Tag Archives: BBC Radio 4

BBC fails to mention anti-Semitism interviewee is Friend of Israel

Posted on March 2, 2019 by biowrite

This morning BBC Radio 4 featured a long interview with Catherine McKinnell MP about the Labour Party’s supposed mishandling of the supposed crisis of anti-Semitism within it. (The real crisis, of course, is one of infiltration by hard-line Zionism.) As … Continue reading →

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GM: a red herring, a straw doll and the elephant in the room

Posted on May 16, 2017 by biowrite

UPDATE, November 2017. Here’s an article on how Monsanto operates, published in :  ‘How Monsanto Captured the EPA (And Twisted Science) To Keep Glyphosate on the Market’ I just sent the letter below to the BBC’s DG. It’s self-explanatory. Lord … Continue reading →

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Social injustice is killing on a grand scale

Posted on July 6, 2014 by biowrite

Praise where praise is due.  I have previously criticised the BBC for its championing of GM and for offering a Pinochet-apologist a platform for his obnoxious views without challenging them. Now I must praise the BBC for hosting Professor Sir … Continue reading →

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Please, BBC, fair coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict!

Posted on November 19, 2012 by biowrite

I have just sent the following email to the BBC: I just heard the 10 a.m. news on BBC Radio 4 and was shocked that a significant portion of it was given over to a statement from an Israeli spokesman, … Continue reading →

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Once again BBC Radio 4 champions GM

Posted on June 5, 2012 by biowrite

I could scarcely believe my ears.  Barely a few days after it last offered a platform to the pro-GM lobby to give its views unopposed, BBC Radio 4 has done it again.  Are we being softened up for a big … Continue reading →

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BBC’s Today programme attacks herbalism, promotes GM and contributes to the anti-science ‘new age of darkness’ it describes

Posted on May 25, 2012 by biowrite

I was shocked out of my morning dwalm by Today’s (BBC Radio4) crass  handling of a report that US scientists were warning of the end of the age of enlightenment and the arrival of a new age of darkness, in … Continue reading →

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Caustic soda into the wounds: BBC unrepentant over platform offered to supporter of Pinochet atrocities

Posted on February 16, 2012 by biowrite

[This is No.5 in a series of blog posts on Paul Johnson’s statement on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that he admired Chilean mass-murderer General Augusto Pinochet because he ‘saved Chile from civil war’. You may read the others … Continue reading →

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Another letter to BBC re Pinochet’s ‘peacekeeeping’.

Posted on February 9, 2012 by biowrite

[This is No.4 in a series of blog posts on Paul Johnson’s statement on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that he admired Chilean mass-murderer General Augusto Pinochet because he ‘saved Chile from civil war’.  You may read the others … Continue reading →

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BBC defends failure to challenge hurtful distortions by Pinochet supporter

Posted on February 1, 2012 by biowrite

[This is No.2 in a series of blog posts on Paul Johnson’s statement on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that he admired Chilean mass-murderer General August Pinochet because he ‘prevented civil war’. You may read the others here: No.5, … Continue reading →

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BBC allows supporter of butcher Pinochet to express views unchallenged

Posted on January 20, 2012 by biowrite

[This is No.1 in a series of blog posts on Paul Johnson’s statement on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that he admired Chilean mass-murderer General August Pinochet because he ‘prevented civil war’. You may read the others here: No.5, … Continue reading →

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