SATURDAY NIGHT OPEN THREAD…

This is to discuss any BBC-related issue that concerns you. Please use it sensibly. no abuse and no trolls.

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  1. Qoooze says:

    BREAKING NEWS: Clive Stafford Smith to the rescue!

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  2. Qoooze says:

    BREAKING NEWS: Clive Stafford Smith to the rescue!

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  3. Qoooze says:

    BREAKING NEWS: Clive Stafford Smith to the rescue!

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  4. Millie Tant says:

    Atlas: People capable of THINKING for themselves can work out pretty quickly that Martin McGuinness is not a Freemason and that the establishment is not run by a Papal /Zionist conspiracy.

    No need to disprove it any more than there is a need to disprove that McGuinness is an astronaut, say.

    So you can get off your soap box now and stop preaching the conspiracy creed to “you lot”.

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  5. Millie Tant says:

    Atlas: People capable of THINKING for themselves can work out pretty quickly that Martin McGuinness is not a Freemason and that the establishment is not run by a Papal /Zionist conspiracy.

    No need to disprove it any more than there is a need to disprove that McGuinness is an astronaut, say.

    So you can get off your soap box now and stop preaching the conspiracy creed to “you lot”.

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  6. Millie Tant says:

    Atlas: People capable of THINKING for themselves can work out pretty quickly that Martin McGuinness is not a Freemason and that the establishment is not run by a Papal /Zionist conspiracy.

    No need to disprove it any more than there is a need to disprove that McGuinness is an astronaut, say.

    So you can get off your soap box now and stop preaching the conspiracy creed to “you lot”.

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  7. JohnA says:

    Martin

    I too have to scroll down through lots of blank space before I get to the main text of the site.

    I think it is the Twitter stuff in the top left side that causes this.I think the Twitter stuff is a pointless distraction from the main business of the blog.

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  8. JohnA says:

    Martin

    I too have to scroll down through lots of blank space before I get to the main text of the site.

    I think it is the Twitter stuff in the top left side that causes this.I think the Twitter stuff is a pointless distraction from the main business of the blog.

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  9. JohnA says:

    Martin

    I too have to scroll down through lots of blank space before I get to the main text of the site.

    I think it is the Twitter stuff in the top left side that causes this.I think the Twitter stuff is a pointless distraction from the main business of the blog.

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  10. JohnA says:

    MillieTant

    You posted a week or so ago about the BBC’sfairly favourable write-up of some eco-clowns who are squatting on an island in the Thames in Surbiton. I see from the local press that these dropouts have racked up a bill of several thousand poinds worth of electricity, illegally, which we will all have to pay for. But no follow-up report from the BBC on how their eco-loons are stealing from us.

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  11. JohnA says:

    MillieTant

    You posted a week or so ago about the BBC’sfairly favourable write-up of some eco-clowns who are squatting on an island in the Thames in Surbiton. I see from the local press that these dropouts have racked up a bill of several thousand poinds worth of electricity, illegally, which we will all have to pay for. But no follow-up report from the BBC on how their eco-loons are stealing from us.

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  12. JohnA says:

    MillieTant

    You posted a week or so ago about the BBC’sfairly favourable write-up of some eco-clowns who are squatting on an island in the Thames in Surbiton. I see from the local press that these dropouts have racked up a bill of several thousand poinds worth of electricity, illegally, which we will all have to pay for. But no follow-up report from the BBC on how their eco-loons are stealing from us.

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  13. Anonymous says:

    We see daily the BBC’s complete disregard for ordinary human life.

    Today the BBC has reported on the economic situation of Mexico and the effects of this recent flu outbreak is having and most certainly will have in the short and medium term FOR MEXICANS.

    Which of course will be serious for the tourist business and the general Mexican economy.

    We currently have estimates that 115 people MAY have died of swine flu in MEXICO, already downgraded from earlier BBC and WHO figures.

    This number even if it had two zero’s added to it, will still be very small compared to the damage the media and the BBC in particular have DIRECTLY done to the Mexican economy.

    The consequences of hundreds of thousands of already poor Mexicans loosing jobs and the knock on effects of same, are difficult to accurately calculate or estimate. They are however easy to imagine. If Mexico gets hit by a repeat or two, it could lead to a sort of revolution causing the deaths of millions, in the long term.

    The BBC and the establishment owned news agencies ( Reuters and AP ) that basically control all of the worlds news agendas, do not give a flying F…, for the effects they directly have on the worlds most poor and powerless people.

