Tweet of the day - 18 Jan 2011

My blogging mentor, John Ward, of all people, on the BBC's Robert Peston and his programme (being shown as I write this) on the big banks:

"I can't watch Peston. I always switch the Pestoff!"

Having seen part of this programme and its obvious lefty slant, I can well understand the sentiment, and I shan't be bothering with any more of it!

BBC bias message goes mainstream

After all these years of dedicated individuals monitoring and cataloguing the BBC's blatant left-wing bias, such as the Biased-BBC team or Not-A-Sheep, with this past Thursday's Question Time it was so extreme that even the national press has taken notice.

This Daily Mail article is very telling indeed; and while the programme is still available via the BBC's time-limited iPlayer we can all see what was going on for ourselves. One has to take mental step back from the action and suss out what is really going on - not with a pre-conceived notion or expectation, but just watch how events are manipulated in pursuit of the Beeb's left-wing, anti-Tory agenda. It's quite obvious!

Even the seating layout of the panel, quite apart from who is frequently interrupted and questioned in a manner different from certain other panel members, and the "I can see it coming" ambushes for the lone Tory on the panel, Philip Hammond, are there for anyone to see, once one is in the right frame of mind.

Of course, most viewers will just suck it up in the way they are meant to: remember, these are experienced media people operating here, and they know how to produce an outcome they want, not an honest one. They are corrupt, abusing their access to mass media (as tax-payers' legally-enforced expense) to peddle their own propaganda under the guise of "impartial reporting".

It is no less dishonest and dishonourable than Pravda famously was during the USSR years, and no-one with any integrity would have anything to do with it.

Remember that whenever watching or listening to any BBC output, and not only news and current affairs - even children's TV on the Beeb is infested with their political agenda!

Question Time

I hate that BBC television programme and tend to avoid it, and from the statistics posted at Biased-BBC yesterday I can see exactly why I feel that way! The bias in favour of Labour (and to some extent other lefty parties) and against the political right is evident, even in the old information provided in that post, which is by Beeb Bias Craig, who is now posting at Biased-BBC since having closed his own blog soon after the May general election.

His findings, from re-watching and timing/counting various aspects of each of the Question Time programmes for the six months before the election, cover numbers of interruptions of each panel member, how many supplementary questions were asked, and a range of other interesting facts and figures. For example, of the eighteen most interrupted panellists, ten are Conservatives, four are Liberal Democrats, UKIP's Nigel Farage is in the list twice for some reason, there was one Green, and finally one from TUV, which stands for "Traditional Unionist Voice" (Northern Ireland).

Note that there's no-one from Labour in that list!

Do also read the comments, including more recent figures from Craig. Nothing has changed at Question Time since May, and it's just as biased today as it was pre-election.

BBC strike next week

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) strike that has been timed to coincide with the BBC coverage of the Conservative party conference next week, including when the Conservative party leader (and our Prime Minister) David Cameron is due to speak, has prompted a multi signature letter from 32 BBC journalists to the NUJ. The signatories include several big names such as Jeremy Paxman, Nick Robinson and Jon Sopel.

They say the intended timing of the strike, which affects only that one party conference and not the others, would be "counter-productive".

What this probably means is that they realise that they will be seen as politically biased (which the BBC obviously is, of course) and that could mean that the BBC's current freedom to act with partiality might end up being curtailed as a result. Although the minister (Jeremy Hunt) seems a bit wishy-washy on dealing with the Beeb, he could be encouraged to harden the government's attitude towards the national broadcaster.

Perhaps those journalists are also aware that they won't be able to put their partial slant of reporting the conference at the time, and other (less partial) channels will provide a more accurate and even-handed standard of coverage than BBC people would like. That would explain the term counter-productive!

The BBC's Director General has since echoed the letter's sentiments.

Update: the strike can now been called off (as at 1 October).