Jeremy Clarkson, The Sun wrote:THIS week, a BBC sports reporter called Dan Roan was caught in an off-camera moment claiming that because the owner of Leicester City was a billionaire, the girl who died with him in the helicopter crash must have been his mistress.
It’s a logic I don’t fully follow.
I’m an avid reader of Dear Deidre and I’m fairly sure that none of the people who write in to say they’re having affairs is either a billionaire or a member of the Royal Family.
No matter. The people of Leicester were very cross with Mr Roan and the BBC is being forced to pretend it was as well. But how can it do that?
Well, how’s this for an idea. Next time he appears on screen, instead of saying he’s a sports reporter, put up a caption saying: “Dan Roan: bitter little socialist.”
Jeremy Clarkson, The Sun wrote:WE still have no news on who will become lead presenter on the BBC’s hilarious Newsnight show and nor do we know who’ll take over from David Dimbleby on the equally funny Question Time.Just one thing is for sure. If your name is “Mr” something, don’t bother applying.
Jeremy Clarkson, The Sun wrote:HAVEN’T watched Dr Who since I was a small boy and I didn’t understand it even then, but I’m told the current series is in trouble — with viewing figures in freefall.
Angry fans say it’s littered with ham- fisted attempts to ram LEFTY dogma down our throats, and if you look at the storylines, it seems they do have a point.
The Doctor has witnessed a man giving birth and has visited a civil rights activist in Alabama in the 1950s. It’s not so much “exterminate, exterminate, exterminate” as “indoctrinate, indoctrinate, indoctrinate”.
Next up, I should imagine, the Tardis will be serviced free of charge by a nice, beardy man called Jeremy Corbyn. The BBC really is having a hard time with being neutral these days.
Every time they mention Donald Trump, you can actually hear them swallowing their own sick. There is a palpable sense that they hate him and an assumption that you do too.
This may be correct. It’s hard to find a Trump fan on this side of the Atlantic, but it’s not the BBC’s job to reflect this.
Naturally, the BBC has embraced the #metoo movement and, keen to show off its pioneering spirit, is now only giving frontline jobs to women. Bravely, Nick Robinson auditioned this week to be host of Question Time, but there is literally no way in hell he’ll get the gig.
It’ll go to a woman, same as the Radio 2 Breakfast show, and the drive-time show and, indeed, the role of Dr Who.
After about 50 minutes, I decided I’d pitch the BBC a film that proves once and for all that pigeons definitely have wings.
Back in the summer, a BBC chief actually said that the days of middle-aged white men standing on hills telling the viewers things are over. On that basis, there will be no more Attenborough. Maybe that’s why his next series is being made by Netflix.
I watched a BBC film this week. It’s called Denial, it has a stellar cast and the storyline is this: The holocaust did happen.
I’m aware that there are three or maybe four people in the world who think it didn’t, but making a whole film to prove them wrong seems silly. It’d be like making a film to show everyone that the world is round.
But even though we know about the Holocaust, the hero of the piece — Rachel Weisz — becomes increasingly shrill throughout the movie, shrieking over and over again about how the gas chambers were real. We know, love. Calm down.
But then I was distracted because Rachel was in the middle of a speech about all of the other things that are undeniable. I waited a moment because I knew it was coming, and yes!!! There it was: Global warming.
I spent many happy years at the BBC and made many friends. I like it. I think it’s a valuable institution.
But there is absolutely no doubt that these days, it’s been hijacked by people who wouldn’t know the concept of “unbiased” even if it leapt out of a hedge in a pirate costume and bit their foot.
Paul Dacre, former Daily Mail editor wrote:It’s the country’s worst kept secret that the Guardian is the in-house newspaper of the BBC, that subsidised behemoth. If the Corporation, Britain’s main news provider and its thousands of journalists – far more than employed by Fleet Street – hold the same financially irresponsible views as its in-house crib sheet, then Britain has a huge problem if it is ever going to return to economic solvency.
The BBC subsidariat will diminish in power as the streaming giants undermine the licence fee. And because nature abhors a vacuum, a right-of-centre TV network will one day take root in this country.
Andrew Neil, Twitter wrote:The Mash Report is self satisfied, self adulatory, unchallenged leftwing propaganda. When it comes to so-called comedy the BBC has long since given up on balance, on radio and TV. Nobody seems to care. And I don't want rightwing comedy, whatever that is. I'd just like comedy. Which is in really short supply. On TV and radio.
Must be bash the BBC fortnight.