Wonder what is was about gay French drug addicted fashion designer Yves St Laurent that made the BBC decide his death last night was the single most important story to lead its news programmes this morning? Maybe Pierre Berge, his former partner, provides a clue when he says. “In this sense he was a libertarian, an anarchist and he threw bombs at the legs of society.” Yip- just the sort of man to whom the BBC lefties pay gushing tribute.
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Easy. He was GAY.
Yeah, covering Yves St Laurent’s death is evidence of bias. Good one!
No wonder you’re able to come up with so many examples of bias. According to that article he was ‘considered by many as the greatest fashion designer of the 20th Century’, oh yes and the rest of the world’s media also covered it. But no, you must be right it, it must because he was a libertarian!
Joel,
Please read what I write befor producing your drivel. My POINT was that the BBC chose THIS as the lead news story at 7am this morning. Was it the most significant news event of the morning? Really? Mr Mugabe will be relieved.
joel: some camp mincing luvvie is hardly worth big headlines.
99% of people couldn’t give a toss and wouldn’t even know who this person was.
Shame the BBC don’t give as much coverage to our soldiers being killed in Afghanistan or ?Iraq. Or perhaps I missed that on the BBC as well?
Yes I also thought it was a odd choice for a lead item. Although respect is due to Mr St Laurent who built up a very successful business despite prejudice and mental health problems. Also (& I could be wrong here) but wasn’t YSL the first company to use the clothes business as a loss leader mainly so it built up the brand and enabled them to flog the perfume and other stuff with the logo on which really brought the money in. In that sense he was a very successful capitalist but the fashion folks don’t like to see themselves as that do they !
If he really was a ‘libertarian’, presumably he was opposed to the funding of entertainment by extortion.
Joel, you really are a pathetic illiterate idiot. Which part of ‘leading a news programme’ are you struggling with?
“considered by many” is a dumb statement. Who are these ‘many’? Beeboid idiots like you, no doubt.
Which part of ‘leading a news programme’ are you struggling with?
He isn’t struggling with any of it. He’s just trying to provoke an argument to hijack the thread and avoid dealing with the points raised. Every time you react like that you’ve done exactly what he wants you to do.
Like attention-seeking children, trolls are best ignored. They will briefly get louder before giving up.
YSL are of course the initial letters the Young Socialist League for which I bet at least some Beeboids retain a misty-eyed affection.
What is your problem with the fact that YSL was gay? I usually enjoy this blog and agree with most of it, but the casual nastiness about his sexuality is totally unnecessary.
YSL does play to the female constituency of the BBC news room that Michael Buerk complained about. I don’t think that being gay was the reason the BBC, wrongly, led with this news story.
Sue,
I couldn’t care less if he was Vulcan, his death does NOT constitute being the LEAD story when I wrote this. I do think however that being gay means a sympathetic hearing from the BBC and liberal msm.
What is news? The answer is subjective. What LEADS the news is often more about when it happened.
There would no doubt be many different opinions on what the headlines could have led with, but your conclusion is ALWAYS that it is because of a bias. You could just take the opinion that you disagree with the decision, but the conclusion (unsupported by any evidence) is that it’s because of a bias. And then you have to make quite a stretch to come up with a reason why is is. Your reasoning that it was because he was a ‘libetarian’ is pushing it just a bit, don’t you think?
If it’s pointed out that ITV, C4, Sky etc led with the story, then rather than seeing that it had nothing to do with a BBC bias, you say ‘we dont pay for ITV’. That is the retarded level of your understanding. As with most ‘examples’ it’s based on your ignorance.
But that’s OK, I’m here to help. Don’t mention it.
Well, we DON’T pay for ITV, sad retard.
Joel: Do you take drugs all the time?
Perhaps I missed something, but this morning the BBC were leading with it and Sky were not.
But yet again ‘Joel’ you miss the point. Perhaps you’re just THICK?
I don’t mind what other news broadcasters lead with as I’m not forced to fund them. But with the BBC I am and therefore I do object to what they consider a main story.
If the BBC were not funded by a compulsory tax I really wouldn’t give a shit what story they covered.
Now does your little pea brain get it?
Joel and his Guardian reading morally superior chums at the Beeb love to compose their news running orders not with what they think the people want to know, but with what they think they ought to know.
GS: That wouldn’t bother me if I wasn’t paying for it.
Of course if they relied on advertising or subscription and turned out shite TV news no one would watch it and they’d go down the pan.
That’s what frightens them.
Same withe the Guardian. No one reads that toilet roll and it survives from Government jobs adverts.
“Same with the Guardian. No one reads that toilet roll…”
Wrong. Go into any BBC news room and the place is strewn with well thumbed copies of the Guardirag. It’s how editors decide on their news agenda for the day.
GS: True. I wonder if what else the BBC subscribes to?
The Morning Star
The Socialist Worker
The Independent
I wish it was The Big Issue.
Ah! Sorry but to sell the Big Issue you need some degree of intelligence.
If Beeboids were all made unemployed, they’d probably demand that we all have to subscribe to the Big Issue regardless of the fact we might not like it or want to read it.
That way they wouldn’t have to earn a living.
Does Joel work for the BBC? He used the phrase ‘considered by many’ which the Beebs use when it means ‘many in the BBC canteen’.
“In this sense he was a libertarian, an anarchist and he threw bombs at the legs of society.” Yip- just the sort of man to whom the BBC lefties pay gushing tribute.
David Vance
The last thing on gods earth The BBC pays gushing tribute to is REAL Libertarians. It may however pay gushing tribute to people who are falsely described as such.
In my book being an anarchist or throwing bombs at anything whatsoever is many thing but certainly not libertarian. Libertarians are conservatives that believe that a moral prosperous and desirable society is build from the bottom up, and as much as practical kept that way.
Not best done by a ruling elite secretly promoting so called radical left wing agendas all over the world. By using and abusing their immeasurable wealth and completely untouchable power. The sort that would respectively make Bill Gates seem like a vagrant and god himself green with envy.
Yves St Laurent was a servant of a Ruling elite agenda to promote feminism in a manner designed to deliberately disrupt stable society. While making himself a very nice living.
Our ruling elites choose are fashion designers as well as our political leaders, rock stars and film stars ect , for us. Yves St Laurent being just one in a very long list. He may well not have been aware of the fact, but who cares?
A libertarian has no objection to radically feminized women or rampantly camp homosexual men existing or doing what they please in private, or anywhere else as long as it does not directly harm others. What libertarians object to is being led by the nose in the dark, while having things like Feminism forced down their necks by very rich and powerful unelected individuals with an agenda to repress, radically change and control our personal lives.
The paradox of a homosexual man stating that he “lives to service WOMEN” seems to have been lost on the BBC. As a married man myself with 5 children I think I can claim to have spent virtually all my spare time servicing women, and paying for the fact.
Where as Mr Yves St Laurent has in reality spent his entire adult life servicing the sexual and other interests of already very rich MEN. While helping to persuade women to work and pay him for it. Or have I missed something?
Atlas — I think the Yves quoter is confusing the term “libertine” with “libertarian.”
And the BBC didn’t show it knew either by adopting its scare quotes practice.
Atlas, I’m sure gays are thrilled with your kind permission for them to “do what they please in private”.
However, your calm assumtion that libertarians are conservative, or that all gays are left wing would be quite funny if it wasnt so stupid.
For what it’s worth I have never read the Guardian in all my life.
Allan@Oslo:
‘Does Joel work for the BBC? He used the phrase ‘considered by many’ which the Beebs use when it means ‘many in the BBC canteen’.’
Actually I copy and pasted from the article.