tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post234784507061761497..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Pushing Up The Daisies and Joining the Bleedin' Choir Invisible Open ThreadCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-48694900364518559962018-09-26T17:36:13.177+01:002018-09-26T17:36:13.177+01:00Yup, BBC will bang on about the Far right at every...Yup, BBC will bang on about the Far right at every possible moment without ever mentioning that the Far Left is now seriously preparing for Government.Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-30893927646133702422018-09-26T16:25:13.537+01:002018-09-26T16:25:13.537+01:00I am sure that Mohammed, however you spell it, is ...I am sure that Mohammed, however you spell it, is by far the most numerous in terms of any name specifically and knowingly chosen to reference an historical figure. When parents choose Paul very few are thinking of St Paul, but when parents choose Mohammed or its variants they are most definitely thinking of the historical personage, "the perfect man" according to their religion. <br /><br />I'm only surprised that there are so few Mohammeds. I think most male Muslim children may have the name somewhere in their naming. I know that in India the name order goes the other way (at least that was what an Indian colleague told me, when I noted his initials when the "wrong" way), so your surname comes first (logical enough)...are we sure there aren't thousands of "Mohammeds" being hidden because the parents use the traditional name ordering, so a seond or third name appears first and Mohammed appears to be the last name, but it is in fact the first? Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-78952994684221209032018-09-26T14:08:34.140+01:002018-09-26T14:08:34.140+01:00Hear, hear.Hear, hear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-88118259666149975412018-09-26T13:07:56.477+01:002018-09-26T13:07:56.477+01:00Ozfan, Agreed and moving for work may be a tempora...Ozfan, Agreed and moving for work may be a temporary condition; hence the use of the tern 'migrant workers'. Yet the word 'migrant' is being used as a catch-all for anyone migrating, immigrating or emigrating, most often substituted for 'immigrant' which means immigrating for settlement, which is the goal of many / most? arriving here.<br /><br />Before we were members of the EEC, we had, in addition to the work permit scheme, a separate seasonal agricultural workers scheme. They came for the summer to pick and process the fruit and vegetables in East Anglia. The farm / factory provided accommodation in wooden chalet buildings and they went home at the end of the season.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-55442186686469786932018-09-26T13:05:43.573+01:002018-09-26T13:05:43.573+01:00That Mark Easton report was absolutely typical of ...That Mark Easton report was absolutely typical of him. Never without an agenda.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-43269649372075880732018-09-26T12:37:11.078+01:002018-09-26T12:37:11.078+01:00The Attenborough comments stirred a vague memory a...The Attenborough comments stirred a vague memory about an organisation which he used to be associated with, possibly as its President. It's Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV). It was sharply critical of OFCOM terms of reference for a review of the BBC's Purpose 4 - guess what that is - and the lack of any mechanism for consultation with stakeholders, i.e. licence fee payers.<br /><br />The website has info about its conferences and speeches by the great and the good of BBC (Purnell, Clementi) and culture ministers or select committee MPs.<br /><br />Bloggers or commenters here may snort at both the candidate lists and the winners of recent VLV awards for broadcasting. Dare I mention programmes about fake news on BBC and Channel 4?<br /><br />http://www.vlv.org.uk/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-89235154653473424262018-09-26T12:27:25.121+01:002018-09-26T12:27:25.121+01:00Baby names: Is Muhammad the most popular?
Yes it ...Baby names: Is Muhammad the most popular?<br /><br />Yes it is, BBC. You stated Oliver but that was wrong and with this article you are trying to justify why you misled. All done in the interests of social cohesion, no doubt. <br /><br />Also why use a picture of Muhammad Ali? <br /><br />https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45638806<br />Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-61204934797612100582018-09-26T11:15:41.618+01:002018-09-26T11:15:41.618+01:00There is much about the Labour movement that was g...There is much about the Labour movement that was good in the past and still is. The Labour movement has played a progressive role in our lives over the last 150 years, from the early days of Robert Owen and the Chartists. They have been