    There was absolutely no need whatsoever for the worlds media to have given this issue so much world wide publicity.

    This issue is a NON ISSUE. It is the sort of thing that happens everyday in virtually every part of the planet. The only difference is that for some incredibly murderous, dishonest and horrifically nasty reason the establishments BBC/MSM has chosen/been instructed, to spend 10 whole days or more, reporting on little else.

    WHY?

    I know the reason why, so why don’t you?

    Atlas shrugged

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  14. Anonymous says:

    We see daily the BBC’s complete disregard for ordinary human life.

    Today the BBC has reported on the economic situation of Mexico and the effects of this recent flu outbreak is having and most certainly will have in the short and medium term FOR MEXICANS.

    Which of course will be serious for the tourist business and the general Mexican economy.

    We currently have estimates that 115 people MAY have died of swine flu in MEXICO, already downgraded from earlier BBC and WHO figures.

    This number even if it had two zero’s added to it, will still be very small compared to the damage the media and the BBC in particular have DIRECTLY done to the Mexican economy.

    The consequences of hundreds of thousands of already poor Mexicans loosing jobs and the knock on effects of same, are difficult to accurately calculate or estimate. They are however easy to imagine. If Mexico gets hit by a repeat or two, it could lead to a sort of revolution causing the deaths of millions, in the long term.

    The BBC and the establishment owned news agencies ( Reuters and AP ) that basically control all of the worlds news agendas, do not give a flying F…, for the effects they directly have on the worlds most poor and powerless people.

    There was absolutely no need whatsoever for the worlds media to have given this issue so much world wide publicity.

    This issue is a NON ISSUE. It is the sort of thing that happens everyday in virtually every part of the planet. The only difference is that for some incredibly murderous, dishonest and horrifically nasty reason the establishments BBC/MSM has chosen/been instructed, to spend 10 whole days or more, reporting on little else.

    WHY?

    I know the reason why, so why don’t you?

    Atlas shrugged

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  15. Anonymous says:

    We see daily the BBC’s complete disregard for ordinary human life.

    Today the BBC has reported on the economic situation of Mexico and the effects of this recent flu outbreak is having and most certainly will have in the short and medium term FOR MEXICANS.

    Which of course will be serious for the tourist business and the general Mexican economy.

    We currently have estimates that 115 people MAY have died of swine flu in MEXICO, already downgraded from earlier BBC and WHO figures.

    This number even if it had two zero’s added to it, will still be very small compared to the damage the media and the BBC in particular have DIRECTLY done to the Mexican economy.

    The consequences of hundreds of thousands of already poor Mexicans loosing jobs and the knock on effects of same, are difficult to accurately calculate or estimate. They are however easy to imagine. If Mexico gets hit by a repeat or two, it could lead to a sort of revolution causing the deaths of millions, in the long term.

    The BBC and the establishment owned news agencies ( Reuters and AP ) that basically control all of the worlds news agendas, do not give a flying F…, for the effects they directly have on the worlds most poor and powerless people.

    There was absolutely no need whatsoever for the worlds media to have given this issue so much world wide publicity.

    This issue is a NON ISSUE. It is the sort of thing that happens everyday in virtually every part of the planet. The only difference is that for some incredibly murderous, dishonest and horrifically nasty reason the establishments BBC/MSM has chosen/been instructed, to spend 10 whole days or more, reporting on little else.

    WHY?

    I know the reason why, so why don’t you?

    Atlas shrugged

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  16. Anonymous says:

    But no follow-up report from the BBC on how their eco-loons are stealing from us.

    Hardly surprising, as the BBC effectively steals from the TV tax payer, every time it turns on a light bulb.

    In a free nation, which of course this one has NEVER BEEN, forcing a person to buy or pay for something they don’t want, or want to pay for, is by definition criminal extortion.

    What is even worse about the BBC, is that it also does not in any way, do what it claims to do on the tin.

    In a free country this is known as criminal deception and extortion.

    However

    In this our totalitarian fascist/communist state, this is known as ‘ The BBC lawfully going about its business.’

    Atlas shrugged

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  17. Anonymous says:

    But no follow-up report from the BBC on how their eco-loons are stealing from us.

    Hardly surprising, as the BBC effectively steals from the TV tax payer, every time it turns on a light bulb.

    In a free nation, which of course this one has NEVER BEEN, forcing a person to buy or pay for something they don’t want, or want to pay for, is by definition criminal extortion.

    What is even worse about the BBC, is that it also does not in any way, do what it claims to do on the tin.

