David Rose and Melanie Phillips carefully detail the rampant corruption at the BBC as exposed by the latest Climategate e-mails.
‘The emails – part of a trove of more than 5,200 messages that appear to have been stolen from computers at the University of East Anglia – shed light for the first time on an incestuous web of interlocking relationships between BBC journalists and the university’s scientists, which goes back more than a decade.
‘They show that University staff vetted BBC scripts, used their contacts at the Corporation to stop sceptics being interviewed and were consulted about how the broadcaster should alter its programme output.
‘… BBC insiders say the close links between the Corporation and the UEA’s two climate science departments, the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research, have had a significant impact on its coverage.
‘Following their lead has meant the whole thrust and tone of BBC reporting has been that the science is settled, and that there is no need for debate,’ one journalist said. ‘If you disagree, you’re branded a loony.’
Open Questions: Here in Canada, are the members of our mainstream media, particularly throughout the CBC and CKNW’s Bill Good, any less corrupt? Will any of these so-called “professional” journalists ever resign over their complete breach of ethics?
Bill Good has said, on air, that since he and his producers believe in global warming they would only put on other believers & promoters like andrew weaver and mark jaccard . . .
Fair and balanced journalism.
But then he did work for the CBC for years so he has that type of journalistic ethics deep in his system.
I stopped listening to Bill Good years ago also. The one-sided puff segments got very tiresome. Especially when I could scan down the dial to 790 am, out of Bellingham WA, and pick up Rush, Beck or Hannity talking about serious issues that affect our world.
790 am folks, It the freedom of speech that we are forbidden to hear in Canada.
The CBC has been either making the news or reporting biased news for decades. CTV is not a whole lot better. I suspect that the BBC is no different.
I gather Bill Good is the voice of the NDP. Good thing in this area we only have the red Tory John Gormely to contend with. Most of the time John is great, but sometimes his red slip shows loudly.
Unfortunately we are not able to tune into Rush, Beck or Hannity. We get Hannity on FoxNews.
We wonder why so many people are brainwashed? I think we know why.
I had a conversation with an acquaintance, university classmate, PHD (field crops) and Climategate II came up.
He was just apalled, apalled I tell ya, that the leaker was still allowed to be at large, active, undetected, after the first outrage….
Falsification of data, supresson of data, suppression of dissent, abuse of the peer review process…..were not relevant…but the leaking of these “private e-mails” was a crime against humanity.
I explained it to him…
“THE COLD WAR IS OVER…YOUR SIDE LOST!”
Cknw is talk radio? More like the echo chamber for Liberals everywhere.
Talk radio is dead in Vancouver. Whatever one may hear at CKNW is filtered and censored, only approved friends of Corus are allowed, certainly nobody with real, uncomfortable opinions is allowed (hello Mr Tsakumis).
Rush and Hannity, that’s good radio. Beck…..hmmm, he’s uncertain, at times brazenly funny, at other times, leave it for the pulpit, IYKWIM.
I disagree sasquatch…
The Cold War is not over…
IMO
When the wall came down, the west was invaded by 40 million cradle to grave socialists.
The enemy didn’t surrender, they just packed up, and left Russia to take residence at the U.N.
ALL the worlds socialists are ganging up on Canada, Harper is the only western leader standing up to what the socialists at the U.N. have in store for the worlds economy.
Thank God..!
Good question!
CTV is refusing to report emails contradicting climate science yet happily reports emails contradicting Peter McKay’s commorant ride.
William in Ajax, I think you are right. We are just dealing with a different phase of the same war. The left lost the more visible aspect of the war, but are busy trying to extend the covert work of the 5th column that Stalin inserted in western society.
All BBC employees have a vested interest in the Church of AGW through their pension fund.
“the BBC Pension Fund Trust still boasts openly that it is a member of the IIGC (Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change) and meanwhile, the IIGC itself is pushing flat out to force its climate change policies on government and investors alike.”
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2011/06/green-jackboots-and-pension-funds.html?m=1
BBC employees know their nest egg will rot if they don’t do their part in promoting AGW. Politicians know the BBC will give them a lot of coverage on anything that can be linked to climate change. Are the politicians going to choose positive or negative coverage?
It is good the BBC has been outed. Here in Canada CTV and the entire Asper chain could be tied in with CBC. I can guarantee we will never be allowed to see the emails. In Canada the left has snatched up the news wires and thus we get the same crap on TV, radio and the newspapers. Sun TV brings a different pespective. I am very thankful for Kate and similar bloggers who actually do some journalism.
