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Nov262012
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill 28gate in the Scotsman
Nov 26, 2012 BBC The 28gate story has hit the Scotsman in an article by Brian Monteith:
IMAGINE for a moment that it was discovered, by chance, that six years ago the BBC had a high-level meeting of its executives and a group of “the best constitutional experts” to determine the policy of the BBC in reporting the ongoing debate about Scotland’s future governance Imagine that body said – unanimously – that maintaining the United Kingdom with Scotland as a member is the only model that should shape its editorial approach.
Even more unbelievable (surely) would be if the group consisted of only those who supported Scotland remaining in the union. It would (surely) be incomprehensible that the BBC would behave in such a way.
Reader Comments (54)
Stonyground,
Climate change propaganda - lobotomy by stealth.
Let me paraphrase an interview I just heard on BBC Radio 5...
Interviewee: "The weather's gone mad - before the 1990s here in Yorkshire, flooding in the floodplain that my farm sits on was unknown, but since then, the floodplain has flooded five times. It's the weather. It's gone mad. Global weirding I call it. Oh, and it's made worse because all the houses and flood defences which have been built on the floodplains downstream have slowed the rate that the water leaves the floodplain here. So it floods more than it never did before."
Facepalm. And repeat.
"Wolkencuckcucksheimgegangenschmerz" --Mike Jackson
Excellent, Mike! I can't wait to drop this into the conversation at the next Hollwood party I attend.
ThAe Now Show of Nov 16 describes BBC News as a place of broken chinaware and shouting matches. In other news, Truth only resides in asylums and comedy.
Peter Lilley MP mentions the 28Gate affair in today's CIty AM as an example of self-regulation (thereby considering "independent bloggers" a perfectly legitimate part of the news arena):
Leveson is wrong – regulation is not the answer to every problem