Always remember than BIAS is in their genes. Consider the thoughts of Katty Kay, the BBC's Washington correspondent on the Tea Party... How bad was it? Check out this review by an anti-war TV critic at Metro:
WHAT KATY DID NEXT...
>> TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2010
"And the Tea Party is saying we don’t care about whether it’s in the country’s interest, in our foreign policy interest, in our economic interest necessarily to deal with the President. What we want is to be the party that obstructs Barack Obama. Many of them ran specifically on stopping and on checking Barack Obama, and so that is their priority. And the establishment is going to have to either listen to them or try and find a way to overcome that energy."
Accused
Let’s nail some colours to the mast. I marched against the war in Iraq and I’m no supporter of British military action in Afghanistan. But even so, it was hard not to feel a knot of revulsion growing in the stomach at the twisted portrayal of the Army that was shoved down our throats in Accused (BBC1).
Below the fold, reaction from the Army Rumour Service forum. Language warning.
This was drama, posing as reality, that got the blood boiling but not in the way I’d anticipated. If you were looking for a target market for a story about bullying and brutality in the military, an exposé of a world where pocket dictators get their rocks off victimising vulnerable squaddies, then I’d be it. But writer Jimmy McGovern’s story was so ludicrously one-sided you couldn’t believe a word of it.
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
What could be more fair and balanced than this, I ask you? The BBC despises the Tea Party, just as it loathes Sarah Palin, and never missed the opportunity to blatantly misrepresent what these people believe. To Katty Kay the Tea Party are nihilists.
Hat-tip to Big Journalism.
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