Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Hats off to the BBC. It manages to run this item today on the subject of new laws aimed at outlawing forced marriages without ever once mentioning Islam. Well done BBC - consummate skill. Forced marriages, along with "honour murder" is just part of the rich cultural heritage that Islam has been bringing into the UK but you would be hard-pressed to figure that from the BBC's coverage.
Labels: pro Islam
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David Vance #
OBAMA WORSHIP.
Even as Gordon Brown digs the UK into ever deeper recession, bbc coverage
of Obama's unfolding administration continues to put the fawn into fawning. His newly announced treasury team, replete with Harvard and Berkeley professors, appears to offer little different in substance to the current Bush/Paulson endless bail-out approach - other than they will bail even more out! This is "the jolt" that Obama promises and which the BBC uncritically lets pass without deeper economic analysis. It seems to me that the BBC gets excited when politicians extend the malign tendrils of government into every part of private business, and so Brown and Obama can expect an easy ride in the time ahead.
Labels: obama bias
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David Vance #
DON'T MENTION THE PUBLIC FINANCES
Had to laugh at BBC1 Morning News today. There was an item on how wonderful Alistair "Spend Spend Spend!" Darling's pre-meltdown mini-budget was, with a spokesman from accountants Ernest & Young. It all started well but then - gasp horror - the E&Y man pointed out the shocking state of UK public finances prior to the current financial troubles. This was met with a rapid "moving along quickly" response from the BBC presenter - since the Beeb narrative does not allow for a recognition that Prudence never actually existed and that Public finances were recklessly managed over the past 11 years. There is also a general BBC acceptance that taxing "the rich" till the pips squeak is a socially responsible act from the tax thieves in power. I also noted that the BBC is constantly stating that the Government is "being honest" with us all. What rubbish - the Government has been lying through its teeth and the farcical notion that we are now entering an era of truthfulness shows just how detached the BBC is.
Labels: taxation
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Monday, November 24, 2008
ed thomas #
Brown's Darling to the rescue
Here's a thread to discuss BBC coverage of the Government's pre-budget statement. Worth saying I think that it was Labour who introduced the pre-budget statement. This junket that nowadays occurs is in many ways midwife to valuable pro-Government spin. Thanks to Paul S for higlightingFraser Nelson's helpful list of Gordon's spin- how many of these points will the BBC promote in its coverage? Look out for action contrasted with passivity (Gordon v Dave)- especially how Gordon is leading the world in action- and the recession that "came from America", as well as plenty of party politicals hearking back to the "heartless Tories" using false or misleading comparisons with previous recessions. Maybe you'd like to consider counterpunches, since the BBC probably won't allow for any or properly cover any Conservative rebuttal...
Labels: anti-conservative, pro Labour bias, save gordon
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