From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Doug Brodie
This is frightening. Indeed it is truly Orwellian:
From the Guardian:
A U-turn by the UK’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom means it will investigate complaints of climate change denial on television and radio for the first time since 2017. The move marks a victory for campaigners who have accused the regulator of allowing some broadcasters “to spout dangerous climate lies” and “flout” rules on accuracy and impartiality.
Complaints about programmes on TalkTV and TalkRadio were assessed by Ofcom, which then decided not to investigate, the same result as more than 1,000 other climate complaints since 2020. However, after a letter from the Good Law Project (GLP) in January, requesting an explanation for the rejections, Ofcom said it had withdrawn its original decision and would “consider afresh” the complaints.
One complaint was about comments from a Talk guest who said in November that climate change “was a deliberate effort to create fake anxiety … out of something that is false”. In the second case, also in November, another guest said the Labour government’s energy policies were “suicidal”, “driven by pseudoscience in many cases” and “a kind of cultish behaviour”.
A reassessment led Ofcom to conclude its approach to “due impartiality” in the broadcasts “required reconsideration”, with the results of the investigations to be published in due course. Ofcom stuck by its decision to not investigate three other climate complaints.
“Rightwing channels have been allowed to spout dangerous climate lies, unchecked, for too long,” said a GLP spokesperson. “We’re glad Ofcom is finally listening and await the conclusion of the investigations. Should it fail to take action against Talk’s misinformation, we will not hesitate to hold them to account.”
An Ofcom spokesperson said: “In re-examining the programmes, we concluded that they raise potentially substantive issues under the broadcasting code which warrant investigation. We have, therefore, opened investigations [on] whether they breached our rules on due impartiality and material misleadingness.” Ofcom said it had also opened another climate-related investigation after a viewer complaint about another TalkTV programme.
A spokesperson for Talk said: “We, as we always would, will cooperate with Ofcom in these matters.”
Full story here.
The first point to make is that there are already rules in place to address factually inaccurate news reporting. But this is not what is at issue here.
OFCOM, it appears, now want to police free speech. Both of these new complaints concern the views of guests, not the journalists or presenters.
Guests on these sort of shows make all sorts of outlandish, and sometimes patently false, comments about all sorts of topics. That is their right. We still have something called freedom of speech in this country.
OFCOM does not get involved in these other cases, so why should they intervene when the topic is climate change?
This decision to intervene in free speech by OFCOM opens a whole new barrel of worms. What will happen in future if somebody challenges the establishment line on, say, hurricanes?
There is a wide variety of scientific opinion on most climate topics. Will OFCOM be the new arbiter of which version is “correct”? Will they ban anybody who dares offer a different opinion, or, heaven forbid, dare to quote some facts?
Maybe OFCOM will also ban all use of fraudulent weather attribution models, but I somehow doubt it!
This is a chilling suppression of free speech. “Truth” is fine, but who decides what is true and what is not? OFCOM? The Government? BBC? UN?
And it won’t stop with climate change. How long before we are not allowed to call Starmer the worst PM ever? Or dare to criticise his Government?
We will end up with George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, where the Government decides what is right and what is wrong.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”
The ministry of only state allowed truth is now with us,
Minitrue.
Just calling Starmer the Worst … What leads you to stop there? Heck even Thinking that way will likely lead to incarceration.
Starmer has plans to put the kybosh on FOI – it costs too much, you see – and more.
I think of him in two descriptive ways: As an empty suit, or as Keith Stalin. The new anti muslim (blasphemy law through the back door) guidance, or whatever they call it, gives the game away. All equal under the law – save for islam; which is set above.
Ofcom be damned ve haf a new secret vepon at the Ministry-
Cutting carbon: Hairdressers urged to lecture clients on climate change
Cue evil laugh- Mwuhahahahahahah!
I was in conversation with my grandson aged seven about the technology involved in a fancy bottle of Japanese fizzy water. I was explaining the function of the glass marble and the not release valve. He chipped in, is that to stop the air coming out? I said yes, but it is carbon dioxide, to whit he chipped in, ah yes that is bad isn’t it?
I then spent a few minutes explaining to him and his ten year old brother the merits of CO2 for life and so many other things such as fizzy drinks.
The education system is brainwashing our children with nonsense. Hairdressers are a step in a weird direction, but hey ho, traffic wardens next maybe.
You’re not wrong and it’s painful but listen to the ‘journalist’ below with the Ted Talk. She’d make Mao and Stalin proud and exactly what Helen Andrews was getting at with the Great Feminisation experiment.
When I watch these TED talks I all too often come away feeling depressed. Not from the knowledge being transmitted per se, but from the ignorance on display and the fact someone felt they were prepared to pay a performer to talk such nonsense.
I just hope the young lady lives a long life and is able to look back at herself when in twenty or thirty years time she has absorbed some knowledge and experience of life. If that good outcome happens, then she will be celebrated and able to speak again over the internet about her realisation what she said on TED in 2022 was utter garbage and completely wrong.
Or bartenders
They teach hairdressing at Oxford now-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/how-to-make-climate-stories-impossible-to-ignore-katherine-dunn-ted/vi-AA1MNvjt
How about OFCOM getting after those bdgfvfdsvbcgcfcvxbs!!983 people who spout lies about sex and choice of gender or “transitioning”
If there is a pack of blatant and absurd lies to investigate then there you have it.
Someone is making money selling tampons to the government for men’s restrooms.
Tampons can be useful for a nose-bleed … or diarrhoea.
Wash between change of use !! (:-))
Bullet wounds as we learned from M*A*S*H .
