HuntWatch
>> SUNDAY, AUGUST 01, 2010
"Impartiality? Not, say the Tories, with Labour figures heading the regulators" Peter Preston writing in today's Observer
"Paul Farrelly, the Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, had a Commons question for our new culture secretary last week. Would the rules governing impartial television news remain sacrosanct in coalition land? To which Jeremy Hunt could have said simply "Yes – I've no plans to change anything". But in fact he went on for a rather fascinating couple of sentences. "We will take no lessons on impartiality from the opposition," he said, somewhat brusquely. Then he added: "There are two people responsible for impartiality in British broadcasting – the head of Ofcom and the head of the BBC Trust. One is a former Labour councillor and the other is a former Labour special adviser."
That's actually the only interesting bit. He goes on to make snippy comments about Boris Johnson's father for no apparent reason. But it shows that Jeremy Hunt has his eyes open at least.
THE ANTI-ZIONIST NETWORK
BBC interviews someone from the self-loathing "Anti-Zionist Network"during an item "Are we too critical of Israel?" who suggests that we are too soft on Israel during the Sunday Morning programme. Susanne Reid very opinionated, evidently hostile to the Israeli position, with liberal Jew Edwina Curry on to present soft-focus opinion, Douglas Murray did his best. The programme was recorded here in Northern Ireland and bang on cue came the BBC- approved view that Israel and Hamas need to "sit around the table and talk it out" - just like what has happened here with the murderous IRA. It sickens me how the BBC passes off the appalling appeasement of terrorism that has taken place here as the template for all "conflict resolutions." It is ONLY when Israel appeases Hamas that it can expect any decent coverage from the BBC.
Self-Fulfilling Backlash
So Shimon Peres has noticed that the English are antisemitic and pander to Muslim votes. The Telegraph has chosen to whip up a controversy by heading an article:
“Fury as Israel president claims English are 'anti-semitic' "
So who’s furious?
“senior MPs and Jewish leaders who said the 87-year-old president had "got it wrong"So far it appears that these furious MPs consist of:
“James Clappison, the Conservative MP for Hertsmere and vice-chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel”Since Mr Peres’s comment was 'buried in an interview with the historian Professor Benny Morris of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev published last week in Tablet, a Jewish news website, ' could someone be trying to make a mountain out of a molehill?
“The wide-ranging interview covered Mr Peres' role as one of Israel's longest-serving political leaders – an MP for 48 years, twice prime minister, and holder of other ministerial posts over the decades. He is firmly on the Israeli Left. “He could have just been taking the opportunity to use the very dryly comical quote:
"There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary" a saying that contains a bigger grain of truth and considerably more wit than “Gaza is a prison camp.”
Haaretz has a slightly different way of making a mountain out of this.
“ Peres sparks U.K backlash after labeling England anti-Semitic” the headline screams out, continuing:
“President Shimon Peres provoked a media backlash in the United Kingdom on Sunday”So far, the media backlash consists of an article in the Telegraph. The BBC hasn’t reported it yet, but I expect it will.
Antisemitism in England? Or do we mean AntiZionism?
Connection with the BBC? Tenuous, but not as tenuous as all that.
JACQUI SMITH FOR BBC?
>> SATURDAY, JULY 31, 2010
Who would have figured?
Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has sparked fury by bidding for a top BBC job less than three months after her political career ended in disgrace. The ex-cabinet minister, who famously charged taxpayers for the cost of watching two pornographic films, is lobbying to become vice-chairman of the BBC Trust. The plum position pays £77,000 a year for a two-and-a-half-day week and also offers generous perks.
ON PARADE..
When it comes to Northern Ireland, there is only ONE sort of Parade guaranteed to win slabbering approval from the BBC....have a listen. We're all gay now.
A BBC SUPPORTER WRITES..
Thought I would share this email I received from someone who seems to take issue with us. I leave you with Tony's elegant words...
