tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post3397530513399991078..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Poe's LawCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-71786865903849137842015-04-20T18:09:55.985+01:002015-04-20T18:09:55.985+01:00Has the BBC ever apologised for Bill and Ben's...Has the BBC ever apologised for Bill and Ben's Weedism ?Grantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-58594545059008735672015-04-20T18:08:33.917+01:002015-04-20T18:08:33.917+01:00This Godfrey guy sounds pretty good. Has the BBC e...This Godfrey guy sounds pretty good. Has the BBC ever apologised for Bill and Ben's Weedism ?Grantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-62737383809438572282015-04-19T21:33:43.249+01:002015-04-19T21:33:43.249+01:00Sue will like this one from Godfrey, as a Poldark ...Sue will like this one from Godfrey, as a Poldark fan:<br /><br />Godfrey Elfwick @GodfreyElfwick ยท Apr 5<br />I've seen 5 episodes of #Poldark and, surprise surprise, there's not a single person of colour in this 18th century Cornish Mining village.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-66382328054901201992015-04-19T18:28:32.206+01:002015-04-19T18:28:32.206+01:00Joke's on them. It was all going to be driving...Joke's on them. It was all going to be driving tanks facing backwards and the Google comes along and it's not driving at all. In a kid's bumper car.<br /><br />I was going to answer your question but see you arrived at one via David.<br /><br />"being a typical BBC producer, she then deleted the tweet after the story broke"<br /><br />That BBC commitment to not saying anything stupid, coupled with transparency, never fails to impress.<br /><br />Looking forward to the lovingly-preserved captures of the original being shared liberally, which they'd have got away with but for those darn kids and that danged internet.<br /><br />But we can all be caught. I always thought it was 'Po's Law', as in 'Po-Faced', given the incredible seriousness with which such things get embraced when every fibre of the sane is screaming 'this cannot be...can it?'Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-26610485624560693082015-04-19T18:07:14.437+01:002015-04-19T18:07:14.437+01:00I absolutely - literally - dread them updating ...I absolutely - literally - dread them updating 'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'. <br /><br />Captain Black was the bad guy, Colonel White the chief of the good guys. Oh-uh. <br /><br />"This is the voice of the BBC. We know that you can hear us, Earthmen", #sexist.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-48795766975866649052015-04-19T17:28:26.088+01:002015-04-19T17:28:26.088+01:00As a matter of fact Thomas the Tank Engine was ori...As a matter of fact Thomas the Tank Engine was originally a searing indictment of capitalism - the Fat Controller was originally the Fat Owner in pre-nationalistation days. <br /><br />I was angry recently when I saw a bit of the Thunderbirds film and they'd given Thunderbirds 2 the wrong sort of green colour - a kind of girly calypso rather than the fifties racing green it was supposed to sport.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-60356344681017735752015-04-19T17:19:34.931+01:002015-04-19T17:19:34.931+01:00Thomas the Tank Engine was pure, undiluted fascism...Thomas the Tank Engine was pure, undiluted fascism. <br /><br />That, somehow, reminds me of a joke from a few years back:<br /><br />I was surprised how Muslims reacted to the Danish cartoons. I thought: "How can you get this worked up about a cartoon?" But then I remembered how angry I was when they gave Scooby Doo a nephew.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-90098301170624948472015-04-19T17:00:05.761+01:002015-04-19T17:00:05.761+01:00Oh come on. This is a suitable topic for the BBC t...Oh come on. This is a suitable topic for the BBC to discuss. The Guardian, as ever, leads the way with a discussion the racism (and much else) of Thomas the Tank Engine.<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/22/thomas-the-tank-engine-children-parents<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-24127721896058859242015-04-19T16:41:39.931+01:002015-04-19T16:41:39.931+01:00Put like that, David, it's no wonder the BBC p...Put like that, David, it's no wonder the BBC producer deleted her tweet. She was 'gotchad' on so many levels. <br /><br />That's a telling point about why, even if the BBC producer thought (as she did) that he was for real, she though it worthwhile inviting him to appear, given the views he was pretending to express. That IS very revealing about BBC Angela's way of thinking.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-14293048066120504052015-04-19T16:31:04.237+01:002015-04-19T16:31:04.237+01:00This made Instapundit in the US, via Delingpole...This made Instapundit in the US, via Delingpole's Breitbart UK bureau. Aside from questioning the judgment of a BBC News producer who thought this was a real expression of views (as much of an indictment of the state of politically correct fascism and so-called Social Justice Warriors as it is of the intelligence of Beeboids), why would anyone doing serious journalism think this guy was going to be a coherent, insightful guest? What kind of moronic political activist posing as a journalist (one of Helen Boaden's very, very young people being paid very, very low wages, whom BBC management lets loose on the airwaves before they're properly house-trained) looks at those tweets and thinks they've found a voice from which the world needs to learn?<br /><br />The BBC is very big on using social media to source their stories and keep their finger on the pulse, and this is the inevitable result of having uneducated, over-emotional, biased people do it.David Preisernoreply@blogger.com