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garage in/garbage out
aka CICO = Crap In Crap Out 😉
“We’re winning the war on terror”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4221376.ece
We often point out that it’s the stories the State Broadcaster OMITS that say as much about their bias as the ones they constantly harp on. When things were going badly in Iraq, the BBC revelled in it – the stories based on the discredited lancet statistics, the fake allegations about koran-damage, the false allegations against Bristish soldiers etc etc.
The question now is: when will al-Beeb be offering us a documentary on “Why the Surge has Worked”?
They really need to drop the “British” from their name.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7477222.stm
This is shameful.
The Queen and the Royal Family have cost the taxpayer £40m during the last financial year – up £2m on the previous 12 months, official accounts show.
The total is equivalent to 66p per person in the UK – an increase of 4p.
Now remind me how much the BBC costs the taxpayer?
On BBC ‘Newsnight’ site, its ‘Prospects’ preview for yesterday had a trailer on issue of Brown’s £100bn wind-farms; but the item never appeared. No apologies. And in preview for tonight, ‘Prospects’ has no mention of £100bn wind-farms.
As Brown, as wind-farms, as ‘Newsnight’: becalmed.
http://www.shinymedia.com/2008/06/bbc_screws_british_bloggers_ag.html
How bbc treats bloggers
Trifecta | 27.06.08 – 1:17 pm |
Both the BBC and the government can only dream of their costs rising by a mere 5% in one year.
People who live in glass broadcasting houses, etc.
Read this and weep for Sweden
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7479758.stm
“The boy handed out his birthday invitations during class-time and when the teacher spotted that two children had not received one the invitations were confiscated.”
A nice BBC Radio 4 6pm news piece on the closing for refurbishment of a Moscow toy store: end of an era, sad day for Russians as a piece of their socialist past goes because of mammon. No mention that maybe communist rule hadn’t been an altogether wonderful experience for the ordinary Muscovite…