tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post6558198732226948531..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Bringing stories to audiences around the worldCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-64367195709936407342015-04-02T23:57:38.350+01:002015-04-02T23:57:38.350+01:00...does NOT stretch! ...does NOT stretch! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-71990860510731037172015-04-02T23:56:51.335+01:002015-04-02T23:56:51.335+01:00She might criticise Farage but she will never crit...She might criticise Farage but she will never criticise Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. <br /><br />http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-11-06/mishal-husain-on-being-the-first-muslim-presenter-of-today-in-the-age-of-the-islamic-state<br /><br />The best she can come up with is that it gets very hot in a Burka. <br /><br />Meanwhile no Jew may reside in Arabia, no Church may be built in the Kingdom and in Pakistan Hindus, Christians and other minorities are subject to the grossest persecution. <br /><br />Her conscience does stretch as far as those countries she is well acquainted with. <br /><br />And notice the comment about her mother - her father allowed her to remain a Catholic. So what? That is allowed under Sharia. What is not allowed is that she as a Muslim woman would marry a non-Muslim. <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-87112275658711924982015-04-02T21:12:47.709+01:002015-04-02T21:12:47.709+01:00Jo Coburn did a similar thing to the UKIP lady tod...Jo Coburn did a similar thing to the UKIP lady today. When told that UKIP would go along with allowing 50,000 skilled workers if that what was recommended by the independent authority whose name I forget, Coburn went to the absurd. "If it was 150,000 next year would you accept that?" Just digging for that gotcha moment because she couldn't do any other damage.David Preisernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-87358033287774657602015-04-02T19:03:26.805+01:002015-04-02T19:03:26.805+01:00Mishal's interview with Nigel Farage was by fa...Mishal's interview with Nigel Farage was by far the most hostile 'Today' election inteview so far, especially in terms of tone. <br /><br />For stats fans, it broke down like this, as regards time spent on each subject:<br /><br />Immigration - 68.09%<br />Why UKIP candidates keep getting into trouble - 23.87%<br />UKIP's bad start to the year - 8.04%<br /><br />The immigration section can be broken down further:<br /><br />18.72% on "What did you mean by saying children couldn't play happily in the streets because of immigration?"<br /><br />49.37% on "A cap or a target?", "Define "a skilled worker" and "Won't we get poorer without mass immigration?"<br /><br />Mishal Husain said she'd quote "two examples" of problem UKIP candidates at him. She ended up flinging five examples at him. Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-66560252834190076812015-04-02T15:15:41.332+01:002015-04-02T15:15:41.332+01:00'Mishal was trying to corner Nigel into saying...'Mishal was trying to corner Nigel into saying something racist'<br /><br />Well, that would be the money quote. And the BBC has enough people to demand like a spoilt toddler enough times to get it, eventually, or edit accordingly to get as good as. Hold that last thought.<br /><br />'Nigel Farage is an expert at remaining calm and eloquent under considerable pressure'<br /><br />Enough pressure applied can see steam vented. And that, to the BBC, is a result too. Especially with willing assistants stage left to offer the necessary degree of separation:<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/02/nigel-farage-accuses-bbc-of-bias-over-questions-about-candidates<br /><br />It was not a matter of if, but when.<br /><br />By coincidence, and while the topic of BBC complaints is still fresh in the minds of those on this forum, I have just had a reply from the BBC that shows that when they are wrong, but not bang to rights on pure fact, they can get very snippy indeed. I share now here as it is timely, in complement and relevant, as a certain other new project stumbles to completion:<br /><br />***<br />Me (earlier last month):<br /><br />Complaint Summary: Gross misrepresentation<br /><br />Full Complaint: As many in the comments have noted, what Mr. Farage said has been misrepresented. Best summed up by the top rated comments, ironically (in more ways than one)*: Please justify. *With several other unexcused complaints, it is worth noting this is yet another supposedly interactive piece where opportunity to comment opens and closes well within the working hours of the majority of the population. You do know who you are meant to serve?<br /><br />****<br /><br />Them (today):<br /><br />Reference CAS-XXX<br /><br />Thank you for getting in touch about our article reporting comments made by Nigel Farage in a Channel 4 documentary (www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31846453)<br /><br />Please accept our apologies for the delay in our response.<br /><br />Our headline was carefully worded and represents what Nigel Farage said.<br /><br />The article did also include at-length quotes from Nigel Farage outlining his point that he had been ‘wilfully misinterpreted’ and had commented in respect of nationality and not race.<br /><br />But his actual quotes from the Channel 4 interview with Trevor Phillips were clear and accurately reported in this article.<br /><br />Nonetheless, thank you again for contacting us and be assured that we value your feedback on this matter.<br /><br />Kind regards<br /><br />LM<br /><br />***<br /><br />As this is about perceptions, and I cite those of others, it is worth looking at their article and the comments which are (now) linked to it. <br /><br />Start with the latest. 'Carnage' would seem a lame description. Almost the entire final page has been 'removed'. A good start on the interactive transparency commitment.<br /><br />Then go to the highest rated.<br /><br />Of the top one, 630 people agreed that '.. he didn't actually say what you said he said' The others also show the vast majority of BBC audience engaging did not agree with the BBC version of events.<br /><br />Yet... the BBC bare faced goes for 'got it not just... but totally right'. Carefully worded indeed.<br /><br />With a 'nonetheless... go fish' sign off.<br /><br />And my point on the opening times and duration of this forum was totally ignored. With no hint that this need not be the end of things (it won't).<br /><br />I now have to retrace a vast series of redundant steps from the start to get to the point I can tell them this and get it knocked upstairs to someone whose belief sets the BBC thinks is the final arbiter of complaint debate, to say roughly the same.<br /><br />No wonder folk blow a fuse.<br /><br /><br />Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.com