Just been reminded just why I never watch news analysis on Australian TV. Tonight I had the misfortune of watching this, biased to the point of dishonesty every time I’ve seen it.
Two items tonight, one on the BNP in the UK, the other on Zimbabwe.
The BNP? Well the message was pretty much a cudgel around [...]
Posts under ‘SBS’
Australian television
Dreams of Obama
There is a documentary on SBS tonight, called Dreams of Obama. The television listings describe it thus -
This documentary examines the rich personal and political biography of the 44th president of the United States. Through interviews with insiders and observers who’ve tracked Obama from his days at Harvard Law School, through his rise in Chicago [...]
Men of Honour
Just watching the SBS World News (why keep watching this if you so dislike it, I hear you ask. Well, the depressing truth is that it is the best news program on Australian TV) , and there was a puff piece on Eid al Fitr - just like Christmas, innit?
Then, a little later, SHOCK, a [...]
Pearls
Comment just heard on SBS -
 A woman only has to put her pearls on and she is dressed.
I gotta admit, a woman dressed in naught bar her pearls generally looks pretty good to me.
Sarah
Getting the media to take notice of the dreadful church Barackkk attended for 20 years, apparently without noticing its hate mongering and supremacist teachings, was, for a long time, impossible.
Right now, a week after we heard about her, I am watching SBS do a stitch up on Sarah Palin, discussing the weirder aspects of the [...]
SBS
I am watching this, a discussion of growth of faith based schools in Australia. It is presented as a moderator directing discussion and posing questions to a selected audience, the audience composed of muslims, catholics, protestants, students, teachers, educationalists, scientists, etc, etc.
As is usual, when evolution vs creationism was discussed, evolution was described as ‘just [...]
More drivel
I have a background in computaional astrophysical fluid dynamics and quite frankly the IPCC’s “the debate is over†schtick is bullshit of the highest order. I know how complicated these problems are and I know about computer simulation of fluids and frankly, there is no way they know doodly about it.
There was a puff piece [...]
SBS
This is my night for being pissed off at SBS.
They have just rebroadcast a documentary - The Gulf Stream and the Next Ice Age - or it was a documentary once. It’s thesis, that the Gulf Stream is a delicate little creature that could die if we sneeze too hard, and that therefore we must [...]
MSN Lies
Five minutea ago SBS News made the statement that in the United States the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer.
This is just not true. It has no basis in reality at all.
The rich are unquestionably getting richer, but the poor are getting richer as well, just not as fast.
The disparity between [...]
SBS
Tonight, on World News, SBS referred to Geert Wilders as ultra Right Wing.
Ultra?
What does this mean?
Is this objective reporting?
Is it any more than a mean spirited smear?
Is it an indication of how skewed the SBS world view is?
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind [...]
SBS and wealth
SBS is running a trailer promoting a program on India, discussing Indian economic growth.
The trailer states, and asks, “India is on the path to becoming the worlds third largest economy, but what price is it willing to pay?” This is followed by some chap stating that even then, five percent of the population will [...]
