Monday, 24 May 2010

Falsehood and Madness

>> MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010

“Reporters are mouthpieces for people in power”

On Today, Guardian writer and one-time journalist of the year Nick Davies tells us that the internet is a mechanism for distributing falsehood and madness.
But not to worry. Although much journalism is necessarily inaccurate, the bastions of truth and good journalism are the BBC and the Guardian.

OPEN THREAD...

New week dawns, new open thread opens!

THOSE WICKED COMMONWEALTH GAMES

Did you listen to this demolition job on the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in India? Best line from BBC's Chris Morris? "Is it simply immoral or is it illegal?". I get the feeling the BBC doesn't approve of this event!

FERGIE ON THE BEEB...

I know that Fergie is the gift that keeps on giving the enemies of the Royal Family plenty of material to denigrate them and true to form if you listen to this interview you can detect Naughtie desperately trying to get John O'Farrell to be more cutting than he actually could have been on the NOTW revelations. I don't blame O'Farrell, his comments are measured but I do believe that you can detect the glee in Naughties voice? Thoughts?

BYRNING LOVE

Anyone catch Sarah Montague's "interview" with former chief secretary to the Treasury Liam Byrne this morning? Could she have been any easier on him? I don't think so. It appears that the BBC have gone along with Labour and consigned it's thirteen years in power and attendant profligacy to the memory hole. It never happened. Why IS Osborne making Tory cuts?