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BBC« Previous EntriesConspiracy Files: LockerbieThursday, August 28th, 2008By Paul Stott | Few terrorist attacks have had such contrary explanations as the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. Sunday evening at 9pm the BBC2's Conspiracy Files enters the fray, examining some of the claims and counter claims. One interesting question is whether the programme will feature either of Britain's two best known 9/11 'truthers' (and former MI5 officers) David Shayler and Annie Machon. Shayler worked ... tagged BBCBBC uncovers lost Iraq billionsWednesday, June 11th, 2008 By Jane Corbin | A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq. For the first time, the extent to which some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding has been researched by the BBC's Panorama using US and Iraqi government sources.
A US gagging ...
tagged BBC, Iraq and World-NewsBBC kept £106,000 of charity cashFriday, 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 ...
tagged BBC, Money and UK-NewsThe 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 ... tagged BBC, Stephen-Lendman and UK-NewsBBC journalists arrested in Irish probeMonday, 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 ... tagged BBCFears of bias as BBC gets £141m in EU loansSunday, 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 ... tagged BBCLyric censorship heralds swansong for the BBCMonday, 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 ... tagged BBCBBC should not decide how society developsMonday, 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 ... tagged BBCBBC to spend £500k on trust classesThursday, 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 ... tagged BBCBBC deliberately distorts Iran’s historySaturday, 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 ... tagged BBC and IranMore Deception: BBC admits manipulating news footageFriday, 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 ... tagged BBCMore BBC Deceit: The 9/11 Hoax That Didn’t Quite WorkWednesday, 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. ... tagged BBC and False-FlagBBC on brink of internal warSunday, 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 ... tagged BBCDid 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 ... tagged BBCBBC: Big Brother CooperationTuesday, 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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