OFF MESSAGE BUT BRILLIANT!
I listened to this interview with Terry Smith on Today this morning and chuckled all the way through it. His analysis is spot on, I agree with every word. There was a stunned silence when he politely explained to the BBC interviewer that the so-called Public Sector cuts have not impacted to any significant degree, yet. He excoriated the Eurozone folly that Merkel and Sarkozy are seeking to pull. Make sure you listen - I am sure this was NOT what the BBC were looking for!!
GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR SCAM....
BBC seem remarkably coy about THIS. I wonder why? I would have thought the suggestion that the Global Warming cult has been exposed might have warranted a headline or two. Apparently not;
"Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite, reports that real-world data from NASA’s Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.
“The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the climate models show,” Spencer said in a July 26 University of Alabama press release. “There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans.”
In addition to finding that far less heat is being trapped than alarmist computer models have predicted, the NASA satellite data show the atmosphere begins shedding heat into space long before United Nations computer models predicted. The new findings are extremely important and should dramatically alter the global warming debate."Yes, they should. Put together with the muzzled CERN data on cosmic rays, the data case for AGW is getting rickety. But we’ll see if the AGW faithful are capable of allowing new data to impact and inform their world view. I suspect that that may be too much to ask of such a young religion
It's Friday, we've arrived at the end of another week and shortly, the end of another month here on Biased BBC! The blog has been really buzzing in recent times and my thanks to you all for keeping the conversation going. In truth there are not enough hours in the day to capture every instance of bias from the State Broadcaster but we certainly try to do our very best. My thanks to all fellow writers, to all who send me so much material, and of course most of all to our legions of readers who come here and are so loyal, informed and perceptive. It does encourage me so much and gives me the motivation and strength to keep this thing going. OK - the floor is yours...off you go!!!
TIME MAY CHANGE, ATTITUDES STAY THE SAME...
A Biased BBC reader has brought this remarkable story to my attention. The bias may be ancient history but it is still shocking..
"I have just read some astounding information contained in a book review by Frank Keating in the latest issue of the "Oldie" magazine. I was going to post it on the next open thread but I'm wondering if it is deserving of greater prominence. Here is the relevant part of the review:
"Ryan's fine piece of work is quite mind-bogglingly revealing of place, time, Britain and the BBC - just take for starters this baldly frank opening memo, written seven months before the Games, which had BBC Programme Controller Cecil Graves warning the Head of Sport, 'Lobby' Lotbiniere:
"The point about this, of course, is that Abrahams is a Jew. He is our best commentator on athletics. But the question arises as to whether we should do this. We all regard the German action against Jews as quite irrational and intolerable and on the score we ought not to hesitate, but should we, as between one broadcaster and another, put aside all views of this kind and take the line that however we regard another country's attitude to be, it would be discourteous to send over a Jewish commentator to a country where Jews are taboo?"
It gets much worse. Abrahams did go to the Games - and daily commentated on most of the events. Except, of course, those in which Owens took part. Incredible. [end of review]Those pesky Jews, right?
CALEDONIAN MANIPULATION...
In Scotland, the BBC seem to have been hoist on their petard with regard to how they have treated Ally McCoist. Here is a thoughtful expose of how the BBC worked their manipulation..
The Rangers manager was the victim of a quite brazen manipulation of video footage that left the viewer with the impression that McCoist had a flippant attitude to the very real and very serious problem of bigotry.
Footage from an answer to one question was deliberately positioned to make it appear the answer was given to another different question. Viewers were presented with images of a smirking Ally McCoist apparently not taking the issue of sectarianism seriously.
Last season of course Mr McCoist was involved in a touchline altercation with Celtic manager Neil Lennon that sparked a major investigation by authorities into the problems of bigotry in Scottish football and wider society. The result was an announcement that new legislation will soon be introduced to combat the malaise. The weekend just passed was the opening weekend for the SPL and excitement was high.
It’s against this backdrop that the BBC’s actions ought to be placed. Sectarianism is not a Scotland wide phenomenon, it is centred mainly in the West of Scotland. However its tentacles spread far and wide and there are smaller pockets of bigotry and examples of sectarianism in many communities in the East and North. The manifestations of this problem has witnessed young men murdered and others maimed. On Old Firm match days the casualty wards are at breaking point as the collateral damage is carried, dragged and wheeled in.
So, for the BBC to manipulate a news item on this subject in the way it did was not just folly, it was downright reckless. The question is though why this was done?"
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