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SOLUTION TO FUEL POVERTY? VOTE LABOUR.

>> SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2011

The BBC is determined not to let facts get in the way of a good story. A B-BBC reader writes;

'You and yours' Winfred Robinson talks to energy minister Greg Barker. Robinson is asking what Baker is going to do about fuel poverty in UK. Baker states that Labour did nothing to help those in fuel poverty and that the poverty has doubled since 2005. Robinson says 'it is absurd to blame Labour...it was fuel prices that caused the poverty....so let's move on!'

And yet she is here asking Baker what he is going to do about it.....surely she told us it is fuel prices that are causing the poverty...didn't she just say that...and out of government control obviously? So let's move on.

Barker suggests we insulate and build to a better standard...UK has the most expensive to heat homes in Europe....we must build homes as insulated as the Norwegians who have very low energy bills...even in the Arctic...

Robinson leaps in again....'that's why their homes are so efficient because their climate is so different(er....cold)...ours is temperate.'

So an arctic region, cold to freezing most of the year, is cheaper to keep warm than a region where most of the year it is reasonably warm anyway? Clearly like a car it is more fuel efficient to keep a car running than to turn the engine on and off...keep your boiler running all year....the more you run it the lower your bills! That's BBC education for you.

More is less.

The BBC logic defeats me....obviously the real solution to fuel poverty is vote Labour!

Why she just doesn't say that at the beginning and save me listening for an hour....."

THE 2 MINUTE HATE

It really IS unbelievable. I refer to the 24/7 hate shown by the BBC towards Murdoch. For those with a strong stomach why not give this a listen? Obviously John Humphyrs would like to see James Murdoch follow Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton. Further, it is also evident the BBC would like to see Murdoch disinvest of his entire UK print operation. I then turned on BBC1 and who was being interviewed on the topic but John "Mr Ethics" Prescott. Naturally he was in full cry for more NI blood. On Radio, on TV and in-print, the BBC/Guardian media complex will not be satisfied with anything less than the destruction of TI and I sense Murdoch realises the gravity of the situation hence the exodus of senior executives. It's curious how disinterested the BBC is in allegations that OTHER newspapers have engaged in identical practices, almost as if the narrative is set in stone and not open to examination. People talk about the "fear" politicians and others have of Murdoch. I suggest that is as NOTHING compared to the fear they have of the State Broadcaster.

IRONY ALERT

Screengrab from the BBC's US & Canada page:



Pretty rich, huh?

Here's the actual report by Tom Brooks. How very different to the BBC's treatment of the Obama documentary We The People which even the Obama-friendly Washington Post' described as a "stultifyingly naive, please-drink-a-little-more-Kool-Aid paean" and "a very long commercial for Obama". The BBC didn't assign a journalist to cast a critical eye over that film, chosing instead to broadcast it as part of its teenage fan-club Obama season on the first anniversary of his, like, totally awesome victory.

Agenda driven indeed.

BBC Busted For Narrative BS - From 'Media Myth Alert'

>> FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2011

W. Joseph Campbell, proprietor of the Media Myth Alert blog has busted the BBC for the same kind of Narrative-supporting BS we often call them on. It's worth featuring here.

BBC calls Hearst vow apocryphal, quotes it anyway

Apocryphal but still quotable.

That’s how Britain’s venerable broadcaster, the BBC, treated the mythical anecdote about media titan William Randolph Hearst and his purported vow to “furnish the war” with Spain in the late 19th century.

In an article posted online yesterday, the BBC described Hearst as the “definitive [news] baron” and declared:

“He’s credited with the invention of tabloid journalism in the 1890s when his New York Journal began a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. He also had a reputation as a warmonger.

“‘You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war,’ goes an apocryphal instruction he was supposed to have sent in a telegram to an illustrator in Havana.”

That’s right, the line is apocryphal. What, then, is the point in using it? As a none-too-clever, back-handed way of buttressing the dubious notion that Hearst and his newspapers were capable of fomenting a war?

That’s sloppy journalism from a leading international news organization.

As they say, read the whole thing.

Someone at BBC News Online instructed Peter Jackson and Tom de Castella to whip up a piece that would give everyone the idea that nasty Uncle Rupert might be responsible for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And they used an apocryphal quote to help create that context of a press baron "known" to have instigated war, knowing full well that's what they were doing.

"Apocryphal but still quotable" = "Fake, but accurate"

The Beeboids are that arrogant. Journalistic standards? Yawn, it's for the ankle-biters. If it's for a just cause, anything goes. They have their agenda, and they know they can get away with it.