#1 3rd December 8:13pm BBC TV news featured CLARE FARRELL. Environmental activist, of Extinction Rebellion

#2 15,16th December BBC Radio 4 ran a kind of advert for Extinction Rebellion, with a 15 minute "Profile" of its founder
It featured Harra speaking positively about them
It also trailed their Day of Action against the BBC on Friday 21st
..... and only a few seconds of negativity about their law breaking from a Spectator writer

#3 Wednesday 2018-12-19 at 17:22 BBC created a kind of video promo for ER Extinction Rebellion: The story behind the activist group
and that was edited on Friday 12:57pm to mention their blockade of the BBC buildings
.. (To me the video page seems to be not actual reporting of an event
..but rather PR made before the event )

#4 Friday Dec 21 7 activists were invited to give their speeches to a fawning Jeremy Vine on his Radio2 show
JV first compared them to suffragettes, but during the show he must have got a message, cos he did ask a more negative question
#4.1 The show also featured a segment from the head of the Grantham Institute which is funded by the world's largest green hedgefund His Tweet .. His photo of the BBC studio blockade ..

#5 Interesting that ER claim to be moral
but this 26 Nov Guardian headline is an incitement to law breaking
"The climate crisis demands more than blocking roads, Extinction Rebellion"

#6 Fri 21 Dec The Guardian reported on the BBC blockade BBC's London HQ put on lockdown over climate change protest

I'm sure I have heard other positive coverage of ER this past week on the BBC ..maybe others can list

Some deeper notes
For #6
MarkH picked out some key parts

Extinction Rebellion group calls for environment to be made ‘top editorial issue’"

The BBC’s central London headquarters has been put on lockdown due to a protest by climate change campaigners who are demanding it uses its status as national broadcaster to declare a “climate and ecological emergency

Extinction Rebellion, a direct action group that has recently shut down key London roads, has demand the BBC makes the environment its “top editorial issue”.

Broadcasting House was locked down early on Friday afternoon, with BBC staff and guests unable to enter or leave the building while security kept the peaceful but noisy protesters away from the entrance.

Extinction Rebellion activists, who are demanding a meeting with the BBC director general, Tony Hall, said the corporation had a duty to broadcast about climate change with
“the level of urgency placed on informing the public about the second world war”.

@MarkH also made notes for #3 quoting the pages entire text after the Friday edit

Extinction Rebellion: The story behind the activist group
They've blocked bridges, glued themselves to the gates of Downing Street, and closed roads, all in the name of stopping climate change.

On Friday they protested outside several BBC offices in the UK, demanding that the corporation make climate change and environmental issues its top priority - in both editorial coverage and corporate management.

Extinction Rebellion's aims include net zero carbon emissions by 2025 and a national Citizen's Assembly to oversee environment work.

The campaign was launched earlier this year by Rising Up, a network of activists including former members of groups ranging from Earth First! environmentalists to the anti-corporate Occupy movement formed during the global financial crisis.

Despite criticism from some that their demands are unrealistic and their methods annoying, support has grown, with 100 academics - including the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams - giving their backing.

#4 RobRoy alerted the folks over at B-BBC

December 21, 2018 at 1:42 pm Programme: The Jeremy Vine Show
Subject: Interview with Extinction Rebellion Mob.

I have just listened to a most irresponsible interview with a bunch of deluded and ignorant activists from the so-called Extinction Rebellion organisation. Following the day of over a 100,000 passengers holidays being ruined by a probable self-appointed ‘environmental’ activist, the BBC see fit to encourage these idiots by allowing them free air time.

These young and ill-informed people were allowed to spout their pseudo-science and pure fake facts with virtually no correction from anyone at the BBC. You supposedly have a ‘Reality Check’ team when it comes to thwarting Brexit, but where are they when these activists make claims that cannot be backed up by proper science?

The BBC are complicit in peddling these climate scare stories and therefore promote these type of direct action groups that disrupt the lives of millions. For example, the Climate Change Act is costing the UK billions a year that will have virtually no impact on world temperatures (even if CO2 has any impact on temps – not yet proven). This has resulted in higher energy costs that effect the poor more than anyone else, and a national grid that is vulnerable to mere changes in the weather. Why does the BBC NEVER cover these stories. The billions wasted on renewable subsidies could benefit the economy, NHS and social services is so many ways, yet you never cover this scandal.

How can the BBC justify NOT including any scientists who question the global warming consensus (which btw doesn’t exist). By your current rules you would not have interviewed Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and many other trail-blazing scientists because as REAL scientists, they question the consensus.

I pay my license fee (under threat of going to prison if I don’t) yet you seem hell-bent on spending UK people’s money on promoting fringe causes that are in effect anti-British. You are no-more than a mouthpiece for environmental groups that are anti-growth, anti-capitalist organisations in another guise. Disgusting.

****
I won’t hold my breath waiting for a reply.

Photo : outside protesters did a photo stunt, laying on the ground wearing shrouds of the "climate dead"
..someone should get 5,000 people to lay down outside the BBC to signify the 5,000 victims of the grooming/raping gangs that the BBC and metrolib establishment suppressed reporting on

Another photo 30 protesters and 15 police
The Guardian had more photos
.. to me it doesn't seem that there were so many protesters that the streets were over run, but rather police and BBC security tolerated the protest

BBC staff video
Note how taxpayer money is being wasted cos 2 police as standing INSIDE the BBC behind the locked BBC doors , when the BBC has its own security and there aren't that many protesters.

#4 (cont) The whole context is that the protest comes during 30 hours of the Gatwick drone incident, postulated to be eco-activists closing the airport to make a protest.

