where they claimed that “a row has erupted” about a museum display, complete with some pseudo-official sounding quotes from a university professor to back up their claims.
It turned out that the academic in question is a well known Marxist and SWP activist, though the BBC omitted to mention this, even though they knew full well about him from their own website!
After this manufactured ‘row’ was exposed here and elsewhere, the ever professional Beeboids stealth-edited their original article, downgrading their manufactured ‘row’ to mere ‘criticism’, as if they’d never hyped it up in the first place.
On Monday BBC Views Online published a story about the redundancies announced last week at NCR in Dundee, including the news that:
Dundee University lecturer Carlo Morelli urged workers to occupy the plant in a bid to make NCR bosses change their minds.
You can guess where this is going, can’t you? Yes, indeed, a quick Google later and it’s plain that Carlo Morelli of Dundee University is another far-left activist, having stood as a candidate for the SSP (Tommy Sheridan’s one-time mob) and written for Socialist Worker, the SWP’s far-left rag.
Did BBC Views Online mention any of this? No. Yet again they’re caught red-handed promoting the views and interests of a far-left activist under BBC provided cover of academic respectability. Whilst NCR’s treatment of their employees does seem shabby, the far left’s involvement in this protest is all about promoting their own cause rather than saving anyone’s job and the BBC ought to be honest in reporting their involvement.