tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post2964188039291708169..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Wonder why you don't say to those people, "Wouldn't you like to think again about Brexit?"Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-66435575479010836152016-11-26T09:01:07.220+00:002016-11-26T09:01:07.220+00:00For full lol, check out Nick R's Twitter feed ...For full lol, check out Nick R's Twitter feed about Castro right now.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-15735871596708793392016-11-26T00:38:02.207+00:002016-11-26T00:38:02.207+00:00LOL - great comments Sisyphus! :) LK started off ...LOL - great comments Sisyphus! :) LK started off as quite a decent reporter and obviously at some point decided she was more important than the story. I don't however agree THAT she is stressing the right syllABles and words in HER reports. <br /><br />Let's face it the impact of the BBC is pretty minimal these days. Do people really believe the OBR is telling the truth? I doubt it. There is tremendous cynicism around now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-89523553023267850632016-11-25T22:49:23.391+00:002016-11-25T22:49:23.391+00:00PS Make that "infants'class" - spell...PS Make that "infants'class" - spell-check strikes again!Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-41678706716178513382016-11-25T22:33:01.205+00:002016-11-25T22:33:01.205+00:00Craig mentions Wednesday's BBC TV News at 6pm....Craig mentions Wednesday's BBC TV News at 6pm. As I remember, the item on the Autumn statement was delivered by John Pienaar - apparently, his prognosis wasn't gloomy enough, so for the 10 pm news, they wheeled out La Kuenssberg. <br />Laura's gleeful gloom-fest began with a close-up of a dead leaf lying on the pavement outside No. 11, Downing Street. We thought at, first, that this was a comment on the charisma of the house's occupant but, as Laura's piece went on (and on), it gradually dawned that that wasn't quite it: the leaf was a metaphor all right, but it, and all the subsequent dead leaves - some lying in heaps, others still clinging to the tree - represented death, change, decline & decay (You know, like wot yer get if you elect a Tory government & vote fer Brexit -geddit?). It's the tree business that worries me - I mean, the first time we saw it, it still had a fair sprinkling of leaves left, but at the end, it was bare. So what happened, did the camera crew hang around for a day or two until the leaves dropped off, or did Laura hike up her skirt, shin up the tree and pick them off? Perhaps she talked them off. The guest appearance by a large black crow was also problematic - we got the symbolism: bird of ill omen, harbinger of death, decline etc, but how was the footage shot? Within the space of a few seconds, we saw the thing in close-up, clinging to a whippy branch with nothing, whatever, behind it and then, suddenly, the same crow was parked on the same branch with the Elizabeth Tower in the background. Did they use TWO cameramen or was it all done by CGI? Is that ethical & what about the expense?<br />Seriously,though, Laura K is becoming increasingly difficult to take. She has the patronizing manner of a jaded infant school teacher reading one of the more complicated nursery stories to a particularly dim SEN infant's class; so WORDS are VERY heavily STRESSED in the hope of GETTING the MESSAGE across. For, the moment, she is still stressing the right syllables & words, but then, Robert Preston may have done at one time!<br />I was going to say something about the optimistic parts of the OBR report that the BBC has neglected to mention, but several papers have beaten me to it.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-57295699863288782232016-11-25T20:02:14.701+00:002016-11-25T20:02:14.701+00:00One news item that was almost totally eclipsed by ...One news item that was almost totally eclipsed by the doom & gloom from the OBR & IFS on Wednesday & Thursday is the discovery that the detailed observations made by Scott & Shackleton in the Antarctic show that the amount of ice there has barely changed in the last 100 years. Wednesday & Thursday were, of course, a good time for the BBC to bury 'bad' news, so for the moment, they seem to have got away with their explanation that more ice has been lost from the Arctic because more people live in the Northern hemisphere.' Now I'm not a scientist, but don't ocean currents, tides and winds - not to mention weather - ensure that heat and cold are pretty quickly moved from one part of the planet to another? Of course, if some idiots had invested most of my pension fund in alternative energy companies, as is the case with the BBC - I, too, would be keen to believe in global warming! Incidentally, President-Elect Trump's hostility towards the global warming lobby might just be an additional reason for the BBC'S hostility towards President-elect Trump!Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-73383187592957119242016-11-25T10:27:53.010+00:002016-11-25T10:27:53.010+00:00http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/europe
Classic BB...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/europe<br /><br />Classic BBC "fake news" headline: "One dead at French religious home"...does that communicate anything other than someone might have peacefully passed away at a "religious home" - whatever that is. How about "Attack on aged monks' home - 1 dead"? <br /><br />And it's placed below "Iceland to sue over supermarket name". <br /><br />This might sound paranoid but I've seen this done by the BBC so often with possible terror attacks - an anodyne headline on the international page and put low down the list- when you get to the story headline it's slightly more informative...then you get the pretty non-commital "could be anything" narrative. <br /><br />As always, the BBC is keen to say: "There is so far no indication that this is a terrorist incident, sources close to the investigation said." But one could equally say, there is no evidence it isn't, I presume. <br /><br />Also I note that at the time I write, this story has not been updated by the BBC for NINE hours - despite the BBC being a multi-billion pound news gathering operation and despite the perpetrator being on the run. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-17683463513434060482016-11-24T22:32:06.565+00:002016-11-24T22:32:06.565+00:00Sadly it's a case of who will Guard the Guardi...Sadly it's a case of who will Guard the Guardians? <br /><br />It's nice to imagine Evan Davis, Ian Katz and Emily Maitlis been interrogated about their inability to predict anything accurately despite being part of a £5 billion news and cultural organisation. <br /><br />"But come on Evan, the BBC thought Miliband would be Prime Minister, that we would vote to Remain, and that Hillary would be President - you can't blame it on the polls...you're reporters, you should be doing your job...shouldn't you?" Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com