Showing posts with label Adrian Chiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adrian Chiles. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 December 2019

From 'The Other Place'


And now I think we can cross over to our Radio 5 Live correspondent....

pugnazious
Chiles once again proving he’s worth every penny of the licence fee and upholding the values and respect that embodies the BBC…I’d swear he broadcasts from down the pub with his BBC mates as he spouts sh*te that you’d only say to those who you knew had the same mindset….surely he’s not under any editorial control or supervision? All we get is a stream of cheap, low-rent comment and ‘analysis’ that are mostly anti-Tory smears and sneers.
Today he targeted Dominic Cummings…apparently ‘It’s very worrying that he has so much power’ and ‘He needs putting back in his box’.
Fortunately his guests were having none of that and put Chiles back in his box……no fans of Cummings but prepared to speak sensibly about him….reminding Chiles that Cummings didn’t care about the Westminster bubble, he was only interested in ‘real life’ and getting things done….a good thing you might have thought.
Chiles decided to attack from a different angle claiming, laughably, that Cummings didn’t do detail and that he wasn’t interested in foreign policy. Anyone who knew the slightest thing about Cummings would know he’s all about detail and that he is a prime mover on some issues relating to foreign policy, not least Brexit,…and the guests smacked Chiles down immediately saying ‘Actually he is interested in foreign policy’…Chiles muttered a quick ‘Sorry I must be mistaken’
Sheer ignorance, wilful ignorance, and prejudice from Chiles who clearly was expecting his fellow media pundits would be of the same mindset as him and would go along with his hatchet job…got a bit of a surprise when it didn’t pan out like that.
Chiles tried a similar cheap, lazy and ignorant attack on Boris last week as he claimed Boris didn’t do detail and didn’t know anything about the Middle East and thus how could he be PM!? Got smacked down there too. He just doesn’t learn…and doesn’t bother to do his homework….Chiles is the classic case of a BBC liberal who thinks that the whole world thinks like him and his worldview is the only correct and righteous one possible….Only to be horribly disabused of that delusion again and again…and yet never learning from the lessons handed out to him. Then again he is a West Brom fan…so hope lives eternal.

Sunday, 15 December 2019

Of Adrian Chiles


An interesting post from pugnazious at Biased BBC yesterday:

