@izzythepush,
Don't be silly. The BBC has been caught fabricating outright lies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVBRHbOBXDw
They have no credibility whatsoever.
Like I said only neo Nazis question the BBC's impartiality. It's an act of parliament which affects not only the BBC but other broadcasters, unlike fascist propaganda machine Fox News.
Quote:Impartiality lies at the heart of public service and is the core of the BBC's commitment to its audiences. It applies to all our output and services - television, radio, online, and in our international services and commercial magazines. We must be inclusive, considering the broad perspective and ensuring the existence of a range of views is appropriately reflected.
The Agreement accompanying the BBC Charter requires us to do all we can to ensure controversial subjects are treated with due impartiality in our news and other output dealing with matters of public policy or political or industrial controversy. But we go further than that, applying due impartiality to all subjects. However, its requirements will vary.
The term 'due' means that the impartiality must be adequate and appropriate to the output, taking account of the subject and nature of the content, the likely audience expectation and any signposting that may influence that expectation.
Due impartiality is often more than a simple matter of 'balance' between opposing viewpoints. Equally, it does not require absolute neutrality on every issue or detachment from fundamental democratic principles.
The BBC Agreement forbids our output from expressing the opinion of the BBC on current affairs or matters of public policy, other than broadcasting or the provision of online services.
The external activities of staff, presenters and others who contribute to our output can also affect the BBC's reputation for impartiality. Consequently, this section should be read in conjunction with Section 15: Conflicts of Interest.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/impartiality
Quote:Two Fox News broadcasts in the UK have been found in breach of Ofcom rules over impartiality.
A January edition of the Hannity programme discussed US President Donald Trump's ban restricting travel from seven majority-Muslim countries.
Ofcom said the US-made show was largely pro-Trump and did not sufficiently reflect alternative viewpoints.
Tucker Carlson Tonight was also found in breach for a broadcast in May following the Manchester terror attack.
Regarding Hannity, Ofcom said they had taken into account "that Fox News is a US news channel, directed at US audiences, which is available in the UK. The people who watch it in the UK are aware that it is a US channel and their expectations are different.
"It is not a main source of news in the UK. However, we were also mindful that, in our view, this particular programme dealt with major matters relating to current public policy that, as well as being of international significance, were of particular relevance and significance to UK viewers."
Ofcom said the Tucker Carlson Tonight episode accused various public bodies and individuals in the UK , including Prime Minister Theresa May, of "doing nothing to counter terrorism; stop radicalisation; protect citizens from terrorism; or protect 'thousands of underage girls' from rape and abuse".
The programme also criticised public leaders, saying that "their inaction was motivated by political correctness; they valued how people saw them over the lives of children; and they were forcing an 'official lie' on citizens, which was 'totalitarian' and 'wicked'".
Ofcom said there was no reflection of the views of the UK Government or any of the authorities or people criticised, "which we would have expected given the nature and amount of criticism of them in the programme".
The media watchdog also noted that "the presenter (Carson) did not challenge the views of his contributors, instead, he reinforced their views".
Twenty-two people were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester on 22 May.
Fox News is a channel originating in the US which stopped broadcasting on Sky in the UK in August and surrendered its licence to Ofcom on 1 November.
Sky said the decision to axe the channel was down to low audience figures.
Ofcom said it was "appropriate" to publish its rulings against Fox News, even though it is no longer a licensed television service falling under its jurisdiction.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41887613
The good news is that Fox News has now been taken off the air because, just like Iran's Press TV, it couldn't act according to the law.
Quote:Rupert Murdoch and his sons are pulling Fox News off the air in Britain.
The network's parent company, 21st Century Fox, has announced that the controversial news channel will no longer be broadcast in the U.K. after failing to attract an audience. The network has also become a lightning rod for critics seeking to spoil the Murdochs' planned $15 billion takeover of Sky, the top pay TV provider in the U.K.
"Fox News is focused on the U.S. market and designed for a U.S. audience and, accordingly, it averages only a few thousand viewers across the day in the U.K.," 21st Century Fox said in a statement.
"We have concluded that it is not in our commercial interest to continue providing Fox News in the U.K.," it added.
21st Century Fox (FOX) said the network's final broadcast in the U.K. would be Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. local time.
