The vile Prescott's wife, Lady Prescott, is joining BBC1's The One Show to front roving reports and as a presenter. The show's editor, Sandy Smith, says that, "having been in the position she was...makes her a good person for us. We think she is, in a number of ways, typical of our audience". What more can you say about the BBC's editorial mindset? Douglas Carswell writes of the BBC's divergent approach in covering public issues such as bullfighting in Catalonia and illegal immigration in Arizona. This is the reason I don't watch the BBC: you know what the story will be from the barest description of it; I prefer to garner details from sources more varied and less predictable. Douglas attempts neutrality:PREZZA HORROR...
>> FRIDAY, JULY 30, 2010
Topical typicality
>> THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010
I've little interest in the politics of either Catalonia or Arizona, and even less in bull fighting. But I do wish our state broadcaster would report objectively, rather than on the basis of whether they happen to approve.
This the BBC cannot and will not do; the partisan interest they have (with its pan-national socialistic imperative) is what drives them to cover these stories and propels them all over the globe. Oh, that and license-payers' money.
Friday, 30 July 2010
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