tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post4602938028154853929..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Open ThreadCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-76021040878102280122020-03-29T20:37:40.875+01:002020-03-29T20:37:40.875+01:00I am Bupo ...
I am Bupo ... <br />Bupohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03753698267888227021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-39447448352621413902020-03-29T19:44:25.093+01:002020-03-29T19:44:25.093+01:00Look who's being wheeled out on Feedback this ...Look who's being wheeled out on Feedback this evening: <br /><br />'Feedback devotes the whole programme to putting listeners’ questions and concerns to the BBC’s Director of Radio and Education James Purnell. <br /><br />He tells Roger Bolton how the Corporation is coping in the present crisis and what changes we can expect in the near future. And they go on to discuss the future strategic challenges facing the Corporation as its own financial problems increase and with the future of the licence fee itself under examination.'<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-28388203960192194142020-03-29T19:21:39.568+01:002020-03-29T19:21:39.568+01:00I'm not sure the people realise the implicatio...I'm not sure the people realise the implications yet. How until they do? Quite chilling for me to hear BBC R4 News this evening talk about our "new way of living".Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-59973892415307781112020-03-29T18:33:53.382+01:002020-03-29T18:33:53.382+01:00The people may, according to opinion polls, be tru...The people may, according to opinion polls, be trusting and law-abiding. But there are disturbing and increasing signs that we are being led by those who accept computer models developed by 'scientists' who are driven by politics and ideology rather than rigorous inquiry. These are the shamans of our age. Robin Horburyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17983005314113577874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-75706996029145761972020-03-29T15:49:38.165+01:002020-03-29T15:49:38.165+01:00By and large, the measures have the consent of th...By and large, the measures have the consent of the people.<br /><br />So whether they are by law or instruction is immaterial. Society appears to accept they have to be implemented and are abiding by them.<br />Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-45495530970989473392020-03-29T15:12:27.450+01:002020-03-29T15:12:27.450+01:00The best they can do is: "Those whacky Swedes...The best they can do is: "Those whacky Swedes - what are they like? If not beating themselves with birch twigs and making Scandi Noir, they only go and ignore the common sense case for a total mass shutdown of every activity in their society...oh well, there you go...not relevant to us sensible British" Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-84488511001077456482020-03-29T15:07:26.629+01:002020-03-29T15:07:26.629+01:00The resistance movement is growing. Peter Hitchens...The resistance movement is growing. Peter Hitchens is courageously to the fore: <br /><br />https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2020/03/the-frightening-implications-for-liberty-of-the-shutdown-an-explanation-of-the-use-of-law-to-deprive.html<br /><br />Lord Sumption, late of the Supreme Court, has expressed grave reservations about the effects on our liberty and constitution, especially the blurring of lines between "advice", "direction" and "law". The Government has been acting as though its pronouncements automatically have the weight of law. <br />They don't, not unless the law says they do. <br /><br />The resistance movement needs to grow quickly if we are to save our country from total disaster. <br /><br />It's remarkable isn't it that only a few months ago Boris was telling us not to listen to the gloomsters and doomsters. Now...he is the principal Gloomster and Doomster, dragging us all down with him! <br /><br />Unbelievable! <br /><br /><br />Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-63844154276659781142020-03-29T12:39:02.406+01:002020-03-29T12:39:02.406+01:00The BBC has been reporting fears of a rapid spread...The BBC has been reporting fears of a rapid spread to the South for three weeks not three days! - and it still hasn't happened anywhere near on the same scale. Calabria for instance has had 22 deaths compared with 5944 in Lombardy. <br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Italy<br /><br />Lombardy's death rate is, incidentally, incredibly high - 15%. Nowhere else in the world has experienced such a high death rate. Nothing in that BBC report explains these wild differences between countries and regions. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-90236726810873621222020-03-29T10:33:55.309+01:002020-03-29T10:33:55.309+01:00A frequent flyer on Newsnight reveals himself....
