tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post9027401244840375170..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: "One thing that is true of the BBC is of course, you leave all your personal opinions at the door"Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-37981643714629798472017-01-28T17:37:31.708+00:002017-01-28T17:37:31.708+00:00Decided to check to see if James didn't know, ...Decided to check to see if James didn't know, or knew and suddenly went coy (as can happen):<br /><br />https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/the_capacity_of_the_bbc_head_ofEmmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-39562144329370539292017-01-28T16:11:55.208+00:002017-01-28T16:11:55.208+00:00Not so. The "you can keep your plan/doctor&qu...Not so. The "you can keep your plan/doctor" was a lie. They knew it wasn't going to be true. Then they lied about that. Much of what was promised - not predicted, but <i>promised</i> - was known to be false by the people making the promises. Video evidence here:<br /><br />http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/18/politics/gruber-obamacare-promises/index.html<br /><br />This is not like Bush talking about Sadaam's chemical weapons based on incomplete and inaccurate intelligence info, info which many others saw and came to the same conclusions (Blair is a different story). This was people who wrote the plan with a specific goal and lied about it, and Obama lied about it.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-43754979102002249712017-01-28T08:57:10.459+00:002017-01-28T08:57:10.459+00:00Political lies usually fall into the "debatab...Political lies usually fall into the "debatable" category: predictions that turn out to be wrong (and who's to say whether the person saying them ever really believed it), or statements of fact that gloss over certain crucial details (e.g. the exact definition of unemployment). But they seldom relate to facts that are easily disproved by all known lines of evidence. So "you can keep your health plan" can be explained away as brainless/naive optimism, but "biggest crowd ever, and most people travelling the Washington Metro" is easily disproved by facts, with no wiggle room for doubt.idle_commenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00804612509560444287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-30395993078828003712017-01-27T21:15:48.448+00:002017-01-27T21:15:48.448+00:00If they're going to speak truth to power about...If they're going to speak truth to power about something as minimally important as crowd size, they ought to have done it for the last eight years on a whole host of lies. Which they didn't. So crying about their need to hold power to account now is an absolute joke, and they're paying for it.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-81925459134623809142017-01-27T17:44:35.426+00:002017-01-27T17:44:35.426+00:00Just noticed another article on the Newswatch page...Just noticed another article on the Newswatch page:<br /><br />http://news-watch.co.uk/bbc-news-chief-james-harding-shows-anti-brexit-bias/<br /><br />As to which side of the door he was speaking from, or his face, who knows?<br /><br />"For those not versed in BBC obfuscation (otherwise known as complaints handling), this was a classic piece. His wheeled-out-a-thousand-times defence was that he and his battalions of heroic, do-no-wrong journalists have received complaints from both sides in the referendum debate, so the coverage must therefore have been balanced."<br />Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-68200616237191341512017-01-27T16:29:09.210+00:002017-01-27T16:29:09.210+00:00Of course they leave their opinions at the door, t...Of course they leave their opinions at the door, they know that the BBC will provide ready-made ones once they are inside.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-35737541856040944282017-01-27T14:21:57.343+00:002017-01-27T14:21:57.343+00:00#hasthisbeenfactcheckedbythebbc #hasthisbeenfactcheckedbythebbc Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-16677221380786978652017-01-27T14:04:13.409+00:002017-01-27T14:04:13.409+00:00Yes, there were some good questions from Steve Hew...Yes, there were some good questions from Steve Hewlett there. Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-29878521575801896162017-01-27T13:39:36.030+00:002017-01-27T13:39:36.030+00:00Sadly Steve Hewlett has a life-threatening cancer....Sadly Steve Hewlett has a life-threatening cancer...I'm surprised that far from adopting the Samira Ahmed "how do we contextualise and thereby neutralise Donald Trump?" approach, he is among the dross asking some relevant questions - is his experience emboldening him perhaps? Previously I only remember him for mostly anti-Murdoch stuff. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com