BBC keen to push the socialist wing of the Anglican Church here with NO counter voice being given. Any chance to portray the Coalition as being unreasonable is given the full treatment with any idea of balance thrown out the window. There's an important investigation here by the Mail on Sunday of a grant to BBC environment "analyst" and greenie poster boy Roger Harrabin of £15,000 from the University of East Anglia's climate centre, the outfit at the centre of Climategate. The cash, it is stated, was used to fund a range of climate change seminars. Mr Harrabin denies, of course, that the money has influenced his reporting...and the BBC itself can see no issues of impartiality. Well that's OK then. But I wonder how many who disagree with Mr Harrabin's brand of eco fervour attended his seminars? And, as I've extensively reported before, Mr Harrabin seems happy to tout his services to any greenie cause that will hire him. The Mail investigation also mentions the Television Trust for the Environment (TVE), which as I reported earlier this week, has been censured by the BBC trustees over conflict of interest and a failure to tell viewers where the programme budget had originated. Reporter David Rose notes that Dr Joe Smith, Mr Harrabin's partner - and joint recipient of the UEA cash - was chief scientific adviser to TVE programmes, including a couple the BBC trustees have censured. Mr Rose quotes Jenny Richards, the deputy chief executive of TVE, as saying that the company had "made hundreds of programmes" for the BBC and regarded the trustees report as a "slap on the wrist". That, to me, is the most telling remark in the whole story. It suggests that she knows that the trustees don't really give a fig about this whole sorry mess - they are involved in a bit of cosmetic window dressing, and nothing will actually change. Bishop Hill, who (wrongly) thinks that Robert Lamb is still the chief executive of TVE, says I have been "overheated" in my reporting of this affair. He is entitled to his views, and I respect them - that's the strength of blogging. But in my book, those at the BBC who are involved in this rather fetid mess of obfuscation and conflict of interest are without doubt eco fascists, and thoroughly deserve that description. Mr Lamb and his ilk have traduced the BBC and reduced it to an organ of WWF propaganda. They want rule by international diktat, to cover the countryside with windfarms, to massively reduce the population, to make heating our homes so expensive that thousands will live in daily fear of how much energy they are consuming, to stop us from flying, to force us out of our cars, and much more. That all adds up to a brand of fascism. Everyone here is by now well aware of the Solyndra scandal, where the deadly combination of campaign cash influence and the Warmist ideology of Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, led the White House to give over half a billion dollars to a solar energy company, owned by a top Democrat money man, which they knew was going to fail. Several people (DB, John Anderson, and Cassandara King, to name a few off the top of my head) have posted comments about it over the last few months as the damning facts keep coming out, and I think it's worthy of a full post. The BBC has done exactly five reports on it (plus one brief mention during a Daily Politics segment on how government behavior might possibly drive up energy costs, and one even briefer mention in a story on Republican complaints about government spending). Can't say they're censoring the Solyndra story, but it's pretty poor reporting considering what they've left out. As far as I'm aware, the story has never made it to any of the flagship news-oriented programmes, and even these news briefs never seem to stay on the front US & Canada page very long, or get noticed in the Features & Analysis section. In short, BBC News Online whips up a news brief every couple of weeks, and that's about it. Mark Mardell, the BBC US President editor, has never blogged about it, nor have any of the other correspondents dared bring it up. But this problem is much more than just the one company. The ideologically twisted Chu has thrown money at several failed or failing green energy companies, nearly all of which are connected to Democrats or Democrat campaign cash. None of the battalion of Beeboids working on US stories has reported on any of them. So now I'm going to tell you what the BBC doesn't want you to know. Some interesting thoughts from a Biased BBC reader North of the border; Katty Kay on Twitter yesterday: You can understand WHY the BBC are so entranced with Baroness Manningham-Butler. First, she recommends that we talk to the Taliban. Now she wants to see illegal drugs legalised. Yip, she's there kinda gal.
CLERICAL FOLLY
>> SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2011
SHAW DROPPING
My jaw dropped listening to Danny Shaw on 5Live Breakfast this morning. He was reporting on a Guardian story concerning the IPPC investigation into the police shooting of the gangster Mark Duggan. On the basis of partial evidence leaked from the IPPC investigation, The Guardian drew the firm and incendiary conclusion that Mark Duggan was unarmed when Police opened fire on him. Basically, in my view, Danny Shaw mullahed the Guardian for this. He took the Police line against them. I believe Danny Shaw’s name has cropped up a few times here in relation to accusations of bias, and justifiably so if I’m not getting confused with another ‘Shaw’ (apologies if I am), but when a BBC journalist puts himself ‘out there’ in the interests of responsible reporting, particularly when it’s the Guardian that’s ‘getting it’, he does the British public a tremendous service and there’s no better place than this to give him the applause he deserves. Judge for yourself: 02:17:14
Continental Drift
As deegee has been pointing out, if Barack Obama got it wrong by saying that Hawaii is in Asia, then the BBC News website has gone one better than the president on the 'gaffe' front. It now seems to think that both Australia and New Zealand are in Asia:SLAP ON THE WRIST
BBC Censorship: Billions Down The Green Toilet Edition
>> SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2011
NORTH OF THE BORDER
"You may be interested to note that BBC Scotland has virtually shut down on all comment facilities on their 'news' threads.
Blether with Brian has pulled its comment section because the punters were not buying the pro-Labour spin being generated by the Tangerine Jelly as he is known to us Scots.
BBC Scotland in conjunction with Ian Gray (aka Elmer Fudd) ran a number of stories about how the Scottish Government was going to close down Abertay University in fact both the Tangerine Jell and Elmer had bits of paper to prove this was the case - one month later it is clear that was never the case - in fact the very opposite.
Then there was Joanne Lamont's (Labour MSP aka Stairheid Rammy) tale of terrible doing by the Scottish Justice Minister over a rape case she had 'just become aware of' according to the BBC. Turns out the rape, the case and its outcome all happened prior to 2007 when Labour's Cathy Jamieson was Justice Secretary. The Glasgow Evening Times also ran the story and were forced by the girl's family's lawyer to print a retraction as yet nothing from the BBC or the Labour Party.
You may also take a look at the BBC Scotland's tampering of an interview with Ally McCoist, the Ranger's manager, to make McCoist appear sectarian. Another is a clip purporting to show John Swinney shaking his head at a statement put forward by Alex Salmond when the actual Holyrood TV section shows that Swinney was shaking his head at a load of tosh being spouted by Ian Gray of Labour."
LAZY
>> FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2011
BBC coverage of Obama's "lazy" remark: 
No laziness from Kay earlier today - she fired out five tweets in a row all attacking Newt Gingrich. Meanwhile, the BBC continues to look the other way when it comes to America's biggest ever crony capitalist.OPEN THREAD
Very busy here so time for a fresh Open Thread. The site is buzzing but I just do not have enough time to cover all the material the BBC so generously provide! Over to you....NOTHING LIKE A DAME
>> THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Sunday, 20 November 2011
Thanks to B-BBC contributor Graeme Thompson aka Hippiepooter for this item;
The BBC's World menu changed recently. The old Australasia/Pacific section has gone:
Do they need some geographers at the BBC? What's going on here?
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