The decision to jettison the network in Britain could help insulate 21st Century Fox from criticism as it seeks to win approval for its takeover of Sky.
https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/29/media/fox-news-uk-fox-sky-rupert-murdoch/index.html
@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:Like I said only neo Nazis question the BBC's impartiality.
They've been caught fabricating lies. Calling everyone a neonazi when they point out facts is just as silly as American leftists when they call everyone a racist.
@oralloy,
We have an " Instant Lies, No waiting " policy instituted by our own president. He will lie to our faces and then deny it later.
@oralloy,
More delusional nonsense from the simple minded. You really shouldn't comment on issues you don't understand. Stick to World of Warcraft and shitty Sci Fi, everything else is beyond you.
@oralloy,
Quote:Don't be silly. The BBC has been caught fabricating outright lies.
Decades of knowingly protecting paedophiles on their staff, as well.
source
Please, vaccinate!
Governor of Kentucky Matt Bevin (R) exposed his 9 kids to chickenpox, says vaccine not for everyone
Deborah Yetter and Tom Loftus, Louisville Courier Journal Published 1:27 p.m. ET March 20, 2019 | Updated 8:45 p.m. ET March 20, 2019
In a move experts say is medically unsound — and can be dangerous — Gov. Matt Bevin said in a radio interview Tuesday that he deliberately exposed all nine of his children to chickenpox so they would catch the disease and become immune.
“Every single one of my kids had the chickenpox," Bevin said in an interview with WKCT, a Bowling Green talk radio station. "They got the chickenpox on purpose because we found a neighbor that had it and I went and made sure every one of my kids was exposed to it, and they got it. They had it as children. They were miserable for a few days, and they all turned out fine.”
Three medical experts called the practice unsafe and unwise.
"I would never recommend or advise it," said Dr. Robert Jacobson, a pediatrician and expert in vaccines and childhood diseases at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. "It's just dangerous."
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also urges against deliberately exposing kids to chicken pox, including the past practice of "chicken pox parties" held by some parents
"Chickenpox can be serious and can lead to severe complications and death, even in healthy children," according to the CDC website.
A Bevin spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Bevin and his wife, Glenna, have nine children, ages 5 to 16, according to his campaign website.
In the interview, Bevin also suggested that the government stay out of mandating vaccines. In Kentucky, varicella (chickenpox) is among vaccines mandated for all children entering kindergarten, though parents may seek religious exemptions or provide medical proof that a child has already had the disease.
“And I think, why are we forcing kids to get it?" Bevin said in the radio interview, speaking about the chickenpox vaccine. "If you are worried about your child getting chickenpox or whatever else, vaccinate your child. ... But for some people, and for some parents, for some reason they choose otherwise. This is America. The federal government should not be forcing this upon people. They just shouldn’t."
Jacobson said he recommends vaccines as a safe and effective way to prevent disease.
"We're no longer living in the 17th century," he said. "I really recommend to my parents that they vaccinate their children, that they do it in a timely manner, and they recognize they are doing the right thing for their children."
In response to Bevin's comments, the Kentucky Democratic Party called on the governor to clarify his position on vaccination against the hepatitis A virus, which has killed 44 people in the state.
“Kentucky is currently experiencing the worst outbreak of Hepatitis A in the country. It is a major public health risk at this point. The last thing we need is Governor Bevin suggesting that immunization is not important," KDP spokeswoman Marisa McNee said in an email. "Governor Bevin should reassure the public that he supports the recommendation of the entire medical community with respect to controlling an outbreak of Hepatitis A, which is immunization.”
Bevin's comments followed news reports this week of a chickenpox outbreak at a Northern Kentucky Catholic school, where at least one student reported not being vaccinated for religious reasons.
Chickenpox, an infectious disease with itchy skin blisters and fever, is preventable by a vaccine that became publicly available in 1995.
Dr. Ruth Carrico, an associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, said chickenpox is often incorrectly viewed as a relatively harmless disease.
But it can be fatal to children and adults who suffer complications, she said.
"On more than one occasion, I have had a patient who is a pregnant woman who became exposed to chickenpox and became ill and developed pneumonia," Carrico said. "Either she or her baby or both did not survive."
Carrico said people should get the chickenpox vaccine and other immunizations not just for themselves, but for others who may not be able to do so for medical reasons and who are susceptible to infection.
