BBC bias

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• Only Lord Ashcroft?

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 443
  The BBC are in full attack the Tories mode at present and this piece is typical. Its entitled "Tax attack on Tory peer Ashcroft" and reports "The Lib Dems have said new laws should be brought in immediately to remove MPs and peers who do not pay tax in the UK from Parliament. Mr Cable, standing in for Nick Clegg ...
  20 hours ago

• So is it a March general election

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 443
  Gordon Brown cant risk having his puppet Chancellor present a Budget in March 2010, a budget that would have to show (wouldnt it) that the economy has not performed as well as promised in the recent deceitful PBR. Also can another fiscal year really be planned without talking about actual and vital cuts? Of course ...
  1 day ago

• The BBC in full anti-men mode

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 443
  The BBCs propensity to blame most of the worlds troubles on men, especially white middle class men, has been commented on before but even I was amazed to read this piece by Richard Black. He asks ( my emphasis ): "Why are virtually all climate "sceptics" men?" and comments: "So whats going on? Why is this issue ...
  1 day ago

• The BBC Today programme - Always something there to annoy me

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 443
  I dipped in to the Today programme just after 07:30 and caught most of a piece warning against following the Irish example and cutting public spending and services because of the social unrest this might foment. The example used was Ireland; so cue lots of concerned leftists and the disadvantaged alluding to trouble ...
  2 days ago

• BBC and reporting political opinion polls

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 443
  Now that a few polls have shown a slight swing back to the Labour party, the BBC are suddenly interested in the polls. This piece is full of opinion polls news whereas during the long period when the Conservative party had opinion poll leads of 13%+ scarcely a word on the BBC. The pro-Labour bias is overt and wrong, ...
  3 days ago

• "the decline Jones so urgently sought to hide was not one of measured temperatures at all, but rather...those determined by proxy reconstructions."

  
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  "the decline Jones so urgently sought to hide was not one of measured temperatures at all, but rather figures infinitely more important to climate alarmists – those determined by proxy reconstructions." Read the whole incredible story at Heartland including how The Medieval Warming Period disappeared from IPCC ...
  1 week ago

• Displacement activity

  
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  You can almost fel the joy as the BBC report that "UK to punish bankers over bonuses". All this blame the bankers activity is to take the attention away from the man who is really to blame for the state of the UK economy - Gordon "complete lack of prudence" Brown.
  1 week ago

• A specialist on sea-levels writes

  
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  Please read this article in The Spectator that points out the absurdity of the recent press friendly Maldives government underwater meeting. Nils-Axel Mörner is a former lead reviewer for the IPCC and was head of Geodynamics at Stockholm University until his retirement in 2005. Oddly he has written three times ...
  1 week ago

• More bollocks fom Brown, bias fom the BBC and some advice for David Cameron

  
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  The BBC report with a straight face that: "Gordon Brown promises hi-tech efficiency savings " With the news that "Gordon Brown has said technology such as crime maps and online school reports will cut bureaucracy, as Labour attempts to halve the Budget deficit. Ahead of Wednesdays pre-Budget report, the PM said ...
  1 week ago

• Gordon Brown treated with the respect he deserves and not a word on the BBC

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 443
  The Times reports that: "Gordon Brown was snubbed by badly injured Afghan veterans when they closed curtains round their beds during a hospital visit and refused to speak to him. More than half the soldiers being treated at the Selly Oak hospital ward in Birmingham either asked for the curtains to be closed or ...
  1 week ago

• "The arguments made by climate change sceptics"

  
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  Recently I commented on another blog that in a sensible world the BBC would now have to discuss the case against the "science" of Man Made Climate Change, assuming that they would not do so. This morning I note that the BBC have such an article of course being the BBC it takes the form of "what are their arguments, ...
  1 week ago

• Climate Change update

  
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  These updates are almost a daily occurrence at the moment as the news keeps coming in and its not all to the benefit of the "warmists". Two Telegraph items have caught my eye; the first is a news piece that reports that despite the wall to wall pro-"warmist" propaganda spewed out by the BBC and most of the rest of the ...
  1 week ago

• Ben Bernanke disses Gordon Browns tripartite regulatory system

  
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  "[O]ver the past few years the government of Britain removed from the Bank of England most of its supervisory authorities. When the crisis hit - for example when the Northern Rock bank came under stress - the Bank of England was completely in the dark and unable to deal effectively with what turned out to be a ...
  1 week ago

• "The humanitarian situation in Gaza is extremely serious..."

  
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  Hansard reports the recent debate on Gaza where the usual hand-wringing and blame Israel was in evidence, here are a few examples: "The Secretary of State for International Development (Mr. Douglas Alexander): The humanitarian situation in Gaza is extremely serious and will worsen now that the winter rains have ...
  1 week ago

• Peter Lilley on climategate - as not seen on the BBC

  
  Man in a Shed — Authority: 423
  H/T To play political . I note that Peter Lilley is a very unusual person - a scientist whos a politician. We need more like him. Note Conservative home is catching up on the grass roots backlash against the green fascism of AGW. PS Fancy having to get this from Russia today and not the BBC ! ( Since Peter Lilley ...
  2 weeks ago

• The BBC and the Climate Change agenda

  
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  Number two and number three lead stories on the BBC World news page today are: "Australia vote deals climate bill blow Australias opposition elects climate change sceptic Tony Abbott as leader, dealing a blow to plans for a carbon trading law." and "Melting Antarctic ice to feed major sea rise Melting Antarctic ...
  2 weeks ago

• The BBC "mostly" ...

  
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  A simple BBC piece headlined "Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah announces new manifesto" caught my attention. First because Hezbollah are described as a "Shia group" (no mention of Islam or terrorism) an then as "the Lebanese Shia movement" (again no mention of Islam or terrorism). The BBC piece describes how Hezbollah ...
  2 weeks ago

• A perfect double of guilt by association for the BBC

  
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  Such joy at the BBC to be able to associate climate change denial with the BNP, as they start this story with the sentence "BNP leader Nick Griffin, who has said global warming is "essentially a hoax", will be at the Copenhagen climate change conference." The rest of the article explains how wrong Nick Griffin is ...
  2 weeks ago

• A contrast in coverage (update)

  
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  A few weeks back I blogged about the Saudis military incursions into northern Yemen and the almost total lack of interest shown by the worlds media. This of course contrasts with the forensic examination of any military activity undertaken by Israel. The BBC happily reported at the time that: "Saudi Arabia has ...
  2 weeks ago

• The sixty-third weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

  
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  This prize goes to the dynamic combination of Alistair Darling and the BBC for the BBC headline "Recession worse than estimated" and the first lines of this report "Chancellor Alistair Darling will say in his pre-Budget report that the economy performed worse in 2009 than he first predicted, Treasury sources have ...
  2 weeks ago

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