BLIND!

BLIND!

>> MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011

It turns out that the Television Trust for the Environment - the BBC greenie programmes supplier whose problems I noted here - derives half its income, more than £500k, from the EU, and effectively gives its programmes away; last year it made less than £50,000 from sales. In effect, therefore, it is a propaganda arm of the EU. Not without coincidence, I suspect, its website was mysteriously taken down on the same day, October 24,that FBC Media - the other company named in the BBC report about conflicts of interest - went into administration. Bishop Hill has donesterling work in digging out the 2010 annual reports for TVE and its commerical arm that makes programmes. These show that the trustees were increasingly worried about income (the vast majority of which is through donations) and fairly drastic measures had been introduced to cut costs. This could explain the sudden departure of the website. The combination of cash problems with a sudden withdrawal of its shop window (the BBC) could have forced the trustees to take terminal fright. What the figures reveal is the extent of conflict of interest that the funding of TVE created. The BBC relied for a major plank of its environmental programmes from an organisation that effectively was being paid for by the EU (£500K), the UN (£245K) (through a variety of its agencies), along with Oxfam, the Swedish and German governments, a couple of greenie trusts and the International Consortium of Invesigative Journalists - a totalmisnomer in that they are actually camapaigning green fanatics. Every element of this financing is from organisations that want unfettered greenie propaganda; TVE and the BBC were dutifully compliant. Put another way, the EU and the UN have effectively bought airtime on the BBC, but their strident propaganda has been disguised as "independent" film-making. What is astonishing about the BBC's role in this is that TVE's funding is not secret, annual reports have been published for years. So why have the BBC trustees not realised this huge clash of interest before now? That's because they are so much in bed with the climate change lobby, including the UN and the EU, and so much convinced that the science is "settled" that they are blind.

OCCUPY UPDATE

>> SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2011

As I pointed out in the comments yesterday, the BBC's Matt Danzico has been touting for book donations for a new Occupy Wall Street library organised by his sister Liz (aka "bobulate"): (Liz sounds like she could be one of Occupy's Uptown crowd.) Even *ahem* impartial BBC journalists such as Matt Danzico might think twice about giving stuff to OWS when they hear of the money swilling around the place.

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Bad Start to the Week

It seems that the BBC will be ‘Starting the Week’ tomorrow morning with a particularly objectionable duo on the guest list. Not only Peter Kosminsky of ‘The Promise’ notoriety, but also a singer / songwriter unknown to most people outside the Guardian/BBC clique called Sarah Gillespie (Who?) I’ll leave it to Harry’s Place to expand on why her inclusion on Start the Week to discuss ‘the arts and politics’ is both puzzling and worrying. For anyone who doesn’t want to click on the link, here’s what Harry’s Place tells us about Ms. Gillespie.

• She is a supporter and musical associate of Gilad Atzmon, the Jewish-Israeli saxophonist who has taken self-loathing to new heights. His Israel-bashing writings are so extreme that even some of the most notorious anti-Israel activists have dissociated themselves from him.
• She has expressed solidarity with holocaust denier Paul Eisen,
• and has accused Mark Thompson of bias towards Israel.

The article ends by asking ‘what is the BBC’s reasoning?’ If Mark Thompson’s reasoning has something to do with “confronting people with the other”, I should think we’ve had just about enough anti-Israel and antisemitic flavoured programming already. It’s high time we had a glimpse of some real “other”, but I won’t be holding my breath.