SELECTIVE HEADLINING
>> WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2009
We touched on this story a while back and I see it also picked up on the Open Thread but isn't the heading "TV Presenter jailed for two years" curious? The fact is that it is a BBC Presenter who is off to spare some time in prison but the BBC seems a tad shy claiming him as one of their own in the heading. Why not? There are many other instances of the BBC claiming responsibility when it suits their agenda.
BARROSO - CHAMPION OF THE RIGHT
I was looking at this loving BBC profile of Manuel Barroso - he who is EU Commission President. It portrays him as some sort of right wing characteralthough he considers himself "centrist". You have to wonder at the sort of media prism that presents Barroso as anything other than a hard left anti democratic dictator. Still, since the EU helps fund the BBC, this kind of spinning is always to be expected.
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