39 Replies to “Now They Tell Us”

  3. An author complaining about too much freedom of speech is like a fish complaining about the dampness.

  5. Not had been, IS.
    A State owned and operated broadcaster with a total monopoly on mass comunications in a nation would have to have a socialist bias.
    It was born with one.

  8. Melwilde: excellent point.
    Until I see evidence to the contrary I will assume that the BBC still has a massive bias to the left.

  9. Breaking News…. BBC pulls head out of *** and looks around. I believe this is the new strategy of the left, with percentage of viewers and readers plunging they are in complete panic.
    I love the sound of Neo Commies heads exploding in the morning.

  10. The BBC is in an interesting situation just now, with Murdoch’s Newscorp trying to get laws changed to undercut its position.
    One would expect a rightist coalition to favor their attempt, but Murdoch was so embedded with Blair’s regime that they may not play ball.
    The immediate concern is the renewal of the licence-fee system.
    Unfortunately, none of the interesting aspects of this are to be found in Breitbart’s press clipping from the Spectator.
    Here’s something more detailed —
    Regarding the specific claim that Brietbart DOES mention —
    // Thompson says […]. “In the BBC I joined 30 years ago, there was, in much of current affairs, in terms of people’s personal politics, which were quite vocal, a massive bias to the left. The organisation did struggle then with impartiality. And journalistically, staff were quite mystified by the early years of Thatcher.
    “Now it is a completely different generation. There is much less overt tribalism among the young journalists who work for the BBC. […]
    The BBC is not a campaigning organisation and can’t be, and actually the truth is that sometimes our dispassionate flavour of broadcasting frustrates people who have got very, very strong views, because they want more red meat. Often that plays as bias. People think: ‘Why can’t they come out and say they are bastards?’ And that can play out on left and right.” //
    The UK is going downhill, having preiously based its narrow prosperity on the bubbly financial sector. // the UK cash ratio is 0.15 per cent //
    Now everything is up for cuts.
    The BBC is a good part of British standing in the world. The UK would be better off cutting their nuclear renewal.

  11. Yes, Melwide/Gord Tulk.
    That IS an approach to public relations.
    – Admit your sins.
    – Thereby reduce the tension.
    – Continue sinning, albeit maybe with some stylistic adjustments.
    Similarly in debate, a very effective technique is to agree with your opponent on a fews things up front to give your audience a sense of your balance and fairness and your lack of personal animus toward him.
    It’s in he BBC DNA. Nothwistanding the Balfour Declaration, Britain’s treatment of Jews before and after statehood, right up to today, is profoundly, disgustingly cynical.
    And witness David Caneron’s view that Iran has every right to nuclear weapons despite it’s repeated genocidal declarations, and of course his excoriation of Israel for its anti-terror-ship defence.

  12. Give the guy propz for using the word “massive”.
    Remember, the CBC continually denies ANY bias whatsoever.
    My worry is that he talks of less tribalism in the current BBC journos. Of that, I am less certain.

  13. I just saw this on drudge. I’d just like to say:
    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!
    Eat that, Lefties. Yum yum, baby!
    No word on when CNNCBCCBSABCNBCCTV and etc are going to fess up too, eh?
    The crap about “less tribalism” amongst the current crop of journos is of course crap, he’s just covering his 6. Once a lying b@st@rd, always a lying b@st@rd.

  14. “Had been”? Past tense? Mr. Thompson seems to have trouble with his cognition and/or his verb tenses.
    Isn’t that statement effectively analogous to an alcoholic who’s not quit drinking saying, “I used to be an alcoholic”?

  15. But there is no bias at the CBC:
    “Ryerson University professors Marsha Barber and Ann Rauhala explored the demographic and political leanings of Canada’s television news directors. The results of their survey were published in 2005 in the Canadian Journal of Communication. The researchers found that the news directors, whom they describe as the people “with the most direct responsibility for programming the news on any given day,” were more politically and socially liberal than the rest of the Canadian population. Broken down by network, those working for the CBC were the most left-leaning.
    —
    “When the researchers turned their attention to television news alone they found that coverage by the CBC was most harsh against conservative positions.”
    —
    “Journalists, particularly those working for CBC TV, used omission, exaggeration or misrepresentation of information to present evangelicals and the positions they held in the worst possible light.”

  16. Now try to fancy the same admission coming out the CBC. (Don’t laugh too hard, I can hear you from here).

  20. Years ago, when I was just a young kid living in Africa, I built a shortwave radio, every excited, said to myself “And soon I’ll be able to listen to the famous BBC”.
    The big day came when the project was finished, mile long antenna connected, and I tuned the dials in excitement to the BBC.
    Talk about shattered assumptions. Their lies and half truths regarding Africa shocked me even as a kid. But the double shock to me was how many people held them in high regard. Liberals are blind to their very own deceit.
    I tried listening to them a few more times just in case things got better, but gave up after a week. I have never listened to them again in all the years since, and frankly I wouldn’t care if the entire organization dropped dead tomorrow.

