BBC
Media Madness and Bizarre Booking
February 1st, 2007 12:56 PM
Occasionally I'm contacted by media
organizations who want to tape an interview, usually when events occur
which will impact military families. Right before the President's
speech on the way forward in Iraq, I received some media requests. The
aim was to come to my home, film me watching the speech and then
interview me about my reaction to what was said. I have never done a
television…
BBC Claims It Isn't Biased...Uh-Huh, Riiiight
October 30th, 2006 6:54 AM
A few weeks ago, the BBC complained that one of my Newsbusters pieces unfairly criticized them as horribly biased. Then a recent report emerged wherein Andrew Marr, a BBC staffer, said at an internal seminar that the Beeb had gone too far in pursuit of multiculturalism. It seems that the BBC is getting tired of these so-called mischaracterizations... BBC 'not crammed full of soft liberals' says…
Following CNN's Lead, BBC Uses Questionable Sources for Story
October 26th, 2006 12:24 PM
Terrorists in Iraq know they can rely on CNN to carry their propaganda as if it were straight news, now the Taliban is having success in placing "news" with the publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation. The homepage blurb makes it sound, well, official [emphasis added]:'Civilians killed' in Nato raids Scores of civilians have been killed in Nato raids against the Taleban in southern…
BBC Reporter: Bush Wasn't Elected
October 3rd, 2006 11:22 AM
The BBC's Greg Palast says, "unlike our President he [Chavez] was elected". No bias there!
The Cali Global Warming Suit: Really an Unreported 'Request' for a BTU
September 26th, 2006 11:51 AM
If you read the lawsuit, you won't get to the gist of what the State of California really wants from the six car companies it sued over their alleged contribution to the state's alleged global-warming problem.
(Aside: part of me would LOOOOOVE for this suit to go forward, so that global warming arguments can be shredded in open court.)
Here is the "relief" the lawsuit (15-page PDF) requests:…