BBC accused of political correctness over all-women version of Question Time - Daily Mail

BBC accused of political correctness over all-women version of Question Time: "
The episode from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, will air on March 11 - during International Women's Week."

BBC MINDSET IN TECHNICOLOR... - Biased BBC

BBC MINDSET IN TECHNICOLOR...: "Bishop Hill has an interesting post which reveals yet again the hardcore pro-climate change mindset at the BBC. The post is about a public discussion about the impact of Climategate, held at Oxford University on February 26 between environment journalists Richard Black (BBC), Fiona Harvey (FT), Ben Jackson(Sun) and David Adam(Guardian). Richard Black made relatively few contributions, but his first was this:

I’m not surprised at the level of UK scepticism as the main impacts of climate change are decades away and in other places. The problem is poor science awareness. We need to improve science education so people properly understand climate science.

Our man Black also made a contribution to the Q and A session at the end:

Q: I’m disturbed by the panel’s attitude. Scepticism is legitimate, denialism not. The events shouldn’t be called anything-Gate as that implied conspiracy and there was none. Why haven’t the media found out who stole the emails and wasn’t the timing of their release interesting?
DA: We can no longer call people deniers. We need a new term. Some people have suggested “climate creationists”.
FH: Sceptics were clever in choosing their name. We do need a new name, denier won’t work because of Holocaust associations.
Q: What was the influence of the blogosphere?
RB: probably bad.
FH: I’m astonished by the viciousness of anonymous people on the internet.

And there we have it. The BBC's intrepid climate guru feels that the fact that the blogsphere exposed the lies of Climategate was a 'bad' influence. His other answer betrayed starkly that he thinks that people don't believe his constant propaganda because the impact of climate change is 30 years away. Oh, and if they are educated properly about 'science', they will start to believe climate change lies; that is to say, his audience are dumbos who need educating. That's the BBC mindset, in glowing Technicolor.

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The Now Vote Green Show - Biased BBC

The Now Vote Green Show: "Further to my earlier post pointing out that The Now Show will be on three nights a week during the election campaign, I see that two of the regular cast - Marcus Brigstocke and Mitch Benn (along with other members of the BBC's left-wing comedy establishment) - are in Brighton tonight:



Interestingly, the poster fails to mention what the event is for:

Award winning comedian and broadcaster Marcus Brigstocke will join forces with TV and radio comedy friends Russell Howard (Mock the Week), Alastair McGowan (The Big Impression), Mark Steele (NewsQuiz) and Mitch Benn (Now Show), Robin Ince (Nerdstock) and others for a one-off night of political mayhem at the Theatre Royal…

Proceeds from the gig will be going towards funding Caroline Lucas' historic bid to become the UK's first Green MP.

I guess the chances of hearing a Brigstocke rant or Mitch Benn song taking the piss out of the Green Party on Radio 4 are pretty low, then.

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Impressive - Biased BBC

Impressive: "If your fifteen year old son listened to two people talking on the radio, commented 'I really want to punch that guy in the face', and you knew that one of the two people was UKIP's Nigel Farage, what odds would you give that it was the other guy he wanted to punch ?

Congratulations to Steven Nolan for his impressive achievement on R5 tonight. Following on from the Question Time attacks, Nolan waded straight into the attack with the same theme ('rude Nigel') and interrupted Farage continually ('No, you didn't ... that's a lie ..') to the point where it was hard for him to ever finish a sentence.

I was amused by the bit where Nolan kept repeating 'what was Van Rumpuy doing between 1993 and 1997 ?' - as if Nolan would have had a clue before the researchers gave him the notes.

If Nolan had wanted to attack rudeness, he could have tackled his compatriot Colin Murray, who a few minutes before had used a four-letter word to describe a Welsh rugby coach's (imagined) half-time talk.


And on the subject of Question Time, I see BBC favourite Janet Street Porter attacked Farage for racism. Strangely, for such an anti-racist, Ms Street Porter left her native London and now chooses to live in a white and monocultural part of the UK. As, strangely, does BBC favourite Billy Bragg. Not to mention Woman Sour's 'Jeni' Murray. Most odd.


