tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post4082213774611917577..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Open ThreadCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-4166482678624221052018-10-26T22:40:06.457+01:002018-10-26T22:40:06.457+01:00The next day Sammy was tweeting she was upset abou...The next day Sammy was tweeting she was upset about editing<br />She had said about the gangs being Muslim stewgreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10223073927227101097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-88177569224970905232018-10-13T08:08:28.247+01:002018-10-13T08:08:28.247+01:00You could start the list with economist Vicky Pric...You could start the list with economist Vicky Price, convicted of perverting the course of justice.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-55857063131494168172018-10-12T21:34:44.036+01:002018-10-12T21:34:44.036+01:00It a big dilemma for the BBC.
He is newsworthy but...It a big dilemma for the BBC.<br />He is newsworthy but they wish he wasn’t. They don’t want to report his views but have to if they want to challenge them and rubbish him. To mention him risks an angry Samira Ahmed tweet.Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-9777169838821044072018-10-12T20:44:11.138+01:002018-10-12T20:44:11.138+01:00Sadly we seem to be descending quickly to a totali...Sadly we seem to be descending quickly to a totalitarian state. The Governing elite has to keep a lid on the "multicultural" country created without consent. The BBC is ever more clearly their mouthpiece and weapon to shut down dissent.Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-48641432024955647542018-10-12T20:42:34.775+01:002018-10-12T20:42:34.775+01:00How does Burley explain that one moment he's t...How does Burley explain that one moment he's telling us Tommy Robinson is not newsworthy, and the next he is, to the extent that Coburn the Barbarian obsesses about him on a live news programme for several minutes and refuses to ask the UKIP anything else but Robinson-related questions? <br /><br /><br />https://twitter.com/RobBurl/status/1050809961498984449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1050809961498984449&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbiasedbbc.org%2Fblog%2F2018%2F10%2F10%2Fmidweek-thread-10-october-2018%2Fcomment-page-2%2F%23commentsMonkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-11804818040166982302018-10-12T20:21:19.991+01:002018-10-12T20:21:19.991+01:00The BBC are reporting on the trial of “punish a Mu...The BBC are reporting on the trial of “punish a Muslim day” and will be delighted that a life sentence is possible/likely on the grounds of that the leaflet can be interpreted as attempted murder.<br /><br />A stark contrast to the light sentences given out for the gang rape of children and for hate preachers/jihadists who really did incite murder.<br /><br />https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45838506<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-12407890843544279332018-10-12T18:46:22.303+01:002018-10-12T18:46:22.303+01:00Our posts about the Gerard Batten interview coinci...Our posts about the Gerard Batten interview coincided.<br /><br />They don't introduce Gerry Adams or Benjamin Zephaniah as convicted criminals do they? Such behaviour is only reserved for a few targets. When have you ever heard ex Labour Minister Alan Johnson introduced as an ex Communist and Marxist (Wikipedia: "he considered himself a Marxist ideologically aligned with the Communist Party of Great Britain"). Why do they never quote John McDonnell's words about wishing he could go back to the 1980s and assassinate Mrs Thatcher or how we should "honour the IRA"? <br /><br />It seems being aligned with a violent ideology is no problem as long as it is on the left. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-23046091700059504042018-10-12T17:57:27.817+01:002018-10-12T17:57:27.817+01:00A couple of things:
The BBC has added to its rag...A couple of things: <br /><br />The BBC has added to its raggle taggle crew a new post of Gender and Identity correspondent. I can't remember where I read this and I have no link to the source. It's a world first, folks! Of course, 'gender' isn't what it used to be and the BBC must jump on board with all the current'gender' activists.<br />Did anyone see the person described as a rights activist on Politics Live last week? Peter Tatchell. He was allowed to get away with a speech about poor put-upon trans; bigotry; no trans would ever attack women; and a contemptuous dismissal of concerns about women's safety. You should have seen Rachel Johnson's tight face as they all sat politely silent while he was delivering this false and disingenuous lying rant. Misogynist homosexual rights activist? Now there's a surprise. I think we caught a glimpse of the real ruthless fanatical person there and not the one he usually tries to portray of sweet reasoned concern for right and rights. An insight into a very unsavoury person.