Daily Politics reporter Giles Dilnot is the stand-in presenter on Radio Five Live's Up All Night this week. On this morning's show he and the show's regular conservative-hating US TV reviewer (and New Age goofball) Cash Peters discussed the new right-leaning TV network backed by Kelsey Grammer. Here's the sneering, mocking exchange in full: A B-BBC reader notes... Anyone catch this report from Jeremy Al Bowen as he strolls around the streets of Jerusalam to "find out the mood of the public towards continuing peace negotiations"? Bowen parrots the Palestinian demand that Jerusalem must also be it's Holy City (as much as it is Israel's) if there is to be peace - this equivocation is so ludicrous only Bowen could make it. If Palestinians wanted a publicist who can always be relied upon. Al Bowen fits the bill. I wonder did he wear a Keffiyeh when he filed his report? Now then, this was never going to be comfortable issue for the BBC to tackle - perish the thought that State workers are living off the fat of the economic land, enjoying substantial salary benefits over their private sector colleagues with feather bedded pension provision to boot. So, what to do, thinks the State workers in the BBC? They invite on Carl Emmerson from the Institute of Fiscal Studies who does his very best to ameliorate all differences and makes it seem that those nice people working for the State don't REALLY get more than those of us who work in the private sector. Pathetic stuff. How about inviting on a guest who would have argued that the State sector workers now need to see job losses, job cuts, sacrifices - just like their private sector colleagues have been doing for the past few years? The BBC is far from impartial when the topic becomes one of how much the State pays those who work for it. L'Etat? - c'est BBC!Question Time LiveBlog : The Return!
>> THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
Not just any jewel, but the very Koh-I-Noor of BBC bias returns with a peach of a broadcast: a Labour leadership special where the five candidates will be on the panel facing questions from a hand-picked audience.
You should all have received your new-season Buzzword Bingo cards by now. For the first programme you'll need the set which has a picture of David Cameron eating a kitten on them. Play is expected to be brisk, asThatcher, cuts, evil, fairness, and equality will all go quickly. References toprivate education win you a Diane Abbott shaped Souvenir SoapOnARope from the BBC Executive Washrooms. Bonus roll of the dice for any mention of Harriet Hatemen having 4 votes in the election.
Reverse triangulation is in play, and because of weekday maintenance on the Circle Line, this week Trade Unions are only valid with a common peopleundercard, and riots are wild unless your strike action joker has lapsed.
See you here on the picket-line, in the company of David Vance, David Mosque and TheEye, from just before 10:35 until just after 11:35.LEFTNETWORK
>> WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Sweet irony - Cash Peters deriding a broadcaster for being one-sided when the BBC has provided him with a platform to spew his venom about conservative America for over ten years. A BBC correspondent who was as openly antagonistic to the American liberal left would have been dropped after one week. (Incidentally, are there any regular TV or film reviewers on R5L who aren't lefties?)
Earlier in the show Dilnot asked USA Today's Bill Nicholson about the success of Tea Party candidates in the latest round of primaries . "We should remain polite," said the presenter, knowingly, before immediately pointing out that some see the movement as "down right fruit loop!" Clearly Dilnot has been watching the BBC's coverage.
At least RIGHTNETWORK is open and honest about what it is.
UPDATE 21.15. Heh:
UPDATE 21.30. Don't worry Cash, your star can only rise in the BBC firmament after this.NOT ALL TERRORISTS ARE TERRORISTS
Did you note that yesterday 'Today' referred to Billy Wright.....Loyalist terrorist...'exceptionally dangerous and who continued to murder Catholics as mainstream paramilitaries edged towards peace....in some circles his death could be seen as productive.'
Shame the BBC couldn't bring themselves to condemn Hamas in such tones after the murder of 4 Israelis recently....would the BBC agree Israel was being 'productive' in the peace process by killing these Hamas killers?
OPEN THREAD...
Phew - we made it to Wednesday and a brand new Open Thread! Make sure you file your observations of BBC bias here! Don't hold back...BOWEN IN JERUSALEM....
STATE VS PRIVATE
Thursday, 16 September 2010
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