(With apologies to David Vance, twenty-five years coverage of the Troubles gave me a bit of an allergy to highly opinionated Ulstermen who love the sound of their own voices - the Seventies in particular providing a surfeit of such. Radio 5 already has a perfectly good one in Alan ('I don't want to criticise the referee, but his performance tonight was abysmal') Green. Do we really need two more, or couldn't we swap Murray and Nolan for Vance?)

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BIG BLOATED AND CUNNING... - Biased BBC

BIG BLOATED AND CUNNING...: "Quite a good take on the BBC here...

'...the public has realised that there is also another BBC: a corporation that purports to be a public service but pays its Director-General a whopping £816,000 and its head of personnel more than the Prime Minister. It is an empire that schedules TV programmes to wrong-foot its rivals. Proposals seen by The Timeslook like a welcome recognition that the empire has gone too far, and should focus back on quality programming. But they actually constitute an evasive and artful strategy designed to keep the next government from intervening, while in reality changing very little.

In proposing to axe the BBC’s UK magazines, relinquish its hold on the teenage market, halve the size of its website and cut two radio stations, Director-General Mark Thompson presumably hopes to give the impression of embarking on a path of serious reform. But if he is serious about reform, he needs to do much more than axe a few radio stations that no one has ever listened to and websites that few have ever visited. The real giveaway in the proposals is that the BBC seems to have no plans to give anything back to licence-fee payers"

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CUBAN DELIGHT - Biased BBC

CUBAN DELIGHT: "See the BBC is bigging up the rich culture of communist hell hole Cuba. Matt Frei is there to highlight how ballet is the route from poverty to Covent Garden. I suppose the BBC's love of the Castrol tyranny is understandable given the political sympathies of so many of the BBC luvvies. They love Castro like we love life.

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GREEN SHOOTS SPOTTED! - Biased BBC

GREEN SHOOTS SPOTTED!: "Had to smile at the way in which the BBC has been pushing the line that the UK is emerging from recession 'faster than previously estimated.' Yes, but it's not QUITE the way the BBC presents it. Then again recession 'deeper than previously estimated' might not be quite as helpful to Mr Brown?

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THAT BINYAM MOMENT - Biased BBC

THAT BINYAM MOMENT: "Hi everyone! Been away for a few days but have been watching the propagandist drivel from the BBC and notice their excitement concerning our wicked MI5 officers and their poster boy, illegal Ethiopian immigrant Binyam Mohammad.They have seized on Lord Neuberger's comments and turned them into their running campaign to have this Jihadist canonised. Wonder what you feel about it?

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BBC Trust condemns 'inaccurate' Panorama ADHD episode - Guardian

BBC Trust condemns 'inaccurate' Panorama ADHD episode: "

Trust rules report into treatment of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder failed to meet standards of accuracy

Read full BBC Trust ruling on Panorama's What Next for Craig?

The BBC is to broadcast an on-air correction and apology after the BBC Trust ruled that a Panorama report into the treatment of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) failed to meet the expected standards of accuracy and impartiality.

In its ruling today, the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee (ESC) ordered the corporation's management to broadcast the correction and apology at the beginning or end of Panorama in its Monday night BBC1 slot, 'due to the serious nature of the breaches' of editorial standards.

The ESC said the edition of Panorama in question, What Next for Craig?, broadcast on 12 November 2007, fell below the 'highest standards' expected of BBC1's flagship current affairs show.

'The ESC expects the highest standards from Panorama as BBC1's flagship current affairs programme, and this programme failed to reach those standards. Due to the serious nature of the breaches the ESC will apologise to the complainant on behalf of the BBC and require the broadcast of a correction,' the committee added.

The ESC also said the edition of Panorama should not be sold to other broadcasters or repeated by the BBC and gave management five working days to remove from the corporation's website any material from What Next for Craig? that was found to be in breach of editorial guidelines.

A complainant who had already dealt with BBC management's editorial complaints unit procedure appealed to the ESC, arguing that Panorama's report was 'seriously inaccurate and unbalanced in the way it dealt with the issue of how ADHD should be treated' and 'was likely to cause serious harm to children' with the condition.

