A Biased BBC reader advises me; Was away yesterday so hence lack of posts but having got back I see the BBC are still running with their meme that the private sector and the "profit" motive are deleterious to our good health. They have been combining the issues of Southern Cross and Bristol Nursing Home to weave the narrative that only the well run financially responsible always-caring NHS can provide us with good healthcare. I believe they betray their own inherently Statist mentality in the way they portray this meme. The BBC seems to believe that the State is morally virtuous because it never has financial issues since it can thieve from the taxpayer. I can think of £3 billion reasons why they hold such an opinion. Matt Ridley observes in his excellent book The Rational Optimist: GUARDIANISTAS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
Have a look at this review of over 2,700 links (only a portion of thousands more links, but a decent chunk) It is a snapshot of outward bound links to National Dailes taken on 31st May 2011 around 9:15pm. The Guardian is way out in front. It's either disproportionate advertising which I believe is against the rules or is bias towards one newspaper, or both.
THE EVIL OF CAPITALISM
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! - AGAIN
Despite a doubling of the world population, even the raw number of people living in absolute poverty (defined as less than a 1985 dollar a day) has fallen since the 1950s, let alone the percentage living in such absolute poverty. That number is, of course, still all too horribly high, but the trend is hardly a cause for despair. The United Nations estimates that poverty was reduced more in the last 50 years than in the previous 500.
He goes on to explain that population growth has not led to the mass starvation that greenies have been predicting with monotonous regularity since the 1970s. There has been a revolution in food production that has tripled the yield of staple plants and ensured that - while there is still a long way to go - most on our wonderful planet have full bellies and increasing life expectancy.
But that doesn't stop the BBC from trumpeting this alarmist report about starvation caused by climate change as if it were a certainty. They stick to their unquestioning acceptance of the green creed emblazoned on every BBC door: millions are going to die because of our nasty, selfish, capitalist ways. The subtext makes International Socialists look subtle. The report is from the same Doomsday script as has been rehearsed dozens of times before, based on the same flimsy models. And the reporter quotes without a trace of balance the preposterous opinion that we can limit - as if we had supernatural powers - global temperature rises as easily as switching a thermostat. Jennifer Carpenter is clearly yet another of the army BBC climate-change activists without the remotest comprehension of science or development history.
Friday, 3 June 2011
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