why the bbc is going down the pan

[Maurice Picarda]

Andrew Neil on The Sunday Politics has actually just said ''Mick Phillpot, the man who set fire to his children''

In what way didn't he?

 

[ymu]

In what way didn't he?

He's not been accused or convicted of that crime. They all died of smoke inhalation, not burns.

 

[BlackArab]

It is pro-multicultural but as a whole anti-immigrant - see its reporting of Romanian and Bulgarian workers, or the Panorama on immigrants wheeling out a retired councillor to say we were right to accept the Uganda Asians but this lot are too much, or the Panorama on council tax which fingered multi-occupancy homes full of immigrants only paying one council tax as the root of the problem in local authority finance.

I noticed when I worked there for a few months in 2007 that being pro-multicultural did not extend still to their hiring policies.

 

[weepiper]

In what way didn't he?

In that he poured petrol on his floor in the house they were sleeping in, not onto them. It's sloppy journalism.

 

[butchersapron]

In that he poured petrol on his floor in the house they were sleeping in, not onto them. It's sloppy journalism.

Not sloppy i don't think, very very deliberate. Like this other one of his:

Excellent report C4 News on Brum bombers. Triumph for MI5. All unemployed, like 7/7 terrorists. Britain really does bombers on benefits.

 

[weepiper]

Yes. Sloppy not the right word I guess

 

[Kidda]

In what way didn't he?

What he should have said (and did so in a conversation afterwards) ''Mike Phillpot, the man who set fire to his house''. Which is the facts.

 

[barney_pig]

The Tory backed I'm in love with maggie only makes it no.35, is played in full by bbc radio 1

 

[butchersapron]

Today, new at 6 george aligiah (private school)

"the govt says people on benefits should only be on the same income as the average earnings"

Seriously. I.e all people on benefits are on 20 grand plus.

 

[andysays]

Today, new at 6 george aligiah (private school)

"the govt says people on benefits should only be on the same income as the average earnings"

Seriously. I.e all people on benefits are on 20 grand plus.

I would imagine that many people on benefits would be prepared to listen to any amount of patronising shit from George Aligiah in return for average earnings.

 

[equationgirl]

Yes, people can get £20k on benefits - if they claiming lots of benefits. Some might only be eligible for a single benefit, they're sure as hell not going to get £20k a year.

Plus having the same benefit cap in the SE as in Orkney really isn't going to help anybody.

 

[weepiper]

As pointed out elsewhere, the '26k is the average earnings' is disingenuous as it's the average earnings for an individual, not for a household, yet the benefits cap figure applies to the whole household.

 

[equationgirl]

As pointed out elsewhere, the '26k is the average earnings' is disingenuous as it's the average earnings for an individual, not for a household, yet the benefits cap figure applies to the whole household.

Plus they make out that everyone on benefits is getting that much when many aren't, and people are already struggling.

This from the same people who voted themselves a payrise...

 

[readergirl]

BBC Fucking Neoliberals up the arse of the Government.

 

[readergirl]

They are the biggest lot of Benefits Bashers aggh.

 

[frogwoman]

"buddhists are pacifists, so why are they attacking muslims"

 

[seventh bullet]

buddhists are pacifists

The Thmil are Mara and will be annihilated.

The article actually sets out to dispel the widely-believed arrant nonsense that Buddhism is non-violent. Or to be more accurate, ignorance of how it is practiced in countries where it has deep roots, relationships with elites and the rationalisation of behaviours which are contrary to its principles.

 

[frogwoman]

The Thmil are Mara and will be annihilated.

The article actually sets out to dispel the widely-believed arrant nonsense that Buddhism is non-violent. Or to be more accurate, ignorance of how it is practiced in countries where it has deep roots, relationships with elites and the rationalisation of behaviours which are contrary to its principles.

i know it was actually a lot better than what i was expecting based on that tagline

 

[treelover]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151690449507009&set=oa.472203329493664&type=1&theater

Well over a 1000 at the 99% protest in Trafalgar Square, absolutely nothing on the BBC

or other media for all that.

 

[treelover]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200637112182545&set=p.10200637112182545&type=1&theatre

photo set here.

 

[bi0boy]

Jon Sopel is wearing glasses

 

[weepiper]

"buddhists are pacifists, so why are they attacking muslims"

Some buddhists being pacifists yesterday

 

[JimW]

Provided the heterodox context for some exciting Chinese peasant millenarianism too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lotus_Rebellion

 

[William of Walworth]

Completely expectedly, Nick Robinson's recent 'reporting' on the Woolwich killing has amounted to a blatant Tory Party PPB, plenty of big boosts for Cameron, May and the Govt in nearly everything he was saying ...

 

[ViolentPanda]

The Thmil are Mara and will be annihilated.

The article actually sets out to dispel the widely-believed arrant nonsense that Buddhism is non-violent. Or to be more accurate, ignorance of how it is practiced in countries where it has deep roots, relationships with elites and the rationalisation of behaviours which are contrary to its principles.

My grandad used to piss himself laughing whenever he heard someone say about Buddhists being at all pacifistic. Having spent some time in Burma, he knew they could be and were exceptionally violent in the name of their belief system at times. He didn't have much good to say about the Burmese Muslim minority either, mind.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Some buddhists being pacifists yesterday

They're auditioning for the next Doctor Who werewolf episode.

 

[butchersapron]

Are these cuts?

BBC paid £25m in severance payments to 150 senior managers in the three years to December 2012

(They should re-employ as as sub-editors)

 

[sihhi]

Stephanie Flanders, daughter of actors, St Paul's Girls graduate, chief of BBC economic reporting was close friends with both Ed Miliband and Ed Balls at university.

 

[DownwardDog]

From the BBC's guide to Stage 18 of the TdF:

Keep an eye on: Sammy Sanchez. If the Spanish climbing specialist has lost ground on the time trial, he may have to throw caution to the wind if he is chase a spot on the podium.

He's not even in the TdF this year. 3.7bn quid/year and that's the best you can do? You utter fucking charlatans.

 

[treelover]

Did the BBC News report on the Durham Miners Gala? there were big name speakers, world class brass bands, and many many thousands of people there, a significant event.