...A frequent flyer on Newsnight reveals himself....<br />skip to 24'25" in this video.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUQO4hXjqDEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-54302260603368175322020-03-29T09:53:51.250+01:002020-03-29T09:53:51.250+01:00From that article:
... ' In contrast to the m...From that article:<br /><br />... ' In contrast to the multi-generational homes in Mediterranean countries, more than half of Swedish households are made up of one person,' ...<br /><br />Overcrowded housing in areas where coronavirus spreads easily such as north Italy, London and New York etc, which also have high levels of air pollution, might lead to a conclusion that lockdowns make matters worse. Clean air will help sunlight to do its work in destroying the virus. We associate Sweden with clean cities and clean air.Arthur Thttp://otboae.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-15074923936427370612020-03-29T09:17:16.712+01:002020-03-29T09:17:16.712+01:00It looks to me as if there may be a battle of the ...It looks to me as if there may be a battle of the educated middle classes regarding the narrative surrounding Covid 19. I believe the sceptic scientists will be ultimately proved right, and the 'models' wildly wrong. The hysterical section of the scientific community may well be accused of complicity in a world wide recession and politically convenient public repression.<br /><br />Until now, I've been open minded to the actions being taken by the powers that be, but as I learn more, I'm starting to see that those actions do not compute. <br /><br />Did anyone call Lofven?! <br /><br />The Overton Window of discussion in the media reveals a lack of desire to find solutions, or to question or explain the figures they're so keen on squirting into our brains.<br /><br />(the same anon.) <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-78347174294384581642020-03-29T08:52:10.765+01:002020-03-29T08:52:10.765+01:00https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52076293
...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52076293<br /><br />beeb does not seem to know how to spin this one does it??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-4703649832003855962020-03-29T08:50:16.333+01:002020-03-29T08:50:16.333+01:00Two sets of scientists and their views on Covid.
S...Two sets of scientists and their views on Covid.<br />Some have been mentioned here, some not.<br /><br />https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/24/12-experts-questioning-the-coronavirus-panic/<br /><br />https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/28/10-more-experts-criticising-the-coronavirus-panic/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-79338637557894151162020-03-29T02:38:18.338+01:002020-03-29T02:38:18.338+01:00MB- "No explanation for why the huge death to...MB- "No explanation for why the huge death toll in N. Italy but not Southern Italy" - The BBC reported 3 days ago that there were fears over the rapid spread in Italy's South. Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-11867501819338185582020-03-29T00:49:52.097+00:002020-03-29T00:49:52.097+00:00More confuse-a-cat tactics from the BBC.
https:/...More confuse-a-cat tactics from the BBC. <br /><br />https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52056111<br /><br />Notice what's missing:<br /><br />- No explanation for why the huge death toll in North Italy but not Southern Italy. <br /><br />- No explanation for why so few people have been killed in Hong Kong. <br /><br />- Not mentioning that neither Japan nor South Korea were ever put in a mass nationwide lockdown. <br /><br />- No interest in why Greece has so few cases. <br /><br />Instead, just the usual orthodoxy: the virus affects all countries the same except insofar as they put in place effective counter-measures, principally mass lockdowns. <br /><br />The claim that "lockdowns are working" is without proof, since countries without total mass lockdowns e.g. South Korea and Japan have done much better than countries with total mass lockdowns. <br /><br />There is no evidence for this orthodoxy but it is the dogma that you are required to assent to. <br />Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-13004122673576542292020-03-28T23:57:30.294+00:002020-03-28T23:57:30.294+00:00I cannot recall in my lifetime a mass lockdown of ...I cannot recall in my lifetime a mass lockdown of a whole country to deal with a health emergency. <br /><br />We are being experimented on. There is no knowing what the results will be. A greater death toll than from the Coronavirus is one strong possiblity. <br /><br />Where did this idea of a mass nationwide lockdown covering just about all activity come from? <br /><br />In China the lockdown was not nationwide, it was focussed on Wuhan. There has been no mass lockdown in Japan or South Korea or Taiwan. <br /><br />It seems like Wuhan was taken as a model for virtually the whole of Europe. Why? <br /><br />It's insane. No one can point to a successful nationwide lockdown except in the sense of the old "elephant powder" joke ("Why are you putting that powder on the grass?" "To stop the elephants." "But there aren't any elephants around here!" "I know - good, isn't it?") . There's no arguing against elephant powder logic. <br /><br /><br /><br />Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-62694388292401867052020-03-28T22:40:09.587+00:002020-03-28T22:40:09.587+00:00Testing for CV: The Boris Bashing Corporation has ...Testing for CV: The Boris Bashing Corporation has spent the day comparing the performance of the Labour-run Welsh NHS with that of the incompetent, English, one. Population of Wales: 3.139 million (2018), population of England 55.98 million (2018)...Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-27807229498875186602020-03-28T21:42:54.402+00:002020-03-28T21:42:54.402+00:00Anon- Agreed!Anon- Agreed!Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-63111825623307168302020-03-28T21:39:24.160+00:002020-03-28T21:39:24.160+00:00Noted, and I was aware that side effects exist, bu...Noted, and I was aware that side effects exist, but my question still stands regarding lack of interest in media coverage. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-57782175800146045502020-03-28T21:30:17.129+00:002020-03-28T21:30:17.129+00:00Anon. One major problem with Hydroxychloroquine: i...Anon. One major problem with Hydroxychloroquine: it's a known cause of irregular heartbeat and patients with 'ticker trouble' are in the most at risk category, along with those with lung problems, like asthma-sufferers.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-50922445449890321062020-03-28T20:30:44.818+00:002020-03-28T20:30:44.818+00:00At last - a hint of scepticism from our media...th...At last - a hint of scepticism from our media...thanks be. Perhaps people are beginning to see how very serious, damaging and dangerous - not to say lethal - a mass lockdown can be. <br /><br />This is an absolute scandal...but of course as I said before virtually everyone is implicated in this scandal so everyone has an interest in not admitting to the catastrophic policy failure. <br /><br />Sadly, since I have been a strong supporter of him to date, Boris has to take a large share of the blame for this. I can understand he was probably bound hand and foot... but, still, he is the PM and has to take responsibility for the unnecessary plunging of this country into a state of miserable decline and confusion. That's not what Prime Ministers are supposed to do. <br /><br /><br />Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-51593493635977239342020-03-28T19:56:03.294+00:002020-03-28T19:56:03.294+00:00More protection of President Macron. It is not o...More protection of President Macron. It is not on the BBC website.<br /><br />French police unions threaten to stop enforcing lockdown as first gendarme dies from coronavirus<br /><br />https://www.thelocal.fr/20200326/french-gendarme-dies-from-coronavirus<br />DADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07380616722854929936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-71014746790859508282020-03-28T19:34:32.132+00:002020-03-28T19:34:32.132+00:00You are welcome MB.
Meanwhile from The Telegraph
...You are welcome MB.<br />Meanwhile from The Telegraph<br /><br />Professor Neil Ferguson, of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College in London , the scientist whose calculations about the potentially devastating impact of the coronavirus directly led to the countrywide lockdown has been criticised in the past for flawed research.<br />It has now emerged that Ferguson has been criticised in the past for making predictions based on allegedly faulty assumptions which nevertheless shaped government strategies and impacted the UK economy.<br /><br />Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-46491186549361313522020-03-28T18:55:25.742+00:002020-03-28T18:55:25.742+00:00There's been a lot of confusion about these dr...There's been a lot of confusion about these drugs. <br />So much confusion generated by media on both side of the Atlantic that I'm entering conspiracy country. <br /><br />This week, CNN tried to blame the death of somebody who self medicated with fish food (because it contained an ingredient that looks similar to hydroxychloroquine) on Trump's support for testing these drugs. <br /><br />The progressive media is going out of its way to not promote the possibilty that these drugs may be a benefit. Why ? If it can be proved that this cocktail can work in the early stages of Covid, what's the problem for those lovers of humanity ?<br />(the same anon.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-36577785968625071432020-03-28T18:32:47.927+00:002020-03-28T18:32:47.927+00:00They've mentioned it on BBC Reality Check - th...They've mentioned it on BBC Reality Check - they used it as a stick to beat Trump, pretending he was claiming it was a miracle cure. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.com