Spot what’s missing from this piece of so-called reporting by the BBC.
Predictably, this most disturbing report about the agonising impact of fuel poverty has been processed by BBC business “reporter” Damian Kahya without mentioning at all the key fact – namely, that all this heartbreak has been engineered by green policies which have deliberately jacked up the price of electricity generation in the lunatic quest to shift to so-called renewables.
It reminds me of the story I was told when I started as a cub reporter back in 1974. I was sent to cover an amateur dramatic play. My news editor (a dour Yorkshireman who was a veteran of D-Day) growled as his parting shot as I left: “And remember, lad, we sacked your predecessor. He went to a play, and when I asked him where his copy was a couple of days later, he told me he had not been able to file anything because the lead actor had fallen off the stage and died so the performance didn’t finish”.
Joking aside, as I noted this morning, Richard Black and his eco-fascist BBC chums now actually want to make the problem of fuel poverty hundreds of times worse by introducing a well-head oil tax.
The BBC: reporting only the information that fits with its world view.
Robin, you say, “..reporting only the information that fits with its world view.”
Here’s the first example I witnessed back in 1970. The editor of the TV program “24 Hours” (remember that?) said to a reporter, “Go to Peru and cover the earthquake. If you miss it, file a story about how the rescue efforts aren’t working.”
The realisation that the green agenda has a dire effect on energy bills might at last be filtering through to the BBC frontline. On Tuesday’s Today programme Tim Considine, a professor of energy economics, explained the many benefits of shale gas. Is it just me or does it sound like Jim Naughtie is quite taken with the idea?
The entire media is obsessed with the ‘plight’ of a very over-indluged few, who think nothing of breaking laws that would break the majority of the UK public in a heartbeat if not belonging to a special interest ‘group’, ranging from travellers to activists to Polly Toynbee to Pual Mason.
Meanwhile, this… not so much..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/8837091/At-least-2700-a-year-die-in-freezing-homes.html
Watching the BBC yesterday it was made clear that the only reason for high energy prices was so that the Tory party can gloat at the suffering of teenage unmarried mothers and their children. There is no other reason. For example, if relative strength of the pound versus the dollar, or still elevated energy prices, or green taxes, or excess profits of the utilites, etc. were factors, then surely this would have been mentioned.
The BBC dare not allow an impartial examination of how much the CAGW fraud has cost the UK in terms of GDP and jobs and economic activity. Over the last decade the West has poured hundreds of billions into the CAGW fraud while the planet has not noticed and has gone on doing what it has done for hundreds of millions of years. The green(red) dream is our nightmare.
The entire CAGW fraud has cost the UK/EU/US simply gigantic amounts of money for no actual or tangible benefits, none whatsoever. The costs must be kept secret because the outrage would be huge. The CAGW fraudsters talk about the green revolution about green jobs about sustainability, yet where is any proof that any of this talk has done anything other than waste the wealth of the West? The poverty that the CAGW fraud has created is not sustainable is it?
Every day, in every way, the BBC (and Channel 4/ITV) manage to get climate change mentioned in almost every genre of programme.
It’s always the same – climate change is bad, and it’s our fault. Or our emissions are warming the planet, and that’s bad, too. None of this ever gets challenged, even by the common sense expedient of explaining in a child-friendly way, that in fact the tiny atmospheric percentage of that vital trace gas CO2 doesn’t warm the planet, the warming takes place first, and also that the planet isn’t always warming, it cools just as often (which it is now), and anyway, a warmer planet is infinitely better than a cooling one, so non-problem, forget about it. All these premises can be unequivocally proved quite easily, if these stupid broadcasters had the will to do it. But that would destroy everything they believed in, wouldn’t it?
And did I hear the BBC’s candidate for Mayor of London – cuddly old Ken – say (as the ultimate clincher in an argument with Irwin Steltzer on Today this morning) that keeping the lid on Heathrow expansion would combat global warming? The BBC and the political class can’t help themselves: it’s Aspergers for victims of the greenie virus.
Livingslime jusT had to spew the old Marxist favourite of RATIONING!
What is it about these Marxist scumbags that their first reaction is to proclaim limits on the access to services, apart from themselves of course.
And today the old corpse of “climate change refugees” got its monthly airing on the 8am news…oh God whatever shall we do?
Wonder how those travvlers are getting round the place now then…surely not using carbon crapping transportation.
Thought they ambled gently round the countryside on traded horses…or at least a Rottweiller with an ethically-sourced saddle!