tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post6136888886680922633..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: The Great European Disaster Movie Part IICraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-45872201712589259192015-08-31T12:33:09.498+01:002015-08-31T12:33:09.498+01:00BTW this is definitely the way the EU operates - f...BTW this is definitely the way the EU operates - funding via what can be presented as "arm's length" agencies like "Creative Europe". <br /><br />The Migration Observatory in Oxford - which likes to present itself as a disinterested academic research body - also receives European Union money but it's all at several removes so difficult to track. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-71406709296454039142015-08-31T12:27:07.000+01:002015-08-31T12:27:07.000+01:00Ah, the same Richard Sambrook who co-authored a Ca...Ah, the same Richard Sambrook who co-authored a Cardiff Universtiy report for the BBC which 'found' (unbelievably) that the BBC has an anti-EU bias:<br /><br />http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/newsandevents/13bbc_to_seek_more_views_outside_political_parties.htmlCraighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-19881490837879006522015-08-31T12:23:08.705+01:002015-08-31T12:23:08.705+01:00Shocking! I'm not sure I knew Izzard was suppo...Shocking! I'm not sure I knew Izzard was supposed to be part of it but you can see why they had to drop him - a zealous Labour Party functionary was not good cover in the run up to the election. They must also have made it intentionally to sneak up to the boundary of the "purdah" period before the election. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-44650280518718253432015-08-31T12:12:08.719+01:002015-08-31T12:12:08.719+01:00The Wake Up Foundation. a charity whose trustees i...The Wake Up Foundation. a charity whose trustees include Piras, Emmott and ex-Beeboid Richard Sambrook, declared voluntary income of £70,147 in 2014. This amount is awfully similar to the £70,975 the TPA say was given by the EU to help finance the film. I'm wondering if these amounts are one and the same.<br /><br />More worrying is one ;Wake Up's' objectives:<br /><br /><i>c) A civic education course for schools and universities based on a documentary about the European Union, to be made during 2014/15 by Piras's Springshot Productions. Following public broadcast of the film, the intention is that the Foundation would take over the educational rights to the film material, in order to produce this course.</i><br /><br />Would that documentary be The Great European Disaster Movie? My God, I think it is.<br /><br />http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends94/0001152894_AC_20140630_E_C.pdf<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com