Interesting watching Breakfast BBC this morning. With the latest employment figures out later this morning, the BBC is running the line that many people who have lost their jobs have found this to be a good thing since they have gone on to do other things that they enjoy. Oddly enough, during the 1980’s, I don’t recall the BBC running with such a benign view on job losses, do you? One rule for when the Conservatives are in power, another when the socialists have grabbed control….
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Now that IS interesting.
I’ve been brave and have been listening to Today all morning. I haven’t heard a mention that figures are out today.
Lots of stuff about Jurors being stupid and more about some bloke that killed his chum oh and why Conservatives will always have a problem with homosexuality (?).
But nothing aobut the jobless, can’t think why.
I was also listening this morning, and switched on in the middle of a blurb about homosexual conservatives, which went on, and on, and on….
Personally, I am not particularly struck on the idea of homosexuality at all, and find the the thought of it disgusting. However, each to their own, but why can’t these people keep their sexual proclivities private? I’m sick to death of hearing about “gay” this, or “gay” that, or people “coming out”. it’s really of no interest to me, and I don’t want to know, and can do without the BBC pushing it down my throat at every opportunity (if you’ll pardon my use of words…).
Are the BBC, by default, a bunch of homos? It certainly seems that way.
Homosexuality at the BBC is probably the norm for the males, I remember reading an article (I [posted the link here a while back) from some bloke who worked at the BBC who said it was almost compulsory. The BBC distort homosexuality. I’d suggest less than 1 in 100 of the general male population is a homosexual, but in the media it’s probably well over half and at the BBC who knows but I wouldn’t be shocked to find it 80 or 90%. The Andre Marr comment on the right is also rather indicative.
Heads on Poles, that was mind blowing, even by beeboid standards, they actually said ‘ Why are conservatives so homophobic’.
WTF ! Personally , I’ve always found homosexuals infinitely preferable to rabid left wing beeboid types !
And whilst I’m in rant mode…
Is it any surprise that modern juries can’t quite grasp what’s going on in court? Given that such a large number of people have left their educational years behind, and are semi-numerate, and semi-literate (or worse), without the ability to think for themselves, how on earth can they be blessed with sufficient nous to judge their fellow men (or women)?
Yesterday on the BBC they were talking about inflation and saying it was good as if you had debt it would go down in real terms each year!!!
The BBC will spin every piece of bad news in a pro Liebour way. They have no shame.
By and large sexuality has nothing to do your political stance, this is just an invention by the media, the BBC in particular.
I’ve known many a staunch Thatcherite who was also a raging poofter.
Yeah I heard the Jury thing too, quite disturbing. The BBC would just love it if we abandoned our jury system and replaced it with a European-style career judiciariy thereby throwing away Common Law safeguards such as habeas corpus, trial by jury and innocence until proved guilty.
Napoleonic law is alien to the British sense of fair play as it requires people to prove their innocence. Trials are held in front of professional magistrates who are also part of the prosecution service. People can be held in prison for periods up to two years without charge.
If you feel as strongly as I do about this alien legal system in our country, please contact your MP and ask him/her to sign up to the Early Day Motion 637. You never know, with an election looming, your MP may take note of your opinion.
If the BBC are pushing the “ignorance” of jurers – you can safely bet that it is pave the way for more Labour/EU attacks on the British Legal System.
When Camerons drastic but essential public sector cuts take place many beeboids will find on receiving their P45s that this was a good thing, enabling them to spread their biased sensationalist trash elsewhere, preferably in places where people are not forced upon threat of fines and imprisonment to pay for it.
And pigs will fly.
Cameron is an idiot. If you can’t see that then you must be one too.
I hardly ever agree with the Unions, but they are right regarding the public sector. It will be low paid staff who will suffer, not those at the high salary scale (I know this to be true being a public servent myself).
It will not effect the BBC one bit. The “modern conservatives” are just a different hue of Labour.
Totally agree.