Dateline Ottawa: cbc brass refuse to apologize for it’s biased climate reportage since hell can’t possibly freeze over…
You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
(“ethics”, just to be clear)
“Will any of these so-called “professional” journalists ever resign over their complete breach of ethics?”
Oooooh that’s rich! Not frakking likely, is it?
Ken (Kulak)…
Check out Adlers article here http://www.torontosun.com/2011/12/01/evil-canada-must-pay
There are many who agree with what I said.
“Professional journalism”? Does it exist any longer? MSM continues to be exposed as agenda-driven, which erodes trust – which destroys their “authority”. When the blogosphere blossomed, I stopped watching TV news. I cancelled newspaper subscriptions. I no longer own a TV. The net of this is that I am no longer an “impression” for the advertisements on TV or in newspapers/magazines. I take every opportunity to communicate to advertisers that their ads don’t reach me, and why they do not. The ultimate destination for agenda-driven producers and editors is bankruptcy, not The Perfect Society. How can these “professionals” be so smart, and so completely stupid at the same time? It’s a wonder.
“Whatever one may hear at CKNW is filtered and censored, only approved friends of Corus are allowed, certainly nobody with real, uncomfortable opinions is allowed”
At CHED, one of Edmonton’s Corus station Dave Rutherford, Charles Adler, and Roy Green aren’t satisfied with the proof offered for climate changed. The odd fill-in is a clueless idiot. Where does Corus hide Adler in Vancouver? He must be on somewhere.
You can listen to Rush, Hannity, Levin and others on the KBOI from Idaho.
Click on KBOI, click on listen live, then again listen live.
You are set.
Bill Good, reminds me of that big green troll, Shrek. Aside from that, he is one of the biggest fog horns for the left that you will find on the coast.
I heard him say this (not verbatim)
My daughter teaches school in England and she is very attuned to the climate change problem and does a lot of reading about it. She is convinced that it’s real so I believe it too,
and that ladies and gentlemen is the level of brain power behind the AGW/climate change movement to destroy capitalism.
And by the way … Bill Good is one of the most over paid fake journalists in Canada and that fat monthly paycheck some directly from Capitalist sponsors,
And his Daddy paved Bill Good’s career path for him as well. So we are talking about one of the older Trophy Kids, (I showed up where’s my trophy )
“Jeremy Clarkson: enemy of the state”
Branded by BBC.
Is Clarkson a climatological heretic? BBC is a leftist gang-banger.
James Delingpole writes:
“Yesterday, the BBC went totally bananas over the Jeremy Clarkson non-story. In twenty-five years of journalism I have never been so inundated with interview requests. First in was the BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show; then BBC Radio Ulster; then the Richard Bacon Show on Radio 5 Live; then Scotland Tonight and BBC Wales; then the World Tonight on BBC Radio 4; then Channel 4 news (which, though not strictly the BBC is very much part of the same problem I’m about to describe). Oh, and today I’m doing Radio 5 Live again, followed by BBC World News. What the hell is going on?”
“How the BBC ganged up with the militant Left to attack Jeremy Clarkson”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100121163/how-the-bbc-ganged-up-with-the-militant-left-to-attack-jeremy-clarkson/
Bill Good of CKNW is not an NDP hack. If anything, he is a Liberal aopologist. But mostly he is just a fluff dispenser. He occupies the prime time mid morning spot on the (former?) higher ratest radio station in BC. CKNW used to have personalities that would think and hold people to account (like Raif Mair)… then they got Bill Good.
Bill Good is a news reader robot. He has no original thought other than what he reads in the consensus media. Therefore he is a “believer”.
I also listen to KGMI out of Bellingham. (am 790)…much better. Rush, Glenn, Hannity….LOVE IT
And Bill Good = Politically Correct. The words are interchangeable.
Scar @ 10:23….I think Adler is on CKNW in the evenings, 7 to 9 or something like that….they put him there when they hope nobody is listening.
He was on during prime morning/early afternoons (I think after Bill the Good’s show) on CKNW for only a short time. The raging progressives must have freaked out a bit too much for the boss’s liking, so they turfed Adler to the evenings…then they gave the spot to Jennifer Burke, then Christy Clark and now some unknown chicklet…I think CKNW has a policy of fluff to soothe the progressives.
Rick at 8:38
I thought I was the only Canadian that listened to 790. Started listening to Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck during the holidays this year and now listen at
http://tunein.com/radio/KGMI-790-s32847/
Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck are on air a lot longer than Gormley or Adler. P*sses me off when Adler’s broadcasts are cut short by the Canuks broadcasts.