    In a free country this is known as criminal deception and extortion.

    However

    In this our totalitarian fascist/communist state, this is known as ‘ The BBC lawfully going about its business.’

    Atlas shrugged

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  18. Anonymous says:

    But no follow-up report from the BBC on how their eco-loons are stealing from us.

    Hardly surprising, as the BBC effectively steals from the TV tax payer, every time it turns on a light bulb.

    In a free nation, which of course this one has NEVER BEEN, forcing a person to buy or pay for something they don’t want, or want to pay for, is by definition criminal extortion.

    What is even worse about the BBC, is that it also does not in any way, do what it claims to do on the tin.

    In a free country this is known as criminal deception and extortion.

    However

    In this our totalitarian fascist/communist state, this is known as ‘ The BBC lawfully going about its business.’

    Atlas shrugged

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  19. dave s says:

    I notice that to register on your forum I am required” by US law” to give my date of birth. have I read this right? Seems odd. Please can you explain this?

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  20. dave s says:

    I notice that to register on your forum I am required” by US law” to give my date of birth. have I read this right? Seems odd. Please can you explain this?

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  21. dave s says:

    I notice that to register on your forum I am required” by US law” to give my date of birth. have I read this right? Seems odd. Please can you explain this?

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  22. David Preiser (USA) says:

    Atlas shrugged, you’re a liar.

    I’ll start by stating that you claimed nobody knew who Deep Throat was, and babbled about one of your CIA theories. I called you out and linked to proof that Deep Throat was in fact Mark Felt, an assistant director at the FBI. The FBI was engaged in a power struggle with Nixon at the time.

    Then there was your claim that the West (Bilderburg/Rothschild/Jesuit) Establishment has controlled China all along, which proved something or other in your mind. I told you that was a load of crap because North Korea wouldn’t be a problem if that was true, nor would the Vietnam war, or a few other things I could name.

    That’s only in the last couple of weeks, off the top of my head.

    If you continue to lie about nobody ever disproving even one of your claims, I’ll spend time searching through HaloScan to prove just how much of a liar you are. So, just don’t.

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  23. David Preiser (USA) says:

    Atlas shrugged, you’re a liar.

    I’ll start by stating that you claimed nobody knew who Deep Throat was, and babbled about one of your CIA theories. I called you out and linked to proof that Deep Throat was in fact Mark Felt, an assistant director at the FBI. The FBI was engaged in a power struggle with Nixon at the time.

    Then there was your claim that the West (Bilderburg/Rothschild/Jesuit) Establishment has controlled China all along, which proved something or other in your mind. I told you that was a load of crap because North Korea wouldn’t be a problem if that was true, nor would the Vietnam war, or a few other things I could name.

    That’s only in the last couple of weeks, off the top of my head.

    If you continue to lie about nobody ever disproving even one of your claims, I’ll spend time searching through HaloScan to prove just how much of a liar you are. So, just don’t.

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  24. David Preiser (USA) says:

    Atlas shrugged, you’re a liar.

    I’ll start by stating that you claimed nobody knew who Deep Throat was, and babbled about one of your CIA theories. I called you out and linked to proof that Deep Throat was in fact Mark Felt, an assistant director at the FBI. The FBI was engaged in a power struggle with Nixon at the time.

    Then there was your claim that the West (Bilderburg/Rothschild/Jesuit) Establishment has controlled China all along, which proved something or other in your mind. I told you that was a load of crap because North Korea wouldn’t be a problem if that was true, nor would the Vietnam war, or a few other things I could name.

    That’s only in the last couple of weeks, off the top of my head.

    If you continue to lie about nobody ever disproving even one of your claims, I’ll spend time searching through HaloScan to prove just how much of a liar you are. So, just don’t.

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  25. CapnX says:

    Here is a conspiracy theory which it will be interesting to see if the BBC picks up on. Swine Flu was caused by an old Nazi who escaped to Mexico from Hitlers Bunker at wars end. His nickname was “Swineherd”. He always said he would revenge himself on the democracies after he was dead. His corrupt body has now incubated the swine plague that he had concocted in a secret Nazi laboratory but it was too late to use when the allies over run Berlin. So you see it is not really swine Flu at all but “Nazi Flu”

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  26. CapnX says:

