[…] people in British politics. Commenting on Guilty Men, he rebuts a position that Oborne and Weaver do not hold: namely that there was a conspiracy within the BBC, and offers an insider’s view that is exactly that of the authors: ‘Oborne seems to imply that there was a covert plot within the top echelons […]
[…] has reached issue 167.29 There will be something there of interest if you are reading this. Owen Jones has an important piece about the pro-Israel bias of BBC reporting of the assault on Gaza.30 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]
[PDF file]: […] time) and Albania. He was, apparently, the model for the traitor Bill Haydon in John Le Carre’s 1974 novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Publicity for a two-part BBC 2 documentary about Philby broadcast in April 2014 (based on Ben Macintyre’s A Spy Among Friends)3 described him as ‘a fanatic and a ruthless killer who […]
[PDF file]: […] See . 29 30 12 Iraq invasion: tenth anniversary Monday 18 March was quite a day for those of us against the invasion of Iraq. On the BBC News Website, Peter Taylor conveyed the central gist of his programme later that night on Panorama about the intelligence failures which led the leadership of the […]
[PDF file]: […] a Mouse, they are “wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beasties”. They have disgraced themselves, betrayed journalism, and palpably unfit to lead any media organisation, and certainly not the BBC’. Of course, it was upsetting Donald Trump that was to cost at least some of them their posts, not something as trivial as misreporting the Gaza […]
[PDF file]: […] Rahman had admitted in prison he would have carried out the attack had he been able to.’17 (emphasis added ) Let us examine Rahman’s connections and abilities. BBC news reported18 how the ‘plot’ was ‘foiled’ by the security services and stated: ‘Last summer Rahman was homeless in London after falling out with both his […]
[PDF file]: […] following four weeks but it was extensive: touring marginal seats in a converted double decker bus and distributing a million leaflets urging young 5 Philip Hayton became BBC correspondent in Washington DC, moved from there to cover South Africa and Rhodesia in the ‘70s and later turned up as BBC correspondent in Tehran during […]
[…] and what their leader was thinking. ‘Even during the election, Clegg had been moving on the issue – but without telling the electorate. He later told the BBC that he had changed his view during the general election: “Remember between March and the actual general election, a financial earthquake occurred on our European doorstep.” […]
[PDF file]: […] the EU. This has happened alongside a coarsening and collapse of most of the UK media into a kind of right-wing mud-wrestling pit, into which even the BBC eventually tumbled with their ludicrous, and wholly disproportionate, ideas about ‘balance’.6 Stephens doesn’t really say very much about the context within which the decisions of the […]
[PDF file]: […] part of the St James’s Palace Group. A less direct connection is through Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth, who married the grandson of Sigmund Freud, Matthew in 2001. ( BBC 2001) Matthew Freud is the multimillionaire owner of PR company Freud Communications (Harris 2008) and, aside from being Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law, British Sky Broadcasting is one […]
