BISHOP VENNER
>> MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2009
Poor old Bishop Venner - he has come running to the BBC to say that he is sorry if anyone has taken offence at his suggestion that the Taliban could be admired. Using the normal political formulation for something that looks like an apology but actually isn't, he digs the hole deeper by adding...
" It was one small phrase in quite a long interview, and a phrase that simply said you cannot describe everybody under one heading as Taliban as being equally black, equally evil," he said. "These are human beings and there are some amongst them who could - we don't know - who could perhaps be people with whom at the end of the day we could do business. "
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN BBC PARADISE
I've been very busy in recent days with little time to blog. Luckily, I have also managed to avoid most BBC news - but then this morning I tuned into thatdaily fest of institutional bias that is the Today programme. What joy!
"What I liked about the Communist party," he says, "was that it was internationalist and opposed to the totalitarian global empire in which we're enveloped. It was the only party to see things on that scale
BENN NONSENSE
Hilary Benn, who has spent his entire useless life as a lefty trade union official and politician - after reading eastern European languages at right-on Sussex university - has risen, by some fluke, to be a government minister with a brief to pontificate about "climate change". Not content that he and his government cronies last week pledged to blow £1.5bn of our money on "carbon emissions", he is today to warn the the new world government assembled in Copenhagen that we face yet another threat - "ocean acidification". Despite his complete lack of relevant knowledge, he somehow believes he's qualified to interpret to the world the highly complex science behind the absorption of CO2 by seawater. Of course, to him and his fanatical brethren, it's another huge threat, another reason to spend billions of our money on vast nonsense schemes. For the BBC and its environment correspondent Richard Black, another man without a single scientific qualification to his name, it's a top story that must be breathlessly reported without qualification or challenge. And without reference to latest scientific papers (here and here)that suggest that the whole issue is yet another greenie load of hot air.
Comment is Free But is Ignorance Bliss?
>> SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009
If anybody who shares my interest in the BBC’s bias against Israel is reading this - as they say on Amazon - you might also like ……CifWatch.
CifWatch’s raison d'être is to draw attention to the anti Israel and anti-Semitic flavour of the online Guardian’s, ‘Comment is Free’. (Cif)
CifWatch commenters and posters document, then knowledgably and authoritatively rebut, anti-Semitic slurs that abound on Cif.
Recent CiFWatch posts by commenter AKUS give an outsider’s view of the British media and the ‘Brainwashing of Britain’
CiFWatchers must be aware, and indeed some of them have pointed out, that the BBC has a far broader reach, and necessarily influences a wider spectrum of the public, but the Guardian’s malevolence grates on this pro Israel and mainly Jewish online community more than the BBC’s seems to. If only it weren’t so virulently anti Jew and anti Israel, the Guardian might be their newspaper of choice. They remember with sadness the days when it was known as the Manchester Guardian and was highly respected. Perhaps they see the BBC as a lost cause, with a passive, easily brainwashed audience.
The Guardian isn’t hampered by a charter or any other inconvenient obligation, so it can more or less let rip and pander to an Israel hating audience if it so wishes, whereas the BBC has to restrain itself. The BBC is at least obliged to appear even-handed, but its underlying agenda often seeps through.
This morning for example there was an item on the Sunday Programme R4(0.19.50 in) about the multi faith celebrations in Haifa. A feel-good item one would think. Then just as you begin to feel good, Hugh Sykes chips in at the end with a reminder about the settlers who vandalised a mosque. Report it, okay, but put it in context, and don’t bring it gratuitously into an unrelated report lest the listeners might stop hating the Jews.
I don’t think the BBC’s bias is always deliberate. Ignorance has permitted myth to replace fact. Shoddy research, laziness and incompetence have worn away at the truth over many years, and these imperfections compound themselves as they bed in.
Now - we have what we have. One undoubted result is appalling ignorance from many who should know better; it produces characters like the gentleman outside the Baptist Central Church in the video that I linked to recently. Not the runny nosed John Sullivan, but the other one, the well-spoken John Benyon, who seemed blissfully ignorant about the organisation his church was hosting.
The virulence with which people express their indignation is matched by the ignorance in the endless strings of comments highlighted by CifWatch. What could be a clearer demonstration of the extent of the damage done by the brainwashing of Britain?
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