The complainant, who first wrote to the BBC raising concerns about the programme the day after it was broadcast in November 2007, also raised issues about the way the corporation dealt with him. The ESC said decisions on this aspect of his complaint 'will be made separately'.

Panorama was not in breach of BBC editorial guidelines on harm and offence or children, but there were serious breaches on accuracy and impartiality, the ESC concluded.

On accuracy, the committee ruled that 'the programme failed to accurately report the findings of a three-year follow-up study in the USA to the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (MTA)'.

The programme-makers should have included the views of other authors of this report and not just those of professor Pelham, according to the ESC.

Panorama also 'distorted some of the known facts in its presentation of the findings' of the study and failed to report them in context.

The BBC then failed to acknowledge 'a serious factual error' in the programme, although the ESC concluded that Panorama's production team 'did not deliberately produce a programme that they knew to be inaccurate'.

On impartiality, the ESC found 'that the programme failed to meet the requirements of impartiality in that the programme makers were not fair and open-minded when examining the evidence and weighing all the material facts, nor were they even-handed in their approach to the subject'.

Panorama's audience should also have been told there was a wider range of views on the treatment of ADHD that those expressed by Pelham, the committee added.

A BBC News spokeswoman said: 'BBC News will, of course, comply with the requirements of the BBC Trust. The trust did not conclude that the programme makers deliberately produced a programme they knew to be inaccurate. It has not questioned the integrity of the programme team but found that they had either misunderstood the underlying material that the team had in its possession, or had chosen just one interpretation of it and failed to place it in context.

'Two further complaints of material being used that might seriously impair the physical, mental or moral development of children and of not protecting the welfare of the children featured in the programme were not upheld.'

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BBC’s £2bn revamp is ‘out of control’ - Evening Standard

BBC’s £2bn revamp is ‘out of control’: "

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Furious radio stars lash out over BBC plans to axe station in wide-ranging spending cuts - Daily Mail

Furious radio stars lash out over BBC plans to axe station in wide-ranging spending cuts: "
The closure of BBC 6 Music is one of the proposals being put forward in a strategic review of services. The news sparked a reaction from 6 presenter Lauren Laverne."

BBC's landmark headquarters is £110m over budget as building projects top £2bn - Telegraph

BBC's landmark headquarters is £110m over budget as building projects top £2bn: "The BBC has overspent by an 'astonishing' £110 million on its
refurbishment of Broadcasting House, pushing the cost of its three latest
building projects past £2 billion."

BBC to drop radio stations and cut web pages - Telegraph

BBC to drop radio stations and cut web pages: "The BBC plans to scrap two radio stations, cut spending on imported shows and
halve the number of its web pages, according to reports."

THROWN TO THE LIONS... - Biased BBC

THROWN TO THE LIONS...: "As someone who has tracked the BBC's coverage of the EU for some time, Question Time last night from Cardiff was wearsomly predictable. Nigel Farage was bumped off last week's programme from Teesside because the producers were worried that he would have made highly damaging remarks about how the EU was responsible for the closure of Corus steelworks. He was reinstated for last night's edition. The audience was palpably strongly anti-UKIP (evidenced when they applauded loudly when gratutious insults were made against Mr Farage); and so, too, of course, were the four other panellists. The question chosen about UKIP was this:

Are Nigel Farage’s rude and attention seeking remarks about the President of the European Council not conclusive proof that UKIP and he have become nothing more than a boorish national embarrassment?

This showed breath-takingly deliberate (even by QT standards!), ad hominem bias against Mr Farage. Dimblebore proceded to shut Mr Farage up every time he made, or tried to make, a point in his defence. The exchange became a vicious tirade against both Mr Farage and his party. UKIP was treated exactly the same way that BNP was when it appeared. Mr Farage was called - variously - cartoonish, racist (by the boorish Janet Street-Porter), and a carictaure of himself, all without a breath of balance or attempt at intervention by Dimblebore, other than to say Mr Farage must take it all on the chin. All the while, the blood-crazed 'audience' jeered and booed at every opportunity.

