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.”
tomoSep 21, 00:36 Weekend 21st September 2024 They’re talking about America …. but all too easy to apply to the rest of the Anglosphere. https://youtu.be/fq789gppcuM
Rob in CheshireSep 21, 00:28 Weekend 21st September 2024 PM will no longer accept donations for clothes That’s a shame, I’ve got some old pants and socks I was…
NiborSep 20, 22:21 Weekend 21st September 2024 Your typical Gramscian . Let me posit who he/she is They are well above average intelligence . So much so…
SluffSep 20, 22:11 Weekend 21st September 2024 Another version of two tier law. A burglar, serving time in prison in 2018 was attacked by another prisoner with…
DeborahSep 20, 22:09 Weekend 21st September 2024 It’s very kind of the man who couldn’t pay for his own spectacles, the woman who left school with more…
Fedup2Sep 20, 22:05 Weekend 21st September 2024 I assume the noise over a dead rapist by the BBC is being done to distract from the corruption of…
JohnCSep 20, 21:35 Weekend 21st September 2024 PM will no longer accept donations for clothes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyvpv1lzq6o How very noble of him. Of course he hasn’t done it…
JohnCSep 20, 21:34 Weekend 21st September 2024 Come to daddy … my starter for 10 … David Lammy has cost Britain a crucial ally against Putin The…
Square-EyedSep 20, 21:00 Midweek 18th September 2024 Policing for Some but Not Others The treatment meted out to Hatun Tash by the Metropolitan Police is very illustrative…
Fedup2Sep 20, 20:30 Midweek 18th September 2024 Watching the documentary about the Muslim rapist – Mohammed fayed – the real story now ( apart from digging him…
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/
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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/
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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.
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Mystery double poster. Sorry. Werentme.gov, honest.
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And now… it’s gone! Confused? You will be.
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