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stewgreen 9:55 AM
tbh - the issue of capital punishment is something of a side issue for me - indicative of their mindset but meh....
I've had a a number of moments over the years esp. travelling for work where I've actually been somewhere when the BBC "reported" what was going on there. The dissonance between what I saw and heard and what was reported reduced the BBC's account to willful fantasy working to a domestic metro-PC skewed (understatement) agenda. Occasionally they oblige other taxpayer funded bureaucrats by regurgitating PR drivel and blocking criticism - for obvious reasons.
Dishonesty seems to be in their DNA.... :-/ Some of it is calculated and connived - much more seems to be simply instinctive - severely mangling metaphor - when you're operating a web of lies - just keep digging. The descent of BBC World Service in particular has been epic.
tomo
that original claim of insulting e-mails was made a few lines above this link
@Tomo this concept of the BBC and all governing by elitism and taking a position on what is best for us eg. labelling UKIP "the racist party" at every opportunity, came up recently in a item about Abolition of the Death Penalty on Radio 5. The proponent couldn't resist saying that democratic countries abolished the DP in the cause of human rights . The wise opponent was then able to explain that almost always it was thru politicians going against the will of the majority cos they "knew best for them" ie government by elitism.
The BBC guy could resist putting the BBC-PC line that now the majority of the British people opposed the DP ..That was incorrect wishful thinking on his part..the newest survey still shows that the largest portion is by far in support , although it is now just below 50%, the opposers are about 30%
stewgreen
Messenger 8:00 AM
The faceless erks operating the textual sausage machine of scripts for Ministry of Truth "news" at The BBC will be crowing around the newsroom / playpen over the LCC outcome.
One thing that hasn't as far as I know been mentioned is the role of BBC regional offices - they are routinely sent off to do stories mandated and outline scripted from propaganda central stores. Regional units specialise in poop 'n scoot - removing local content from iPlayer after 24 hours....
Knowing how the system actually works has led me to remove even radios from my routine environment - the editorial tinkering that suffuses the BBC's output is simply grotesque - it's evident that absolutely nothing is sacrosanct. 28Gate was a slip-up - they've been more careful since that episode.....
tomo
Presumably Solar Impulse has a fallback landing site at Midway - provided the weather allows them to get there.
It doesn't add up...
Surely MartynA's comment is worth elevating to a full post or putting somewhere on the record ?
Remember how claims of Death Threats from skeptics turn out to be evidenceless, well Martyn showed how Robert Wilson's claim that he got insulting emails from BHers turned out to be BS when M went all the way thru the FOIA process.
stewgreen
@Messenger Todayprog is clueless : See how they callously interviewed a 14 year mold, making her re-live the terror she just went through in Tunisia.
stewgreen
6.45am Today BBC Radio 4
"Balanced" interview from Susan Hulme on why people turned down the fracking in Lancashire
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3 vox pops who were all anti-fracking, introduced as" locals not activists" [in a tacit admission that the BBC have chosen activists before]. The possibility of water table pollution loomed large, wrecking the local salad industry. Then an anti-fracking SNP/MSP; then anti-fracking Labour MP who admitted gas might be useful but the protection of the environment was of great or greater concern; a couple of sentences pro- fracking from Graham Stringer, whose voice delivery was not convincing, and finally a Tory ( missed who it was) briefly reciting the government line.
Radio turned off in anger yet again.
Messenger
OK 4.55am on Radio 5 they are talking to a Solar Impulse manager ..and they don't seem to be panicking
and Twitter feed 2 hours ago claimed 50% done, however I don't necessarily believe that cos of backtracking they may have to travel longer, but have to keep the media happy.
They might be riding on the back of the massive IL-76 as far as I know
stewgreen
I pointed out that the Solar Impulse was flying west at 2.20 when its general direction of travel should be East. This was said to be holding to avoid weather. It is now almost 6 hours later and the aeroplane is still flying west. In civil aviation standard outbound and inbound legs on a holding pattern are one minute long, so this is some huge holding pattern that the Solar Impulse is executing.
Mike Post
I'm generally a fan of the BBC, in that I would miss R4 and some of their drama, but they are increasingly hard to defend on news and technical matters. They've even managed to bugger up the evening tennis review on BBC2 - their chosen hashtag 'wimbledon2day' tells you all you need to know, and if you call that up on Twitter you will see some delicious crticism, including unfavourable comparisons to W1A ("it's a satire, not an instruction manual").
I heard that licence fee defectors have upset their financial forecasts, but they don't seem to have joined the dots yet...