Hooked on Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey has changed my life. I don’t know how to get dressed without a butler. I can’t read the newspaper until it is pressed. I must dress formally for dinner – I mean a tux. I want my physician to...

BBC Building in Salford Voted Ugliest in Britain

MediaCityUK has been chosen as winner of Building Design magazine’s Carbuncle Cup - the prize for the worst-realised development of the past 12 months - by a panel of architecture critics. The unwanted...

The Unreality Of Our Real Life

Two events, occurring in quick succession in the recent past, have been very disturbing. One is the sounding of death knell by Mark Thompson (director general of British Broadcasting Corporation), of the Hindi radio service of BBC. And the other is an unabashed reality show...

BBC Apologies for Top Gear Racist Comments About Mexico

After hundreds of protests about the remarks made by presenters Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May were made. BBC offers apologies.The comments were made when a Mexican sports car was being discussed...

Amb. Dore Gold on BBC World Debate on Peace Process

Amb. Dore Gold joins Dr. Husan Zomlot of the Fatah International Relations Committee and Khalid Abdula-Janahi of the Global Agenda Council, Middle East for a debate about the roles of the players in the ...

The size of the index: an indicator of the cancer of the prostate

Gentlemen, look well at your fingers... According to a survey led by the scientists of the Research institute on the cancer (ICR), if your index is longer than your ring-finger, you have less luck to develop a...

Sudan suspended BBC Arabic FM broadcast

BBC reported today that Sudan has suspended BBC Arabic FM broadcast in Sudan. Sudan’s authorities have been reported to say that it is not the content of the broadcast but the breaches of accord governing BBC activities. Does it mean BBC breached a contract? If so why? BBC...

Alice Cooper Critical of Erykah Badu's Naked 'Window Seat' Video

Shock rocker Alice Cooper said Erykah Badu’s music video for Window Seat has shocked America, a country that seems to thrive on controversial media offerings. The video, which shows the R&B singer stripped...

Blooded Broken Crosses [BBC]

I watched a documentary program on killing innocent children in Nigeria. Apparantly an Evangelist church denounces many children as witches who should be killed!!I was very troubled to see images of beautiful...

A real bird’s eye view

The BBC has developed impressive miniature camera equipment that can be fitted on eagles and peregrin falcons to capture the vistas observed by eagles when soaring in the skies. The following includes a video documentary on what the BBC has developed, and applied in flight...

Jonathan Ross Quits BBC After 13 Years, Will Not Re-negotiate

Jonathan Ross, a veritable household name in the United Kingdom, has quit the BBC after 13 years. In a statement the 49 year-old host of Friday Night With Jonathan Ross confirmed he will not re-negotiate his contract...

BBC apologises, Ugandan Parliament debates anti-gay bill today

After defending, then ditching a controversial Uganda gay execution poll, the BBC has apologized after complaints about yesterday's on-line debate which asked "Should homosexuals face execution?" The BBC ditched...

BBC Defends, Ditches Controversial Uganda Gay Execution Poll

After initially defending a controversial poll which asked readers "Should homosexuals face execution?" in Uganda, the BBC ditched the poll after coming under fire from gay rights groups, and replaced it with a...

How terrorism has won

As a spices we evolved to take risks - the evidence is there for all to see unless you are of the ilk who still believe the earth is 6000 years and man walked with dino's.But as we see in some parts of the world,...

Treatment of Climate Change E-mail Scandal-ous

" First, a BBC News headline reported, Hackers target leading climate research unit. Ten days later, a new headline from the stodgy-and-liberal media outlet reads, Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails. What’s wrong with those headlines?  They focus on something far...

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