A RIGHT SIR ANTHONY....

A RIGHT SIR ANTHONY....

>> TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2011

We are not the only people who see the bias that so characterises the BBC output. Take the recent Radio 4 programme "The Reunion". A B-BBC contributor notes... "I didn't listen to this programme because you can only take so much...and you know exactly the direction these fellow travellers will take when discussing Communism....lucky for me Charles Moore has done the hard work and has put the BBC well and truly in the stocks and brought such ambivalence toward ideological and actual threats to this nation up to date: 'When will the BBC ever tell the truth about Anthony Blunt?' Charles Moorereviews an edition of The Reunion (Radio 4) that focused on the disgraced art critic and his treachery. 'Blunt was a virtually innocent victim, we were told, and the only villain was the press". The Reunion propagated the theory that spying for the Soviets in the Thirties and Forties was nothing worse than an excess of zeal. This is a shocking untruth. Hitler and Stalin were moral equivalents. Indeed, at the time when Blunt signed up for the Soviet Union, Stalin had actually killed far more people than Hitler because the Führer was only just getting into his stride. The BBC would (rightly) never dream of making a programme which sought to excuse traitors who worked for the Nazis. In our generation, Blunt's equivalents are the intellectual apologists for Islamist extremism. No doubt it will turn out that some of them worked secretly for countries like Iran, and no doubt, in due time, the BBC will laud them too.' The BBC already lauds Binyam Mohammed and Mozzam Begg, not to mention the 7/7 bombers who were forced into their actions by our foreign policy and em, 'discrimination, neglect, fury and resentment, bitter grievances, ignored and demeaned, kept in poverty by a system which cares very little about them.' Apart from Malcolm Muggeridge's articles on the USSR journalist Gareth Jones also did his best to expose the horrors of Communism: What to make of an organisation that refuses to openly debate history from 70 years ago.....could it be that so many of the Labour Party were Communists that it might be a tad embarrassing for a Labour supporting, but impartial, news gatherer? Then again its recent coverage of Tony Blair's article on the recent riots was in a similar vein....completely devoid of any reference to the facts. Should that be necessarily a bad thing, or is it perhaps slightly sinister? When you are told that Blair had an important warning to both politicians and the public...namely Cameron is implementing policies merely for political advantage and that the public should not be allowed to have any say influence on such policy...because of course 'populist politics' is the last thing you want in a democracy....you have to conclude it is sinister. Stephen Glover's take on Blair rewriting history here.

WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS...

Of course it is not just Evan Davies who has interests that are not immediately obvious; A Biased BBC contributor notes... "Reference Evan Davis and his membership of the SMF board....John Humphrys is a shareholder in 'YouGov' the polling company. Any conflict of interest there when the BBC is telling us Labour is surging in the polls according to YouGov perhaps? 'Humphrys, who has worked on programmes such as 'Panorama', 'On the Ropes' and 'Mastermind', has hit back at critics who said that there is a conflict of interest between his position on 'Today' and the shares that he holds with the company.' http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/469491/Radio-4s-John-Humphrys-set-money-YouGov-float/ http://today.yougov.co.uk/homepage 'YouGov is the authoritative measure of public opinion and consumer behaviour. It is our ambition to supply a live stream of continuous, accurate data and insight into what people are thinking and doing all over the world, all of the time, so that companies, governments and institutions can better serve the people that sustain them. YouGov is the most quoted research company in the UK, so by joining our panel of over 350,000 members and taking part in our surveys you really can get your voice heard.' .. and hilariously the recession could all be John Humphry's fault...or at least the company he holds shares in: '....financial institutions used its research in the past to make investment decisions.' Though of course YouGov was founded by two Tory supporters (one now a Tory MP!)"

ALL WRONGS LEAD TO MURDOCH

There was a particularly nasty little item HERE on Today this morning. It's yet another BBC led attack on Murdoch, this time bringing in Chris Mullins and Sheila Gunn - John Major's former press secretary. Gunn, in particular, used the opportunity to have a go at those bad "right-wingers" and "little Englanders"who gave nice Mr Major such a hard time over Europe. It's obvious that the BBC has determined that Trinity Newspapers and the Guardian have no questions to answer concerning the integrity of their behaviour and so all wrongs can only ever lead to Murdoch.

UNTRUSTWORTHY

I'm head down at the moment helping to write a long paper on BBC bias that I hope will appear in print in due course. I missed - Autonomous Mindand Harmless Sky didn't - that the BBC trustees had issued a grovelling retraction about the Steve Jones paper that is being used by the corporation to support its climate change activism. In a nutshell the public school hating Professor Jones - in a key section where he argues vehemently for the suppression of all dissent - fingered Lord Lawson and Lord Christopher Monckton for making crassly erroneous statements on specific BBC programmes. He simply did not check his facts. What he said was wrong and now the Trust has begrudgingly owned up, although - par for the course - they haven't the grace to call it an apology or properly acknowledge their mistake. The retraction has instead been quietly attached to the latest version of the report. It beggars belief that £140,000 of our cash was spent by the so-called regulatory body of a £3.5bn organisation on this report and that it saw the light of day with such crass errors. It confirms the vindictiveness and hate against "deniers" at the top levels of the corporation and the obscene rush to suppress them. Part of my current research covers the operations of the BBC Trust. I will make my revelations soon. But what has happened here fits perfectly with what I have uncovered so far...the "trust" is anything but trustworthy on this and other editorial issues.