LANGUAGE

LANGUAGE

A B-BBC contributor notes; "One might remember all the fake outrage concerning David Starkey's comments concerning language, appearance and employability? Oh what a fuss that stirred up. I wonder if this piece from 'Today' will be as controversial when it says essentially the same thing....adapt your language, appearance and attitude to the circumstances if you want to get on in life.....remarkably, or not, not a mention of Starkey on the programme...." 'Zero tolerance on ghetto grammar'

'The writer and broadcaster Lindsay Johns says street language is part of the problem of unrest and unemployment among Britain's youth. Mr Johns and Michael Williams, who was given support by a south London mentoring scheme, discuss whether communication could be the key to the UK's social problems.'

Interesting to read Starkey's response to the BBC led Jihad against him here.

WATCHING THE DETECTIVES

>> FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011

A quite remarkable tale of BBC and Guardian duplicity uncovered byAutonomous Mind.

To set the scene;

"It has felt like ploughing a lonely furrow, using this blog and Twitter to try to make people sit up and question how the Guardian wasgetting informationa bout the Met Police’s investigation into ‘phone hacking’ and getting unreleased details of arrests."

But now....

"Sky News is reporting that a 51-year-old detective at the Metropolitan Police has been arrested at his desk and suspended on suspicion of leaking information from the phone hacking investigation team to journalists at the Guardian."

So, how does the BBC cover this. Well, it manages to entirely avoid the Guardian connection!

Further Update: Despite the story of the Met Police detective being arrested for allegedly leaking information to the Guardian being all over Sky News and various news media outlets and blogs, the BBC’s update of their story, 34 mins after the last version was published, doggedly continues to omit the name ‘Guardian’. In fact, they are even trying to focus attention on the arrest of another News of the World journalist and unashamedly are even using the NotW logo as their story image, which could give the impression the police leaks were to the NotW and not the Guardian! Utterly incredible.

Hat-tip to the excellent Autonomous Mind. The BBC/Guardian axis of hypocrisy revealed for all to see.