Friday Funny – The Booker Prize for the biased BBC

I think you need a flow chart.

@BargHumer 9:54
Like we have a choice. If we don’t pay, we’re risking a £5000 fine or imprisonment.

BargHumer says:
December 9, 2011 at 9:54 am The report by Christopher Booker should be read by all Brits, especially those still paying for the TV license.
You dont even need to own a TV to have to pay for the license.
The law states that you need to be covered by a TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes, on any device, as they’re being shown on TV. This includes TVs, computers, mobile phones, games consoles, digital boxes and Blu-ray/DVD/VHS recorders.

Sorry to be a little off topic here – BUT I have to say on behalf of Canada – for the fifth year in a row WE won the Eco-fanatics FOSSIL OF THE YEAR AWARD at Durban. I LOVE my award and hope to win this prestigious award for the next ten thousand years. We will accept nothing less.
Canada as some here know refused to sign on to the son of Kyoto and refused to sign over millions of Canadian taxpayer dollars to the eco-freaks – allowing us to win this magnificent award once again! Bottom line – DON’T MESS WITH CANADA!

Thanks Josh!

I’ve never had a telly. The licence people keep on pestering me but IIRC last time I could fill in a form to not be pestered so much next time.
I believe it is possible to watch TV films that are being kept for a week, without infringing legality.

………”For more than six hundred years– that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215–there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what was the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such law.” –Lysander Spooner, The Right of Juries

Gail that quote made my day. Thanks.

Large numbers of poor people fail to pay the licence fee, then get fined, then cannot pay the fine. At the end of the day, quite a few then get sent to jail for failing to pay the fine. The BBC licence fee is a highly regressive tax – the poor person with just one old TV pays the same as a rich person with a TV in every room.
The Booker Report details many years of systemic BBC bias on Global Warming. The BBC blithely denies bias.
Sir Antony Jay’s foreword (he wrote Yes Minister and had worked at the BBC) shows that BBC is biased across many issues, not just Global Warming. The idea of a state broadcaster supported by billions of pounds of compulsory licence fees is an anachronism – made worse by the endless bias in contravention of its statutory duty to be impartial on major issues.

I am sorry. I cannot laugh. Are we becoming so immune and so used to bias in public broadcasters that all we do now is accept it and produce cartoons about it? Why isn’t something done to fix it?
The political bias of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for example is scandalous. Yes, ABC News has long become ABC Views. Section 4 of their current Editorial Policies states that they must:
4.1 Gather and present news and information with due IMPARTIALITY.
4.2 Present a diversity of perspectives so that, over time, no significant strand of thought or belief within the community is knowingly excluded or disproportionately represented.
Interesting that their 2011 edition includes a definition of IMPARTIALITY that I cannot find in earlier editions i.e.
Judgements about whether impartiality was achieved in any given circumstances can vary among individuals according to their personal and subjective view of any given matter of contention. Acknowledging this fact of life does not change the ABC’s obligation to apply its impartiality standard as objectively as possible. In doing so, the ABC is guided by these hallmarks of impartiality:
• A balance that follows the weight of evidence;
http://www.abc.net.au/corp/pubs/documents/20110408/EditorialPOL2011.pdf
(Was this was especially written as a loophole for the Labor/Green Government’s Carbon Tax? Who BTW determines the weight of evidence? And who determines that the ABC is correctly interpreting it?)
Does that also mean that on the ABC internet site The Drum we can accept 12 pro AGW articles to one questioning it? And an ABC filter police team that can refuse posts without explanation? And an almost daily sermon on ABC radio or television with some alarming event that is happening or will happen unless we cut CO2 emissions? And no-one within the ABC questioning the senseless decision of a minority government to impose a carbon tax against an angry majority when before the election they said they would not do so? And when the world is increasingly questioning the practicality of an international carbon trading scheme.
But the beaming light has been the Internet and websites like WUWT, The Resilient Earth, Jo Nova and Icecap and the millions of blogs that counteract BBC and ABC views. There is no doubt that this cyber revolution has made the public broadcasters even more biased than they ever were before. But even so, every night before you go to bed, thank God for the internet.
Perhaps in a real democracy government funded organisations like the BBC and ABC must eventually disappear because they will always represent the culture of the chardonnay socialist set that Sir Antony Jay described so well in Booker’s Report.
Maybe we do not have to fix it, they might just fade away like all the myths that they are perpetrating? And like everything else outside of essential services, if you want it, you will have to pay for it?

In Britain statutes aren’t law – lawful only applies to Common Law, legal applies to statutes, it’s all in the language, legalese. Legalese is the language of corporations. If you have no contract with the corporation it has no rights over you. The Beeb cannot make the claims it does, that you need a licence to watch any live broadcast even those from other companies etc. and are subject to punishment for not having one, in Common Law. That is organised crime. The corporation needs your acquiescence to have that hold over you. It is unlawful in Common Law to demand money with menances..

Gail and Lucy,
In addition to the power to judge both facts and law and thus nullify a laws application in a specific case, in the U.S., under the 5th Amendment , juries, in addition to their typical task of responding to the case at hand by investigating and deciding as to whether to return an indictment, have the authority to initiate their own investigations and make “presentments”.
Courts and AGs naturally would not like such an authority to continue which is why they have smothered it over the years, the presentment power having been smothered by Note 4 to Rule 7 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure in 1947.

The only advantage the BBC has over other channels here is that your viewing isn’t interrupted by advertising, it’s almost worth the fee just for that. If the BBC isn’t supported by this tax they’d have to go commercial, then I would give up the TV.
Anthea

Booker has a great article about David Attenborough in the Telegraph’s Comment section. Attenborough is much praised but has been found out (for the second time) to be deceiving the viewers when showing polar bear footage.
In 1997, Sir David narrated over scenes of a mother snuggling up with newborns in Polar Bear, Arctic Warrior. It was criticised when it emerged it was filmed at a zoo in Frankfurt, Germany.
Now it’s been revealed that a key scene from the hit BBC series “Frozen Planet” showing a polar bear tending her newborn cubs was filmed in a zoo using fake snow.
Mixing real Arctic shots with zoo scenes, documentary makers fooled the audience into believing the footage was gathered by intrepid cameramen in the brutal sub-zero wilderness.
It was actually filmed from the comfort of a wildlife park enclosure using bears in a man-made wood den.
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/12/12/frozen-planet-fakery-row-polar-bear-filmed-in-zoo-115875-23628713/#ixzz1gKSSbUoG