on the right side about many things: factory safety, child labour, food standards, reducing the working day, adult suffrage, introducing a minimum wage, ensuring health care for all, education for all, breaking down class privilege, equality for women and so on. <br /><br />But take a look at the Labour Party today...It is an altogether frightening vista. What do they stand for now? Abolition of Free Speech. Overturning a democratic vote of the people. Support for Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists. Support for the IRA. Eradication of UN Member state Israel. Venezualan style economics. Political correctness. Racialising politics. Fantasy policies that will never see the light of day in reality. All delivered by spokespeople who in large part are clearly not intelligent, thoughtful, practical, knowledgeable, or educated, in any meaningful sense of the term. Most of them seem very unlikeable and unpleasant people to me. With a few exceptions, these are people I wouldn't want to share any time with at all in any setting. <br /><br />If they get elected, it can only mean one thing: that the BBC in co-operation with the schools system have managed to brainwash 25% of the adult population (=38% of the electorate) in previous years so successfully to the extent they are actually persuaded by this insane iteration of the Labour Party. <br /> Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-16285751790770978342018-09-26T10:56:59.640+01:002018-09-26T10:56:59.640+01:00Sisyphus - Well you saw and heard what I saw and h...Sisyphus - Well you saw and heard what I saw and heard. But, oddly, all the reporters from the BBC, Sky and ITV were reporting the same. that his audience the UN Assembly (not even "some") were laughing AT Trump, who was thus humiliated. This is almost the definition of Fake News. The UK reporters must all either just watch CNN to check how they should report or they are all hugger-mugging after the event, texting each other. This sort of thing doesn't happen by accident. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-78634863304505491462018-09-26T10:53:12.048+01:002018-09-26T10:53:12.048+01:00Ozfan - You are completely correct of course. The ...Ozfan - You are completely correct of course. The BBC conflates workers and immigration. They also conflate naturalisation and immigration. Then finally they conflate naturalisation with "becoming British". <br /><br />As in pre-EU times if we really need (human) crop pickers (doubtful, as for nearly every crop there is a robot to pick it) they can come in on 9 month seasonal work permits (non renewable until 3 months after expiry) and the employer can provide decent sanitary temporary accommodation on site. <br /><br />Longer work permits can be provided for other workers as necessary e.g. doctors if we really can't train them up (given how many of new immigrant communities are desperate for their cildren to become doctors!). However, there should be no automatic link to naturalisation except in cases of clear national benefit (Nobel Prize winning scientists and the like). Where naturalisation is granted there should be a candidate period during which it would be revokable. <br /><br />Employers should - through an infrastructure levy - fully remimburse the state for the social and infrastructure costs of immigration. <br /><br />Moreover, we should do far more to ensure that naturalisation does indeed involve a aincere wish to "become British" (forget the ludicrous trivia tests - I'm talking about language and values). Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-68299414860439782952018-09-26T09:30:06.466+01:002018-09-26T09:30:06.466+01:00MB, re: Trump - Yes, I agree, the audience appeare...MB, re: Trump - Yes, I agree, the audience appeared to be laughing WITH Trump rather than at him. This was surely confirmed when Trump said it was not quite the reaction he had expected & was rewarded with another ripple of gently indulgent laughter. Let's face it, if Trump had thought he was being laughed at, the floor would have been knee-deep in teddy bears - in fact he'd probably have thrown the pram too!Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-24396900654239358352018-09-26T07:39:53.126+01:002018-09-26T07:39:53.126+01:00In the BBC, the "need" for workers and i...In the BBC, the "need" for workers and immigration are always conflated. They are not the same. <br />There are plenty of ways to, and plenty of countries which, give temporary work permits in the event of labour or skills shortages. And, of course, the shortages should eventually disappear as wages rise or people get trained and adapt. <br /><br />No, the "immigration" fix benefits most the owners of capital and businesses who can get lower paid immigrants, pay none of their social costs, and provide no training to locals. That's who Easton is batting for.Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-10070559884046992052018-09-25T23:58:03.812+01:002018-09-25T23:58:03.812+01:00The BBC keep reporting that the UN reps were laugh...The BBC keep reporting that the UN reps were laughing at Trump...I got the strong impression he rather charmed them and they were laughing along with him, actually applauding his off the cuff quip. <br /><br />Sorry to have missed Easton, ideological chief of the BBC News politburo...always worth keeping tabs on what he's up to. <br /><br />We don't need cheap East European labour. There are already robo pizza deliverers. We'll soon have self-driving cars and self-driving lorries. In my experience coffee from a Costa coffee machine tastes just as good as coffee made by Costa staff. Robot crop pickers can substitute for East European labour if necessary (but there's no reason we shouldn't use seasonal labour if we want). <br /><br />Easton's scaremongering is ludicrous. If we really need labour we can always authorise it. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-76717056889300902412018-09-25T22:29:07.490+01:002018-09-25T22:29:07.490+01:00Mark Easton had an incredulous look and a disappro...Mark Easton had an incredulous look and a disapproving tone when reporting from Corby tonight on BBC 1 main news. He said how the town needs eastern European labour and will have to re-invent itself because of EU migration slowdown. He had an "expert" on, estimating that 80% of current Corby EU migrants would fail to get a visa once we leave. Another opinion led pro-EU piece which wasn't main News material at all.<br /><br />It was followed by that other beauty, Jon Sopel sneering again whilst mocking president Trump for his UN speech. He has stopped reporting news of events completely and now just gives his personal opinions on the negative aspects of Trumps engagements and he always finds plenty of negatives. Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-31882652154526939032018-09-25T21:11:57.115+01:002018-09-25T21:11:57.115+01:00Yeah, some time ago I classed Morris as a liar. I...Yeah, some time ago I classed Morris as a liar. I refuse to read or listn to anything by him.Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-89694033690463167842018-09-25T21:11:07.565+01:002018-09-25T21:11:07.565+01:00If an election was forced, just as 2017, the BBC w...If an election was forced, just as 2017, the BBC would say: 'Of course this election isn't about Brexit, it's about austerity, the NHS and the Public Services'. Jeremy Corbyn is sticking to his agreed position - It'll be alright on the night: 'Let's elect a Labour Government, and we'll soon sort out the issues with the EU about a Brexit deal - Trust me, I'm a cult figure you know'.Loondon Callinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456571827087248842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-57181401220179770212018-09-25T21:07:39.721+01:002018-09-25T21:07:39.721+01:00I forgot to mention while it was fresh in my mind ...I forgot to mention while it was fresh in my mind that they had Ruth Davidson on Woman's Hour yesterday. Nothing struck me as notable until after several minutes I heard Jane Garvey asking her a couple of questions that made me sit up. One was about leaving the EU and she put it to Davidson, sounding almost scolding, that as she had voted to remain, people thought 'you stood for something', the implication here being that she had caved in or betrayed something. Davidson patiently explained that she accepted a democratic vote. I mean how hard is that to figure out? <br /><br />The second one was even more naked and went along the lines of You're popular; people like you very much...how can you support Conservative policies such as things like the rape question to qualify for extra benefits? The implication of this question seemed to me to scream You're nice; how can you be a Conservative? Bias or what?<br /><br />I haven't got the iPlayer to check my recollection or fleeting impression. If anyone wants to listen to it, it was the first item on the programme and those two questions were close to ten minutes in, I reckon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-69788725720248214372018-09-25T20:39:22.522+01:002018-09-25T20:39:22.522+01:00Agreed MB, I nearly posted about this as well. Thi...Agreed MB, I nearly posted about this as well. This one was just another personal opinion piece. My blood was well and truly boiling when I read it. I just lose the will when I see Reality Check and Chris Morris together. I really must stop reading them.Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-1766245627302411062018-09-25T20:37:47.051+01:002018-09-25T20:37:47.051+01:00There be dangers but at present the BBC is locked ...There be dangers but at present the BBC is locked into a straitjacket in its thinking about what constitute 'sorts of people' and it is a very narrow and even prohibitive view of the world; it's black and white essentially and that thinking rules out on narrow ideological grounds even the idea of the 'sort of people' who might do Monty Python, they being the wrong sort, or the idea of something classical in the arts as being possibly too posh or too elitist or again, by or for another wrong sort of people. <br /><br />So I am rather going on the assumption that the gaps would be something that the BBC isn't doing or thinking at present and that some of us 'other sorts' would welcome. The BBC is very skewed and unbalanced at present by its narrow agenda-driven obsessions and special groups.<br /> <br />To achieve any change at the BBC you'd have to shake up the monitoring bodies, that Trust or whatever it is these days, with wider and frequently changing membership rather than the usual suspects. Maybe Attenborough could be on it as part of a looser organisation to bring in wider interests and fresh perspectives. 'No, I can't see that at all' from Nanny doesn't cut it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-71524081831015619742018-09-25T20:28:57.234+01:002018-09-25T20:28:57.234+01:00An absurd but interesting Reality Check on "W...An absurd but interesting Reality Check on "What is Labour's Brexit policy?" :<br /><br />https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45640548<br /><br />Absurd because of course it's not really a "Reality Check". It's really just a comment piece of the kind you can find in a hundred newspapers, or on the radio. <br /><br />It's interesting because it sounds a bit cross with Labour. It even goes as far as to point out that Labour own policy on the single market and customs union fails its own test! I think that's the first time I've seen this obvious point made on any BBC platform. <br /><br />It reads to me somewhat like the stamping of little feet - a real toddlers' tantrum - because they get what they want: a full blooded commitment to a rigged second referendum guaranteed to deliver a Remain answer. <br /><br />Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-11148431661823768282018-09-25T20:11:41.402+01:002018-09-25T20:11:41.402+01:00Yup! - look what they've done to the Proms.Yup! - look what they've done to the Proms.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-64436361968151442842018-09-25T17:12:01.257+01:002018-09-25T17:12:01.257+01:00Be careful what you wish for. ‘Lots of gaps’ and ‘...Be careful what you wish for. ‘Lots of gaps’ and ‘all sorts of people should be catered for’ could be used as code by the BBC for crazy projects at the fringes of lefty liberal thinking. I don’t think it will be used for old school arts and culture. Just like Monty Python, traditional and classical art is now consigned to the BBC dustbin. Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-70939184389039953762018-09-25T16:55:21.440+01:002018-09-25T16:55:21.440+01:00Sir David Attenborough tells the BBC what's wh...Sir David Attenborough tells the BBC what's what: not enough arts and culture and lots of gaps in coverage; all sorts of people should be catered for. <br /> 'I don’t think the BBC does enough. It’s not enough simply to say, "Well, it doesn’t get a big enough audience." ...'If you’re a public service broadcaster, what you should be saying is, "We will show the broad spectrum of human interest." ...<br />https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6203931/Sir-David-Attenborough-hits-BBC-failing-produce-arts-cultural-programmes.html<br />Note well, BBC. There's a man who knows of what he speaks. He used to run BBC 2, I think. Could we have him back please? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-3256135753119269582018-09-25T16:01:45.806+01:002018-09-25T16:01:45.806+01:00Yes, a total globalist and open borders believer. ...Yes, a total globalist and open borders believer. That's the Treasury view of the world, as carried on by Osborne & Co in his wake. GOD as he was known in Whitehall, became Sir GOD and now with a little light tweaking, Lord GOD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-4945277987430150322018-09-25T13:43:58.680+01:002018-09-25T13:43:58.680+01:00God only knows what Labour’s policy is on Brexit o...God only knows what Labour’s policy is on Brexit other than deliberate ambiguity. The only clear statement from Keir Starmer and McDonnell is that they would vote against any deal that Teresa May presents to Parliament. In other words use the situation to force an election and gain power at any cost to the country. I have long since given up the notion that there is any morality at the heart of the extreme left, but this is an utterly amoral position. The BBC should be tearing them to shreds over this. The best Jo Coburn could do at the Labour Party Conference today was a kind of amused indulgence.Terrynoreply@blogger.com