<br /><br />If anyone has access to iPlayer, you may be interested to see the last item on yesterday's Politics Live with Lord Falconer and others. I can barely form words to convey my reaction of disbelief at the sort of stuff he, in particular, was coming out with. Is he for real? I don't know what we can do about our politicians or the BBC, quite honestly.<br /><br />Have you seen today's Politics Live and the desperate attempts at moral outrage by Jo Coburn over Gerald Batten of UKIP about Tommy Robinson? He's a convicted criminal, in case you didn't know; he hasn't been elected to anything. I'm sure someone could compile a list of 'convicted criminals' on the BBC where it isn't mentioned every time they are. Or who are regularly on the BBC and don't represent anyone or aren't elected to anything. I could fill a book with that one. Or who is, morally and impartially speaking, highly dubious when displaying prejudice against groups or religions, like the BBC presenter of a politics programme who asked a prejudiced question of a prominent backbench politician about his religion? Clue: Not Andrew Neil and not about Islam. And which one is quite happy to brand people as 'white' but not Muslim? And who doesn't show a similar scramble for the outrage podium over the extreme prejudicial rantings of the trans fanatic, as over Robinson? And by the way, why is Tatchell on the BBC and to be listened to as he doesn't represent and hasn't been elected to anything?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-41584819770843669872018-10-12T17:57:05.139+01:002018-10-12T17:57:05.139+01:00https://order-order.com/2018/10/12/joco-loses-bols...https://order-order.com/2018/10/12/joco-loses-bolshy-batten/<br /><br />Hadn't seen this until just now. Rather underlines what I was saying. The BBC are determined to destroy UKIP. Can you imagine Jo Coburn interviewing a Sinn Fein representative so vehemently over support for violence, when they were invited on to discuss Brexit? Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-18978687432654404542018-10-12T17:21:06.454+01:002018-10-12T17:21:06.454+01:00That is the question isn't it?...most people s...That is the question isn't it?...most people seem to lead rather schizoid lives. They lead their real everyday lives, but that bears little relation to how they vote. They vote for parties that have allowed mass immigration, a huge housing crisis, low productivity and declining real incomes and will continue to do so. Even people who dislike mass immigration continue to vote for parties that support it. <br /><br />People's real priorities are not much different from a generation or two ago: people want prosperity through good jobs, a good family life, a good future for their children, entertainment like sport or the arts, socialising with friends (who tend to reflect their own cultural background) and so on...in private they don't have much time if any at all for the BBC's priorities, its obsessions, such as transgender identity, equality of outcome, women's football and boxing, politically correct forms of speech, Trump bashing, global warming and racial identity. [I say that but of course I am referencing stable families, mostly with deep roots in this country. In truth a lot of people are living in very unstable families and now a lot of people look abroad for the source of their identity.] <br /><br />Part of the problem now is that people see so much modish virtue signalling (pro mass immigration, pro Sharia, pro multiculturalism and pro equality of outcome) - on the TV (especially the BBC of course) , from the Royal Family, from business leaders, from religious leaders, from commentators (not just political but sports), from Conservative Party leaders as well as other party leaders. They read it as well in their newspapers and magazines. Even someone appointed a Sun editor - Stig Abell - is incredibly PC in outlook. So there is tremendous social pressure on us to conform to the PC ideology. <br /><br />The British, at heart, have always tended to conform. We lost our revolutionary spirit some centuries ago. So now it seems people conform to PC ideology. <br /><br />I hope eventually we will see people say "enough". But, although I am a natural optimist, I can't really say I see any signs of that. We had a chance when UKIP was on 13%...But the elite destroyed UKIP. We will have to see if it rebuilds. I have a lot of respect for Gerard Batten who is doing a good job in difficult circumstances. <br /><br />We are either going to watch this nation's slow suicide (well maybe not so slow). Or we are going to witness some serious political and social conflict. Either way it won't be pretty. <br /><br />It will be fascinating to see. Will young people not become angry at being denied decent housing for them to raise their young families? Will they really continued to accept the nonsense that the housing crisis has nothing to do with mass immigration? <br /><br />Part of the problem is that once you have mass immigration in the millions and so many different cultural backgrounds in play, you are almost obliged to have something like PC multiculturalism as your ideology. And it's as though our political elite have almost begun to believe the lies they keep telling us about all cultures and religions being of equal merit and of all types of immigration being of huge benefit to the UK. etc etc. