tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post4721887952029096387..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: From another planet (to the BBC)Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-60467010779838456992017-01-29T18:36:05.776+00:002017-01-29T18:36:05.776+00:00Wow. A journalist with a sense of history, the abs...Wow. A journalist with a sense of history, the absurd and comedic timing too? How the heck did HE get through?<br />It takes real independence of mind not to have had yourself rechipped at liberal factory settings. like all your "colleagues in Beehive Centraal".<br />Good stuff Tim-keep it coming , we`ll look out for you now!<br />Mark Steyn of the future here?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11037730731189490670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-62583481584619903142017-01-29T17:01:28.454+00:002017-01-29T17:01:28.454+00:00Casciani retweeted a lie from Bolt. The ban is on ...Casciani retweeted a lie from Bolt. The ban is on people from problem countries, not Muslims. David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-41308571481416209632017-01-29T16:46:41.833+00:002017-01-29T16:46:41.833+00:00That's a very accurate and fair description of...That's a very accurate and fair description of it.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-16867658076595490212017-01-29T16:24:34.216+00:002017-01-29T16:24:34.216+00:00It would be nice if Tim Marshall could be appointe...It would be nice if Tim Marshall could be appointed as producer for From Our Home Correspondent. <br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08bz0s4#play<br /><br />Set up last year as a way of smuggling in more pro-Remain opinion pieces into output, this trend continues. <br /><br />First up (01:05)was Dominic Casciani report on the historic Supreme Court judgement on Article 50 authorisation. <br /><br />No surprises on Dominic's Twitter account (doing his bit for an anti-Trump petition). <br /><br />https://twitter.com/BBCDomC?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor<br /><br />Anyway DC gave a very partial and, frankly odd, account of the case replete with: cod cockney imitation of a pro-Brexit protestor (no imitations of pro-Remainers), predictable reference to death threats against Gina Miller (OK, arguably relevant, but when did the BBC last refer to the constant death threats against Farage, and no doubt Nuttall now?), a peculiar unresolved reference to the legal arguments re the devolved governments' rights (rejected by the SC Judges, though he doesn't make that clear) and - worst of all in my opinion - failure to inform listeners that the judges split 8-3, it clearly not being the cut and dried issue he wished to suggest. Also he accused the government of spinning. We know governments spin but I don't think it's appropriate for supposedly impartial BBC Editors to use that word as their own opinion. He could have found some other form of words. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-31759396183216660032017-01-29T15:58:45.660+00:002017-01-29T15:58:45.660+00:00Amazing! There's hope for British journalism y...Amazing! There's hope for British journalism yet. Poor man is going to be shunned professionally and socially now, though. I hope his children aren't threatened at school.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-57051204364643795482017-01-29T15:36:01.651+00:002017-01-29T15:36:01.651+00:00Tim Marshal is spot on.
And how outraged is Jeremy...Tim Marshal is spot on.<br />And how outraged is Jeremy Corbyn, <a href="//www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/donald-trump-muslim-ban-jeremy-corbyn-uk-mp-immigration-policy-theresa-may-response-a7551636.html" rel="nofollow"> for example,</a> at Mahmoud Abbas’s promise that no Israeli (Jew) will be allowed to set foot in his ‘longed-for’ Palestinian state?<br />suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693686958796849316noreply@blogger.com