UKIP's appearance on this programme could and should have been an opportunity to discuss a substantive issue about the EU. Instead, the producers made it open season against both Mr Farage and his party. This was bias at its very worst.

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KING'S ARMS MOONSHINE... - Biased BBC

KING'S ARMS MOONSHINE...: "When will the BBC finally wake up to the fact that 'climate change' is a scam? When will some light penetrate the thick skulls that inhabit the corridors of the corporation of overspend? When will they start writing balanced journalism instead of agitprop? The evidence of this piece about river flooding is not for a very long time. Lord Smith is a Nu Labour ex-minister who in his new role in charge of floods propaganda has become a latter day Cnut. The picture illustrating the alarmist hogwash is near the King's Arms riverside pub at York which I know very well. It has been flooded regularly by the Ouse since it was built in medieval times, so often that on the wall is a horizontal bar which charts the level of each incursion. It's a well-know tourist attraction. The reason for the floods is quite simple: the Ouse has been directed into a man-made narrow channel that can't cope if there's heavy rain in the Yorkshire Dales catchment area. For the BBC, of course, that's not important; it's proof of Lord Smith's moonshine.

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Hero or Villain - Biased BBC

Hero or Villain: "If anybody had any doubts about the BBC’s bias take a look at the way they spin this fascinating story.
A courageous man has not only risked the penalty for apostasy, but also converted to Christianity and denounced his father’s organisation, Hamas.
“But now we learn that his courage and his principles extended far further than this. As Ha’aretz reports, for ten years Yousef worked for the Israeli security service Shin Bet for whom the intelligence he provided saved countless lives from human bomb attacks:”

The BBC sees it differently.
Written primarily from the Palestinian perspective, Mosab Hassan Yousef is portrayed as a traitor and a spy. With highlighted quote ‘Slander and Lies’ the BBC unstintingly promotes the way Hamas sees things.

“Earlier, senior Hamas leader Ismail Radwan condemned Haaretz's report as 'baseless slander' aimed at the elder Yousef.

'The Palestinian people have great confidence in Hamas and its struggle and they will not be fooled by this slander and these lies of the Israeli occupation,' he told AFP news agency.”

The contents of the book Mr. Yousef is about to publish will confirm what we already know about Hamas. By ‘we’ I mean everyone apart from those employed by the BBC.

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All Foreign To Me - Biased BBC

All Foreign To Me: "The Day the Immigrants Left.
A programme that did what it set out to do, prove that economic migration was necessary in broken Britain. It’s a foregone conclusion that such a programme would show that immigration Is a Good Thing.

With a format reminiscent of millions of other irritating programmes, Evan Davis set out to give a pre-selected group of guinea pigs a challenge ‘to see how they got on.’
As if he didn’t know.

The type of immigrants featured were hardworking Eastern Europeans who had come from countries not yet polluted by celebrity culture and tortured hairstyles, not the type of immigrants with several black-clad wives who live on benefit and demand we change our foreign policy and adopt sharia. law.

They featured a primary school headmistress who was ecstatic about the multi lingual nature of her school, rather than a teacher who was less keen on the type of intake that forced the curriculum to bend to suit the racist views of parents who despise the kaffir.

I really hope the indigenous Brits they had were carefully chosen, so that any with a spark of workishness were filtered out at the audition stage. Please don’t tell me that all the unemployed of Wisbech are like that.

“This is Yuri, your workmate today.”
“That’s me buggered then. I’ll call him Bill.”

I bet the producers loved that. They’d have been rubbing their hands with glee.
Lots of “bets bits” to choose from.
“Sorry, can’t come in today, got food poisoning, and so’s me mate.”
That’s Brits for you! Wadda we want? Immigration. When do we want it? Now.

Newsnight. More of the same. I think. I can’t really decipher Kirsty Wark. She can’t seem to be bothered to speak clearly. So that’s me buggered.

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Cuba - Biased BBC

Cuba: "The very sad death of Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo has come at exactly the wrong time for Matt Frei whose first report from his visit to the communist dictatorship is a typically clichéd 'triumph over adversity' BBC item. At least someone at the Beeb was embarrassed enough to mention 'the death of one of the country's leading political prisoners' in the blurb under Frei's video.