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-904028547884572902018-10-12T12:14:38.487+01:002018-10-12T12:14:38.487+01:00Yes, Blair let the genie out of the bottle. Look a...Yes, Blair let the genie out of the bottle. Look at where we are 20 years on! <br /><br />And where will we end up? Will it continue unabated or will there be a correction? I suspect the British public will reach a point at which they say ‘enough’. <br /><br />Don’t count on the BBC to stand up for small c conservative Britain though. Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-27433373437764694942018-10-12T11:45:02.750+01:002018-10-12T11:45:02.750+01:00Indeed. It's galling as well to hear Kirsty in...Indeed. It's galling as well to hear Kirsty interview people who are posing as moderates. But these "moderates" (Guardian columnists and the like): strongly support Corbyn who in turn has strongly supported the IRA, Hamas and the Iranian government; strongly support hate mobs preventing politicians like Farage campaigning legitimately during general electionsl;and strongly support no borders mass migration into the UK by undocumented persons. These people are far more extreme and dangerous than Tommy Robinson. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-52487543504711986182018-10-12T11:27:45.841+01:002018-10-12T11:27:45.841+01:00Liberals and socialists are great defenders of fre...Liberals and socialists are great defenders of free speech unless it is speech they don’t like and is contrary to their views. TR is one high profile example but it is spreading through our entire society. The BBC and Guardian are the prime defenders of the faith egging on and agitating. It has gained traction through activists in our education system and our institutions and establishments. Due to apathy and the British reserve, the silent majority sit back and watch it spread like a virus. MSM were converted early on so that voice has already been denied to those who want to speak out against elite led social liberalism. <br /><br />We are firmly in its grip - not much different to Turkey really. Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-41957090401506330982018-10-11T23:49:06.123+01:002018-10-11T23:49:06.123+01:00Sir Topham, "How can they write an article wi...Sir Topham, "How can they write an article without a nod or a mention that they have been caught at it?" - easy: they despise the license-payer & consider his or her views to be of no account.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-78056248353008441262018-10-11T23:47:32.045+01:002018-10-11T23:47:32.045+01:00Gabriel Gatehouse on Tommy Robinson on Newsnight.....Gabriel Gatehouse on Tommy Robinson on Newsnight...<br /><br />As we know it's difficult to follow GG's tack. Tonight it seemed to be a bit of "media culpa"...<br /><br />To be fair, GG certainly reaches the parts that most MSM journos don't. <br /><br />As something of a Dutchman (he told us previously he was educated in the Netherlands) GG once or twice referenced Wilders' Party and set up the idea of UKIP becoming a continental style anti-Islamic party...hmmm...<br /><br />GG stated that TR's supporters "hate the media". Well that's not true. They like Rebel Media! :) They hate the mainstream media. <br /><br />GG interviewed one of the "grooming" victims - Sammy Woodhouse. She was a "criticism from both sides" type of witness. <br /><br />References to "Pakistani heritage"...not Islamic background. Insulting to Hindus, Christians and atheists from Pakistan I would say. And we have seen in other gangs people of Somali, Moroccan, Afghan, and Syrian heritage. Help us out here GG - what's the link? <br /><br />GG uses the "Islamophobic" word. So clearly he thinks it is a "thing". <br /><br />"Gerard Batten declined to be interviewed for this film. " Good says I. He should confine himself to live interviews. <br /><br />Raheem Kassam briefly on. Fair play to GG again - most MSM journos would seek to hide the fact that some South Asians support Tommy Robinson. <br /><br />Interview with Ivan Humble ex EDL. GG allows him to say forcefully that they were not racist. But then get to what is perhaps the central message - he and other EDL people were "radicalised" (radicalised? - to do what? protest? peacefully?) by watch mainstream UK TV progs on Anjem Choudhary and "Undercover Mosques" etc. Hmmm... <br /><br />So what's GG's agenda here? If the MSM were even more censorious we wouldn't have problems with TR and co?