Roger Harrabin and Joe Smith write to UEA warmist Mike Hulme, ask: “What should the BBC be doing this time in terms of news, current affairs, drama, documentaries, game shows, music etc?”
We are writing to some alumni of the University of Cambridge Media and Environment seminars gathering ideas for the BBC’s coverage of the Rio+10 Earth Summit in a year’s time. Before the Rio summit, the BBC held the One World festival, which included some memorable broadcasting – particularly a feature drama on refugees. Some broadcasting is already in the pipeline that will relate to the themes of Rio+ 10, but this is an open opportunity for you to put forward ideas that will be collated and circulated amongst relevant BBC decision-makers.
* What should the BBC be doing this time in terms of news, current affairs, drama, documentaries, game shows, music etc? * How can the BBC convey the theme of sustainable development to viewers and listeners who have probably seen all the issues raised before? * Is there any scope for a global broadcasting initiative? * What are the strongest themes and specific issues that should appear in the media in the months and years following the conference?
If anyone ever needed any proof the the BBC is biased, then this is the prime example. It is the proverbial “tail wagging the dog”, there’s no journalism here, only obedience.
h/t to Tom Nelson
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Harabin has been parked in some kind of unpaid leave until his shady deals with the Green NGOs are forgotten; anyone know where he is and whether any foundation pays for this leave? Think it was in the Chicago area, some kind of “journalism college” or so…
If you are a UK resident and therefore a BBC license payer, you should copy this email and forward it through the proper channels to the BBC. You should insist on an internal inquiry, because Harrabin may have broken his contractual obligations.
Wow. I can’t see the gun for the smoke.
The Remarkable thing about these questions is that they don’t really ask any questions. More to the point they illustrate a lackluster culture of intellectual laziness. The BBC really would like someone else to do their journalism for them!!
A private media network would be asking, “What do our customers want to see?”
The BBC is asking, “How do we keep on pushing the global warming agenda despite its lack of novelty and interest?”
When I complained about cynical bias by Alex Kirby the BBC replied they would not comment about someone who had left the BBC. Let’s see how they respond this time.
“What should the BBC be doing this time in terms of news, current affairs, drama, documentaries, game shows, music etc?”
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So not content with talking bollocks on science programmes, they want to slide their subliminal messages into everything else as well. May the fleas of a million camels infest their short and curlies.
That’s a dreaful indictment of the BBC: ‘there’s no journalism here, only obedience’. Dreadful because it is true beyond any shadow of doubt. This site provides a daily commentary on it, and it includes an archive on their particulary shameful coverage of climate: http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/. Their climate archive is here: http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/search/label/climate%20change
It is christmas. Ho ho ho!
date: Wed Dec 8 08:25:30 2004
from: Phil Jones
subject: RE: something on new online.
to: “Alex Kirby”
Yes, glad you stopped this — I was sent it too, and decided to
spike it without more ado as pure stream-of-consciousness rubbish. I can
well understand your unhappiness at our running the other piece. But we
are constantly being savaged by the loonies for not giving them any
coverage at all, especially as you say with the COP in the offing, and
being the objective impartial (ho ho) BBC that we are, there is an
expectation in some quarters that we will every now and then let them
say something. I hope though that the weight of our coverage makes it
clear that we think they are talking through their hats.
Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit
It makes me fume that MY money is funding this bias and corruption in the BBC. Their job should be to present all sides of an argument with no bias whatsoever.
And this is not the only area in which I feel grossly offended by being forced to fund their grossly inflated salaries and pension, esp as I have no pension at all.
That’s why the BBC should be shut down or privitised. Same with the CBC here in Canada.
Perhaps, if they are TRULY media journalists and not some Left Wing propaganda mouthpieces, they should start reporting actual NEW(S) and refrain from OLD(S)
Britain: Bad television and bias, all on the taxpayers’ compulsory license. Spent a while in England recently and it made me glad to get back to Toronto where TV isn’t mostly many variants of bad BBC programming…no wonder the Brits drink so much
We have a problem with the CBC at the taxpayer trough for over $1.1B and giving us un-watchable shows (Little Mosque on The Parries, which is somewhat PC and portrays christian ministers as nincompoops) while out bidding the private sector for hockey programming, but we can ignore it
clearly the mail is out of context /sarc
I’m surprised to see an email reply address as harrabin1@aol.com. Doesn’t the BBC have it’s own domain name c/w email server?
@roh234 December 27, 2011 at 9:56 am:
“That’s why the BBC should be shut down or privitised. Same with the CBC here in Canada.”
If that happens, they won’t even have to pretend they are even-handed. What will that gain? Look at FOX News – one sided in the extreme. Does the UK want that kind of in-your-face bias? Be careful what you ask for…
Are there any BBC journos who aren’t utterly blinkered with the Warmist mindset?
Just one skeptic would be a miracle…….
Steve Garcia says:
December 27, 2011 at 10:27 am
“Look at FOX News – one sided in the extreme.”
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A much better example would be MSNBC. They no longer even bother to feign objectivity. FOX is the ONLY news network in the USA to report honestly on the AGW fraud.
Splod’n sumpin would work. Especially if it bleeds.
the best of the bbc left to work for aljazeera, of course.
There is one BBC man who is questioning. Michael Buerk. He’s at retirement age now, so he can speak out.
See http://www.thefifthcolumn.co.uk/the-agitator/michael-buerk-on-the-climate-summit/#transcript
and http://www.realclimategate.org/2011/12/challenging-thoughts-for-the-bbc-and-guardian-bbcs-michael-buerk-at-the-fifth-column-blog/
It saddens me to see the BBC this way, a mouth piece for the greens. The BBC was once the home of great and honest journalists – Charles Wheeler, Alistair Cooke, Richard Dimbleby
Now all that is left are Hacks. It is time for us to get rid of the BBC.
Further BBC bias just a couple of days ago, when the BBC refused to report that multiple bombs had gone off in Baghdad AFTER the Americans had left (according to the BBC, only America causes trouble).
This was doubly highlighted on BBC World News, when the presenter led on the Baghdad bombs and then stopped, and apologised, saying he had the wrong headlines! They then started the whole news bulletin again!
It is about time that 50% of the BBCs funding is given to Channel 4 (Channel 4 is actually government owned, but keeps mighty quiet about this odd fact).
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Geeze, I thought you meant FORTRAN programming, and that thought was REALLY scary…
I’ve never bought or owned a TV in my life and at 66 years I’ve got no need for one, especially since the advent of the blogs.