(Hat tips to various commenters)

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Why Was Farage Bumped From Question Time? - Biased BBC

Why Was Farage Bumped From Question Time?: "Did the BBC withdraw Nigel Farage's invitation to appear on last week's Question Time in Middlesbrough over fears about what he might say regarding the closure of the Corus steel plant on Teesside? Tata and Pachauri do like to threaten their critics with lawyers (remember the BBC's spineless response to complaints by the Muslim Council of Britain following Charles Moore's QT comments). Or does the BBC not need a specific reason to piss UKIP around?

(Hat tips to PacificRising in the comments and Not A Sheep)

Update. More on this from Tory Aardvark and EURSOC (via George R. in the comments)

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Coming up on Radio 4 - Biased BBC

Coming up on Radio 4: "I missed this in The Guardian last week:

The Now Show, the vehicle for comedians Punt and Dennis, will be renamed The Vote Now Show, for the duration of the election campaign and broadcast every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

FFS.

The article also says that Labour Party supporter Simon Schama will be presenting Radio 4's A Point of View for three months.

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Jeremy Paxman apologises for using F-word on air during Newsnight - The Independent

Jeremy Paxman apologises for using F-word on air during Newsnight: "

Veteran journalist Jeremy Paxman was forced to apologise after using a swear word during Newsnight.

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Peer demands talks with BBC on its coverage of assisted suicide - Daily Mail

Peer demands talks with BBC on its coverage of assisted suicide: "
Lord Carlile is the most senior establishment figure to call into doubt the Corporation's reporting of assisted suicide and euthanasia."

NO SUPPORT - Biased BBC

NO SUPPORT: "Last night, Irish republican terrorists detonated a car bomb at the Court House in Newry. No one was killed or injured but this was through good luck rather than design.



Back in 1985, other Irish republican terrorists bombed this same building. Their proxies now sit in government.



This morning, on the BBC, I heard the BBC's political correspondent Mark Simpson claim that those responsible for the bombing last night had little support "in the community!. This is standard government/BBC operating procedure when these events occur. The fact is that the republican terrorists who carried out this bombing have tried to carry out many other such bombings, have murdered British soldiers and a Police Office, and still been able to melt into the community from which they hailed. It does not suit the Government to have the media expose the significant support that terrorism enjoys in certain areas, the same areas that have always supported violence. Yet the BBC, that tame poodle, simple barks the party line. Another line of enquiry they could have taken is has the removal of border security increased the liklihood of these kind of attacks. Then again once you pay the danegeld.....

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OBAMA'S "RADICAL ACTION" DEFERRED... - Biased BBC

OBAMA'S "RADICAL ACTION" DEFERRED...: "Illegal immigration features strongly on the BBC this morning. If you listen to this item you will hear the BBC bemoan Obama's failure to deal 'radically' with the millions of illegal immigrants i.e handing them an amnesty for their law-breaking. This is an entirely one-sided issue as presented by Kevin Connolly and another example of how the BBC consistently favours illegal immigration.

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THE IMMIGRATION COVER UP - Biased BBC

THE IMMIGRATION COVER UP: "Give a listen to Phil Woolas here getting away with blue murder as he waffles about Labour's policy of mass immigration for social change. Note the amiable tone throughout and the little laugh at the end from Humphyrs.

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DYING CAUSE... - Biased BBC

DYING CAUSE...: "Lord Carlile, the veteran Lib Dem peer, is complaining to the BBC Trust about the corporation's biased coverage promoting the legalisation of so-called assisted dying. The phrase itself, of course, is repulsive Newspeak that citizen Smith would have instantly recognised. It's a classic liberal BBC cause: how can it not be right to show 'mercy' to a dying loved one by smothering them or filling them with poison? My analysis of the BBC website this morning shows that every utterance by those in favour, such as the novelist Sir Terry Pratchett (who wants the establishment of killing panels); camapaigner and MS sufferer Debbie Purdy; and the lefty journalist Ray Gosling have been slavishly followed and boosted to headline status as if their words were the Holy Writ. To be fair, those against - such as George Galloway - have also been given some airtime; but the overwhelming coverage has been of those who want this form of murder legalised. And of course, the BBC Trust, as they always do, will firmly but politely tell Lord Carlile to go forth and multiply.

