tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post1923284228052205629..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Double standardsCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-88980462703687185932016-12-29T14:08:31.541+00:002016-12-29T14:08:31.541+00:00Can't stand Fry at any price so won't be l...Can't stand Fry at any price so won't be listening to that. Clicked on the John Finnemore prog link. Whose voice was that at the beginning of the clip (I mean the announcer) introducing the programme? Listened to the first four minutes but didn't get it or get into it and mind wandered with boredom more than anything. How long does one have to listen before reaching the bit about joking about Islam? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-91034533379254115072016-12-29T13:03:13.662+00:002016-12-29T13:03:13.662+00:00I think I heard one of the Now Show guys complaini...I think I heard one of the Now Show guys complaining about people who complain that liberal-lefty comedians don't have a go at Islam in the way they do at Christianity. They get very upset about the charge because really they don't have an answer to it.<br /><br />I think the Now Show guy might have used the "It's what I know" defence...which was really pretty pathetic, as not being Tea Party of UKIP members doesn't seem to prevent them making jokes about such memberships...also, I think we've probably all heard a few jokes about Mormons and Buddhist reincarnation in our time. <br /><br />Nope - it's pure PC-tinted cowardice. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-50985273599773787092016-12-29T12:39:41.117+00:002016-12-29T12:39:41.117+00:00I also heard John Finnemore's Souvenir Program...I also heard John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme and for a millisecond I genuinely thought someone in the BBC had at last found the courage to make a joke about Islam. My second thought, equally brief, was that there was a kind of misguided ingenuity in the way the facts had been twisted. But of course it wasn’t ingenious, it was dishonest and stupid - really just another bunch of useful idiots kowtowing to BBC groupthink.Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05818860172734529356noreply@blogger.com