    Here is a conspiracy theory which it will be interesting to see if the BBC picks up on. Swine Flu was caused by an old Nazi who escaped to Mexico from Hitlers Bunker at wars end. His nickname was “Swineherd”. He always said he would revenge himself on the democracies after he was dead. His corrupt body has now incubated the swine plague that he had concocted in a secret Nazi laboratory but it was too late to use when the allies over run Berlin. So you see it is not really swine Flu at all but “Nazi Flu”

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  27. CapnX says:

    Here is a conspiracy theory which it will be interesting to see if the BBC picks up on. Swine Flu was caused by an old Nazi who escaped to Mexico from Hitlers Bunker at wars end. His nickname was “Swineherd”. He always said he would revenge himself on the democracies after he was dead. His corrupt body has now incubated the swine plague that he had concocted in a secret Nazi laboratory but it was too late to use when the allies over run Berlin. So you see it is not really swine Flu at all but “Nazi Flu”

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  28. David Preiser (USA) says:

    This could be read either way, of course, but it’s still too funny not to pass along:

    Student Says Teacher Scolded Him for Viewing FOXNews.comA young man who identified himself only as Mitchell, an 18-year-old senior at Traverse City West Senior High School, called in to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show Thursday and said he was yelled at in front of his classmates for reading the “wrong” news.

    The teacher of his video production class saw what he was looking at and “proceeded to give me a 10-minute lecture on why I can’t read FOX News … and that I can only listen to BBC and other news venues,” the student said.The BBC’s propaganda is spreading in my country.

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  29. David Preiser (USA) says:

    This could be read either way, of course, but it’s still too funny not to pass along:

    Student Says Teacher Scolded Him for Viewing FOXNews.comA young man who identified himself only as Mitchell, an 18-year-old senior at Traverse City West Senior High School, called in to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show Thursday and said he was yelled at in front of his classmates for reading the “wrong” news.

    The teacher of his video production class saw what he was looking at and “proceeded to give me a 10-minute lecture on why I can’t read FOX News … and that I can only listen to BBC and other news venues,” the student said.The BBC’s propaganda is spreading in my country.

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  30. David Preiser (USA) says:

    This could be read either way, of course, but it’s still too funny not to pass along:

    Student Says Teacher Scolded Him for Viewing FOXNews.comA young man who identified himself only as Mitchell, an 18-year-old senior at Traverse City West Senior High School, called in to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show Thursday and said he was yelled at in front of his classmates for reading the “wrong” news.

    The teacher of his video production class saw what he was looking at and “proceeded to give me a 10-minute lecture on why I can’t read FOX News … and that I can only listen to BBC and other news venues,” the student said.The BBC’s propaganda is spreading in my country.

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  31. JohnA says:

    Radio 4 has been giving a lot of time to Pete Seeger this week.

    Somehow it has failed to tell us that he has been a hard-line Stalinist all his bloody life. Pacifist in the true CND uniltaeral disarmament style – never ever criticising the USSR.

    So naturally a BBC favourite.

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/05/023477.php

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  32. JohnA says:

    Radio 4 has been giving a lot of time to Pete Seeger this week.

    Somehow it has failed to tell us that he has been a hard-line Stalinist all his bloody life. Pacifist in the true CND uniltaeral disarmament style – never ever criticising the USSR.

    So naturally a BBC favourite.

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/05/023477.php

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  33. JohnA says:

    Radio 4 has been giving a lot of time to Pete Seeger this week.

    Somehow it has failed to tell us that he has been a hard-line Stalinist all his bloody life. Pacifist in the true CND uniltaeral disarmament style – never ever criticising the USSR.

    So naturally a BBC favourite.

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/05/023477.php

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  34. Millie Tant says:

    JohnA said…
    MillieTant

    You posted a week or so ago about the BBC’sfairly favourable write-up of some eco-clowns who are squatting on an island in the Thames in Surbiton. I see from the local press that these dropouts have racked up a bill of several thousand poinds worth of electricity, illegally, which we will all have to pay for. But no follow-up report from the BBC on how their eco-loons are stealing from us.

    3:50 PM
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    Thanks, yes, that story caught my eye in the local newsagent’s the other day – I think it was the Surrey Comet. I meant to post about it here and then forgot. It was a £4,000 electricity bill run up in two months, running cinema shows and whatnot. Very environmental – NOT! They have been evicted now. At least that is something, though of course, as you say, we will have to pick up the bill for these hypocritical parasites.

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  35. Millie Tant says:

    JohnA said…
    MillieTant

    You posted a week or so ago about the BBC’sfairly favourable write-up of some eco-clowns who are squatting on an island in the Thames in Surbiton. I see from the local press that these dropouts have racked up a bill of several thousand poinds worth of electricity, illegally, which we will all have to pay for. But no follow-up report from the BBC on how their eco-loons are stealing from us.

