- Two handfuls. First off, hat tip to USS Neverdock. Hat particularly tipped because I nearly got this one myself. On Tuesday morning I saw a story on Ceefax saying that demonstrations against rendition flights at Scottish airports have attracted “just a handful of protesters”. I was, I really was, going to do a quick post praising the BBC. We have often complained here that titchy demos get disproportionate coverage so long as they are for favoured BBC causes, and here was an example of a titchy demo for a favoured BBC cause being reported as titchy. Only when I looked again the story was different. I hadn’t written anything down, and, you know how it is, ordinary life intervened and the post never got done.
However USS Neverdock followed the same story on the web, and has screenshots.
Incidentally, 30 demonstrators at one airport and six at another is still titchy.
- “A life in power” indeed. An anonymous commenter writes:
Beeb’s puff piece on Kenneth Kaunda:
Kenneth Kaunda: A life in power
A more balanced account from Wikipedia here:
To the point.
- Max comments regarding this story: Israel soldier’s family wait for news .
After misspelling the name of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit as ‘Shilat’ no less than seven times in the same article, the BBC’s Martin ‘I take cookery class lessons from terrorists’ Patience inserts a bit of agenda:
“A mayor from a nearby Palestinian village paid a visit to the family to show his support.”
Since there are no Palestinian villages nearby, one has to assume that Martin ‘Israeli drones would love to see what I can see’ Patience might refer to the Christian Arab village of Me’ilya (not sure if it’s spelled correctly in English) 2 kilometers down the road from Mitspe Hilla – where he’s ‘reporting’ from. For BBC reporters Arab Israeli citizens are Palestinians. Also, he doesn’t bother to identify this village by name; too difficult to spell I suppose.
Then again I guess that for someone who writes that “Gilad’s older brother, a university student in the nearby city of Haifa [approx. 60 kilometers away]..” accuracy is not a priority.
Roundup.
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“The Edinburgh protest took place between 12.30 and 2.00pm and involved about 35 people.”
Aaah, they even arranged it for their lunch break and still no one showed. Hard choice tho’, ‘to protest about something for which there is absolutely no evidence, or to enjoy lunch. That is the question….’
I cannot believe that piece on Kaunda. (Actually, I can’t believe the BBC can still shock me by cosying up to arseholes! I should expect it by now.)
The sympathy for african dictators is appalling.
Prestwick ‘vigil’ picture.
http://www.solpics.com/prestwick.jpg
Very funny, mick. Your own?
BBC Prisoner Sob Story Hides Terrorist Facts
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21277_BBC_Prisoner_Sob_Story_Hides_Terrorist_Facts&only
Natalie:
Thanks, yes my own but crude.