EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Why would the BBC ask U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan to present a child exploitation documentary?

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Why would the BBC ask U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan to present a child exploitation documentary?: "
BBC3 controller Danny Cohen says Lohan, 23, 'fits our reach and remit perfectly'. But Radio Times calls it 'a crass pairing even though her presence will doubtless double the audience for such a critical issue'."

BBC One has fewer presenters over 50 than ITV - Telegraph

BBC One has fewer presenters over 50 than ITV: "The BBC has come under renewed criticism for ageism after a study showed that
only one in five of BBC One's presenters are over 50, compared to one in
four for ITV1."

Sir David Jason accuses BBC of 'empire building' at expense of programmes - Telegraph

Sir David Jason accuses BBC of 'empire building' at expense of programmes: "Sir David Jason has accused the BBC of 'empire building' and said it should
concentrate on making dramas and comedy programmes."

Lindsay Lohan needed to create interest in 'poverty' docs, says BBC boss - Telegraph

Lindsay Lohan needed to create interest in 'poverty' docs, says BBC boss: "The only way to get young people interested in documentaries about poverty is
to get celebrities to present them, according to the controller of BBC3."

PIE IN THE SKY... - Biased BBC

PIE IN THE SKY...: "You've got to hand it to the BBC. They won't give up one some things - and especially their relentless advocacy of AGW. No matter what the facts, they will twist them. Take this item, on wind power on Orkney. It's one long commercial for the joys of 'renewables', an ode to the importance of us all buckling down and accepting these bird-chopping, landscape-defacing monstrosities. Notice that the one thing missing from the article is the 's' word, the elephant in the room: subsidy. The author recounts how the community will benefit by £200,000 a year from their new toy, but he fails to spell out that without the government's huge subsidies for wind power, wind turbines would be prohibitively expensive. Notice, too, that there is no mention of another vital issue - that the wind is so unreliable as a source of power that no matter how much propaganda is spread about the benefits,it will never, ever, be able to provide anything but a small fraction of our overall power needs. But eh,ho, it's a nice patronising story about country folk doing nice greenie things. And that's all that matters to the BBC.

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Nasty Party Narrative Dusted Off - Biased BBC

Nasty Party Narrative Dusted Off: "Matt Frei:


Funny, I assumed from decades of BBC coverage that the Republicans were already America's nasty party. Judging by Frei's warning it would appear that there's room to crank up the anti-Republican rhetoric even higher.

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Budget2010: The LiveChat! - Biased BBC

Budget2010: The LiveChat!: "

On Wednesday afternoon at 12:30pm here on Biased-BBC we will be live blogging the last Budget before the General Election. The Budget will be carried on all major television channels except for BBC1 which will be showing Bargain Hunt (no, really!).



Importantly for us here on Biased-BBC, we will be looking carefully at the different ways that channels report and editorialise the announcements. We'll be able to compare, for the first time here, one event reported several ways in a live environment. Good for bias checkers as well as important for everyone who pays tax in the UK.



The Chancellor’s speech will certainly be a political affair rather than a fiscal exercise, so we can expect plenty of unaffordable goodies deferred until after the Election with a challenge issued to the Conservatives to oppose them.



This chat will be a collaboration between A Tangled Web, All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Biased-BBC, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus, GrumpyOldTwat(thanks for the pic!), Man Widdecombe, and Subrosa - all excellent and highly recommended blogs. If you haven't been to some of them before then please take this chance to try them out.



From Biased-BBC, All Seeing Eye and David Mosque will be in the moderators chair so it'll feel just like our regular Question Time evenings. To catch the live blogging, come back here on Wednesday, March 24th just after noon.

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