Wow - this BBC report on the alleged "crisis" in University funding has all the greats lined up to take a pop at the Coalition. Margaret Hodge leads the charge, ably supported by Student Grant aka Aaron Porter, alongside Sally Hunt (No, that's not rhyming slang) from the Comrades in UCU Lecturers union, and were that enough good old Nicola Dandridge, another favoured BBC talking head. Naturally there is no one called on to support the Government or indeed to take issue with the guff spouted by all these oh so predictable leftists. The NHS and the BBC have much in common. Both are anachronistic, grossly overstaffed, massively inefficient and in need of major surgery, if you'll pardon the pun. However the BBC is a major defender of the NHS and nowhere is this more evident in how it has been running a campaign to endlessly undermine the attempts by David Cameron to introduce at least some sort of modest reform into the NHS. Listen to this interview this morning, the predetermined conclusion of which is that you can't really change the NHS and you shouldn't really try. In truth, this is how the BBC feels about itself, but it channels the NHS as a proxy to let Government know how difficult if not dangerous ANY attempt to bring change will be. [Update added] Two stories involving American politicians who have been embarrassed by photos on the internet. One was a little-known first-time candidate standing for the House of Representatives last year, the other is a prominent, well-known congressman who has been in the House of Representatives for over 12 years and has designs on becoming mayor of New York. Apart from the fact that the BBC rushed to run the first story as soon as it broke in the States, and has tried desperately to ignore the second story for well over a week, can anyone spot a slight difference in the BBC's treatment of the two? (I've provided some helpful clues.) A double whammy from Evan Davis on the first paper review of this morning's Today programme. Not only did he treat us to the paper review catchphrase ("The Guardian leads with the same story as us") he went on to tell us that the Telegraph's main headline (about the IMF) was "slanted". Thanks for the editorialising, Evan, but how about letting us make up our own minds? What was it that former BBC journalist Peter Sissons said again? The Register draws attention to the URL for a recent edition of The News Quiz: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011ckxs/The_News_Quiz_Series_74_Episode_7/ How very apt. Hat tip Not A Sheep. In a preamble to an announcement tomorrow from Theresa May requiring our Universities to be less submissive in their disturbing accommodation of militant Islam, Today had a "debate" between James Brandon, head of research at the Quilliam Foundation, and Nicola Dandridge, of Universities UK. Mr Brandon was sympathetic to the views of the Home Secretary and got a tough time by Justin Webb. He was interrupted, corrected and he even had to endure the BBC interviewer actually challenging his questions on behalf of Dandridge!!! Ms Dandridge herself was the typical Ivory Tower dhimmi one would expect but her views obviously resonate with the BBC and so she gets an easy ride whereas Mr Brandon was attacked. The BBC is Islam's little helper and this interview was just a small example of all that it does for the Religion of Peace. Another interesting insight into the biased mind of the BBC here. Justin Webb evidently has a problem with "Big Pharma" in true comradely fashion so when some of the world's major producers of important drugs announce plans to supply at cost an anti-diarrhoea drug for African children, he is immediately suspicious and accuses them of seeking to curry our favour by "taxing" the NHS more in order that this can engage in such commercial magnanimity. The GSK spokesman is pretty sensible in what he says but you can sense the smouldering hostility from Webb. Through the prism of the left, personified by Webb, there is something inherently wrong in the profit motive and so all vendors of capitalism must be challenged even when,as in this case, they choose to save millions of lives. Watching the BBC report on the bad and evil Israelis "opening fire" on harmless liberty loving and defenceless "Pro-Palestinian" demonstrators in Syria i.e Boy Bashar's unofficial attention diverting stormtroopers. This is a nice little hit and run job on Israel and Syrian State TV is such a reliable soure.
TENURED JOBS IN IVORY TOWERS
>> TUESDAY, JUNE 07, 2011
THE ENVY OF THE WORLD...
HALF THE STORY, ALL THE TIME.
Anyone catch this interview on the BBC this morning? It concerns the government plan to tackle Islamic extremism and in brings the BBC Former security minister Baroness Neville-Jones and Azad Ali, chair of the Muslim Safety Forum and an adviser to the previous Labour government. Azad plays the role of outraged moderate Muslim except that is not quite the entire picture. Mayor Boris Johnson has given at least £30,000 of taxpayers' money to an organisation co-controlled by an Islamist "extremist", the Standard can reveal. Azad Ali praises a spiritual leader of al Qaeda on his blog, denies the Mumbai attacks were "terrorism" and quotes, apparently approvingly, a statement advocating the killing of British troops in Iraq. He also criticises those Muslims who "tell people that Islam is a religion of peace". He describes non-Muslims as "sinners" and says Muslims should "hate [non-Muslims'] disbelieving actions".
Spot The Difference
Today Paper Review
By far the most popular and widely read newspapers at the BBC are The Guardian and The Independent. Producers refer to them routinely for the line to take on running stories, and for inspiration on which items to cover. In the later stages of my career, I lost count of the number of times I asked a producer for a brief on a story, only to be handed a copy of The Guardian and told 'it's all in there’.
Perhaps the Guardian has such low circulation figures because the lefties choose to listen to the broadcast version on Radio 4 every morning instead.BBC iPlayer: News Quiz "b011ckxs"
>> MONDAY, JUNE 06, 2011
OPEN THREAD...
Just another manic Monday for the rancid baised BBC. Time for a new open thread and a fresh forum for you to tell me what you think about the coverage it provides!!THE RIGHT TO PREACH HATRED...
A TANGLED WEBB
PLAN B....
Lovely pouting Sarah Montague doesn't care much for George Osborne. If you listen to this interview the tone in her voice towards him is positively glacial. It all concerns a concerted leftwing attack on the Coalition's economic policies and naturally the BBC has been to the fore in promoting their sub-Keynesian nonsense. As the prelude to the interview with Osborne, the BBC rows in with"an increasing number of economists are suggesting the Chancellor should be thinking again about the speed of the cuts" meme that is essentially Labour Party policy. Cue Stephanie "Two Eds" Flanders. Osborne does very well, I think, by at several points picking up on what he rightly characterises as BBC misrepresentation. When I hear a senior Conservative tackle the BBC bias head-on I wonder why more do not follow. It's only when you let them assert their bias unchallenged that they succeed. The BBC just cannot accept that Osborne is doing a much better job than their heroes such as Gordon "We saved the world" Brown and so it seizes on every piece of bad economic news and ignores any good economic news in order to try and tack behind the Labour narrative that the "cuts" need to be reduced. Note that Nick Robinson is brought in at the end to "comment" on Osborne's answers and he immediately starts talking about the mythical Plan B.ISRAEL - IN THE DOCK AGAIN
>> SUNDAY, JUNE 05, 2011
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Is it possible that the BBC is actually promoting the views of an Islamic extremist whilst pretending to have a reasoned debate? Surely not?
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