Time To Complain Or Switch Off The BBC

[moeen yaseen]

This is being forwarded for the attention of activists who wish to go down the complaint route. Best of luck.

Subject: URGENT: BBC CENSORS TODAY'S DEMO
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:04:30 +0100

URGENT

BBC CENSORS “END ISRAELI BARBARISM” DEMO TODAY
The Today programme on Radio 4 this morning announced there would be a pro-Israel demo in London tomorrow, but mentioned NOTHING about today’s demo demanding an end to Israeli barbarism in Lebanon.

Please complain to the BBC immediately:

Make a complaint
Phone: 08700 100 222
Textphone: 08700 100 212
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/make_complaint_step1.shtml

Please copy complaints to mwaw@btinternet.com

[Abandoned Ego]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to complain about the despicable lack of impartiality shown by the BBC regarding todays radio 4 broadcast, which incidentally I view as the tip of what is clearly a very disturbing Iceburg.

I note that todays show was quick to mention the show of solidarity for Israels "War on terror" rally, or should that be right to defend herself , whilst making no mention whatsoever about the mass demonstrations the length and breadth of the country against Israeli collective punishment of a country and a people who have suffered more than their fair share of suffering based upon Israels immoral aggression.

It should also be further noted that this whole conflict ( contrary to the much repeated bulletins) is not in fact due to the recent kidnapping of an Israeli soldier in Gaza.

Firstly it should be emphasised in your "impartial" news that the episode that sparked this recent "outrage" was the murder of a Palestinian family whilst they took a picnic on the beach in Gaza, courtesy of a Shell from an "ever vigilant" Israeli patrol boat.

Im wonder how the BBC would view Palestines right to defend herself against such ongoing incidents of wanton murder ?

Secondly, I find it strange that the abduction of 1 Israeli soldier by the Palestinians, followed by 2 soldiers by the Lebanese, whilst being unnaceptable under any rational circumstances is again but the tip of the Iceburg.

It should surely be mentioned by any reputable news agency worth its license fee that
these in fact are not rational circumstances, since the BBC fails to mention ONCE the daily abduction, and arrest of Palestinian "terrorists" by the Israeli security services.
I note yesterday alone that there were 80 such abductions without such as a murmer by "Auntie".
In fact illegal abductions by Israel are a matter of daily routine for Palestinians who are collectively witnessing the 39th year of Israels wholly illegal occupation.

And finally, as people who claim to be telling us "The news", it might be worthy of note looking at the Headline in Fridays Independent which details the Ayes and the Nays regarding the UNs mandate for an immediate ceasefire in the region.

The ayes were of course all but 3 - Britain, American and Israel.

When I saw that headline, my thoughts were cast back to World war two, when, had their been such an institution as the UN, I might well imagine the calls for a ceasefire would have been vetoed by a different 3 countries - Germany, Japan and Italy.

I remain disgusted.

Name supplied.

[kookomula]

Hi

Any complaints that any of you send to the BBC from now on could you please email me a copy kookomula@btinternet.com or PM me.

Occasionally I like to make things and think that I might be able to make something interesting from them.

I will send a complaint.

Donna

[Newspeak International]

I am a regular R4 listener lately (must be my age:),more laughs per hour than any other radio show,especially Saturdays!

However,of course they are still part of the establishment.

Comment:

I regularly listen to BBC radio four,it is always very informative and enjoyable a listen compared to the dross on most radio stations. Today however, I was listening to the Today Programme and became aware of the remarkable ommision of the highly newsworthy demonstration of the Stop the war movement,regarding the Israeli /Lebanon conflict. This was further compounded by the mention of a pro-Israeli demostration that would take place tomorrow! As a licence payer,I find this kind of bias insulting,are the BBC biased? if they are surely you cannot expect to receive a tax from the public for biased propaganda,from one side when we all can see for ourselves how things are panning out in that region. Remember,the BBC always used to be the voice of reason for generations past, you seem to be slipping off your pedestal in recent times!


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[Mission911]

[kbo234]

The guy on the BBC switchboard has just said it is going to be a long night so he will watch 'Loose Change 2' to kill the time.

[mobypaterson]

I turned off the BBC months ago, nothing but a bunch of liars.

[TonyGosling]

Peter Sissons exposing journalistic incompetance at the BBC is immediately gagged.

Peter Sissons: BBC standards are falling - and bosses are too scared to do anything about it
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1199104/Peter-Sissons-BBC-stan dards-falling--bosses-scared-it.html

This is the knobbled link
Read Peter Sissons' scathing attack in full...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1199006/PETER-SISSONS-I-drove- Television-Centre-final-time-month--I-dont-pang-regret.html

[Frank Freedom]

[redadare]

The BBC and Peter Sissons a scandal? Sorry, but this just aint news.

