Turns out that Social Workers are to blame for the circumstances that led to Raoul Mote going on a killing spree. Or so this BBC report suggests. More than £3.6bn a year now floods in to the grubby palms of the overpaid executives who supposedly manage the BBC. The licence fee has gone up over the past five years by almost 15% to £142.50. But spending on new shows is plummeting, a survey by Ofcom has found. It has dropped from 65% of revenues in 1998 to only 56% now, and over the past three years, the amount of money spent on first-run programming on BBC 1 has fallen by 10% and that on BBC2 by 15%. By contrast, Ofcom found , spending in the same period by commercial television companies on their programmes increased, despite the recession. Former BBC favourite "Dr" Vince Cable was interviewed on Today @7.52am with regard to his suggestion that there should be a Graduate tax. During the interview, and in defence of his iniquitous scheme, Cable trotted out the mantra that the average graduate earned £100,000 across their working life than someone who did not attend University. This outdated assertion was not challenged. In fact there is plenty of evidence to suggest that a combination of over-supply of graduates and a lack of employment prospects seriously erodes this much hyped differential and it was surprising that Cable got away with it. Especially as he is an Economics guru.Then again... It is not a good day at the BBC if they can't snipe at Israel and so it is that B-BBC stalwart Jeremy Al Bowen does his usual routine here As ever the language is so loaded and dripping in anti-Israel sentiment that Hamas would struggle to be less biased than him. It's outrageous the way the BBC foists this biased coverage of all matters Israel upon us. "Kenya launches text service to stop hate speech" reports the BBC - utterly uncritically. The report assumes that this move is intended solely to reduce violence. No mention is made of the threat to free speech in Kenya, indeed no mention is made of any criticism of the hotline at all. It's against "hate speech", what more do you need to know? The National Cohesion and Integration Commission is quoted as having told the BBC "If hate speech is reported, we will be able to respond within 12 hours," - but apparently the BBC did not see fit to ask him what that response would be. The BBC does not ask who defines "hate speech" or bring up the potential for abuse of this system by political leaders wishing to crush rivals or members of the public with a grudge against their neighbours. The slot between 8am and 8.30am is the prime-time for listenership on Radio 4 so I was surprised that the BBC decided to allocate valuable time here to the Magic Act Penn and Teller. Even more remarkable the primary angle of the story was to explore the Pair's Atheism! I'm not saying there was bias here but I found the placing of this story and the angle of it odd. I wonder if Penn and Teller had been devout Christians would the BBC have been so keen to run the non-story? Well, I've been away for a few days and didn't listen to the BBC but that changed this morning, God, but it is bad, isn't it? This morning we had Diana Fulbrook of the Probations Chief's Association on to shill for a liberal approach to those who commit serious crimes, following on from the BBC's approval of Ken Clarke's ludicrous statement that there is no connection between sending people to prison and falling crime levels. It seems to me that the BBC is in rapture to Ken Clarke's uber-liberal approach to our Justice system. The BBC has a new-look website. Check it out, it's quite sharp. No doubt it cost tens of thousands of our cash to engineer. The main purpose remains depressingly the same, however. For example, I checked out the new science and environment page. Every link at the bottom (a new feature, I think) - the Environment Agency, DEFRA, the Royal Institution, the Royal Society, Research Councils UK, NASA, the National Science Foundation - is to bodies which have web areas dedicated to unqualified, loud, unsubtle, lying, climate change drivel. Surprise, surprise.
RAOUL MOTE - BBC VICTIM?
>> THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2010
BLOATED BROADCASTING CORPORATION
No prizes for guessing where the cash has gone: into the bloated pay packets of the propagandists who call themselves journalists and programme-makers.DR CABLE'S £100,000
JEREMY'S BACK
Hate speech here and there
>> WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 2010
Contrast this with how the BBC covers schemes in Britain in which the public are encouraged to report potential terrorism. In this story, University heads tackle extremism, the entire focus is on the clash between security and academic freedom. In this one, Anti-terror police seek help from internet cafes, a spokesman is quoted as fearing that an initiative "potentially criminalises people for accessing material that is legal but which expresses religious and political opinions that police officers find unacceptable." That fear, it seems, is worth covering in Britain, but not in Kenya.
I have also posted about this over at Samizdata.NOW THAT'S MAGIC!
BACK TO NORMAL..
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Thursday, 15 July 2010
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