"Message*: You folks sound like you're suffering from penis envy regarding BBC. They are bigger and better than you. BBC provides news that we don't get here in the states because of the bias of Associated Press (AP). Then there is the United Press International (UPI)a news agency headquartered in the United States with roots dating back to 1907. UPI was purchased in 2000 by News World Communications which is owned by Sun Moon founder of the Unification Church. Talk and write about bias. You guys need to lighten up a little. In the states AP is not reporting about the genocide of the sexual minority community in Iraq. There have been close to 800 suspected gay innocent men, women, and children kidnapped and brutally murdered by Iraqi police and religious fundamentalists and were not getting that news by mo! st of the news media in the states. WHY? BECAUSE of AP. National Public Radio(NPR)is getting some of that story out. Certainly BBC does a better job than AP. Europe is better informed than the states. So you folks need to stop the bitching and know that in some places on this planet people are walking around like a bunch of god damn zombies, not thinking and not knowing what the hell is going on."
BBC Clinton Worship, Part XXXVIII.....
In a gushing, slobbering, sycophantic piece of Hello style candyfloss on the BBC website Katie Connolly goes all Sylvie Krin over the Clintons and their daughter’s wedding.
Moreover, the Clintons are icons of a different, seemingly more youthful time in America's history - a pre 9/11 era when the country wasn't weighed down with wars, bulging deficits and billowing oil leaks.
Chelsea is a reminder of that time, and people feel invested in the life of that young girl who held her parents hands through their darkest personal days
Darkest personal days? Great therapy codespeak for this, methinks....
The Clintons, of course, are part of a select few that belong to the BBC’s Royal Family (Arafat, Castro, Nehru, Tony Benn etc) who are always treated with reverence and their transgressions initially minimised then airbrushed out of the “narrative”.
If it was a Palin or a Bush daughter getting married you can be guaranteed there would be plenty of veiled (and not so veiled) sneers and quotes from vitriolic haters (think Thatcher) so, to redresss the balance, and sustain the BBC’s Royalty image, we need an image that will be helpful to all the peasants crowding around their TVs watching their “betters” act out the higher life in that glittering galaxy reserved solely for the great and the good....
Just so you know,folks,like everyone else in these hard times the Clintonsand the Kerrys are keeping things lean and mean....
THE ENEMY WITHIN...
Have a look at the BBC main news portal today. It leads with the headline that there is "progress" by British Forces against murdering Islamic Jihadists...sorry, I mean "insurgents" in Helmand province of Afghanistan. Then just under is the link "Can the Taliban be defeated" I think I catch their drift... Allahu Akhbar.
BONUS CULTURE REDUX
It seems the BBC takes a particular line when it come to big bonuses. When the recipients are..gasp, bankers, why that is the most evil thing in the world. But when it is their own staff....
SWEET WILL
>> FRIDAY, JULY 30, 2010
Perhaps this has been commented on but I just wanted to share anyway! The Guardian, Will Hutton, all singing the praises of the BBC. Where DO they get the idea we think them biased?
PROPAGANDA TUNES...
Regular readers of Biased BBC may recall that I have previously revealed that BBC environmental 'journalist' Peter Thomson is also a political activist in that he is secretary of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), an organisation which, while masquerading as 'objective' on climate change, is actually a world leader in warmist propaganda. American Thinker, the influential US blog that the BBC doesn't mention because it's right-wing, has been doing some digging in this area, and it makes fascinating reading. Writer Russell Cook has found that the excuses for not putting on air so-called climate sceptics sound eerily similar among news organisations, and for this, he blames the efforts of the SEJ. The BBC also trots out similar wording when it is challenged on the topic - for example, Today editor Ceri Thomas.
Mr Cook. also notes that of 212 items about climate change/global warming since 1995 on PBS (for which Mr Thomson also partly works, because the relevant BBC US initiaitive is jointly with PBS) only three (yes 3) contained material from sceptics. I haven't done the precise equivalent sums for the BBC in the UK , but my bet is that on this front too, they are in tune with the SEJ-inpsired PBS agenda.
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