The BBC, by every objective measure, is part of the establishment. Take their position on Israel/Palestine. There were three independant investigations into impartiality, from 2002 to 2007. The two published ones showed major shortcomings in their reporting of the whole issue and extensive errors in impartiality in favour of (as if you could not guess) Israel.

http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/mediagroup/bnfi_reviews.htm
http://www.arabmediawatch.com/amw/Articles/BBCWatch/tabid/133/newsid47 6/2580/Comparative-BBC-analysis-AMW-independent-panel-Loughborough--Lu bell-reports/Default.aspx

The third report (the Balen report) internally commissioned by the BBC, was never published and 'auntie' spent 200,000 of our taxes to stop it being published under a Freedom of Information request. If it had shown that the BBC had learnt from the two previous ones, IMO they would have published its findings.

From a completely different perspective, if there is still any doubt that the BBC is the establisments propoganda machine;

1 Read the posts on this site regarding the series 'The Conspiracy Files'
2 Follow the daily postings on Media Lens Message Board http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/index.html?1231746613
3 Ask yourself why they devoted an extensive amount of first item news coverage to the 'success' of the troops in Afghanistan this whole week, before a surge in the troop death rate

And as for Peter Sissons being a journo, it must be a joke. He reads the autocue. He has never done any investigating in his life, nor broadcast anything slightly out of kilter with the BBC's skewed policy. Any whistle-blowing now, is IMO too little, too late for him trying to boost a flagging career.

The time to switch off the BBC is long past

[TonyGosling]

Not news!
Then why have Peter Sisson's full comments been removed?
Presumably after legal action?

[Thermate911]

Time once again to call a spade, a spade? The Bilderberg B*llshit Cabal is just that. A nice cosy multi-billion pound producing Zionist entity - hmm, just like the present UK cabinet.

Why act all surprised? Check out today's headline Grauniad article - it says absolutely nothing, unless one is able to read between the lines.

So very very clever, if self-defeating, this 'Sun shines out of Isis Ra El's posterior' stance, common to just about all MSM today, bar Washington Times (Moonies) and Daily Wail (anti-zionist).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/14/ben-bradshaw-bbc-managemen t

[TonyGosling]

BBC govenors go to Bilderberg. Two have declared publicly at least as far as I know.
1. Was Pauline Neville Jones chair of Qinetiq the priatised military research arm that used to be called Defence Evaluation and Research Establishment (DERA).
2. Marcus Agius, Chief Executive of Barclays Bank.

Superstar Peter Sissons is about to publish an explosive book about systemic control freakery, bias and deception by the BBC that now works very hard to keep the British people in the dark.
My answer. Sack every single manager and let the journalists free to do their jobs.

Fascinating bits in each of these extracts in the Mail this week.

How BBC bosses ordered me to downplay the Queen Mother's death
By Peter Sissons - Last updated at 1:51 PM on 24th January 2011
Peter Sissons was one of the BBC's most distinguished figures, anchoring news programmes for more than 20 years. Now, in his memoirs, he looks back on his long career, from growing up in Liverpool to coping with the Corporation's deep-rooted political bias...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349871/Peter-Sissons-BBC-boss es-ordered-downplay-Queen-Mothers-death.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Left-wing bias? It's written through the BBC's very DNA, says Peter Sissons
Whatever the United Nations is associated with is good — it is heresy to question any of its activities. The EU is also a good thing, but not quite as good as the UN. Soaking the rich is good, despite well-founded economic arguments that the more you tax, the less you get. And Government spending is a good thing, although most BBC people prefer to call it investment, in line with New Labour’s terminology.......
The increasing tendency for the BBC to interview its own reporters on air exacerbates this mindset. Instead of ­concentrating on interviewing the leading players in a story or spreading the net wide for a range of views, these days the BBC frequently chooses to use the time getting the thoughts of its own correspondents. It is a format intended to help clarify the facts, but which often invites the expression of opinion. When that happens, instead of hearing both sides of a story, the audience at home gets what is, in effect, the BBC’s view presented as fact.
And, inside the organisation, you challenge that collective view at your peril. In today’s BBC only those whose antennae are fully attuned to the corporation’s cultural mindset — or keep quiet about their true feelings — are going to make progress....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349506/Left-wing-bias-Its-wri tten-BBCs-DNA-says-Peter-Sissons.html

[fish5133]

Keep the BBC, at least its a mouthpiece for the lies and saves hunting elsewhere.

[Mark Gobell]

The Independent

Saturday 11 February 2012

BBC to issue global apology for documentaries that broke rules

Independent revealed programmes were made by third-party in pay of governments and firms

The BBC will today apologise to an estimated 74 million people around the world for a news fixing scandal, exposed by The Independent, in which it broadcast documentaries made by a London TV company that was earning millions of pounds from PR clients which it featured in its programming.

BBC World News viewers from Kuala Lumpur to Khartoum and Bangkok to Buenos Aires will watch the remarkable broadcast, available in 295 million homes, 1.7 million hotel rooms, 81 cruise ships, 46 airlines and on 35 mobile phone platforms, at four different times, staged in order to reach audiences in different time zones. The BBC will apologise for breaking "rules aimed at protecting our editorial integrity".