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In-fighting wrecks Greg Dyke's plans for BBC under Tories | Steve Hewlett - Guardian

In-fighting wrecks Greg Dyke's plans for BBC under Tories | Steve Hewlett: "

The Tories have been trying to capitalise on the government's troubles, but their media policy is no more coherent

The government is struggling to salvage anything at all from Lord Carter's digital economy bill – and the thousands of hours of Ofcom and industry effort that lie behind it. There is a degree of political consensus on the issue of online piracy but little conviction that what the bill proposes will prove fair or effective in tackling it. Meanwhile, the £6-a-year tax on fixed-line phones to fund otherwise 'uneconomic' high-speed broadband rollout is fiercely opposed by the Tories, and the government has kicked its own proposal to top-slice the licence fee into the very long grass of 2016 and beyond.

Which brings us to the one major proposal that still, formally at least, remains alive – the plan to pilot the provision of local news on ITV in Scotland, Wales and north-east England via so-called independently financed news consortiums (IFNCs). But this too is running into trouble as the Tories have stepped up their opposition to it. Indeed, it is quite widely believed – not least at ITV – that the IFNC proposals will be derailed by the general election.

Throw in the somewhat intemperate attack by Ben Bradshaw, the culture secretary, on Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust, and Bradshaw's very public criticism of the whole idea (his government's) of the trust – which earned him a rebuke from No 10 – and Labour's media policy is, to put it politely, in disarray.

The Tories, meanwhile, have been doing their best to take advantage of the government's troubles. But when you look a little closer they don't appear to have a coherent media policy either. True, they are against top-slicing, describing it in terms – a threat to the BBC's independence, and so on – that will have been music to the corporation's ears. Or rather, they were until George Osborne said he planned to raid the licence fee to pay for broadband. Jeremy Hunt, Bradshaw's shadow, said he would 'tear up' the BBC charter and do away with the BBC Trust. And then said he wouldn't, because to do so mid-term would threaten the BBC's independence. More recent proposals to radically reform the trust will first need its agreement, but more worryingly appear to herald just the sort of political interference in the BBC's operations the party wants us to believe it rejects.

The Tories are opposed to IFNCs – and especially plans to spend licence fee cash on them. They talk instead of creating a more benign regulatory environment for commercial broadcasters, in the hope that ITV may not give up on regional news just yet. But practically, doing away with the contract rights renewal (CRR) mechanism governing ad rates – the major regulatory problem ITV faces – will require primary legislation that is sure to be highly controversial and take a long time to enact. So what are their proposals for securing plurality in quality TV news in the nations and regions? They don't really have any. They support the idea of local TV-based multimedia services but have no firm plans for funding them.

They set up a committee of industry heavyweights under Greg Dyke, the former BBC director general, in the hope that a suite of practical policies would emerge pre-election. It was supposed to report last autumn, but the leaked idea of replacing the licence fee with direct taxation ( a move Dyke has championed before) was opposed by other members of the group and has already been rejected by David Cameron. Months of wrangling have ensued to avoid the whole report being sunk by a headline-making proposal that will immediately be dismissed by the party. The Tories are enjoying the government's media muddles but show every sign of being potentially only weeks away from some of their own.

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Detectives claim EastEnders has 'damaged their profession' - Telegraph

Detectives claim EastEnders has 'damaged their profession': "Detectives have criticised the BBC series EastEnders' portrayal of the police
and claimed the programme had 'damaged their profession'."

BBC accused of 'incredibly zealous' campaign to promote assisted suicide - Telegraph

BBC accused of 'incredibly zealous' campaign to promote assisted suicide: "The BBC faces accusations of waging an 'incredibly zealous' campaign in favour
of assisted suicide from a coalition led by Lord Carlile, the Government's
terror watchdog."

