BBC's Kirby admission to Phil Jones on "impartiality"

If you are British, there’s no need to have a TV licence, even if you have a television. TV Licensing have no official powers beyond those of any other company trying to sell their wares. If you ignore their junk mail (correspondence), close the door or better yet don’t answer it to their salesmen (the Orwellian titled “enforcement officers”), they can do nothing. Only if you’re foolish enough to let one of them into your house and sign a confession for him can they prosecute you – otherwise, all you get is a threatening letter every month, so full of “if”s and “may”s as to be comical. Detector vans are an urban myth that have never been used as evidence in a court of law. Check out bbcresistance.com for further details – please don’t assume you have to subsidise the dreadful bias of the BBC.

Just to be sure, you get fined up to £1000 for not having a license even if you never watch the drivel from the bbc. However, you can continually refuse to pay the fines, which by all accounts would most likely result in imprisonment.
Thus, while it may be inaccurate to say that the bbc enforces a prison sentence for non-payment of the fee, it is a legal possibility that incarceration could result from a series of failures to pay the requisite fines for not having purchased a license in the first place!
I say scramble the transmission for those that do not wish to pay the tax (fee) on the set top. Then taxpayers do not have to suffer the ignominy of being forced to pay – under the draconian threat of a fine and legal escalation for non-compliance – for people to promote political views and alignments they do not vote for or are partisan to.

KV [November 25, 2011 at 4:11 am] says:
“It seems “deadly CO2? has now gone nuclear in the eyes of one of your US Congressmen who’s calling for the email whistleblower/hacker whatever, to be hunted down. Wow! This is getting really serious!
“Further scrutiny was placed on the police investigation on Tuesday when Edward Markey, a Democrat congressman from Massachusetts who has long advocated for political action on climate change, called on the “US intelligence community” to assist the “British and others” in finding the perpetrator.
“If this happened surrounding nuclear arms talks, we would have the full force of the western world’s intelligence community pursuing the perpetrators,” he said. “And yet, with the stability of our climate hanging in the balance with these international climate treaty negotiations, these hackers and their supporters are still on the loose. It is time to bring them to justice.””

Hehe. You know what would really give Markey a stroke? Give this courageous heroic whistleblower the Congressional Medal Of Honor. We could do it now in absentia if he/she chooses to remain anonymous. Markey would be apoplectic as would be many others.
Now if we could get the Speaker of the House to pry himself away from golfing with the White House Occupier in Chief we can get something going!

jason says:
November 24, 2011 at 12:50 pm
“I have to agree with another commenter. Nobody knows or cares about C2.0.”
It made The Drudge Report. Millions of people therefore know about it from that source alone. Hundreds of small newspapers mentioned it. It was reported in the Wall Street Journal. Time magazine’s website. Fox News. Senator Inhofe mentioned it. It’s making its way around and you can be sure everyone at the Durban conference knows about it.
But speaking of Durban, there are probably fewer people who know or care about Durban than know or care about Climategate 2. The whole climate change ’cause’ is falling apart at the seams and has been falling apart bit by bit for several years after it became apparent that despite no slowdown in carbon emissions the earth stopped getting warmer 10 years ago and there’s no sign of any negative effects from global warming and lots of positives. Believe it or not the general population actually preferred their increasingly mild winters and farmers prefer their increasingly longer growing seasons. I always suspected that climate would be the death of AGW because the climate just isn’t living up to the alarmist’s predictions and that’s exactly what’s happened.

The recent email release casts the BBC in a very poor light.
It is one thing to adopt the stance when reporting events which favours the consensus position over the minority view and restricting air time given to the minority view. Such partiality does not promote investigative journalism but arguably may be permissible as a matter of editorial policy. For example, in politics more air time is given to the main political parties and less to minority parties and this appears to be accepted practice.
However, the emails released give the impression that the BBC has gone a stage further and has actually become a green activist. That is quite a different matter and their charter does not permit them to be activists.

