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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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BBC stars keep sky high pay, yet support staff face cuts
Monday, October 15th, 2007By Chris Hastings The BBC's highest-paid stars including Jonathan Ross, Terry Wogan and Graham Norton will keep their huge pay packets despite drastic cuts to the corporation's budget. The Sunday Telegraph understands that Mark Thompson, the director-general, has ruled out any move to slash salaries of big names for fear that they will defect to ITV. Mr Thompson is struggling to fill a £2 billion ...
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BBC controller quits over ‘crowngate’ scandal
Monday, October 8th, 2007BBC1 controller Peter Fincham resigned today in the wake of a damning report into misleading footage of the Queen. The most high-profile casualty in a string of TV fakery scandals, he was forced to go after the independent inquiry revealed a catalogue of “misjudgements, poor practice and ineffective systems” at the Corporation. The trailer for forthcoming series 'A Year with the Queen' appeared to show the monarch storming out ...
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Measuring BBC bias reporting
Friday, October 5th, 2007Not a sheep I blogged yesterday about the blatant bias in the BBC's coverage of the Labour and Conservative party conferences. In amongst that article was the following analysis of the BBC news "reaction to" each of the speeches, I think this worth highlighting and expanding upon. Here are the links to the BBC reaction to the three main party leaders' speeches for Gordon Brown, ...
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Iraq body count: BBC and other mainstream media use misleading figures
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007The mainstream media are continuing to use figures provided by the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) to sell the public a number for total post-invasion deaths of Iraqis that is perhaps 5-10% of the true death toll. As we recently reported, only a handful of media outlets covered a new ORB poll revealing that 1.2 million Iraqis had been murdered since the 2003 invasion. BBC Online provided a rare example: “A UK-based ...
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BBC DJ apology over ‘fake’ phone-in - yet more and more BBC Total deceit uncovered
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007The Press Association Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley is due to make an on-air apology following the revelation that a staff member posed as a caller during a phone competition. In the latest fakery row to hit the BBC, the employee pretended to be an audience member for a pre-recorded segment of the show in which a number of CDs were up for grabs. Whiley, a former Sony Radio Awards DJ of the ...
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BBC cooks up more TVdeceit
Monday, October 1st, 2007By Roya Nikkhah Nigella Lawson, the celebrity television chef, has been criticised for misrepresenting elements of her new cookery show. Producers on the show have admitted that a London bus which Miss Lawson rode on during a trip to the shops was, in fact, hired by the BBC and filled with extras pretending to be normal passengers. A BBC spokesman, said: "We chose to hire ...
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Will BBC come clean over 911 Hit piece?
Thursday, September 27th, 2007By J A Blacker, Science Correspondent RINF Alternative News The Cat is out of the BAG for the BBC, folk have slowly cottoned on to the fact its not as squeaky clean as it once was. http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13441 Now the BBC has formally had to confess and subsequently apologise to viewers for deceiving them over the phone in naming of the Blue Peter CAT, will it do likewise with its disgraceful one ...
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The BBC - How Did It Get So Bad?
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007By Adrian Morgan This article by Adrian Morgan (Giraldus Cambrensis of Western Resistance) appeared today in Family Security Matters and is reproduced with their permission.
High up on a hill in Wood Green, north London, is a Victorian brick building called Alexandra Palace. Surrounded by 196 acres of parkland, the edifice was constructed in 1873. ...
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BBC cuts bonuses in desperate bid to regain public confidence
Saturday, September 8th, 2007By Stewart Payne The BBC has cut the bonuses it pays to staff following the outcry over the £20 million it handed out a year ago.
BBC Director-General Mark Thompson is under pressure after the recent phone-in scandal ...
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9/11 and the British Broadcasting Conspiracy
Monday, June 25th, 2007WATCH IT HERE FOR FREE By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News A new British documentary has been released focusing on the BBC's selective and distorted coverage of the events of 9/11. ‘911 and the British Broadcasting Conspiracy’ features ex-MI5 officer David Shayler and was produced by Adrian Connock, who was also responsible for the ‘Mind the Gap’ documentary that exposed the false flag terrorist attacks of 7/7/05. Special attention has been paid to ...
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Johnston in new ‘bomb vest’ video
Monday, June 25th, 2007
The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston have released a new video of him in which he is wearing what he says is an explosives vest.
In the tape, Mr Johnston says his captors have said they will detonate the vest if force is used to try to free him.
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New BBC chairman denies that he will be a government crony
Friday, April 6th, 2007Jonathan Brown The new chairman of the BBC insisted yesterday that he would deliver "absolute independence and impartiality" from the Government, despite having worked three times for Chancellor Gordon Brown. Sir Michael Lyons' appointment prompted allegations of cronyism even before it was officially announced. Unions questioned why the new chairman of the BBC Trust - one of the most powerful figures in British cultural life - had so little broadcasting ...
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BBC denies ‘dumbing down’ claims
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
The BBC has denied reports it plans to "dumb down" its shows after discovering lower-income families aren't tuning in. Several UK papers claim BBC research shows high earners are more likely to watch its channels, while staff feel ...
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