Midweek and time for a new Open Thread as I can see the Monday one is already approaching the 200 mark! Happy with good old Auntie – no? Well, tell me why…
I enjoyed Toby Young’s blistering attack on Oprah Winfrey in today’s DT. Most of it could apply to the BBC:
“Above all, it is Oprah’s incontinent sentimentality that I find so objectionable, the elevation of ersatz emotion over any critical thought. For Oprah, the only test of veracity worth the name is whether something “feels” true, as though our initial emotional response to something – whether a prospective lover, a spiritual belief system or a political leader – is a more reliable guide than a careful sifting of the evidence.”
tomoApr 5, 08:26 Weekend 5th April 2025 Apparently…. Rachael from accounts is moaning about her salary…. [img]https://i.ibb.co/rK5w2tvM/Reeves-not-paid-enough.png[/img]
Guest WhoApr 5, 08:25 Weekend 5th April 2025 Henry showing what makes LBC the respected media Beff at Sky is aiming for. https://x.com/henryriley1/status/1908090863961456830?s=61 Bring back the night czarina!
tomoApr 5, 08:15 Weekend 5th April 2025 Princess van der Leyen news [img]https://i.ibb.co/N6nV5S9V/EU-greenies.png[/img]
ZephirApr 5, 08:14 Weekend 5th April 2025 Video: caption competition ? “Meeting rescheduled, or, should have used Zoom” Trump touts airstrike on Houthis, showing video: Will ‘never…
tomoApr 5, 08:11 Weekend 5th April 2025 Taking it at face value there… selling 3.2 billion for 20 million is equivalent to 0.625 pennies on the pound.…
Ian RushlowApr 5, 07:54 Weekend 5th April 2025 …seeing people openly selling drugs or walking around with guns “like it was normal”. So, just like London then.
AsISeeItApr 5, 07:54 Weekend 5th April 2025 Meta and Pinterest make secret donation to Molly Russell charity (BBC) Not all that secret then was it?
DoublethinkerApr 5, 07:50 Weekend 5th April 2025 All the Globalist free traders are decrying Trump’s tariffs and claiming that he is an economic dunce if he opposes…
AsISeeItApr 5, 07:25 Weekend 5th April 2025 Supermarkets selling Russian fish ‘funding Putin’s war’ – frets the poundshop junior Guardian that is the i paper Russian fish…?…
DeborahApr 5, 07:24 Weekend 5th April 2025 Daily Mail on line, it is because of Trump”s tariffs that it is necessary to reduce the ‘fines’ for car…
An antidote to Islam Not BBC (INBBC) on Israel:
GLENN BECK (Fox News):
“Beck: U.S. Policy Trouble For Israel”
( 40 min video 19 May)
http://thedailybeck.com/2011/05/19/glenn-beck-tv-show-may-19th-2011/
I enjoyed Toby Young’s blistering attack on Oprah Winfrey in today’s DT. Most of it could apply to the BBC:
“Above all, it is Oprah’s incontinent sentimentality that I find so objectionable, the elevation of ersatz emotion over any critical thought. For Oprah, the only test of veracity worth the name is whether something “feels” true, as though our initial emotional response to something – whether a prospective lover, a spiritual belief system or a political leader – is a more reliable guide than a careful sifting of the evidence.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100088655/goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-oprah-winfrey/
Just another one of those odd stories about the story one gets…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13413710
…and the rest you don’t get, with context that is less ‘narrative helpful’ included…
http://order-order.com/2011/05/19/milibands-made-up-coffey-morning/
Seems ‘NHS staff tell him’, and his guys tell others… who oblige with a context lite soundbite.
One is sure that Dr. Coffey will soon be the voice of the NHS, to explain the anger, and what critics are saying, etc, soon.
The BBC inclusion or exclusion of affiliations is getting rather brazen.
Mystery double poster. Sorry. Werentme.gov, honest.
And now… it’s gone! Confused? You will be.