Yesterday, it was Deepwater Horizon which – in the BBC narrrative – was “one of the worst disasters in US history”. Today, our corporation friends give the open mike to Greenpeace to blast out a superlative-filled anti-industrial eco-nut rant against the chemical spill in Hungary:
Herwit Schuster, a spokesman for Greenpeace International, described the spill as “one of the top three environmental disasters in Europe in the last 20 or 30 years”.
Land had been “polluted and destroyed for a long time”, he told AP.
“If there are substances like arsenic and mercury, that would affect river systems and ground water on long-term basis,” he added.
For the BBC, anything – but anything – that provides evidence that industrial production is nasty and dangerous is front page news; and the only people they choose to comment on such events are greenie fanatics. In turn, those fanatics make any threat to the environment a vile capitalist conspiracy. Of course, a toxic chemical spill is deeply regrettable. But that’s not why the BBC is covering these stories with such prominent, strident glee. They are tub-thumping for the greenies.
The BBC certainly love the narrative supporting scare stories, its hold the front page and stop the presses when things like this happen.
The ecofascists at FoE/greeenpiss etc get to spew out their usually ridiculous and highly exaggerated claptrap and are given lashings of free airtime.
In the end the scare stories will turn out to be overplayed and overblown of course but thats not the point is it? Like the Oil spill, the aim is to blast out max volume eco propaganda regardless of whether its bullsh*t because no retractions and no appologies and no investigations into BBC foul play will be forthcoming.
Time after time the BBC spews out lies and trash in the certain knowledge that when this disposable trash is out there, no power will make them withdraw it.
The BBC should cut the crap and prove its green credentials forthwith by immediately disconnecting all its offices and studios from the national power grid and hooking them up to only renewable sources of power. This single act, and the ensuing blackout of all their output, will ensure that we will never hear from them again.
BBC – please do it!
They shouldn’t stop with the national power grid, but disconnect themselves from the British nation as a whole.
What was the carbon footprint of sending that company of Beeboids to cover the miners in Chile? Is it really vital to news coverage to have individual reports saying the same thing for each BBC channel?
Tim Willcox, who has been there for two weeks already, was just on the News Channel pointing out how “everyone and his mother” have now turned up in time for the miners’ rescue. But he was talking about all the people from the rest of the world’s media. No mirrors at Broadcasting House.
Greenpeace has a vested interest in shutting down oil production. They make money out of this kind of activism. Sadly, this is the one time the BBC’s intrepid unbiased journalists won’t ask you to “follow the money”.
“Greenpeace said samples of the sludge it took on Tuesday contained “surprisingly high” levels of arsenic and mercury. It said the detected arsenic concentration was twice the amount normally found in sludge.”
twice the normal amount…so 100 to a 1000* times below the critical level then and the equivalent of eating fish every day?
* exagerrating…but maybe not!