Had to smile at the BBC coverage of the mass rally in Washington organised by Glen Beck and attended also by Sarah Palin. It starts of by saying..."Tens of thousands..." attended the rally. Oh Really? I have read other US media channels giving the number of a minimum of 300,000 up to 500,000+. But to the BBC, who must view Beck and Palin with something approaching horror, it was just" tens of thousands". Here's a picture of those "tens of thousands"... I was sent some of the detailed comments from Mark Thompson's Edinburgh Festival lecture. Reading it he comes across as an arrogant man suffering from BBC cabin fever. What do you think of his comments? There is a stunning lack of humility in what he says, combined with the delusion that if one is antagonistic to the BBC the fault cannot lie with the BBC! I was stunned by the BBC coverage of Islamic history here. Could it be MORE anti-Christian and slavishly pro-Islam. Nice pro-Gypsy piece here. I love Justin Webb's first question to mild mannered Government Minster Bob Neil "So, you don't like the travelling community?" I also like his snide dismissal of Daily Mail/Daily Express readers. (Oh to be a sophisticated Guardian reader, eh Justin?) Not sure why the BBC thinks that Government has a duty to provide sites for Gypsies, in fact I'm not sure how Bob Neil arrives at the conclusion that "Travellers" are an established part of "our" community but that was comment that the BBC did not challenge. The BBC is a firm advocate for Gypsies, romanticising them into something that is not the experience of people who have the misfortune to come across them. Wonder do Gypsies pay their TV licenses? Monday morning and the sun is shining outside. Time for the BBC to broadcast what struck me as a very odd item on how trust in the IPCC can be "rebuilt". Let's leave aside the obvious point that a significant number of people never had any trust in this body in the first instance and focus instead on how the BBC framed this debate. On the one hand we have Professor Martin Parry who sees no problems with the IPCC in the first place and on the same hand we have Professor Mick Hulme who sees the issue as being all about political will to implement the consequences of IPCC conclusions. (The validity of these must not be questioned, evidently) The BBC also choses to focus on the howling Himalyan glaciers error as IF that was the only mistake this body has ever made! What is entirely missing from this debate is the challenging voice of dispute as to the scientific credibility of the IPCC and I dare say the BBC will keep it that way. And if you thought Newsnight was bad... Had to smile at the BBC coverage of the mass rally in Washington organised by Glen Beck and attended also by Sarah Palin. It starts of by saying..."Tens of thousands..." attended the rally. Oh Really? I have read other US media channels giving the number of a minimum of 300,000 up to 500,000+. But to the BBC, who must view Beck and Palin with something approaching horror, it was just" tens of thousands". Here's a picture of those "tens of thousands"... I see the BBC are helping push the Demos line that by keeping counter-terrorism secret, Government encourages terrorism! It takes a special sort of leftist mentality to embrace such a lunatic idea but to the BBC the Demos suggestions must seem logical. Also, can we please ensure that the words "left-wing" always precede the use of the term Demos just so people can be clear what they are reading?
BECK, PALIN AND AUNTIE!
OPEN THREAD...
>> MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2010
Monday arrives and so does this NEW open thread. I hand you the podium, please let us know what you are thinking about the BBC and it's relentless bias today!CABIN FEVER MARK
"Systematic press attacks on broadcasters, and especially on the BBC, are nothing new of course the first hostile campaigns began back in John Reith's day but the scale and intensity of the current assaults does feel different. So what's the effect of all this relentless negativity?"
Not the public interest. Not accountability. They just want to trash us.
We should remain vigilant.
Commercial and political forces are undermining the independence of the public broadcasters ....In the UK, they know that a frontal assault will fail so they adopt different tactics. Exaggerated claims about waste and inefficiency. Nit-picking about the detailed mechanisms of governance and accountability. Even some – not all, but some – of the calls for greater transparency.
Transparency is as important for the BBC and the other publicly-owned PSBs as for any other public institutions. But sometimes calls for transparency turn out to be a cloak for something else.
Everyone knows that such proposals have nothing to do with the public interest or real accountability and everything to do with an agenda of weakening and undermining the public broadcaster. In the UK, the tactics are usually subtler, the language loftier.
Too often the underlying purpose is the same.’
BBC ISLAMIC PROPAGANDA ANSWERED
JUST A TRAVELLING MAN...
PROFESSORIAL INCOHERENCE
A WEEK WITH MARTHA (AND BRIAN)
>> SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 2010
This week's World at One was another Labour-heavy zone.
The list of UK politicians interviewed across all five programmes runs as follows:
Labour - Sally Keeble (2.5 minutes)
Andy Burnham, (6 minutes)
David Miliband (8.5 minutes)
Michael Meacher (1 minute)
Ed Balls (4.5 minutes)
Conservative - Damian Green (3 minutes)
Liberal Democrat - No-one
(No mention of anyone declining to be interviewed either!)
There were also interviews with a co-founder of Labour's sister party, the SDLP; the director general of the Equality and Human Rights Commission; a left-leaning Irish economist; a Democrat mayor; and a trades unionist. Other than Mr Green, no right-wingers were interviewed.
Indefensible, surely?BECK, PALIN AND AUNTIE!
DEMOSCRACY?
Monday, 30 August 2010
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