BBC One and BBC News 24," and also that this insane woman is treated by them as someone worthreporting about.
A ‘peace activist’ no less. Maybe she should apply that to her domestic arrangements.

“She said she was missing her two children who kept asking her, "Mummy, why can't you come home? Have you done anything wrong?" "No, under international law I've done nothing wrong, but for some reason I am effectively being imprisoned here by authorities who wish to punish human rights activists who have come to view the situation in Gaza," she said,

as you would, to children aged about nine years old. Sorry, seven and five.
Ha bloody ha.

And Oh the folly of appearing in a debate in theDaily Mail saying “These days, married women can be split into two categories: "stickers" and "runners"..............Well, I'm a sticker.”
And a hypocrite and a self serving idiot.

MONDAY OPEN THREAD

This is where you can discuss any BBC-related issue that concerns you. Please use it sensibly, no abuse and no trolls.

Come to sunny Rye...

Where, did you know, they accept Euros? Which, by the way, are doing remarkably well in a time of recession when the Pound is in the doldrums. Did you know that? Bet you wanted to.