tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post6759565974487329215..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: James O'Brien gets shirty (again)Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-27403830733570829162015-09-15T00:17:38.640+01:002015-09-15T00:17:38.640+01:00Kawczynski has been bought and paid for by the cou...Kawczynski has been bought and paid for by the country that funded 9/11.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15878421641177302569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-60921793080194899782015-09-12T10:47:22.539+01:002015-09-12T10:47:22.539+01:00"Is something being made up?", O'Bri..."Is something being made up?", O'Brien asks Kawczynski at one point. I would suggest the death toll at the water bottling plant was made up. The first report was to Reuters like this:<br /><br /><i>"The process of recovering the bodies is finished now. The corpses of 36 workers, many of them burnt or in pieces, were pulled out after an air strike hit the plant this morning," resident Issa Ahmed told Reuters by phone from the site in Hajjah.</i><br /><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/30/us-yemen-security-idUSKCN0QZ09P20150830<br /><br />Curriously, the BBC quote the same text but edit out '36' because it disagrees with their headline 'Yemen air strike kills 31 in Hajjah province'.<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34102557<br /><br />And now we have Gabriel Gatehouse's report giving the death toll as 13, with no explanation for the previous figures.<br /><br />It was a small plant. They are highly automated. It was hit at 3.40am when the night shift, if there was such a thing, was on. I think the casualty list might still be too large. Will you investigate, BBC?<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-91793661049657003402015-09-12T10:33:30.631+01:002015-09-12T10:33:30.631+01:00Yes, same guy. But because he was on LBC, BBC/Guar...Yes, same guy. But because he was on LBC, BBC/Guardian types viewed him as being right of centre. It's all relative! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-62474485648605752422015-09-12T10:17:14.266+01:002015-09-12T10:17:14.266+01:00The difference is that the BBC is funded by us, t...The difference is that the BBC is funded by us, the license payer and therfore has a legal responsibility to present balanced analysis of news. Since 1990 the BBC news team have become increasingly indistinguishable with that of the Guardian. A positive of Twitter, on e of the rare positives, is that their personal views are on display for all of us to see. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716073551467401125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-51197904229305303892015-09-12T08:32:02.131+01:002015-09-12T08:32:02.131+01:00How many times do BBC staff retreat to twitter gro...How many times do BBC staff retreat to twitter groupie comfort zones to bleat once challenging debaters have gone?<br /><br />Must be nice to control a £4Bpa edit suite with near zero accountabilityEmmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-7329479942922302732015-09-12T06:27:12.960+01:002015-09-12T06:27:12.960+01:00I don't watch Newsnight but is this O'brie...I don't watch Newsnight but is this O'brien the one that does a phone-in on LBC? If so, that would explain why some months ago he got really uptight when a caller said that the BBC was biased left. BTW his phone-in programme reveals him to lean well to the left.<br /><br />LBC is another station I turn on less and less!<br /><br />...And Sky has been as bad as the BBC for a long time.David Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15289942317047915855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-55853582144956566842015-09-12T06:01:06.881+01:002015-09-12T06:01:06.881+01:00I haven't seen Friday's Newsnight, but wat...I haven't seen Friday's Newsnight, but watch the report on Thursday - whilst, yes, it provided some focus on a region / conflict which has received little coverage, there was virtually no explanation of why the conflict was taking place. Fair enough, the report was (legitimately) focusing on the situation on the ground, however, the impression left was that Saudi had just randomly decided to start bombing, Britain are supplying the arms and the people of Yemen are suffering. Now, I'm not saying the Saudi bombing campaign is justified, I don't know, having not read up on the conflict, but I do think some kind of analysis of why the conflict started would've been useful, especially given that the audience in large part won't have been up to speed with the day-to-day political situation in YemenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-81341035837936537492015-09-12T03:35:26.202+01:002015-09-12T03:35:26.202+01:00It is a key difference, but as Keynes said it &quo...It is a key difference, but as Keynes said it "In the long run we are all dead..." and in the long run whether it's BBC Sky or ITV facilitating the advance of Sharia into our country, they are each of them facilitating that deplorable end. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-46638739704011009142015-09-12T00:30:10.624+01:002015-09-12T00:30:10.624+01:00You may very well be right about that.
(Just as ...You may very well be right about that. <br /><br />(Just as Cif Watch changed its name to UK Media Watch, maybe we might have to do the same: "Is the BBC, Sky and ITV biased?").<br /><br />There's a write-up of that report, I believe, here - complete with image after image of sad children:<br /><br />http://news.sky.com/story/1551017/migration-trail-sky-travels-with-the-refugees<br /><br />The key difference, of course, is that the BBC is uniquely funded by a licence fee and prosecutes those who don't pay it.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-67351570859845758702015-09-12T00:22:28.137+01:002015-09-12T00:22:28.137+01:00As for JO'B - the bloke has NO QUALIFICATIONS ...As for JO'B - the bloke has NO QUALIFICATIONS to present the BBC's premier news analysis programme. He looks daft, can't enunciate properly, is of obviously low intelligence and - yes - he talks over people in a really crass way. <br /><br />In a nation of 60 plus million I find it difficult to believe he's the best they can come up with. I think he was chosen on the basis they could present him as "not left wing". He's not anything. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-47863262036543679322015-09-12T00:15:40.134+01:002015-09-12T00:15:40.134+01:00Just wanted to say the "BBC Biased" bran...Just wanted to say the "BBC Biased" brand is really redundant. A few minutes ago I watched a Sky News pro-migration propaganda report following Muslim migrants defying the Greek coastguard to find land in Europe. Constant cries of "Allah Akhbar" but not analysis from Sky about what this means. <br /><br />There really isn't any difference between BBC, ITV and Sky on this issue. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com