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Of all the media I’ve read so far only the BBC are left trying to make it sound good:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8519647.stm
“UK unemployment falls for second month in a row”
stás pensando…?
P.S. Ridiculous comments system. At least this time I’ve managed to get a comment to show up! (at least 3 failed attempts over the weeks)
It’s because you are swearing in them. Emailing them to me to add them for you with the swear words still in them doesn’t help.
Span Ows.
Likewise (regarding unemployment figures, that is). Listening to The World at One, they too are pushing the latest figures as good news. A 3,000 drop in unemployment? that’s good news, is it? Compared with an additional 25,000 on the jobseekers allowance. Funny the newspapers are proclaiming the opposite – that it’s almost a disaster, in fact.
Perhaps the BBC will make a new version of Boys From The Blackstuff detailing the happy lives of a group of former road workers who have gone on to enjoy more fulfilling careers since being made redundant.
The new Yosser Hughes character could tell us of the benefits losing your job and all the exciting possibilities it brings. This would be a great help to those millions of us who think that losing your job is a bad thing in this economic climate. What an ideal opportunity for the BBC to educate and inform an ignorant workforce.
You have to laugh at the BBC spinning the unemployment stats as good news, when we know that Corus and Cadburys are going to cost thousands of jobs over the coming months.
However, I have no sympathy for the Corus lot, they vote Liebour like moronic Lemmings. You’d think they’d look around and think what has voting Liebour for the last god knows how many years achieved?
You should have sympathy for the Corus workers. Both unions and local management have leaned over backwards to keep the plant open. It’s failed – largely because of the bankable ‘carbon credits’ that the company will get for transferring production to India. A diligent broadcaster might feel there was a story there. . . .
But not this shower.
Let’s just take a look at how the labour market data was reported.
BBC: ‘Unemployment falls for second month in a row’
Guardian: ‘Unemployment claimants up again’
Times: ‘Surprise jump puts dole queue at 13-year high’
FT: ‘Jobless claimant count at 13-year high’
Independent: ‘700,000 Britons swell the ranks of the underemployed.’
Faced with the unanimous verdict that it had got the story 100% wrong – ie, that this was not, as they had told us, an upbeat story – late in the day the BBC has scaled back its front-page link to the story to ‘UK unemployment sees slight fall.’
One would have thought Stephanie Flanders would be embarrassed by having to ply her trade in such an organization.
Also, what’s remarkable is that all the data is publicly available. Anyone bothering to understand what’s going on looks not at unemployment counts (which are strange and inconsistent) but at the employment count. For the record, the number of people in employment was down 481,000, or 1.6% YoY in December. Employment is down 636,000 since the peak of May 2008. We have the lowest number of people in employment since February 2006, and the total is still shrinking month by month.
On current trends, if there’s an election in May, the number of people in employment will be back to . . . oh, look . . . . where it was in 2005.
odd – I listened to 5live and Jeremy Vine today and they both emphasised the under-employed, who can’t get by but aren’t given benefits or counted, and those not counted in the figures generally – lots of people ringing up to say how useless job centre is and how the figures are all lies
really couldn’t see the pro-government propaganda, must be a matter of perception…
See my comment/survey of media above.
my experience is based on radio coverage across the day – they did say unemployment fell (as per the release), but that job seeker claims were up far more, every time, in every bulletin, and Vine focused solely on the bad, for me that outweighs one headline – if you got a perception of this is a good story from the radio coverage today (same thing on radio 1’s newsbeat too) you’re barking
It wouldn’t do the BBC any harm either to look into the structure of what employment there still is. Between March 08 and Sept 09 (latest data available), 926,000 jobs disappeared from the private sector. During the same period, the public sector added a further 332,000.
What does that mean? That for every public sector worker, there are now only 3.7 taxpaying private sector workers to pay for him. Down from 4.1 two years ago.
Watching Newsnight at the moment and they’re comparing us with Spain and the US. Apparently, we are doing so well that I’m surprised that nobody else has noticed.