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BBC Veteran: Liberal Bias 'In Its Very DNA
January 28th, 2011 5:03 PM
While liberal media bias is often easy to spot, it's rare to see veteran journalists come clean on the biases of their own news outlets. But when one does, it's hard to dispute the first hand account of the newsroom's consistently leftist politics.
In his new memoirs, veteran BBC news anchor Peter Sissons details the startling depths of leftist politics that pervade coverage at Britain's…
Hypocrisy: Julian Assange Blasts Media for Publishing Leaks About Him
December 21st, 2010 12:52 PM
You just can't make this stuff up. According to the Times of London (subscription required), Julian Assange is angry at the UK Guardian for publishing details of sexual assault allegations against him based on…wait for it…a leaked police report. Stones, glass houses, etc.
Assange is especially peeved, the Times reported, that the Guardian "selectively published" details of that report. Gee,…
FCC Commissioner Calls For Greater Regulation of News Media
December 2nd, 2010 4:30 PM
In a Wednesday interview on BBC World News America, liberal FCC Commissioner Michael Copps told correspondent Katty Kay: "I think American media has a bad case of substance abuse right now....we are going to be pretty close to denying our citizens the essential news and information that they need to have in order to make intelligent decisions about the future direction of their country."
As…
BBC’s Kay Suggests Tea Partiers Put Beating Obama Ahead of ‘Countr
November 21st, 2010 11:30 AM
Appearing as a panel member on Sunday’s syndicated Chris Matthews Show, the BBC’s Katty Kay suggested that Tea Partiers are willing to go against the "country’s interest" rather than to "deal" with President Obama. Kay: " And if there is going to be a wing of the Republican Party that says, do not on any issue, on any case, even on its merits, compromise with the President, it’s gonna be the…
Andrew Sullivan on BBC Radio 4: Palin Represents 'An America That Is D
November 9th, 2010 11:55 AM
"Sarah Palin represents an America this is absolutely, definitionally white, that's very much rural America."
That's how The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan summed up the former Alaska governor in his appearance on the November 7 BBC Radio 4 "Americana" program.
Echoing Peter Jennings' infamous description of the 1994 midterms, the liberal British-born blogger added of 2010 voters that they had…
Journos' Biggest ClimateGate Regret: Getting Scooped, Not Getting it W
November 9th, 2010 6:10 AM
Nearly a year after leaked emails from the University of East Anglia revealed scientists manipulating data to embellish the case for anthropogenic global warming, journalists are finally starting to learn a few lessons. Unfortunately, few, if any, of those journalists are Americans.
Margot O'Neill of the Australian Broadcasting Company reported last week:
[A] key BBC news manager has…
BBC’s Katty Kay: Cheney ‘Hoodwinked the American Public’ into Be
November 8th, 2010 8:48 AM
On Sunday’s syndicated Chris Matthews Show, panel member Katty Kay of the BBC claimed that Vice President Dick Cheney had convinced 70 percent of Americans to believe that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks, and that he "hoodwinked the American public." Kay’s accusation came as host Matthews had turned the discussion to the topic of how President Obama might have handled the response…
U.K. Independent Columnist Tells BBC Suffering Children Should Be Smot
October 4th, 2010 7:21 PM
Chalk this one up to things that make you go, “What?!?” In an interview with the BBC on Oct. 4, Virginia Ironside, a columnist for the U.K. Independent made a jaw-dropping statement – that abortion and euthanasia could somehow be considered to be acts of kindness. (h/t Scott Baker, theblaze.com) “[I] think that if I were a mother of a suffering child, I would be the first to want I mean a…
Never Forget - But Have We
September 11th, 2010 7:53 PM
Never forget. Those are the two most prevalent words uttered or typed on this tragically historic day. Never. Forget.For many, September 11, 2001, was a day that will forever be seared into the minds of those who were witness. On that day, the nation was awoken by a harsh reality that some people want nothing more than to destroy our freedom, our way of life. It was a day that 19 hijackers,…
Telegraph Columnist: BBC Treats Tea Party as Cross Between Nazis and K
September 8th, 2010 1:45 PM
UK Telegraph columnist Janet Daley blasted the BBC on Tuesday for treating the tea party movement "as if it were a cross between the Klu [sic] Klux Klan and the German neo-fascist brigade."While Daley's piece is a stirring and hard-hitting indictment of the BBC's coverage, she seems to believe that its disdainful approach to the tea party movement stems from a failure to understand the American…
BBC Chief Admits 'Massive' Left-wing Bias, Vows to Remedy Imbalance
September 2nd, 2010 5:19 PM
BBC Director General Mark Thompson admitted to the UK Daily Mail in an article today that Britain's state-run news outlet has had a "massive" left-wing bias. He insisted, though, that the network is taking steps to remedy the ideological slant.BBC has a history of promoting the ultra-leftist agenda on most issues. But to see the channel's top dog admit it in an interview with the Daily Mail was…
Time Publishes Melting Arctic Scare Piece As Ice Levels Dramatically R
April 4th, 2010 3:09 PM
On the same day that Time magazine published a scare piece about the melting Arctic seas, a British paper reported recent findings that the amount of ice in northern waterways has dramatically increased to levels not seen in almost a decade."Reports about the melting ice caps are distressing" frantically began Time's "Putting a Price Tag on the Melting Ice Caps" Saturday.Yet, moments earlier,…
NBC's Brian Williams Knocks 'Hatred,' 'Venom' in Health Care Fight, To
April 1st, 2010 4:54 PM
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams appeared on the BBC podcast Americana on Sunday and asserted that "hatred" and "venom" were part of the health care debate. He then hyperbolically claimed, "I would sooner jab my hand into a food processor than take a side." [MP3 Audio available here.] The NBC journalist seriously trumpeted, "In my line of work I never engage in opinions, anyway." BBC…
BBC: Former Guantanamo Prisoners Nothing More Than Charitable Pothead
January 12th, 2010 10:10 PM
The media has frequently made the deplorable decision to present prisoners at Guantanamo Bay as innocent choir boys, wrapped up in the evil that is a U.S. prison system run by blood thirsty prison guards. Such is the case of a recent piece by the BBC, covering a love-fest reunion between the former Guantanamo guard who has seen the light, repenting for his evil ways, and two ex-inmates whose only…