NOTHING TO SEE...MOVE ALONG.

NOTHING TO SEE...MOVE ALONG.

>> MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 07, 2009

Listened to an interview with Jason McCue, the lawyer for some of the NI victims of Libyan funded IRA terrorism just after 7.30am - within a minute he had a go at the Conservatives. He also pointed out that in his view Brown hadnot done a u-turn. What a canny Lawyer and how convenient for Prudence. Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam (Catchy name) is now painted as the bad guy, nothing more to see here, move along. Well done BBC, keep up the good work. Another key aspect of BBC spin on this is how it is promoting the Democratic Unionist Party as guardians of the interests of IRA victims. As you know the DUP betrayed its electorate by power sharing with the IRA. The BBC sees itself as a promoter of the NI peace process and therefore even in this case of obvious Brown duplicity it tries to help the DUPes.

Some Are More Equal Than Others ...

I would love to be a fly on the wall at the conferences where the items for BBC television and radio news are decided - to try and work out why some stories make it and some don't. Murders are a case in point - there are about a thousand a year over the United Kingdom - three a day. Yet not only do 90% of them not make the national news - many of them aren't even reported on the BBC web site. At the same time, every single death of a serviceman in Afghanistan is reported on national news. Yet the BBC finds the resource to report a non-fatal traffic accident on the same day that it ignores a homicide. Again, as should we all be, the BBC are very down on rape - and also on torture (especially if MI6 or America may be involved). Yet this deliberately planned rape is featured, while this deliberately planned rape and torture is ignored. This unpleasant rape and assault also seems to fly under the BBC news radar.

Two knife-wielding burglars who gang-raped a young mother in her home as her young son begged them to stop have been locked up. The drink and drug-fuelled pair took turns to rape the woman after horrifically killing the child’s pet in front of him.

Is that not "news" ? If you stab a child's pet, does it not bleed ? I cannot think* why the murder of James Houliston and the crimes of Reon Hall and Aaron Fitzgerald Gelly, Mansoor Shah and Stefan Reed, should not be considered worth even one report from the organisation that gives us "city tram restrictions continue". Would anyone from the BBC like to comment ? * (well I can, but it reflects so badly upon the BBC that I hesitate to air it).

SPINNING FOR GORDON

>> SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 06, 2009

I saw this on the BBC news and spotted you discussing it on the Open Thread and felt it deserved further attention.

Gordon Brown has been exposed thanks to the Sunday Times as being the man who personally vetoed Libyan pay outs to the victims of IRA terrorism. Libya shipped Semtex and arms to the IRA for several years from 1985. Lawyers representing British victims have evidence that the Semtex was used in a series of IRA atrocities, including the Enniskillen bomb of 1987, the Manchester bomb in 1996 and several explosions in London. However Gordon Brown has deemed it "inappropriate" that the UK enter into discussion with Libya on this issue.

After horrendous media headlines and more to come, the u-turn has been executed by McDoom and the BBC carries a (almost smiling) image of Brown stoutly declaring that he now backs the bid for IRA victims to gain some compensation from Libya.

The entire tone of this BBC item spins in favour of Brown.

The facts of the matter are that Brown was quite prepared to betray the British victims of IRA terrorism, just as he has been quite prepared to betray the victims of Pan Am Flight 107. The sheer duplicity of Brown is quite breathtaking but yet the BBC does what it can for their man. Deplorable.