BBC viewing figures fall to all-time low

Here is a story you won't find on the BBC website. At least not when I looked this morning.

The Independent puts most of the blame on cable TV. I think there is more to it than that.

For instance I think people are fed up with the growing bias within the BBC, especially in regards to their pro Palestinian and anti American stance. This website and ones like Biased BBC, Last Nights BBC News, and Talking Hoarse just to name a few, expose the bias that is rampant in the BBC.

Things came to a head after the Gilligan affair and the two top executives had to resign. But did the BBC learn their lessons? Sadly, no.

Most recently the BBC were conned, by a group called the Yes Men, into reporting a bogus story damaging to a US company. The BBC came upon a bogus website, called the owners, did an interview over the phone, didn't even bother to call the company direct, and then reported the story. Hey, it was anti Amerian, why bother to check the facts? The company? Dow, which lost nearly 10% of it's value on the bogus BBC story.

This isn't the first time the BBC have been caught using fake sources. I caught them at in back in April when they used a well knownant-war activitst to report on bogus war crimes claims. The BBC retracted the story and apologized to me in an email. Of course the rest of the public were no wiser because the BBC didn't publish an apology on it's website.

Then there was the rigged anti American poll, which the BBC headline read "'US is bigger threat than terror.' " The rigged poll was exposed and the BBC at least changed the headline but did not take down the poll. This to was in April and April was the US's first incursion into Falluja.

The BBC is not concerned in the least where it gets it's stories from either, as long as it is anti American that's good enough.

Take this story from the BBC headlined "Iraq health care 'in deep crisis' ". You have to do some research to find out that the BBC source, "Medcat", is an anti war group and then you have to research further to find out Medcat's report was based on interviews with unidentified people in Jordan!

More examples of BBC bias here. here, here, here, here, here, just scan this website and the ones I noted earlier and you will find out just how biased the BBC are.

Here are a couple of examples from the BBC reporters themselves.

Barbara Plett's on air admission that she cried when Arafat, the father of modern terrorism, left for France.

"When the helicopter carrying the frail old man rose above his ruined compound, I started to cry . . . without warning," she said.

Hannah Bayman is another example of the biased reporters employed by the BBC. Here is what she had to say about Bush before the election on her personal weblog.

There is only one question in this election: do you want Bush in or out of the White House?

Let's hope the US chooses a candidate who stands for international relationships, abortion rights, medical research, secular values and taxes on the richest...

...instead of a warmongering, oil-grubbing, vote-rigging, drink-driving - haven't you seen Fahrenheit 9/11? - weapons-of-mass-destruction-buying, Kyoto-smashing, bible-bashing, chimp.

Amazingly Bayman, on her weblog, reminds readers to tune into BBC radio two for more bias.

Tune in to Clive Anderson's hilarious new show this evening at 10pm on BBC Radio Two and you will hear the delightful former royal correspondent Jenny Bond describe Bush as "looking like a chimp and talking like a baboon".

It is not just what they report that is biased, it is what they do not report as well.

Have you heard or read much about the UN oil for food scandal, the good news from Iraq or the good news from Afghanistan? Why not? Because they are all favourable to America.

No wonder the British public have a negative view of Bush.

It is well past the time to scrap the TV tax. Why should we have to pay for such arrogance and bias?
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