# 177 - WAR - BBC - show bias in London Mayrol election coverage.

Below exract is taken from searchwatch.wordpress.com :-


Current polls for the London Mayoral elections are quite revealing. The major parties – Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems are naturally standing candidates – as well as The Green Party, UKIP, BNP and a number of independents and small parties.
Firstly, bear in mind that by current polling figures, UKIP is expected to poll around 3% of the vote - around exactly that of the Greens.
So you’d expect that the BBC would be giving coverage to these parties more or less equally, right? I did some snuffling around using Google and found the following facts.

• Green Party candidate Jenny Jones received 280 mentions on the BBC website between 1st January and 30th April.
• Independent candidate Siobhan Benita received 106 mentions on the BBC website in the same timespan
• BNP candidate Carlos Cortigila received 63 mentions on the BBC website in the same timespan.
• UKIP candidate Lawrence Webb received just 58 mentions on the BBC website in the same timespan

However it is entirely in keeping with the BBC's Guardian view point that they would give more coverage to the 'socialist' Green Party over the 'rightwing' UKIP.

# 176 - WAR - 2 more bits of BBC bias.

1. Emily Maitlis on Newsnight on Monday ended with this question to a NF French MEP - " So you are a Holocaust denier......." to which he replied " You are completely wrong about that I was cleared by a court on that count."

So why did she ask the question?

IMO just so the BBC can keep wearing the mantle of purger of the extreme right.

2. Steven Glover in the Daily Mail today points out that if you listened to the BBC coverage on the Housing Benefit (HB) issue you would assume HB had been cut when in fact it has gone up!

 When is the BBC going to report the facts that the government CUTS to total government spending haven't yet happened?

The trouble with being INSTITUTIONALLY bias and a general supporter of the Establishment is that until the BBC loses its licence fee they will NEVER have to face reality and can continue to live in the world of their own making aided and abetted by the Guardian.

# 175 - WAR - French General Election coverage.

On the news at 10 tonight on BBC1 the coverage of the GE included a piece on the far right and far left.
Both had shots of their respective leaders making speeches from their platflorms but only one of the two had an interview with an English speaking french person.

Who do you think the interviewee was from the left or right???

Of course she was from the LEFT with the extract used including a good old left's bashing of the rich!!

This is how the BBC subtly imposes its bias on us all.

#174 - WAR - BBC 1 Country File.

I'm sure even dumbed down as it is the BBC likes to consider Country File on BBC 1, on Sunday night, as a factual programme that gives us the FACTS.

Well tonight the first half of the hour long programme covered the topic of wind farms in this country and of course treated the subject as a given that they are necessary. The only issue they covered on the down side, to attempt to provide some balance, was whether the VISUAL IMPACT of wind farms was a problem.

So the bias BBC, which undoubtedly is on the side of the Establishment in supporting wind farms, doesn't ask the real question which is :-

DO THEY WORK!

The trouble is if they covered this subject they would have to interview those of us who KNOW they do NOT work.

# 173 -WAR - Big Brother -continued........

Richard North continues to point out how the Main Stream Media are ignoring the EU elephant in the room, as they usually do, with regards this recent discussion about the new Government policy to monitor all electronic communications traffic.

http://eureferendum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/big-european-brother.html

The bias, dumbed down and pro Establishment BBC is following the herd and blathering on about civil liberties and trying to portray the Government as being over the top on this issue.

The real scandal is that this Government, being a signed up member of the EU, has no choice in this matter and, as with so much else, has to do what the EU tells it.

Still we know as a fact the BBC is bias in favour of the EU which is compounded because they receive soft loans from the EU so are not expected to give the EU a hard time. 

# 172 - WAR - Teenage boy kills mother with hammer.

This was covered in the 6 pm news on Radio 4 without ANY analysis of the obvious point that the murderer admitted that he was influenced by TV story lines.

Given the BBC's Eastenders is now full of violent story lines is it any wonder the BBC would wish to stay clear of opening this topic up to debate and discussion.

So no surprise that this is another example of  bias and selective reporting by the BBC.

# 171 - WAR - E-mail monitoring.

On Radio 4 this morning there was a lengthy news item about the Government's plans to seek major changes to our surveillance laws which will give the government the power to monitor email exchanges and website visits of every person in the UK.

Richard North in the link below points out the highly probable connection between this move by the Government and the need for us to comply with an EU Regulation.

The BBC, who receive soft loans from the EU, of course made NO mention of this.

http://eureferendum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/complete-coincidence.html

More bias from the BBC.

# 170 - WAR - The petrol crisis.

The lead story on the 11am news on Radio 2 today was on the petrol crisis with just one 20 second comment from a Labour MP who was asking for Francis Maude's resignation for his 'reckless' suggestion that people fill up the odd jerrycan just in case. His comments were made on the back of the person who caused a fire in her kitchen trying to decant petrol from one container to another.

The bias and dumbing down I see in this report is firstly the desire by the BBC to join in the populist stories rather than raise thier sights to news that is more worthy and secondly that they are always happy to give a Labour MP the platform and chance to criticise the Tories however shallow and absurb the reason.

The BBC is incapable of change because its bias is INSTITUTIONAL and nobody in Westminster is brave enough to point this out.

Westminster needs more INDEPENDENTS to break the hold of the LibLabCon who under their colours are all just Social Democrats with a strong emphasis on the Socialist traditions of this political movement.

# 169 - WAR - The BBC and the Budget.

Wouldn't it be nice if the BBC's coverage of the budget could be serious and not majoring on the populist line that Pensioners will no longer receive a larger personal income tax allowance than people of working age.

I see another gimmick is their 'Budget Calculator'  which panders to the lowest common denominator.

A long time ago the BBC left the high road to compete on the low road of populist broadcasting.

The BBC should be unashamedly elitist and set the bar to raise broadcasting standards and to provide the public with a service that educates and entertains.

However what we have in the current BBC is a dumbed down broadcaster which is indistinguishable from the rest.

# 168 - WAR - Paxman's Empire!

James Delingpole (JD) give Paxman's new Television series 'Empire', based on his new book of the same name, an interesting review in this weeks Spectator.

I watched the first series and saw straight away that the BBC's agenda was clearly to portray the Empire's faults rather than its benefits.

JD points out how in one scene Paxman sitting in the Gezira Sporting Club in Cairo watching croquet  asks an elderly Egyptian gentleman dressed in a western style " We weren't all bad, were we?" to which  the Egyptian replies he thinks we were all bad!

As JD points out had they wanted to the programme producers could have surely found someone at the club with a different view.

But that is not the BBC's agenda which wishes to portray the Empire in this modern PC world as being exploitative and bad.

For the 25 odd years I have been monitoring the BBC this bias, with interviewees, is something they have employed on a regular basis.

For example on a news item about Margaret Thatcher you can guarentee that if 3 people are interviewed 2 will be against her and all importantly the last interviewee will be the most anti thus leaving the viewer with the anti Thatcher comments ring in their ears.

When the BBC use this bias it is a constant reminder that NOTHING has changed at the BBC and that it is still institutionally bias.