Hi folks – been busy all day (was on the BBC earlier, we’ll get to that shortly) so just catching up with you. Everyday is now Red Ed Day and it started on Today this morning with the most SIMPERING interview I have heard in a long time with Red Derek Simpson of Unite. He was able to suggest that the Unions have been a moderating influence on Labour, and he got away with it! I can only assume Sarah Montague agrees with such risible pro-Trade Union nonsense as she deferred to his wild claims. With a looming winter of strikes, the BBC are getting orgasmic about Labour’s lurch leftwards.
SIMPSON LEADING LABOUR…
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BBC-NUJ :furiously trying to put the political clock back!
Not only does BBC-NUJ dig out pater and Marxist Ralph Miliband, but in between propaganda for overpaid Labour-trade union baron, Derek Simpson of ‘Unite’, BBC-NUJ puts veteran Marxist, Tariq Ali on as well to keep up its heavily pro-Labour campaign, free of comment from those pesky Tories.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9035000/9035800.stm
Also, on BBC-NUJ’s chum, Derek Simpson of ‘Unite’:
“Trade union chief used £399-a-night Waldorf suite to save himself 35-minute journey home”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1158150/Trade-union-chief-used-399-night-Waldorf-suite-save-35-minute-journey-home.html#ixzz10kCdkmtU
Plus:
“BA union boss and a Bangkok go-go bar: Two-day stopover paid for by Unite included visit to seedy joint”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1261257/Derek-Simpson-Union-boss-BA-strikes-admits-visit-Bangkok-go-bar.html#ixzz10kHENlX2
Bet he got overnight away from home expenses too!
Yes David, there was a similarly simpering item about Ed Miliband’s election as Labour leader on BBC World’s news on Sunday night.
In the BBC’s beloved `know-nothing-in-studio-interviews-fellow-know-nothing-reporter’ format, a halfwit called Naomi Grimley gushed on for several minutes from outside the conference centre saying nothing very consequential.
Not a damn piece of solid information about policy implications, what we got instead was just plenty of the typical subjective and speculative BBC hot air about eg how Mr. X’s spin doctors might seek to portray and position Mr. X, guesses about people’s reactions etc.
Grimley explained helpfully that the background to all this was that `the right-wing press are likely to say he’s Red Ed and play up his trade union backing’.
The term `right-wing press’ was of course allowed to pass completely unchallenged, because unlike superior news services such as Bloomberg which require reporters to avoid adjectives and to back up subjective statements with supporting data, to the BBC news editorship this kind of slack statement passes as credible, balanced reporting. Because it’s what they think.
The laughable Helen Boaden was spouting off on her blog last week about impartiality being part of the BBC’s DNA, but as just one test case for her I’d really appreciate it if she could forward to us even one reference from among the BBC’s enormous output to a `left-wing press’ during the 13 years that the majority of UK newspapers and magazines backed the Labour Party ?
‘I’d really appreciate it if she could forward to us even one reference from among the BBC’s enormous output to a `left-wing press’ during the 13 years that the majority of UK newspapers and magazines backed the Labour Party ? ‘
Might be worth adding to the thread she started, which sadly seems not have inspired quiet the reaction she seemed to hope for.
Every so often I lob the link in to a BBC or Graun or Indy blog when the subject of ‘we are because we say so’ as a credible journalistic device comes up, as it’s fun to see some of the many perfectly bright posters who normally are up for barney pop across and find that that claim, and her tone making it, are not really ‘on’.