The Beeb, boobs, and bias........

Oh dear, can it get any worse for Statler and Waldorf a.k.a Entwhistle and Lord Fat-pang at the BBC?

 

Savile’s Travails looks set to run almost as long as ‘Jim will fix it’ (an alternative ‘f’ word might be more appropriate here).

 

The Beeb has made a balls of the whole thing, culminating in Entwhistle’s pathetic apologia and Patten unwisely telling the Minister to get her tanks off the Broadcasting House lawn.

 

We had the Newsnight fiasco when the Savile expose was pulled, and then scooped by ITV.

 

Now we have the MacAlpine affair.

 

Once again it seems that the programme-makers skipped the elementary stage for any controversial story. They failed to clear it with their in-house ‘m learned friends. And in the MacAlpine case, they shrank from actually naming this elderly, distinguished (and very, very wealthy) old gent. Instead they snidely hinted as to where the name could be found on the internet.

 

Writs will fly like confetti.

 

The survival of Newsnight now looks a strong possibility. And the word is that the BBC news operation is like an up-turned rats nest, with everyone rushing for he exits.

 

‘At scenes so tragic I can scarce forbear to laugh’.

 

With motor-mouth MP Tom Watson getting in on the act, who knows where it will all end, especially as it was Watson who let Murdoch off the hook in the Commons committee.

 

And if that’s not enough, the excellent The Commentator has published damning evidence of BBC left-wing bias.

 

This has been a ‘given’ for years but now we have so facts to confirm our beliefs.

 

Over the last 10 years, the BBC has spent £335,000 with the Labour Party, £295,000 with the Liberals. And the Conservative Party? A measly £96,000.

 

And there’s the Balen Report. No, I had never heard of it either, which is not surprising because it has been suppressed for years.

 

This was a high level internal investigation into accusations of extreme anti-Israel bias in reporting on events in Gaza. The suspicion is that the conclusions were so damaging   that the mandarins at the Beeb refused to make the report public, and they have successfully fought-off all FOI requests.

 

But before we start to wallow in schadenfreude, just bear in mind who will be picking up the massive tab for all this.