    3:50 PM
    ===================================
    Thanks, yes, that story caught my eye in the local newsagent’s the other day – I think it was the Surrey Comet. I meant to post about it here and then forgot. It was a £4,000 electricity bill run up in two months, running cinema shows and whatnot. Very environmental – NOT! They have been evicted now. At least that is something, though of course, as you say, we will have to pick up the bill for these hypocritical parasites.

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  36. Millie Tant says:

    JohnA said…
    MillieTant

    You posted a week or so ago about the BBC’sfairly favourable write-up of some eco-clowns who are squatting on an island in the Thames in Surbiton. I see from the local press that these dropouts have racked up a bill of several thousand poinds worth of electricity, illegally, which we will all have to pay for. But no follow-up report from the BBC on how their eco-loons are stealing from us.

    3:50 PM
    ===================================
    Thanks, yes, that story caught my eye in the local newsagent’s the other day – I think it was the Surrey Comet. I meant to post about it here and then forgot. It was a £4,000 electricity bill run up in two months, running cinema shows and whatnot. Very environmental – NOT! They have been evicted now. At least that is something, though of course, as you say, we will have to pick up the bill for these hypocritical parasites.

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  37. GCooper says:

    John A beat me to it there. Were the USA even a tenth the evil empire the Guardianistas would have us believe, Seeger would have been imprisoned as a traitor forty or fifty years ago.

    The BBC’s relentless promotion of these icons of the hard Left is really all the evidence you need of the Corporation’s core political leanings.

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  38. GCooper says:

    John A beat me to it there. Were the USA even a tenth the evil empire the Guardianistas would have us believe, Seeger would have been imprisoned as a traitor forty or fifty years ago.

    The BBC’s relentless promotion of these icons of the hard Left is really all the evidence you need of the Corporation’s core political leanings.

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  39. GCooper says:

    John A beat me to it there. Were the USA even a tenth the evil empire the Guardianistas would have us believe, Seeger would have been imprisoned as a traitor forty or fifty years ago.

    The BBC’s relentless promotion of these icons of the hard Left is really all the evidence you need of the Corporation’s core political leanings.

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  40. Anonymous says:

    Barack Hussein Obama to side with Iran over Israel:

    Israeli president Shimon Peres’ task in Washington on May 4-5 is to blunt the sharp edge the White House is honing to force Israel to toe the new line on the Palestinians, Syria and Iran.
    More..
    http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1388

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  41. Anonymous says:

    Barack Hussein Obama to side with Iran over Israel:

    Israeli president Shimon Peres’ task in Washington on May 4-5 is to blunt the sharp edge the White House is honing to force Israel to toe the new line on the Palestinians, Syria and Iran.
    More..
    http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1388

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  42. Anonymous says:

    Barack Hussein Obama to side with Iran over Israel:

    Israeli president Shimon Peres’ task in Washington on May 4-5 is to blunt the sharp edge the White House is honing to force Israel to toe the new line on the Palestinians, Syria and Iran.
    More..
    http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1388

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  43. John Horne Tooke says:

    The BBC on their reporting of “swine fever/flu”

    “Essentially, our task is to give you the facts; to tell you what we know, but also explore what isn’t known”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/04/swine_flu_coverage.html

    The first part should be their role – but the second? “explore what isn’t known” Surely this is the problem – this is where all the misinformation and scaremongering is developed.

    We just have to examine Harrabins contributions to “climate change” to see where all this leads.

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  44. John Horne Tooke says:

    The BBC on their reporting of “swine fever/flu”

    “Essentially, our task is to give you the facts; to tell you what we know, but also explore what isn’t known”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/04/swine_flu_coverage.html

    The first part should be their role – but the second? “explore what isn’t known” Surely this is the problem – this is where all the misinformation and scaremongering is developed.

    We just have to examine Harrabins contributions to “climate change” to see where all this leads.

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  45. John Horne Tooke says:

    The BBC on their reporting of “swine fever/flu”

    “Essentially, our task is to give you the facts; to tell you what we know, but also explore what isn’t known”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/04/swine_flu_coverage.html

    The first part should be their role – but the second? “explore what isn’t known” Surely this is the problem – this is where all the misinformation and scaremongering is developed.

    We just have to examine Harrabins contributions to “climate change” to see where all this leads.

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