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Friday, May 9th, 2008
By Leigh Holmwood | The BBC today apologised for keeping £106,000 made from premium-rate phone calls on about two dozen shows that should have been given to charity.
In the latest scandal to hit the television industry over phone-ins, the BBC also admitted that viewers of Making Your Mind Up, the BBC1 show that chose last year's ...
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The BBC as an Imperial Tool?
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News At a time of growing public disenchantment with the major media, millions now rely on alternate sources. Many online and print ones are credible. One of the world's most relied on is not - the BBC. It's an imperial tool, as corrupted as its dominant counterparts, been around longer than all of them, now in it for profit, and it's vital that people know who BBC ...
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BBC journalists arrested in Irish probe
Monday, March 17th, 2008Four BBC journalists were arrested at the weekend by Irish police monitoring the Real IRA, the dissident group responsible for intermittent violence in Northern Ireland. The four were among 11 men arrested and held for questioning by Gardai in three separate police stations in the border county of Donegal. It is believed the journalists were working for the BBC's Panorama and BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight investigative programmes. Seven of the arrests were ...
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Fears of bias as BBC gets £141m in EU loans
Sunday, January 27th, 2008Jonathan Oliver THE BBC last night faced accusations of pro-Brussels bias as it was revealed that the corporation had taken out £141m in “soft” loans from the European Union. The broadcaster has taken out three separate low interest loans from the EU-backed European Investment Bank (EIB) to fund the expansion of its growing commercial empire. It also emerged that the BBC has received grants from the EU worth £1.4m ...
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Lyric censorship heralds swansong for the BBC
Monday, December 24th, 2007TELEVISION Quality seems to be the very last thing on BBC execs mind, writes Declan Lynch THERE was a general air of stupefaction when the BBC bleeped the word "faggot" from Fairytale Of New York. But those of you who were reading this column last week were not surprised at all. No, you'll have smiled knowingly, remembering that opening line about the the BBC being dead, killed by many things ...
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BBC should not decide how society develops
Monday, December 17th, 2007By Janet Daley What is the BBC for? You might think that there was a pretty straightforward answer to that question, or at least that the answer provided by Lord Reith ("to inform, educate and entertain") could scarcely be bettered for simplicity and felicitousness. But, oh dear, no - this is a more complex world than the one into which the BBC was born. So ...
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BBC to spend £500k on trust classes
Thursday, December 6th, 2007Ben Dowell Two-hour classes to teach the BBC's editorial staff how to avoid deceiving viewers are likely to cost around £500,000, the corporation revealed today. The director of the BBC's college of journalism, Vin Ray, said that the bill included cover for some of the 17,000 employees participating in the sessions. "The people doing the course are being paid anyway so we estimate that the cost will not exceed ...
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BBC deliberately distorts Iran’s history
Saturday, November 17th, 2007The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has deliberately distorted Iranian history in a recently published news report. In the news report 'Tajik capital's last Lenin plea' published on its website on Nov. 9th 2007, BBC deliberately distorted the Iranian history by claiming the 9th century Persian poet Rudaki was 'Tajik'. “The communists want to move the statue to their party headquarters when the park in which it ...
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More Deception: BBC admits manipulating news footage
Friday, November 16th, 2007The BBC has admitted adding the sound of babies crying to footage of quintuplets born to a Russian woman. The original footage, distributed by an Oxford hospital of the five girls, had no audio. But when the story ran on BBC Breakfast the clips had sound, even though the babies had respirators in their mouths. "Although we don't believe viewers were materially misled, we should not have added sound to these ...
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More BBC Deceit: The 9/11 Hoax That Didn’t Quite Work
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007On September 11, 2007, the BBC published an article called "9/11 demolition theory challenged", which described a research paper written by University of Cambridge senior lecturer Keith Seffen. Dr. Seffen, the BBC said, had constructed a mathematical model of the World Trade Center collapses which showed that "once the collapse of the twin towers began, it was destined to be rapid and total." According to the BBC, Dr. ...
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BBC on brink of internal war
Sunday, November 11th, 2007Staff accuse 'arrogant' new trustees of standing in the way of radical reform By Tim Luckhurst The cuts endorsed by the BBC's controversial new governing body, the BBC Trust, have started to bite. On Monday management briefed unions on planned cuts in news coverage, intensifying fears about the future of flagship shows including BBC 1's one and six o'clock bulletins. With mass redundancies looming, the pressure on director-general ...
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Did the BBC Broadcast Fake News Reports?
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007David Miller A Spinwatch investigation has revealed that journalists working for the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) have been commissioned to provide news reports to the BBC. The BBC has been using these reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence as a propaganda operation, which according to its own website makes a 'considerable contribution' to the ...
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BBC: Big Brother Cooperation
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
It's a matter of alarm and concern that there are so many people out there who still believe that the BBC is a balanced and fair-minded source of news and current affairs. That belief was, at best ill-founded and at worst, typical of the hypocrisy of a British self-image of decency and ...
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BBC Boycott
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007First, they axed Ozzie soap Neighbours. Then, they edited film footage of the Queen to make her look like a mardy old minnow. Now, the BBC plans to recover a £6 billion “shortfall” by making cuts to the very departments that made it so well-respected – news, factual programming and children’s TV - resulting in up to 2,800 job losses over the next six years. Even the corporation’s world-famous broadcast ...
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BBC rakes in adverts cash as heads roll in cost cuts
Monday, October 22nd, 2007The corporation’s rivals and detractors are up in arms over claims of commercialisation...
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