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Thursday, September 18, 2008
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What poll?
Did the Today programme really get through the entire morning without mentioning the polls, which see the Tories leading by 28 points on 52%? I wasn’t able to listen to it all, but I did catch Naughtie’s two way with their political correspondent, his interview with Prescott on the chances of Labour’s recover and the news summary on the same topic, as well as the paper review: No mention. The website is doing no better. But can the Beeb really get through the day without giving the figures?

UPDATE: I have spotted a reference to the poll in the last paragraphs ofthis story. Of course, it's a shame the Conservatives' best polling in about 20 years doesn't get a little higher up the story, and that the journo feels it necessary to balance the figures for those certain to vote (the normal headline figures) with the only slightly better ones for support among the general public - something none of the fuller accounts I linked to felt compelled to do. But, still, it's better than Naughtie.

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Not a fan
The BBC's Climate Wars receives a less than glowing review from James Delingpole in the Spectator:

A Church of England official has issued an apology to the descendants of Charles Darwin for the Church’s ‘anti-evolutionary’ fervour towards his Origin of the Species.

I wonder if in about 150 years’ time the BBC — presuming it still exists which I won’t let it do, I promise, once I’ve become your emperor — will make similar amends for having been wrong about absolutely everything from Israel, Europe, Islamism and multiculturalism to women, children, animals and, above all, global warming.

‘God, what a bunch of complete and utter ****ers we all were,’ their apology could say as it floats in shimmery holographic form over icy London streets dominated by minarets, wind turbines and huge packs of semi-domesticated polar bears. ‘We could have contributed something useful or interesting to the climate-change debate. Instead we gave you Earth: The Climate Wars (BBC 2, Sunday).

It's worth reading the rest. Is this the worst review the programme received or are there other nominations?

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