NOT SO SUPER, COMMITTEE

Time for a new one of these! Got any thoughts on the bias from our Broadcasting Big Brother? Detail them here!

NOT SO SUPER, COMMITTEE

Well then,Stateside the "Super Committee" tasked with reducing the massive US deficit has, predictably, failed to agree on a plan. Naturally the BBC rows in behind Obama's view that this is entirely the fault of the Republicans, as this report makes abundantly clear. Mark Mardell isgrasping at straws for The One here as he prays the fewer people respect Congress than Obama.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

The politics of envy feature large on the BBC radar. Give this debate a listen of you get a chance, it's on the subject of whether "excessive deals for the UK's top bosses is having a corrosive effect on the economy, for companies as well as society as a whole." I have also been involved in BBC debates on this topic and the BBC are determined to present "big bosses" as vampires, feeding off the poor oppressed workers. Heather McGregor gives a spirited defence of the free market system so despised by the BBC and I loved her withering reference to communist Cuba and "fairness". The irony is that I suspect there are plenty within the BBC who do think that the Cuban collective model is superior to that which has enriched this country. I also note the BBC never asks whether excessive deals for the UK's top PUBLIC SECTOR bosses is having a corrosive effect on the economy?

FROM PIG TO MAN...

Wonder if you share my..ahem..surprise...that Allegra Stratton, the former political correspondent at the Guardian, has been appointed political editor of the BBC’s Newsnight programme.
BBC..Guardian..BBC. Let me quote Orwell..

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Not Taking Sides

>> MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011

“We don’t take sides!” is a cry repeatedly heard from certain biased organisations that operate under banners of impartiality.
On the other hand, the foreign secretary isn’t constrained by such a banner. Nevertheless William Hague says the government isn’t taking sideson the intricacies of Egyptian politics.
“We do take sides,” he admitted moments later, “on behalf of democracy!"
Democracy must always be entirely for the good, it seems, even if the electorate have been brainwashed from birth into voting for distinctly undemocratic governments, as in the case of ‘democratically elected’ Hamas. Did I catch Hague praising the smooth-running and successful outcome of the elections in Tunisia? By Jove I think I did.
After strongly advocating motherhood and apple pie in Egypt and free and fair elections, preferably overseen by..... someone or other, Hague declaims:
“ We’ve seen successful elections in Tunisia, a new government is now being formed in Libya, important reforms are taking place in Morocco and Jordan, and so we should remain on the optimistic side of what’s been happening in the Arab Spring, albeit that there are many conflicts and difficulties along the way.”

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