The Independent exposed last year in an investigation into the global television news industry how the BBC paid nominal fees of as little as £1 for programmes made by FBC Media (UK), whose PR client list included foreign governments and multinational companies. The company made eight pieces for the BBC about Malaysia while failing to declare it was paid £17m by the Malaysian government for "global strategic communications". The programmes included positive coverage of Malaysia's controversial palm oil industry.

The BBC also used FBC to make a documentary about the spring uprising in Egypt without knowing the firm was paid to do PR work for the regime of former dictator Hosni Mubarak.

The BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee carried out an investigation into BBC World News which reported in November it had uncovered 15 breaches of editorial guidelines. Eight of the breaches were in respect of FBC programmes made about Malaysia. The trust also identified other breaches of rules on sponsorship in programmes shown by BBC World News, which is a commercial entity and carries advertising. In its apology, the BBC will say: "A small number of programmes broadcast on BBC World News between February 2009 and July 2011 broke BBC rules aimed at protecting our editorial integrity. These rules ensure that programmes are free, and are seen to be free, from commercial or other outside pressures."

Making a direct reference to the FBC documentaries, it will say: "In the case of eight other programmes, all of which featured Malaysia, we found that the production company which made the programmes appeared to have a financial relationship with the Malaysian government. This meant there was a potential conflict of interest, though the BBC was not aware of it when the programmes were broadcast."

It concludes: "Editorial integrity is the highest priority for BBC World News, which is why we apologise for these breaches of our normal standards."

The Independent has revealed FBC, which was run by the former Financial Times journalist Alan Friedman and the CNN presenter John Defterios, was also making editorial programmes that featured FBC clients for the global business broadcaster CNBC, which suspended its FBC-made show World Business. Other FBC clients included the governments of Greece and Kazakhstan and companies like Microsoft. FBC also tried to suggest in its promotional literature it had "cultivated" key opinion formers, such as economist Jeffrey Sachs, as "ambassadors". Sachs totally rejected the claim.

When The Independent published its investigations into FBC the firm said it had kept strict divisions between its editorial and PR operations. FBC closed its London offices and went into administration in October. Broadcasting regulator Ofcom is investigating FBC.

Bad practice: The stories

Hosni Mubarak

As Egypt was in the throes of a revolution, the BBC commissioned FBC to make a documentary on the country. But the firm had a commercial relationship to promote Egypt as "liberal and open". The programme, Third Eye: Egypt, warned of the threat of takeover by Islamic fundamentalists.

Mark Thompson

The BBC director general has ordered an end to the practice of acquiring news programmes for "low or nominal cost" after the BBC admitted 15 breaches of its editorial guidelines and buying documentaries for "nominal" fees as little as £1 from a company that was working to promote foreign governments.

Malaysia

Since 2009 FBC has made at least four BBC documentaries dealing with Malaysia and controversial issues such as the country's palm-oil industry and its treatment of rainforests and indigenous people. The company has received millions of pounds in payments from the government of Malaysia for a "global strategic communications campaign".

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See also: Special investigation: TV company takes millions from Malaysian government to make documentaries for BBC... about Malaysia

[TonyGosling]

BBC Crossing another dirty dirty line here
9pm on BBC3
No semblance of BALANCE remains under evil unelected creep fixer Chris Patten and crooked Barclays Chairman Marcus Agius now running the corporation.
They just can't resist the temptation to apoint their evil mates to 'trustee' positions on the BBC Trust.

How about live coverage of a drone strike in Yemen which kils innocent children?
Or a Pakistani wedding party interrupted by a volley of Hellfire missiles?
Or the TV footage from killer Drone, like Wikileaks revealed of the helicopter gunship killing Reuters' staff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lt_DfYKH0Q

No, this is the BBC, only pro world war three propaganda now alowed and looking at our boys killing freedom fighters who fight back

Only acceptable to me alonside the idea
BRING THEM HOME

'Hurry up': Harrowing frontline footage of the moments two soldiers were fatally injured in Afghanistan to be broadcast by the BBC
Shocking footage to be shown for the first time tonight, shows Kingsman Darren Deady, left, lying stricken on the floor as his colleagues try to save his life after he was shot in the chest by Taliban fighters, second left. Later Captain Andrew Griffiths, second from right, was pictured just moments before he stepped on a booby trap, that blew off his leg and eventually killed him. The footage captured by helmet cam (right) shows him standing on the very edge of the minefield.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190934/Brigadier-describes-mo ment-got-dreaded-knock-door-say-soldier-son-fatally-wounded-harrowing- documentary-airs-showing-young-captain-s-final-hours-war.html

[TonyGosling]

Former Political Editor John Cole - promoted for his insight not his adherance to the Patten pattern
Former BBC Political Editor John Cole discusses his republican beliefs with Graham Smith.
Republic is an organisation which calls for the people of Britain to be granted the right to elect their head of state.
http://www.republic.org.uk/

Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czdSny-dFmg

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

Biased Big pharmaceuticals profits - patronising BBC health panic - herding Swansea residents towards unnecessary & potentially dangerous MMR jabs http://t.co/nqiFgrxDIc