Biased BBC has readers all over the world. Such is the malign influence of the BBC that it annoys people in places other media providers just can’t reach – take Scotland. North of the border, the BBC is just as annoying as in this instance kindly provided me by a B-BBC reader.
“The BBC are terrified of the SNP and their choice of picture accompanying this item tells it all.
The article is actually about the SNP reminding the coming hacking “inquiry” about previous findings that seem to have been ignored. The article then goes on to repeat Labour smears on the SNP and their contacts with NI – talk about pots and kettles!
“Instead of engaging in smear, the key question Paul Martin has to answer is why the last Labour government did precisely nothing about the Operation Motorman report published by the Information Commissioner in 2006, revealing over 3,000 cases of a range of newspapers breaking data protection laws.”
Quite.
The answer lies in an email published by the New Statesman in February of this year.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/dan-hodges/2011/02/phone-hacking-personal
“On phone hacking, we believe the police should thoroughly investigate all allegations. But this is not just an issue about News International. Almost every media organisation in the country may end up becoming embroiled in these allegations. This goes to the root of a wider problem in public life.”
You don’t say, Mr Tom Baldwin…. and there’s the rub.
How many years of Labour did we have…13 wasn’t it?
To quote another contributor.
Delicious.
Another headline you won’t see:
“Six million News of the World readers to be jailed for financing phone-hacking” Murdoch admits “we only did it for them”