  21. In late breaking further news:
    The BBC DG has asked the government to cease collecting Radio/TV license fees to fund the BBC by the end of 2012 and sell the BBC to the highest bidder no later than September 2011.
    As an economy move, massive staff reductions via attrition and early retirements will begin shortly. It is feared that pension contributions placed in silly envirowhacko investments by the BBC will be at risk. The communist, gay, and gay communist communities within the BBC will be especially hard hit.

  22. I won’t believer their late date repentance, unless I see real stakes in the hearts of the Liberal Left vampiric Broadcasters.
    Otherwise they will just rise again under another banner.
    JMO

  23. Dang. One day after the “Friends of the CBC” campaign closed. I would have dearly loved to include his quote about “massive bias”, and asked when the CBC would be grown up enough to admit the same.

  24. Its all good,keeping the left artificially propped up will make them easier to topple when the time comes.

  25. He is having a laugh, isn’t he.
    Condescending fascist treating the prols like the idiots he thinks we are.
    As his class of useful idiots used to love to say when they were younger …..
    “Come the glorious day of the revolution”

  26. I’ve spent several (Northern Hemisphere) winters in Thailand. The first time I was there the hotel where I stayed had two news channels on the cable available in my room, BBC World and CNN. I’ve never been exposed to so much left wing bias in my life. After a few days I just stopped watching the so-called news channels. Next year when I came back the cable provider had changed the news channels, dropped both BBC and CNN and replaced them with Fox News, the English service of Deutsche Welle, and the Chinese cable news service. My guess is that the expat community voted with their dollars (or euros) and the cable service decided to get back their customers by providing something more palatable. Even the communist Chinese news service had less left wing bias than either BBC World or CNN. In fact, it seemed quite fair and balanced.

  27. READ: When Labour was boss we could do whatever we wanted. When the Tories are boss, we have to make kind and try to keep our jobs.

  30. Massively off-topic, but since it concerns an albino bingo-caller.. er, news anchor:
    On tonight’s “Celebrity Jeopardy!”, comedian and noted pot smoker Cheech Marin smoked CNN anchor-thingy Anderson Cooper $12,400 to zero. Highlight: On a Daily Double, Cooper balks at the question this “female leader won her fourth term as PM in 1980”, before lamely stuttering “Margaret Thatcher” (who was still in her first term), completely forgetting Indira Gandhi. Whatta smart guy!

  31. “Now it is a completely different generation. There is much less overt tribalism among the young journalists who work for the BBC,” he added.
    To use some British expressions; “poppycock”, “balderdash”,and “codswallop”,all rolled into one.
    Or,to use a Canadian expression, “Bullshit”. The new generation is more LW than the previous one,and they don’t have any of the old timers around to constrain them.

  32. KevinB – just for the record, it was Tommy Chong who was, and still is, as far as I have heard, the real daily smoker. I have been a fan of both for 3 decades so I’m not trying to disagree, but Cheech left Tommy for a long time to pursue a more serious career. Last I heard they were doing a reunion thing – seems to be popular with every entertainer/group these days.
    Cheech apparently is a bit more booksmart, but Tommy has allegedly done a lot to catch up.
    As far as Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt, well, I think we can assume he had at least the equivalent of an Ivy League education.
    I guess book-learnin’ doesn’t always mean intelligent.

  33. “. . . had been. . . ” Yes, in the early days of the revolution, the left-socialists and counter-revolutionary agitators attempted to derail party thinking by shameless appeasement of pseudo-intellectuals and remnants of the bourgeois class. But thanks to the leadership of comrade Thompson, the correct party line has been established. The current five year plan will exceed production by 150%. Wreckers and saboteurs have been ruthlessly rooted out. Under the leadership of the 16th Party Congress the workers and the peasants blah, blah, blah.

  34. In other shocking news, the Pope is Catholic, the sun will rise tomorrow and swallows will return to Capistrano once again ..
    That is all..
    ****
    It’s a good thing Walmart sells so many of those cheap plastic buckets; they make great containers in which to place all the pieces of leftist heads which explode after stories such as these…..

  35. >>On tonight’s “Celebrity Jeopardy!”, comedian and noted pot smoker Cheech Marin smoked CNN anchor-thingy Anderson Cooper $12,400 to zero.
    That was a re-run, but I watched it again just for the pleasure of seeing the great Anderson Cooper humiliated.

  36. “- Admit your sins.
    – Thereby reduce the tension.
    – Continue sinning, albeit maybe with some stylistic adjustments.”
    In Tom Sawyer, Clemens called this the power of the “second lie.” Which Aunt Polly fell for every time.

  38. “The director general of the BBC admitted Thursday that his organisation had been guilty of a “massive bias to the left”… ”
    Oh no! Say it isn’t so!

  39. Put it this way…at least somebody there has enough wits about himself to understand that the BBC is biased to the left.
    In the USA, the media people seem to think that they themselves, and those resembling them, are “normal” and everybody ELSE is “extreme right wing.” Fact is, all the mainstream media except Fox News is extreme left, while Fox News is pretty much centrist despite being labeled by most people as conservative.
    Let me tell you, most of the present-day “conservatives” in the US would have been labeled as Bolsheviks ninety years ago.

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