Can you remember back to 2015, just before the Tories got their majority, when the BBC was telling us the Party system was broken, there would be no more majority governments…and that was a good thing?
LOL.
The BBC is so out of touch, its judgements are all coloured by their personal views and opinions, and even when they know something to be true they manage to block it out ala 1984 and Doublethink if it doesn’t fit the narrative….such as Pienaar telling us that the word on the doorstep was that Corbyn was not trusted and wouldn’t be getting their vote, or Mardell telling us people, Leave and Remain, were insisting that politicians ‘get Brexit done’…..both inconvenient truths ignored by the BBC during the campaign.
It would be fascinating to see a genuinely independent review of the BBC’s coverage of Brexit and this and the 2017 election. I think it would open a few eyes to just how biased and anti-Tory the BBC really is….you have to think the Tory Party doesn’t have a clue just how much anti-Tory propaganda is spewed out by the BBC…it may have an idea that the BBC is biased but no idea just how strong that bias really is, how casual it is and how readily accepted it is by others without comment on programmes and shows.
Chiles for example…definitely not a Tory boy. A guest mentioned Jews living in fear #duetoCorbyn and Chiles parried, and dismissed those fears, by saying Jews weren’t the only ones living in fear in Britain…what about those living in fear due to having to rely on foodbanks or on Universal Credit or charity?…all the fault of the dastardly Tories….thus you might not want to vote Corbyn due fear of anti-semitism but consider the fear that the Tories instill in those living in poverty stricken Britain and weigh that in the balance….jews or the poor?
On the subject of Boris Chiles just started off on a rant about Boris not knowing anything about the Middle East…thus he wasn’t fit to be PM…presumably we were being treated to a well-honed party piece that Chiles put on during his lefty dinner parties when he’d have an appreciative and uncritical audience. Just seemed a very random issue that arose out of the depths of Chiles’ brain rather than any real, substantial concern….Chiles just inventing an issue because he had to say something to criticise Boris.
Chiles also thinks Boris should get rid of his ‘toxic frontbenchers’…like Priti Patel and Jacob Rees Mogg. …a BBC-wide narrative that portrays the ERG and Brexit supporters as extremists and ultras, happy to allow the likes of Ken Clarke and Grieve to malign them as ‘far-right’. Laughed to hear the BBC welcome the big majority as it would mean Boris was no longer beholden to the extremists of the ERG and DUP…odd the BBC never characterises the Remain extremists as extremists…the BBC always calls them ‘moderates’ and is quite happy that they can hijack Parliament and hold Boris to ransom.
Chiles also claims that Boris gets away with murder….he lies and lies and lies and no-one says anything….well first does he lie? and second the BBC is continually trying to tear apart anything he says or proposes and consistently labels him a liar and untrustworthy whilst failing to note Corbyn’s lies and dissembling.
The BBC plays games with numbers and interprets them the way they want to so that Boris is cast as a liar…such as the £350m, or the 50,000 nurses, or the 40 hospitals he wants to build. Ridiculously the BBC says well, he’s not building them right now so it’s just a lie to say he’s building 40 hospitals. Is that how they interpret every party manifesto? if a policy is announced but isn’t immediately put into action, even before the election, the party is lying? Complete tosh.
Chiles finished on a doozy telling us that after the election result came in his distraught daughter texted him saying she was never going to give up a seat on a bus to an old person again….she’d make them stand there and force them to think about what they had just done. The crab apple doesn’t fall far from the tree I guess in that family. Not sure why he thought this was a suitable story to tell…puts his daughter in a bad light and illustrates, once again, the sort of hate that is whipped up against Brexit/Tory voters and old people…but is not a concern for the BBC which is so, so concerned about Boris’ hateful language…you know…’Surrender Act’…..lock him up!
Not a bad days work for Chiles…all in one programme, just a stream of casual anti-Tory, anti-Brexit comments that came all too easily and naturally to him that he didn’t even think twice about saying them or register that they were so partisan.
Just another day at the BBC.

Sunday, 7 October 2018

Further Reading


Other BBC-related reading, if you've got the time:




Oh, and:


The last item features this, which made me laugh (especially the last paragraph quoted):
Simpson was so bruised that his novel became all about the “foul BBC” and its machinations and he was looking forward to causing trouble. 
Then he heard Harding was leaving and being replaced by a “blessed friend … a wonderful, wonderful” woman who saved him. 
The appointment of Fran Unsworth led to some rewriting. “It doesn’t take place at the BBC, it takes place more or less at Sky News.”
Nice!

Saturday, 2 January 2016

“There wasn’t a piece of paper between us”



Adrian Chiles has been talking to the Independent about his new TV series called My Mediterranean with Adrian Chiles

He will apparently begin his series by laying out its mission statement:
On my journey around the Mediterranean I want to show that religion actually does more good than harm. I won’t be seeking out the religious zealots – they get quite enough airtime if you ask me. I just want to find the majority; the nice, normal, gentle people who happen to be religious.
Sounds very nice.

According to the Indie piece, many of his TV/BBC colleagues didn't sound overly enthusiastic to begin with, but something apparently clinched the deal with the BBC - and that 'something' turns out to be 'very BBC':
BBC2 controller Kim Shillinglaw commissioned the programme after Chiles told her how he and a Muslim taxi driver had a late-night discussion, bid each other farewell with a “God bless you”, and, he concluded, “there wasn’t a piece of paper between us”. 
That tells you a lot about a certain kind of BBC thinking, doesn't it?

Anyhow, Adrian Chiles's own attitude seems scarely less 'BBC' than Ms Shillinglaw's - despite all his time at ITV. He's a Catholic but proudly says that he's got: 
...more in common with a liberal Jew and a liberal Muslim than I have with even a conservative Roman Catholic.
That could almost be a part of the official guidelines for Thought For The Day. Edward Stourton's Sunday programme might even adopt it as its own official motto. 

In fact, Ed is surely bound to give Adrian a 'high five' next time their paths cross in Salford, and maybe he'll even invite the big man to join the Sunday presenters rota if we're lucky.

I'm sure Adrian Chiles would work his usual magic on the programme's ratings.