Steve Brine MP @BrineMP complained on Twitter 12:28 PM - Dec 21, 2018

So here’s a good one ... @theJeremyVine just suggested on @BBCRadio2 that the drone menace at Gatwick,
if an environmental campaigner, should be honoured not prosecuted.
Never mind him excusing illegal behaviour,
I’d love to see him go say that in departures.

JimS commented

I thought Jeremy Vine came very close to incitement to cause a criminal act. There was a good half-hour of the programme devoted to justifying shutting down air transport.

We had that brainwashed Swedish girl, again, with her ‘power to the people’ – what about the ‘people’ that want to go on holiday or heat their homes or want to fly to heated hotels for ‘climate change’ conferences?

I get tired of £700k p.a. Vine, ‘man of the people’, telling us how he has to ‘save the planet’ for his daughters and how he can’t afford to pay for his finance plan car.

P.S. Wouldn’t a two-hundred foot high Thames Barrier have to sit in a two-hundred foot high valley at least in order to protect London? Where is that geographic feature coming from, climate change?

Think about it , those cops should be saving London from knife crime etc.
And note how when Pro-Brexiteers too twenty seconds to clear the way for an ambulance the libmob screamed "an ambulance was blocked, people could have died"
..In fact every eco-protest takes cops off the street who could be dealing with real crime

Paul H has done a more comprehensive analysis
he focuses on the BBC progs that purport to tell us what ER is. but hide the fact it is a marxist anti-capitalist org underneath.
"Extinction Rebellion are in reality little more than Wolfie Smith’s Tooting Popular Front, and should be treated with the disdain they deserve by the BBC."
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/12/22/bbc-and-the-extinction-rebellion/

@Tomo that Somerset Live story is massive on twitter
3 people tweeted the link, two of them are Somerset Live staff

Talking of reporting news that isn't news yesterdays radio news kept reporting
"This Saturday retailers report footfall is down ONE percent"

Extinction Rebellion = xStinky Rabble ?

Times gone by and I forgot to record stuff here
Like 2 weeks ago yet another R4 prog lionising one of their activists
On April 1st and 3rd R4 Prog Youth Climate Strikers
My Name Is…
\\ 17-year-old Londoner Noga Levy-Rapoport records her role in organising the UK wide school strikes and charts the impact of the growing global campaign for action on climate change. /
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There’s more Cos on Friday the Beyond Today podcast also covered eco-campaigning
Are Extinction Rebellion the new Suffragettes?
– “We also spoke to Phil Jones, who edits the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2. Phil told us about the climate change phone-in that angered the nation and a mix-up that ended with Extinction Rebellion members being hauled from the Radio 2 studio by police.”

Ben Pile’s tweet about the prog
part of his 20 tweet threat about politicians , media being in bed with the XR public relations people who are exploiting children

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Climate Kids getting challenged in Germany by scientist
https://notrickszone.com/2019/04/12/skeptic-german-geologist-interview-goes-viral-greta-demos-emotional-not-based-on-fact-selective-media/

Paul Homewood has had a few stories about XR
so I have comments beneath those stories
The first one was
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/claire-perry-has-good-and-productive-chat-with-far-left-rabble

I posted 2 videos
#1 Piers Corbyn callls it a fake protest
#2 Altmedia also calls them out.

Then Paul has 3 other posts about XR

Extinction *Rebellion*
... yeh not rebels at all , but robot CONFORMISTS to the Climate alarmism machine

Monday 15th April
The Public relations people behind XR
..and the staff of UK BBC and other MSM
started their joint project working together to hype their cause

Note how the previous Friday when 20,000 motorcycled paraded for Soldier X
the demo was largely not covered by MSM.
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MB said \\ Does the BBC smile kindly on the Extinction Rebellion?
You bet!! Compare and contrast with other protests that they don't favour.

I really don't accept that a protest designed to close down a city and stop ambulances moving about is "non-violent" as the BBC describe it. It's a non-peaceful protest. //

\\ Many of these uberclimatists are on salaries in the hundreds of thousands of pounds.
What do they think all that money represents?
Production,of stuff that's what
(unless they are burying their pound notes in the garden).
Unless these people are actively investing 99% of their salary in carbon sequestration (which they are not)
... they are simply adding to the problem they claim exists.//

The coverage is so uncritical. It's bizarre.
said @M CourtneyApr 17, 2019 at 3:31 PM

It does seem strange the Climate XR can suddenly appear all over the western world and no-one asks them:

• "Who is funding you?"
• "Where were you founded?"
• "How did you spread so far so quickly?"
• "What would victory look like for you?"
• "How can mitigation work better than adaptation when China, Russia and India are not mitigating?"
• "How does disrupting public transport help prevent climate change?"
• "What sort of evidence could, possibly, persuade you that have over-estimated the problem (if it existed)?"

Radio2
XR manDr Larch Maxey "The UN says we have 12 months to turn it around"
Dellers "It's economic terrorism"

..... that's right ..Dellers was strong

@DavidRoseUK tweeted
Will @climatefeedback @richardabetts @flimsin @dougmcneall @ClimateOfGavin or any other sane climate scientist please state publicly that the claims being made by Extinction Rebellion
- that unless emissions are cut to zero by 2025 “our children will die” - are a tad bonkers? //

No one responded except a dumb sarky answer from @RichardBettsy
that's how I know we are on the right side.

XRs three core demands:
for the government to
- "tell the truth about climate change",
- reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2025,
- and create a citizens' assembly to oversee progress

Bettsy couldn't find that out with Google !
https://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2019/04/16/met-office-quid-pro-quo-science/

Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey
@RLong_Bailey
To those taking part in today's #ClimateStrike
- the Labour Party is with you #SchoolStrike4Climate #FridaysForFuture

There is a video in her tweet