WHAT DEBT PROBLEM?
>> THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2009
Some excellent observations over on our most recent Open Thread concerning how the BBC have treated David Cameron's suggestion that there is a looming debt repayment on the horizon. Cassandra says..
"Well the toadies invited a couple of well chosen economists whose line was superficially aligned to the newlabour one (funny that eh?) that in fact there is no problem and the markets are confident of the UKsabillity to pay off debt BUT and this is a big but, the confidence is solely based on the firm belief that an incoming new regime will have to drastically cut spending levels and the wholly unexplored implication is that newlabour have utterly failed to spell out a medium/long term cost cutting strategy. Newlabour have gone out of their way to not only not talk about the required massive expenditure cuts they have claimed that they will in fact raise spending levels or at least maintain them!The BBC is determined to pretend that Brown's profligacy is "investment" and only house-trained economists are permitted to posit opinion.
THE GREAT EDUCATION CON..
The BBC likes to play along with the nonsense that the "A" level has not been dumbed down. So today as even more students get Grade "A" the BBC changes the narrative to being one about the availability of university places. Naturally Labour play along with this and and thus the context of the debate changes in a way that favours the radical egalitarians. Let's ignore the emasculation of what was once a gold standard education qualification and instead have a faux debate about how many more can be funnelled into University.
AFGHAN ATTACK!
>> WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2009
The BBC has been working itself up into quite a frenzy ahead of the Afghan elections. The narrative is all about minimising any sense of progress being made. We had this diatribe broadcast at 7.49am this morning suggesting that the Afghan government does everything possible to "promote fraud" (Bit like Labour, really) and then at 8.34am the BBC interviewed Afghan "warlord turned militant" Gulbuddin Hekmatyar - who is the US most wanted man in the area. Lucky there wasn't a drone nearby when this interview was taking place.
OUR SICKLY NHS
Working in the NHS is clearly the world's toughest job (!) and it's not surprising that sickness rates are vastly above those of the private sector. Ahem. Listen tothis interview. Boorman is hopeless but Humphyrs clearly holds back. Repeat after me - the NHS is the envy of the world. The third world.
ARMS WARS
Right, been away all day and just back in at B-BBC central. Did you catch this item that the BBC ran this morning on how UK arms are used when exported? The narrative was simple - it is wrong for the UK to export arms components if these are used to fight terrorists. Roger Berry MP was visceral in hismisrepresentation of how Israel and Sri Lanka used the weapons supplied. Loved his repetition of the "occupied territories" mantra during the interview, wonder had he a little keyiffeh on when being interviewed? The BBC might have provided us with a little background on Mr Berry, and in particular his call back in March to ban all arms exports to Israel. He's just one more Jew-hater and given a free run by Today. At no time did the BBC interview ask Mr Berry how Israel or indeed Sri Lanka can fight against Jihadists that deliberately shelter amongst civilians? This was an exercise in bashing those Nations that FIGHT terrorism rather than appeasing it.
IN THE HUDSON...
The Hudson and Pepperdine, to be precise. I was alerted by an intrepid B-BBC reader to this "comedy" on R4 this afternoon. It's all about global warming and is full on propaganda mode. Laugh? I nearly paid my license fee. I couldn't get past the first 8 minutes. I dare you to listen.
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