BBC's riposte to ageism attack backfires as it emerges veteran presenters are only on 30-day contracts - Daily Mail

BBC's riposte to ageism attack backfires as it emerges veteran presenters are only on 30-day contracts: "
Just days after veteran news presenters Julia Somerville and Fiona Armstrong returned to our screens, it emerged they were on only 30-day contracts."

The Two Generics - Biased BBC

The Two Generics: "

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OBAMAWORSHIP - Biased BBC

OBAMAWORSHIP: "Have a read of this slavishly pro-Obama wittering from Mark Mardell on the subject of Obamacare. It appears that despite appearances Obama had no real plan for health-care. Now he does and doesn't Mark sounds excited?

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A POLITICAL OPERATION? - Biased BBC

A POLITICAL OPERATION?: "So, what do you make of the BBC's coverage of the 'Number 10 Bullying' story? Clearly Mandelson's attempt to dismiss the entire issue of the Prime Minister's character backfired but now the attention seems to be have switched to Christine Pratt and the National Bullying Helpline. Is this an attempt to re-frame the essential issue - namely the alleged mental instability of Gordon Brown.

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BIGOTED FEAR MONGERS.... - Biased BBC

BIGOTED FEAR MONGERS....: "Did you see that the New York-based American Jewish Committee has blasted the BBC on Sunday for airing an accusation that Jews around the world assist in supposed Mossad assassinations.

The AJC said in a statement that it was “dismayed that a guest on BBC Radio 4 was allowed to state unchallenged” that the Mossad relies on Jews for assassination plots. “This baseless accusation crosses every red line between legitimate public discussion and bigoted fear-mongering,” said AJC executive director David Harris. “In less than a minute, the BBC has cast a shadow on the lives of Jews worldwide.” BBC Radio 4’s PM program interviewed Gordon Thomas, author of Gideon’s Spies, a book about the Mossad, about the January 20 assassination of Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.

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Dark Forces - Biased BBC

Dark Forces: "I consider the BBC’s bias against Israel to be potentially the most dangerous branch of its non-impartiality. Part of the problem is that they start from a wrong premise, confusing moral equivalence with impartiality. That is to say they give equal consideration, painstakingly, to the views and sensitivities of “all”* no matter if doing so entails promoting the views of thugs, criminals, liars and racists, sometimes above those of law-abiding members of society. And they do so with a contrived “who, me?” innocence. A repercussion of all this is the turmoil we are experiencing now.

Another part of the BBC’s problem is their superficial grasp of anti-Semitism. If the BBC sets out to educate, it should first be educated itself. I doubt if anyone at the BBC would be interested in reading the enlightening essay by professor Geoffrey Alderman today on CiFWatch that explains the antisemitism inherent in Islam.
He had to write such a thing because of the ignorance and bias shown by employees of the BBC’s Siamese twin newspaper the Guardian, who chose to withdraw his privileges and prevent him from expressing pro Israel views on their ‘Comment is free’ platform.

Robin Shepherd has written about another speech, immensely supportive of Israel, made by the heroic Col Richard Kemp. He gets it. He refers to the knee-jerk almost Pavlovian response from many, many elements of the international media to anything done by Israel as “utter automatic condemnation.”
Robin Shepherd gives credit to the BBC just for publishing this article on its website. (Surely that should be a given, dark forces or no.)
There are a couple of the usual gratuitous inclusions in there, but on the whole, we should be grateful for small mercies.

*For “all” read “some.”

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BBC spending watchdog pays more than £3m of licence fee money for its own London offices - Daily Mail

BBC spending watchdog pays more than £3m of licence fee money for its own London offices: "
The new base for the BBC Trust is a stone's throw from the broadcaster's headquarters and has been equipped with a video wall to give glamour to its entrance hall."

GREECE - NOT SO BAD.. - Biased BBC

GREECE - NOT SO BAD..: "Anyone catch Andrew Marr's fawning interview with the Greek PM on his awful show this morning. Why it seems all is well in Greece after all. Then we had Mandelson on to dismiss the idea that Brown is a bullying freak. Marr naturally went with this. Each day that goes by, the BBC is getting worse as it glimpses the outside possibility that Labour may not go down in flames after all.

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