REWRITING ALL THE TIME…

Looks like our pals at the BBC have been very busy boys today! A Biased BBC reader notes…

“There was an interesting article on the BBC website this morning about a report from the Adam Smith institute claiming that renewable energy is flawed. The article was quite a surprise as it seemed fairly balanced however it was clearly off message as it has now been completely re-written to say something different, the change of the headline alone is pretty damning. Full information is available here with a link to the article in question. http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/467718/diff/0/1


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19 Responses to REWRITING ALL THE TIME…

  1. Martin says:

    George Orwell would be so proud of the BBC’s ‘Newspeak’

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    • Louis Robinson says:

      “Newspeak” – great title for a BBC news show.

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    • My Site (click to edit) says:

      BBC’s ‘Newspeak’ – ‘And tonight, Matthew, we will be pretty much devoting devoting the show to saying we ‘got it about right’. Again.’

      Repeat what often enough? Via a £4Bpa media monopoly broadcast machine.

      Not the worst. Won’t be the last.

      But I’d love to see Hugs Baoden answer this one on her latest genetic impartiality broadcast… which so far does not seem to be going quite to plan. 

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/12/the_challenge_of_reporting.html

      Just a shame it’s a few score on a niche online blog as opposed to 25M licnce fee payers and 60M viewers hearing such views… and her not offering a peep in reply to point after point, pertinet question after question… and dmnaning URL after daming URL.

      Unique.

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  2. Idiotboy says:

    Its the tried and trusted “publishing the rebuttal” ploy, done after the horse has bolted.

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  3. John Horne Tooke says:

    “Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”
    – George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3

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  4. chris says:

    ….And Richard Black won’t be too happy with this news:

    Canada pulls out of Kyoto!
    “(Reuters) – Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, Environment Minister Peter Kent said on Monday.”
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/12/us-kyoto-withdrawal-idUSTRE7BB1X420111212
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15930562

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  5. David Preiser (USA) says:

    This should have been two separate pieces, not a wholesale replacement of one viewpoint with another.

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  6. London Calling says:

    This couldn’t be a case of the BBC applying undue pressure could it – the usual threat of with-holding next year’s  free “BBC guest” pass to Glastonbury?

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  7. ian says:

    ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

    ‘Bollocks’ said Alice.

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  8. George R says:

    Update on CANADA, a virtually invisible country to BBC-EU:

    “Canada formally withdraws from Kyoto Protocol”

    http://news.yahoo.com/canada-withdrawing-kyoto-protocol-minister-223613078.html

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  9. North Mill Avoncliff says:

    Ah well, Beeboids wil be able to keep themselves warm in the coming bad weather with their flaming pants on fire eh?

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  10. Cassandra King says:

    So here we have the real ecofascists in action, why they do what they do. Money is their God, they launch lawsuits in the hope of getting the marks to settle out of court for money, all for money. It is racketeering and it is criminal and the ecofascists have enriched themselves for decades partaking in a criminal activity, its nothing less than organized crime and the BBC are part of it. It is the BBC who have nurtured and supported these gangsters, given them succour and airtime.

    Enviromental Scientist Caught On Video Faking Data

    Dr. Ann Maest is a managing scientist at Straus Consulting, and she’s the go to expert on all things groundwater. In the press release announcing her reappointment to the National Academy of Sciences, they mention that she is focused on the environmental effects of mining and petroleum extraction and production, and, more recently, on the effects of climate change on water quality.

    Maest is in high demand as an expert for those looking to stop oil and mineral exploration. She’s also heavily used by the federal government, even though after new details about her past work are coming to light as a result of a lawsuit. From The New York Times:
    An environmental consulting firm named as a defendant in a racketeering suit filed by Chevron Corp. over a landmark pollution lawsuit in Ecuador is continuing to work on another blockbuster case: the Deepwater Horizon oil spill investigation.

    Boulder, Colo.-based Stratus Consulting, a long-term contractor with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other federal agencies, is gathering and analyzing data concerning the Gulf of Mexico spill.

    Chevron has is suing those behind the Ecuadorian case including: the lead attorney Steven Donziger; Stratus Consulting; and Maest. As part of their lawsuit, Chevron obtained through discovery, outtakes from a documentary called “Crude” that show Donziger and Maest colluding ignore their own findings and make up some new unsubstantiated claims. Watch this:

    Maest says that in their study contamination has not spread and is only found at the site of the pit. Donziger says let’s just extrapolate and say what we want. Maest readily agrees. Donziger goes on to say that it’s Ecuador and if they have 1000 people around the court house they win, the report is just smoke, mirrors, and bullshit.

    Of course when you’re endeavoring to pull off a multi-billion dollar legal heist in a banana republic you don’t stop at just inventing damages; you stack the deck on the judicial side as well, since that just requires a little “donation.” What Chevron has been able to show from the outtakes and records obtained is the Maest and her firm drafted substantial portions of the report of the independent expert, Richard Cabrera, who they allege Donziger was instrumental in getting appointed to do the court order study of the alleged environmental damage. Sounds like a criminal enterprise to extort, right? That’s what Chevron thinks, and it’s why they’re suing under RICO.

    In addition to being sued, Maest’s work (if that’s what you want to call it) was thouroughly debunked by another team of scientists.

    It is hardly a surprise that Donziger is an old Harvard buddy of, you guessed it, President Obama. What’s really surprising is that here we have a National Academy of Science member caught red-handed agreeing to make up data, and our government wants to give her more business.

    SOURCE. (See the original for links)

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    • Cassandra King says:

      Now for decades the green gangsters have perfected the art of the shake down of marks with deep pockets. In the USA where the shake down was born it has made billions for the green gangsters over the years and as the cash rolled in they were able to employ ambulance chasers by the legion, it was an easy way to extort money from big corporations, the only trouble is that it has wiped out millions of jobs, leaving a wasteland behind as industry is forced out of an area.

      The cost of these gangsters and their criminal racket is huge and the damage lasting. The green gangsters have enriched themselves and their spiv lawyers and now it is payback time, I hope these criminals do time.

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:

      Nice find, Cassandra. No wonder The Obamessiah and the EPA have hurt US business and killed or prevented so many jobs.

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  11. fred bloggs says:

    1984: Eric Blair thought he was writing a novel, not an instruction manual.

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  12. Cassandra King says:

    Here we are, another day and another graph that the BBC cannont and will not allow to be shown, this supposedly impartial BBC hiding graphs and evidence from the public.

    The graph from NOAA proves that contrary to all the computer model predictions touted by the BBC the continental USA has in fact COOLED over the last 17yrs.

    A graph that our sometime visitor Lysenkoist beeboid David Gregory is too frightened to show, or investigate, or bring up at his workplace for fear he would lose his job.

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  13. TomR says:

    One presumes that the young unpaid intern who wrote the original story was thrown out on his arse for not following BBC bias – sorry, ‘editorial guidelines’.

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