I used to drive between Prince George and Edmonton a lot at night. My usual stations to wave-skip listen were 670 KBOI (Boise), 710 (now an ESPN network), 770 KVOR (colorado), and 1530 KFBK (Sacramento). KFBK used to have a Rush Replay on starting at about 10 O’clock at night, 3 solid hours of entertainment to keep me awake while driving.
In BC, greens or their narratives have infested both statist political parties and the vast majority of local politicians. Why not, its embedded into all school curricula. BC is not unique.
Bill Good is likely a Liberal, actually a decent enough guy but apparently drank the AGW Cool Aid. I was on his show once and he treated me and my viewpoints fairly.
Raif Mair (excellent on constitutional law and politics) would write off all human civilization if there was the remotest possibility of a wild fish habitat threatened to be adversely affected. He single handedly led the successful campaign to halt Kemano completion, costing BC taxpayers half a billion in compensation to Alcan. His irrational obsession against fish farms finally got him fired.
The print media has its own green superstars like the Sun’s Stephen Hume (the Doug Collins of the eco-feminist left). The B-list environmental reporters have databases of every green zealot in the province available on short notice to fill in the final quote field of their formulaic articles. It’s so much easier than finding someone with related expertise who might contradict or worse, complicate the narrative.
Corruption? Absolutely, systemic corruption throughout the entire institutional left (media, education, culture, governance, and rent-seeking business). But also sloth, particularly in education and the media.
Soccermom and Antenor, That makes three of us rebellious folks who listen to forbidden radio from Bellingham.
Shhhhhhh the CTRC may be monitoring.
DanBC: He may have real, uncomfortable opinions, but Alex G. Tsakumis is a very arrogant and ignorant man who can’t (effectively) debate his baseless opinions.
I recall Philip Till’s commentary in the Sept. 2001 aftermath. He said, repeatedly, that “if you want real, unbiased news, you have to go to the BBC. Not this new BBC Canada channel they have on some cable packages these days; ask your provider to carry the BBC news service if they currently don’t. I’ve travelled many places and reported on many things, and during my time with NBC, we used to deal directly with the BBC, I found them to be…”
Unreal.
Frankly, other than CBC which steals money from me that I don’t want to give to it, I really don’t care how out of touch or in bed with such and such the old media is. We have blogs and we have streaming audio/video with which we can listen to just about any program offered in any language we choose from anywhere in the world. Good riddance.
Now, if we could just get our politicians to see things as they are, not as they used to be, and finally put CBC out into the wilds where it can survive (or not survive) off of funds provided by its own fans, and leave the rest of us alone.
sasquatch at December 2, 2011 9:00 AM
A most excellent explanation.
Will be using it from now on alot.
Just have to add “WOW”
sasquatch at 9:00 AM, did you ask him how he felt about Wikileaks?
The CBC, Blubb and Wail journalists etc. are irresponsible enough. They are of a different, more jungly class, however, than the Canadian government technocratic class.
In Britain the status of the media, or at least the BBC, seems to be higher, and one can easily believe that the
BBC reporters involved in climate affairs went to the same schools as the climatologists. In Canada journalists are scum, mostly, David Warren excepted.
IMHO Bill Good is much too close to Andrew Weaver. His interviews with him have been puff pieces – not enough 2nd or 3rd questions after the first slow pitch. The last interview with him, Weaver trotted out all the trite responses such as “follow the money”, more this means more that, etc – some of this was easily challenged and there was none. It was just a propaganda piece. He will not and has not interviewed the skeptic side to the best of my knowledge – flat out has stated that the listeners should tune in Roy Green or Charles Adler on CKNW if that is what they want to hear.
However, Bill is not a shill for the left. More of a centrist which lines up with the Liberal party in BC. I have listened to hundreds of hours of his chatter over the last 10 years. I don’t listen nearly as much the past year or so since he came out on AGW.
Corrupt? I wouldn’t have thought that – I just think he is unable to grasp the issues and accepts being spoon fed a position. Lazy journalism.
I kinda remember Gary Bannerman and do miss Peter Warren at times.
I personally can’t stand Bill Good. His ignorance is only out done by his arrogance. Blowhard Bill is spoon fed a script and he sticks to it, no matter what. Haven’t listened to NW in years because I’m not interested in bullying phony celebrity pulp, disguised as “journalism”. I’ll have to check out 790. Sun news is a breath of fresh air.
You asked, “Here in Canada, are the members of our mainstream media, … any less corrupt?”
Yeah, there is one. Rex Murphy rocks. His weekly commentary last night was great. And in tonight’s news they tried to make Rex look bad by showing some Skyped clips from three young folks who collectively do not have the intelligence of our Rex.
Peter Smarmbridge smirks when Rex goes up against AGW.
Long live Rex Murphy!