Quote jayman
“They must be made to pay for being the worst alarmist media organisation.”
…& what better way than depriving them of revenue?
NOT paying your TV Licence fee is a moral act, particularly when you consider [SNIP: these are all topics Anthony has stated he doesn’t want discussed at WUWT. Please check the site policy. -REP] which is proven beyond doubt.
It’s subverting of science & obfuscating of truth is truly vile.
A weapon of mass destruction…

Er….Py
“I think everyone is taking this email out of context. As you can see it was sent in the month of December and Alex was doing his best Santa impersonation ready for the Christmas party whilst confirming that the BBC is an unbiased institution.”
I think you need to read it in context.
“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.”
“Loonies” “Every now and then let them say something” “Weight of coverage….” …. need I go on?
Father Christmas is definitely out of context …. unless he’s been complaining that global warming is affecting his reindeers’ migration!!!

Try 3757.txt for shameless partisan fawning. Absolute filth!
date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:37:59 +010 ???
from: ???@open.ac.uk
subject: Rio+10 ???and the media
to: ???@uea.ac.uk
Dear Mike
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+1 ???
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 you have thoughts, please send your reply both to this email and copy to
???@aol.com. We will also draw on the information gathered in planning
a new three year programme of media seminars.
Best wishes
Joe and Roger
Joe Smith and Roger Harrabin
University of Cambridge Media and Environment Programme

On the subject of BBC bias, check out email # 1683 from BBC Journalist to Keith Briffa:
” Hi Keith,
Good to talk to you this morning. Just a few thoughts to reiterate what we’re hoping to get out of filming tomorrow.

1) Your interview appears at a crucial point in the film. Up until now our presenter (Paul Rose, he’ll be there tomorrow) has followed two conflicting thoughts. On the one hand he’s understood that the world is currently getting warmer. But on the other he’s discovered lots of historical stories (the Bronze Age, the MWP, the LIA) which tell him that climate changes naturally all the time. In trying to resolve this paradox he’s come across this thing called the hockey stick curve, and he’s come to you to explain it to him.
2) Your essential job is to “prove” to Paul that what we’re experiencing now is NOT just another of those natural fluctuations we’ve seen in the past. The hockey stick curve is a crucial piece of evidence because it shows how abnormal the present period is – the present warming is unprecedented in speed and amplitude, something like that. This is a very big moment in the film when Paul is finally convinced of the reality of man made global warming.
[…]
Hopefully this makes it clear what I’m trying to achieve.
Look forward to tomorrow.
All best
Jonathan
Jonathan Renouf
Series Producer
Science Department”
Email # 1683 reads like a script for a bad propaganda film. Made with tax money.
Congrats to the Brits on having such a fair and objective public broadcasting corporation, full of honest, eager, investigative journalists of integrity to let you know what is going on. Tax money well spent!
/sarc off

As a UK citizen, I strongly resent being forced to subsidise a left-wing propaganda organisation. I would definitely vote to have the licence fee scrapped. Funnily enough, I’ll be posting a cheque for £145 next week. I may include a note stating that I object to being forced to pay for the Biased Broadcasting Corporation (also known as the Brussels Broadcasting Corporation).
Their bias also extends to the euro and the European Union. If the BBC had its way, we would have joined the euro, and now we would be facing the catastrophic breakup of our own currency. Probably the only good thing that Gordon Brown was to keep us out of the euro.
There’s a perfect example of the BBC’s bias. When the UK’s joining the euro was a real prospect ten years ago, the BBC showed a program called, if I remember correctly, ‘Referendum Street’. Almost unbelievably, the person conducting the ‘no’ campaign for the program was a europhile! A bit like asking Michael Mann to head the sceptic side at the Oxford Union Debate!
Chris

Al Gored says:
November 24, 2011 at 1:41 pm
“I saw the relative silence on Climategate as a proxy for the AGW bias in media organizations, …”
Then it might also be worth noting the same kind of “impartiality” toward Ron Paul. Given that the Australian media are scared witless to even mention his name, and will only show his face in distance shots, it’s a fair bet that his policies are threatening to the NWO and this whole worldwide political scam.