"When we're vaccinated, we are protecting not only ourselves but others in our community," she said. "It’s not all about you."
Dr. Dennis Clements, a professor of pediatrics and global health at Duke University who has written about the deliberate-exposure practice popular with some parents, said he strongly advises against it.
"A lot of parents do expose their children so they can get it and get it over with," Clements said. "The vaccine is much safer, and if the vaccine is given to a child, they are much less likely to have shingles as an adult."
In a 2005 article, Clements wrote that parents have asked him throughout his practice whether it's a good idea to expose their children to another child with chickenpox "to get it over with." Clements, in the article, said he recommends the vaccine.
While some children may get over the disease and appear fine, that isn't always the case and can sometimes be fatal, Clements said in an email.
"It is true that most children exposed to chickenpox will get an illness from which they will recover — but remember you are talking to the survivors," he said in an email. "Those children that were exposed and died have parents that would probably say something else."
Jacobson said shingles, a related viral infection that emerges later in life and can be extremely painful, is just one of the risks of skipping the vaccine. Other risks include serious secondary infections, he said.
Before vaccination was available, chickenpox killed as many as 100 adults and children a year, he said.
"I think it is taking a big risk that you don’t need to take," Jacobson said. "It's not just a risk your children are going to have. You're putting other people in the community at risk because of your decision."
In the case involving Assumption Academy in Walton, after a chickenpox outbreak spread among 32 students, the Northern Kentucky Health Department on March 14 instructed students without proof of vaccination or immunity against chickenpox to not attend school in order to "prevent further spread of this illness," according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
That prompted a lawsuit by Jerome Kunkel, a senior at Assumption Academy, who claimed health officials violated his freedom of religion and other rights by ordering students without the vaccine to not attend school or extracurricular activities.
Kunkel, according to the lawsuit filed March 14 in Boone County Circuit Court, opposes the vaccine on religious grounds "due to its being derived from aborted fetal cells."
Jacobson said it is true that the vaccine was developed in the 1960s with cells from an infected fetus that had been aborted.
But modern vaccines given to children do not contain those cells and no aborted fetuses are used to produce vaccine. Jacobson said officials with the Roman Catholic Church have endorsed use of the vaccine and support it as safe, effective and not a violation of any church tenets.
Manufacture of the vaccine does not require aborted fetal cells, Jacobson said. "Nor do cells from the original aborted fetus end up in the vaccine a person is giving a child."
Carrico said the Catholic Church has come down firmly on the side of the chickenpox vaccination.
Anyone in doubt, she said, should "go to your parish priest or your archbishop and have the discussion."
@neptuneblue,
What these idiots fail to realise is that there are some people can't be vaccinated because their health is that bad. Those people rely on herd immunity for their own safety because catching a childhood disease could kill them.
I never had the MMR, I'm too old. I've caught chickenpox and rubella, my brother had measles but I never caught it, maybe having had rubella made me immune, but I don't know. I've never had mumps, and apparently it's not something you want to have if you're an adult male, so I have to wary of sick kids.
What a rational society looks like
Quote:New Zealand bans military-style firearms six days after mosque attacks
https://wapo.st/2FjM3HQ
@oralloy,
You are a neo Nazi, you want to ban opposition parties, you supported the swastika brandishing neo Nazis in Charlottesville, even going so far as lying about what they were chanting. You called all Palestinians vermin and fantasised about nuking Italy.
That makes you a neo Nazi.
As for your wild claims about the BBC, uncorroborated with no sources. They're lies.
@blatham,
We did a similar thing after Dunblane. It's what the public wants. Actually the public mood is for even more gun control, but the Tories are too thick with the euphemistically Countryside Alliance, who just support blood sports.
I know it’s redundant but I just have to say - it took a WEEK for New Zealand to get from a gun massacre to gun control. It really shines a light on how dangerously impotent and stupid the US government is.
@snood,
Redund away. The people who make and sell weapons are about as scummy as it gets.
This is funny! Fox co-host speaking about New Zealand's moves on assault weapons...
Quote:Let me just jump in and say, you know, that term 'assault weapons' offends many Second Amendment advocates around the country.
MM
Poor little (and I'll use a favorite right wing term here) snowflakes. But it is, you see, (and I'll use another favorite right wing term) not politically correct for people to use the term "assault weapons" because it offends some.