Eeeeuuuuwww!
It would make a change for the Good Law Project to win something for once. The kimono-clad fox murdere (look him up) who runs it will be delighted.
You can check out the Jolyon archive on Guido’s site. They are a strange bunch… Starmer, Hermer, Sands, poor Phil Shiner, and Maugham; all cut from the same cloth.
its approach to “due impartiality” in the broadcasts “required reconsideration”
This is but one front in the government’s moves to straighten out public wrongthink. Another major attack is currently flying under the radar.
I’m sure many of you know of the survey on Met Office sites – both existing and imagined – which required a great many FOIs to get anywhere. Even then they dragged their feet.
The Society of Editors has criticised government plans to clampdown on Freedom of Information requests, warning that any plans to restrict the legislation would be damaging to democracy. – Society of Editors
What Keith Stalin thinks people want to hear…
“The Prime Minister has spoken of his desire to restore trust and integrity in UK politics and the importance of openness and transparency. “
What we will get is distrust (the politicians do not trust the plebs post Brexit, anyway) obfuscation and [political] intrigue. They certainly have no shame.
According to the FT (which admittedly has its own issues at the moment), Starmer plans to buy off Sadiq Khan’s loyalty with a peerage after the local elections. – Guido
Ofcom has already been told where to get off by 4Chan. And now the Church is bundling in as back up…
Church leaders criticise Christian owner of GB News over channel’s climate attacks. – Grauniad
The lengthy list of clergy signing the letter shows just how delusional the CoE has become…
Open Letter to Sir Paul Marshall
GBN should tell the Church where to get off.
I think the C of E has become a political organisation. They’ll ve having MPs soon! They seem to be somewhere to the left of the greens. They used to say the C of E was the tory party at prayer. Not any more.
[“. We still have something called freedom of speech in this country.”]
What on earth gave you that idea !!!
That’s like saying we have a democracy, we haven’t even got a representative democracy, politicians get in on a host of plausible lies, then get their snouts in the trough & ignore the plebs.
However, we do have a wonderfully manipulated system run by a few elites (robber barons) who have convinced most of the population that we plebs can control things via the ballot box, but they’ve been using “1984” as a handbook for years.
I keep telling people, the only answer is
1 Invent a time machine
2 Go back to London, 1940
3 Persuade George Orwell not to write Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Can Ofcom do anything about errant Labour MPs?
Dozens’ of Labour MPs Privately Demand Starmer Waters Down Net Zero Policy – Guido
“Labour MPs were passing around Henry Tufnell’s Sun column earlier this week, which let rip over Miliband’s zealotry. Labour MPs who know this crusade is putting their own seats in jeopardy are getting braver in criticising it.” – If all the profiles on Miliband this week are anything to go by, the ‘real Prime Minister’ still isn’t interested…
All climate parameters seem to vary by huge amounts for all Nations and States yet Humanity seems to thrive in all locations. What an amazing and adaptable species.
“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority” — Sir Francis Ba*** (uttering his name could be considered illegal in certain jurisdictions)
Do you perchance mean Sir Francis Porkbelly?
Careful not to invoke the ghost of the frozen chicken…
One of the strangest ghost stories that I have ever come across involves Sir Francis Bacon, empirical scientist and a frozen chicken.
Sorry, I didn’t find that one. Perhaps you could direct us to the specific ghost story?
I posted the link above.Try this
https://hauntedpalaceblog.com/2013/04/25/the-strange-case-of-sir-francis-bacon-and-the-frozen-chicken/
“One complaint was about comments from a Talk guest who said in November that climate change “was a deliberate effort to create fake anxiety … out of something that is false”. In the second case, also in November, another guest said the Labour government’s energy policies were “suicidal”, “driven by pseudoscience in many cases” and “a kind of cultish behaviour”.”
Wow, no nation can allow such dangerous talk- off with their heads! /s
Who investigates the Investigators?
Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth” was based on Eric Blair’s experience working at the BBC.
‘opens a whole new barrel of worms’ Would that be an oil barrel?
And if you roll out the worm barrel, will you have a barrel of fun?
When the Brits allowed themselves to be disarmed, they made this sort of thing inevitable.
When the Brits allowed themselves to be disarmed… or were forced to disarm, even.
justice was administered both by the Governor and by the local councils, the latter concerning themselves mainly with civil law cases. Roman law, like modern law, was complex. – Roman Britain
When did you suppose the population was first disarmed?
From the Good Law Project website:
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Free speech for me, but not for thee
And:
With £4.5m in donations for the last 2 years, it seems this is a pretty good gig.
Avaaz doesn’t say who funds it, other small donations, although Soros provided seed funding
Ofcom are a waste of time and effort.
After going through the BBC complaints procedure, I submitted a complaint to Ofcom about the BBC’s misleading headline claiming buyers of new EVs would get up to £3750 discount. A discount is offered by the seller not provided by the tax payer via the governments bribery department.
Ofcom agreed with the BBC that they could use the term discount because …er … climate
From the Babylon Bee
“Kier Starmer Announces Anyone Who Says Britain Doesn’t Have Free Speech Will Be Arrested”.
So, Babylon Bee has ditched satire for reality.
The first thing socialists do whenever they get power, is to silence everyone who disagrees with them.
It starts with fines, then jail, then finally gulags and death camps.
Socialism does not and never has worked, so the only way to keep the masses from thinking for themselves is strict control of even your thoughts.
The Biden administration here in the USA tried to shut down free speech on the internet especially on Climate change. Heavy pressure was put on social media to censor it.
This is NOT just GB. It is global.