FLASH IN THE PAN GORDON
Wonder if the BBC will ever get round to investigating this from Guido: ‘Sources close to Linklaters whisper to Guido that while Leveson only asked for specific evidence from 2008 onwards, they collected testimony from Fred Michel dating back to the crucial election-that-never-was period in 2007 that was not heard at the inquiry. This includes embarrassing details of failed attempts by Brown’s aides to lobby Murdoch for support and more …Continue reading
A Red Rose By Any Other Name
Stephanie Flanders is caught on the horns of a dilemma…no, not which labour senior politician to date next but how to report seemingly all round political support for the self evidently daft idea of a ‘living wage’. In her recent programme about Keynes Flanders pretty much used every one of Miliband’s latest ‘lines’ in her eulogy to the benefits of borrowing and spending more…but here, in this report, you might … Continue reading
Katty Kay Tweets Political Endorsement
The latest tweet from Katty Kay, BBC Washington correspondent and anchor of what’s left of BBC World News America, and the highest-profile Beeboid in the US: How about Bloomberg/Booker for a let’s get this done bipartisan ticket? — Katty Kay (@KattyKayBBC) October 30, 2012 First of all, Bloomberg is no longer a Republican, hasn’t been for years. He quit that Party and has been calling himself an independent since 2007 … Continue reading
KEEP A WEATHER EYE OUT FOR THIS
The BBC’s most powerful weapon is its ability to rewrite history….to maintain its own narrative over an extended, indeed infinite, time….it owns the ‘right’ and numerous platforms to broadcast what it pleases to back up its own beliefs, and that is what it does. A historical fact, such as the BBC were found guilty of lying about the Iraq War Dossier has now been morphed into ‘the BBC was right … Continue reading
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