As Boris Johnson might say….‘it sounds like a trivial thing to get worked up about, but one trivial thing leads to another.’ The BBC presented us with another exotic adventure chasing wild animals in out of the way places…this time Tigers in Siberia in ‘Operation Snow Tiger.’ Awesome landscape with some majestic beasties, the programme itself promised to be somewhat formulaic but was rescued by an unexpected …
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It is always apparent that any programme that uses audience participation either in a phone in or like Question Time, actually imports an audience, is vulnerable to those people who under cover of being someone unaffiliated with any agenda are in fact political, big business, religious or other activists or lobbyists peddling their own interests. With that in mind it should be encumbent on the likes of …
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Just how much work does the BBC put into researching any subject in preparation for an interview? When interviewing someone about a report that criticises the interviewee severely it might be well to read that report and test what the interviewee claims against what that report actually says. On the Today programme today Jill Finney, former deputy chief executive of the Care Quality Commission claimed that: ‘As soon as Grant …
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The BBC’s top story all day has been the alleged police attempt to smear the Lawrence family. Listening to their reporting you would have the impression that this was ‘fact’…the police had been investigated and the allegation found proven. As always the BBC seem all too ready to attack the police when they get the chance…evidence of wrong doing, or the lack of, not being much of an impediment …
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