This is a Guest Post By esteemed commenter Chuffer.
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Dramatic Intro Music.
Nicholas Owen: This is BBC News; the headlines at 11 o’clock.
Video: grainy film of a Syrian funeral.
Owen: The Liberal Democrats launch a stinging attack on the [confused pause] campaign to change our voting system.(Video ends – cut back to frowning and confused-looking Owen.) They accuse the ‘No’ side of lies and deceit.
Video: William Hague in a chair (Strapline: ‘Referendum Row’)
Hague: British nationals should leave Syria now unless they have a pressing reason to remain. Obviously I’m concerned that if this trouble got worse, some of them would find that it wasn’t easy to get out of Syria at all.
Video: Cameron and Clegg in a school.
Owen: And, er, the other side have been batting away those criticisms, obviously; we’ll have much more on this, this hour.
Video: urban Scottish street, cutting to red letterbox
Owen: Britons are advised to leave Syria as more than one hundred [garbles] protestersarereportedtohavebeenkilled and also, in Scotland, police hunting those sending, er, parcel bombs to Celtic – people involved in Celtic – are appealing for a young couple to come forward.
Closing headline dramatic music – video alternates between blank screen and static shots of a front door.
Makes you proud to write a cheque every year to keep this flagship news service on the air.
Compare and contrast with the Beeoids anemic coverage of the Yes campaign’s dodgy finances.
Seems to me that even after that 11 o’clock debacle, the BBC are improving just a tiny bit.
However all will be restored when the idiots return from their Easter holidays.
Damn, I didn’t think about holidays. Here I was hoping that that they were lapsing into incompetence. That would interfere with the smooth presentation of their polished propaganda.
I’m sure there must’ve been some sort of disagreement about which was more important, the mass slaughter of innocent civilians or a couple of whingeing Liberal twats!
“No news isn’t good news for Radio 5 Live listeners”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2011/apr/25/news-bbc-radio-5-live-talksport