<br /><br />Interview with William Baldet. Never come across him before. He was billed on the programme as a Prevent Co-ordinator (isn't that a civil servant?? or a local governemnt officer? - since when did they get invited on to discuss controversial political topics?). But it seems he is also a "Senior Fellow" at the "Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right". Seems to be an American organisation partnered with far left organisations. Nowhere does it declare its funding...highly suspicious. <br /><br />The after-party discussion had Danny Lockwood (licensed Yorkshireman) and (much more to Kirsty's taste) the arrogant Nasrine Malik. They both seemed to agree that they would like a media world where Tommy Robinson didn't exist. <br /><br />So what to make of all that? I'd say GG is seriously conflicted. Maybe he's been reading the Koran and Hadith recently...I don't know. <br /><br />That item out of the way it was business as usual with Newsnight waving the flag for Australia letting in illegal migrants never mind how many people get drowned en route to the promised land. Followed up by Guardian grievance merchant Afua Hirsch reviewing the columns (seem to be rather a lot of Guardian journos popping up in this segment now we are a few weeks in). <br /><br />Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-64373187523287248542018-10-11T21:59:38.870+01:002018-10-11T21:59:38.870+01:00Arthur - I believe Nell Gwynne's oranges were ...Arthur - I believe Nell Gwynne's oranges were easy-peel. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-67782728047492720902018-10-11T19:06:45.671+01:002018-10-11T19:06:45.671+01:00Further to previous comment on the Newsnight discu...Further to previous comment on the Newsnight discussion of the IPCC alarmist report here's an interesting article: <br /><br />https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/11/bbc-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-who-are-they-answer-activists/?cn-reloaded=1<br /><br />Evan Davis gave the strong impression on the programme that the report was the product of sober scientists making objective assessments, rather than political activist scientists, lawyers, enviormentalists and so on. But he was clearly wrong to do so. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-79743402887182712022018-10-11T18:46:14.853+01:002018-10-11T18:46:14.853+01:00So why is the low IQ New York correspondent writin...So why is the low IQ New York correspondent writing about BIG THINGS like world order, international law and human rights obligations? Er because he's Nick Bryant and he wants to bash Trump. <br /><br />https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45817222?ocid=socialflow_twitter<br /><br />It's hardly worthwhile critiquing such articles as this but given its central thesis is that Trump's America First approach has encouraged international lawlessness, here's a few things to consider:<br /><br />1. Saudi Arabia funded terrorists like Osama bin Laden within impunity under Clinton and GW Bush. <br /><br />2. China kidnapped Hong Kong journalists while Obama was President. <br /><br />3. Reagan illegally invaded Grenada on a pretext. <br /><br />4. Clinton arranged for the detachment of a province (Kosovo) from a legal UN state (Serbia). <br /><br />5. Under Obama, the US and EU encouraged Muslim Brotherhood rebellions in countries across North Africa and the Middle East leading to the deaths, mutilation and displacement of tens of millions of people. <br /><br />6. George W Bush with Tony Blair and others launched a war <br />against Iraq on what the BBC at the time inferred was a pretext. <br /><br />7. Under Jimmy Carter the Iranian regime felt emboldened to kidnap and torture US diplomats. <br /><br />8. Under Obama Russia felt at liberty to arrange for the polonium assassination of one of their ex spies on UK soil. <br /><br />Bryant criticises the alleged politicisation of the Supreme Court. That is all laid at Trump's door. But it was Ruth Bader Ginsberg (now 85 but still claiming to be able to meet the arduous requirements of being a Supreme Court judge) who - note, this was during the Presidential campaign - called Trump "a faker" and cast serious doubts over his candidacy claiming that Hillary had been unfairly treated by the media! Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-1107449649483086142018-10-11T17:28:19.226+01:002018-10-11T17:28:19.226+01:00I think you are right - people now are media savv...I think you are right - people now are media savvy, particularly properly organised protests equipped with flags and banners. So small groups can make a big impact.<br />Add a good photographer with the right lenses and camera and bingo.