tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post3231116425883174722..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRĂNMARK BLOG: Babies and bathwater: this government needs to tackle BBC bias head on rather than fiddle about at the edgesScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-25894707023351090792015-07-22T22:59:04.610+01:002015-07-22T22:59:04.610+01:00Agreed re George Gently - I had a go at that parti...Agreed re George Gently - I had a go at that particularly reprehensible episode in May: <br />http://scottgronmark.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/a-massive-slap-in-face-for-virtue.html<br />If I'd had anything to do with the Conservative press office, I'd have been on the blower to the BBC to complain before it had even finished. But as you imply, GCooper, the politicians only ever watch stuff like Newsnight and Panorama, and therefore miss the bigger picture - i.e. the drama and "comedy" programmes where the real political indoctrination is being carried out. I'm not sure the politicians are even aware of this, or whether you need to be part of the real world to grasp it.<br /><br />We're watching the new crime series, The Interceptors at the moment, whose content (so far) is so unpolitical, and therefore so un-BBC, I keep waiting for the adverts to come on! Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-78385513116191969242015-07-20T21:48:19.458+01:002015-07-20T21:48:19.458+01:00I've long believed that the BBC does the major...I've long believed that the BBC does the majority of its dirty work not through the nakedly political stuff which few watch (Newsnight being the best example) but as tasteless poison wrapped-up in a popular, sugary dramatic coating.<br /><br />The comrades have achieved far more with the plotlines of The Archers, George Gently, or Call The Midwife than they ever have via obvious twerps like Paul Mason or Andrew Marr.GCoopernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-324172816697881072015-07-20T10:58:55.096+01:002015-07-20T10:58:55.096+01:00I keep asking lefties, who all claim to be very co...I keep asking lefties, who all claim to be very concerned with freedom and personal choice, how they can support an organisation that can actually threaten you with arrest, for not paying up for something you do not want or watch. Their stock answer is that it's cheaper than the Daily Mail. When I point out that you are not required by law to pay for the Daily Mail, they come up with the same old myth, that the BBC is revered the World over. But they absolutely refuse to discuss the outrageous liberty of criminalising people for not paying a T.V. licence.<br /><br />Getting back to their bias surely a re run of the episode of Inspector George Gently, aired just before the election would be all the proof needed. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-59167121291889159132015-07-19T17:30:06.302+01:002015-07-19T17:30:06.302+01:00On the few occasions where I've been caught na...On the few occasions where I've been caught napping and inadvertently catch a few minutes of an afternoon play, it seems to feature either Irish people whining about their cruel British masters or Asian or West Indian immigrants whining about how racist the British are. Or it's something to do with the sodding miners strike. To quote Kevin, "Nobody's a fan of that."<br /><br />I agree with you that Radio 4's constant propaganda is messing with the conservative instincts of the middle classes, and convincing them it's somehow wrong to feel the way they do about things. Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-14965374070049113042015-07-18T19:36:12.330+01:002015-07-18T19:36:12.330+01:00I just managed to hit the 'off' button in ...I just managed to hit the 'off' button in time before Brand (whom I have met and can assure you is absolutely every bit as bad and as stupid as you might imagine) could get started<br /><br />R4 has been a lost cause for a decade or more. I used to record the occasional afternoon play to listen to on long car journeys. Until four or five years ago you could find the odd one that wasn't a thinly veiled piece of agitprop about one or other of the BBC's cherished 'isms'. Now they are vanishingly few and far between.<br /><br />Sadly, I suspect it works. The opinions of quite a few retired folk I know are quite clearly informed solely by the Guardianista drivel dripped into their ears as they do the washing up. GCoopernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-78807391629140407572015-07-18T12:10:20.640+01:002015-07-18T12:10:20.640+01:00Greenery is indeed a wonderful flag of convenience...Greenery is indeed a wonderful flag of convenience for anyone wishing to advocate far left policies with a caring smiley face. The Greens were doing a good job of hiding their hatred of the West in general and their determination to destroy this country in particular when that mad Aussie bint who is supposed to be their leader revealed that one of their policies was absolutely unlimited immigration. I suspect this may have given many of those who saw the Green movement as a sort of cuddlier New Age alternative to the Lib-Dems pause for thought. I suspect Greenery may have reached its apogee - but it'll take a while for the penny to drop at the BBC, especially as the person supposed to comment on it is a frothing advocate.<br /><br />On an unrelated point, my wife uttered a strangled cry from the next room yesterday evening. I asked her what was wrong, and she informed me that Jo Brand had just come on the Radio 4 book programme she was listening to to tell us why reading the socialist tract "The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropist" had had such a profound effect on her political views. Radio 4 seems now to be entirely given over to politically re-educating that section of the English middle class which hasn't already seen the socialist light. <br /><br />And thanks for the link - I was wondering why this particular post was receiving so many hits! Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-91134140289617081012015-07-17T22:33:30.586+01:002015-07-17T22:33:30.586+01:00I would wish to add Roger Harrabin to that list an...I would wish to add Roger Harrabin to that list and along with him all the rest of the uber-Greens whose burblings the BBC broadcasts more or less 24 hours a day.<br /><br />'Green' politics are just that - intensely political. In effect they are a new, deceptively coloured wrapping for some very old and dangerous Marxist ideas. That the BBC uses its drama, children's programming, documentaries and just about every other opportunity to promote 'Green' ideas is about as naked an act of political advocacy as would be opening and closing its day with The Red Flag and having a reading from Mao or Lenin on the hour.<br /><br />The Greens are dangerous - not as a political party, but as weather makers and while commentators tend to focus on the BBC's promotion of Labour 'values', they too often overlook the stealthy takeover of public opinion by an alien political force dressed-up as something benign and unobjectionable. <br /><br />Anyone who presented a dossier showing the influence of Green Marxism by the BBC would have the old girl bang to rights.GCoopernoreply@blogger.com