How awful if we were to become distracted from concentrating our attention on the contents of fake documents! Here it is at last – the Beeb reports on those Bush memos.
“Correspondents say the row over the authenticity of the documents has distracted attention from their contents.”
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I think this is self contradictory:
“After CBS obtained the documents, the White House released its records showing Mr Bush’s suspension also resulted from his failure to take his annual medical test as required.”
then:
“Documents already released by the White House show that Mr Bush was suspended from flight status in 1972 for not having a medical test… ”
Good work though getting some of the claims in the Fraudulent memos into the story as almost fact. “…but do not mention his alleged failure to comply with national guard standards.”
I have pdf copies of the records released months ago. No new records have been released since 60 Minutes II aired.
I think the writer is confused by the White House releasing the now known to be fake documents provided to them by CBS. That’s the most positive explanation I can imagine.
Mr. StinKerr. Sir you must be in error. No beeb writer can ever by considered to be ‘confused’. There must be some other explanation.
Maybe a ‘spirit medium’ explained it. Or – well, there MUST be something to it or two such fine organizations as cbs and the beeb would surely not be mentioning it this way if there weren’t, would they?.
This is another example of the BBC getting basic facts wrong.
Another scathing article about Rather’s arrogance and bias – you could apply a lot of this to the BBC
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/printjg20040917.shtml
Excellent summary in the Scotsman. workmanlike account of Rathergate. Why can’t the BBC, with its hundreds/thousands of news staff, do a similar informative piece ?
Because it deliberately chooses to avoid the story ? A story that has been headline news for over a week, is going to get even more inflamed now Gen Staudt has totally denied any influence on him on behalf of Bush.
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1086802004.
There has been coverage in some detail elsewhere in the UK press, and the topic is covered in the Economist this week.
But still the BBC walks past the story …..
And the Scotsman article draws a direct parallel between Rathergate and the BBC’s fiasco over Gilligan –
“Both stories fall into the “too good to check” category …In both cases, too, the stories neatly confirmed the existing assumptions held by the bien-pensant liberal media”
Mr. Dwight M., Sir. Perhaps you are correct and I made an invalid assumption. On second thought, no perhaps about it. The Beeb has to be right. Never mind what they write, it’s not evidence of their confusion, it’s evidence of my confusion.
Bill Gates must have snuck in while my antivirus was scanning and changed the dates on those pdf files. Perhaps it was Dan Rather hpnotizing me. It’s all so confusing any more.
We are at war with East Asia, we have always been at war with Oceania.
The idea is not to investigate the truth, but to spread “memes” in the public consciousness, and then avoid correcting them.
Classic BBC memes include: Gilligangate (Gilligan saw no need to check facts, because he thought no one would notice; he outrageously put words into David Kelly’s mouth (sexed up is a media phrase), Jessica Lynch (strangely, accusations and evidence of feminist duplicity and opportunism not deemed newsworthy by the Beeb, but vague accusations against Bush aplenty, as well as sneering Anti-Americanism and class prejudice).
The portrayal of the Israel/Palestine conflict is where the BBC practically churns out memes on a daily basis.
By stealth editing, the BBC never has to correct the stories, and thus people’s perceptions.
Add to that the BBC’s partisan promotion of the government’s multicultural agenda, it’s Anti-Christian, Pro-Muslim stance on religion, and it’s relaying of Beijing propaganda.
Zevilyn: “Add to that the BBC’s partisan promotion of the government’s multicultural agenda, it’s Anti-Christian, Pro-Muslim stance on religion, and it’s relaying of Beijing propaganda.” Blimey, that last bit made me drop my copy of Pravda. Some of these comments do make me wonder if I’ve been watching a different BBC to everybody else here. Do you remember how Mary Whitehouse used to see smut in even the least “steamy” television on offer?