Today's Forecast Wrong Again

Today's Forecast Wrong Again

>> FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2009

Today programme news bulletins this morning:

6am - "Figures to be released this morning could show that the UK economy grew slightly in the third quarter of this year. If confirmed it would be the first quarterly growth since early 2008 and would mean that the recession is technically over." 7am and 8am - "Many analysts expect figures out today will show that the British economy has started growing again…" 8.30am - "The latest figures for gross domestic product due to be published in the next hour are expected to show the economy grew between July and September…"

10am - BBC News website:

The UK economy unexpectedly contracted by 0.4% between July and September, according to official figures, meaning the country is still in recession. It is the first time UK gross domestic product (GDP) has contracted for six consecutive quarters, since quarterly figures were first recorded in 1955.

Another F-Bombgate Update

It's getting a bit ridiculous now:

The special BBC unit investigating the 5 Live sabotaging of a pre-recorded sports item with obscene material have finally interviewed alleged prime suspect Ben Jacobs three weeks after the incident. Yet it’s understood that Jacobs, who denies involvement, was only asked general questions such as how long he’s worked for the Beeb. These could easily been researched during the 25 days in which this BBC probe — paid for by licence fee money — has got precisely nowhere.

Reminder:

BBC "Tramples political impartiality into the dirt"

As the dust settles over the Question Time BNP appearance, one thing is certain - the programme's editors broadcast an atypical programme that was designed to attack Nick Griffin rather than explore (as it usually does) the issues of the day. I used to publicise the programme for the BBC. The then editors would never have permitted such a change in format, which they would have seen as a compromise of their independence and integrity. Meanwhile, the Daily Mail has an editorial which says it all about today's BBC. Read and enjoy:

Talk about bare-faced hypocrisy. 

Amidst the furore over the BBC's decision to invite Nick Griffin on to Question Time, its director general, Mark Thompson, claims that he had no choice because of the Corporation's 'central principle of political impartiality'. 

What a pity that the BBC for years has comprehensively trampled this so-called 'central principle' into the dirt. 

This is an organisation that's utterly in thrall to the left-wing agenda of the majority of its staff. 

Until very recently, the BBC systematically censored any debate about immigration into Britain, a nation which, as was revealed yesterday, is on its way to a population of 70million. 

It also treats global warming with the fervour of a religion, and is so pro-Brussels that even a report commissioned by the BBC itself found that it was hopelessly biased against the Eurosceptic position. 

It's an institution that by its very nature promotes alternative lifestyles and minority groups at the expense of traditional values, and it doesn't have much time for Christianity, capitalism, or the countryside either. 

Whatever the rights and wrongs of letting Mr Griffin onto Question Time, the BBC can't pretend that some sacred principle of political impartiality had anything to do with it.