STARS FOR THE BBC...
I see the luvvies have come out in defence of the State Broadcaster..
Harry Enfield, Jo Brand, Eddie Izzard (who has publicly supported the Labour Party) and former Dr Who star David Tennant are among almost 50 signatories to a letter in the Observer newspaper accusing the Tories of "attacking the BBC to serve the interests of its commercial rivals".
SPOT THE MISSING WORD...
Yes, it's that game we play all the time on B-BBC. Here is an article that has appeared on the BBC today concerning the re-opening of the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai (Bombay). As a reader emails me, you will note that there is no mention of the fact that the "militants" were Muslims engaged in an act of Islamic Jihad. The BBC journalist who filed this report, Mr Ahmed, would appear to be a Muslim. Just a coincidence?
Newswatch on Climate Change Coverage
Thanks to Ryan for emailing me about this week's Newswatch, and apologies to Ryan for not reading his email until now. Fortunately it's all for the best asJames Delingpole has already covered it.
Any Questions again
Re David's earlier post about the scandalously biased audience on this week's Any Questions.
According to the programme's website the distribution of audience tickets is down to the hosts:
1. THE AUDIENCEThis week's programme came from the William Ellis school in Camden. From that school's website:
One of the chief responsibilities for you, the local organiser, is the distribution of tickets . We very much hope that, in general, the audience will be reasonably balanced and properly representative of the local community in terms of age, class, gender, colour, creed and political affiliation.
Yup, the same Fiona Millar who just happens to be Alastair Campbell's partner.
The Any Questions website also includes this:
We do from time to time encounter problems surrounding the issue of 'balance,' and the BBC, being committed to fairness, therefore reserves the right to allocate a number of seats ourselves if necessary. We may also give out a number of tickets to BBC guests (If space is particularly tight at your venue please talk to the producer about how many additional seats have been allocated by us).I think I can guess at the BBC's idea of providing audience balance - more lefties, just in case.
Update 8.30pm. One of Fiona Millar's vice chairs on the board of governors at William Ellis is Professor Conor Gearty, former human rights adviser to Tony Blair and founder member (along with Mrs Tony Blair) of Matrix Chambers.
WHERE'S CAMERON?
A biased BBC reader brings my attention to this particularly contrived instance of bias. As you will see, there is NO mention of David Cameron at all in this report of the Leaders' Debate. What's more, the wording suggests that though the polls were not agreed on who won, the contenders were Clegg and Brown rather than Clegg and Cameron. No-one reading this report would guess that a number of polls had declared Cameron the clear winner! The Conservatives do not exist, everyone loves Clegg, get with the meme, right?
ANY QUESTIONS?
Hi all. Sorry I am not around as much as normal but fighting a Westminster election campaign is a tad demanding! That said, it's hard to escape BBC bias. I happened to listen to "Any Questions" this lunchtime and it reminds me why the BBC is such a problem. It came from North London and I felt sorry for the mild mannered Conservative Caroline Spelman. The audience whooped and cheered for all left of centre comments coming from the other panelists (Jack Straw,Sir Menzies Campbell and Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts). St George's Day was discussed in terms of "would an immigrant be happy to take part in it?" and then the issue of genuflection to Islam via censorship of South Park came along. This is an atrociously biased programme, in my view, and as ever, the audience seems to consist of hard-left moonbats,
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