<br />Jeff Mitchell gets similar effects here<br />First pic - the real crowd<br />Second pic - sexed up crowd<br />https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/45683/Workers+hold+march+and+work+in+to+save+jobs+at+offshore+wind+turbine+factory<br /><br />https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/648276/battle-for-bifab-continues-after-shock-redundancy-announcement/<br /><br /><br /><br />Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-86308313598352508812018-10-11T15:16:15.976+01:002018-10-11T15:16:15.976+01:00There are some additional photos covering the topi...There are some additional photos covering the topic on <br />https://deskgram.net/explore/tags/Remainer<br /><br />From the above I would estimate that about 100 protesters were involved. There are scenes of some arriving at Lyme Street station. <br /><br />There were a significant number of onlookers. I counted the Getty Image and found some 30 or so flags, 20 or so banners and 30 or so faces. I suspect this was a well funded well equipped bussed in crowd assembled for the cameras.<br /><br />How is it that the BBC can use a rent-a-crowd image with caption "Campaigners are calling for another vote on the EU to be held" and suppose that will be relevant to a statement by Nicola Sturgeon made on another day? It's totally out of context.<br /><br />As a child I always though 'fulsome' was to do with Nell Gwynn's basket of oranges.Arthur Troofhttp://otboae.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-72567027731999315742018-10-11T14:42:45.113+01:002018-10-11T14:42:45.113+01:00It certainly is a puzzle. The only explanation I c...It certainly is a puzzle. The only explanation I can offer is that of the photo taken at a good distance away with a long autofocus lens. The mystery continues though, because adjacent to St George's Hall in Liverpool where the photo was taken there are two statues of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on horseback by Sculptor Thomas Thornycroft. They are both on high plinths. The Queen's horse has a front leg raised, and Albert's is standing square. You can make these out in the photo.<br /><br />These statues are some 60 or so metres apart, spaced formally to match the design - and yet the foreshortening of the crowd in the https://twitter.com/jeffjmitch Getty Image shows the 'crowd' drifting (drift as in a drift of swine) to cover the ground between the two statues. It would need many more people, that is a much larger crowd to fill this space.Arthur Troofhttp://otboae.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-41590388937175649542018-10-11T13:52:35.285+01:002018-10-11T13:52:35.285+01:00Introducing the Moral Maze, those teenagers again:...Introducing the Moral Maze, those teenagers again: 'Twelve years to save the world. While we're squabbling about Brexit, climate scientists are reminding us that the existential threat of our day is global warming. This week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issues the most extensive warning yet on the risks of rising temperatures. ...' <br /><br />How easily they slip into the old lines and switch from facetious trivialising to putting on the voice of doom. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000nhn<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-8624047815544257362018-10-11T12:01:28.472+01:002018-10-11T12:01:28.472+01:00Re the photo again, "photoshopping" as a...Re the photo again, "photoshopping" as a word has clearly parted company with the "Photoshop" software product and has come to denote misleading alteration or distortion of an image (cf Corbyn's Commie Hat). If there is software within a camera that can substantially distort images before they are viewed (and I bet there is now - well I know there is because I've seen a relative use that "beauty" app that is applied as the photo is taken) then that raises questions for photo-journalism. <br /><br />A "reverse fish eye lens" effect might well induce a sense of witnessing a very large demo - I'm no expert obviously but I can intuitively feel that might be the case. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-89270296563424708462018-10-11T11:54:25.248+01:002018-10-11T11:54:25.248+01:00They are increasingly shameless, it's true. I ...They are increasingly shameless, it's true. I think it's partly knowing they have the PC Bunch at Ofcom looking over them ie not looking over them, that is accounting for their mounting brazeness of bias. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-13333660945066345432018-10-11T10:57:52.473+01:002018-10-11T10:57:52.473+01:00The BBC really have got some front. They are one o...The BBC really have got some front. They are one of the prime exponents of using freelance self employed people as a tax dodges. In fact they recommended the switch to many highly paid employees. <br /><br />So how can they write an article without a nod or mention that they have been caught at it. <br /><br />Here is favoured child Kamal Ahmed writing a defence without the decency to acknowledge the BBCs part in condoning tax avoidance. How can that be impartial. They are shameless. <br /><br />https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45822650<br /> Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.com