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| The BBC: the world's largest liberal echo chamber |
| 2012-02-08 |
| A few years back I went to the London Barbican to watch Outfoxed, a documentary feature film that made the outrageous claim that Fox TV was rather to the Right in its coverage of political issues. Astounding! The cinema audience laughed and wailed and expressed outrage at the channel’s obvious political distortion. And in the morning, I imagine, those same people turned on their radio to listen to the Today programme confident that this was the undistorted truth free from bias and lies. But while Fox has certainly influenced politics in the US, in terms of shifting the terms of cultural and political debate it is like Austin Powers to the BBC’s James Bond. The latest revelation to come out of the BBC is the guidance issued at the BBC editorial meeting suggesting that Abu Qatada, the Jordanian whom the British government is too gutless to deport, should not be described as an “extremist” because that would suggest a “value judgment”. |
| Posted by:Bright Pebbles |
| #3 Sleep well, D. As always, the BBC-TV casting,make-up, costumes and scripting are almost always excellent; until that cloying, One-worlder guilt-trip mind-messaging begins to seep into the "Family Room/Den/Man-Cave carpet. That said, I totally enjoyed "The Queen" (+Corgi dogs)and "The King's Speech" Brit movies released in the past 5 years.Very moving. |
| Posted by: Chesh Squank6666 2012-02-08 22:42 |
| #2 Oh god, I don't trust Sky, and I don't trust the BBC - and it is such a rip off. £140 a year and the BBC make like 6 channels, close their world service and make a mockery of programs. Channel 4 sponsors a few fairly good ones and I tell you that they aren't funded by TV license payers money. Its a joke. The BBC should really heed the calling for firing a bunch of people because if I was prime minister I would see the whole lot go into administration. Jesus Trading standards should step in because no one is satisfied. Have you seen Eastenders. Makes me mad. Anyway evening all |
| Posted by: Devilstoenail 2012-02-08 19:28 |
| #1 One man's terrorist is another man's BBC journalist. |
| Posted by: Matt 2012-02-08 18:58 |