Hello and welcome to the first post of 2012. With all the hype surrounding the new Sherlock Holmes movie, I started thinking about the old Holmes story “The adventure of the Silver Blaze”. You may have read it as it
contains this wonderful exchange;
Inspector Gregory:”Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”
Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
Inspector Gregory “The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
“That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes.
Now, the Euro has just turned 10 years old and as Damian Thompson points out here, the BBC were to the fore in their Europhoria for “the project” back then…
I’ve been looking back at the Beeb’s coverage of that historic event. For today’s teenagers who don’t remember the original reporting, let me try to capture its flavour for you: “OMG! This is so AMAZING, guys!!! You can use the same coins in Germany and Greece! Can’t wait till we join!!! It’ll be SO TOTALLY AWESOME.” Honestly, I’m barely exaggerating. “Euphoria in euroland” was the opening line on the Ten Clock News on January 1 2002. Euphoria at Television Centre might be a better description.
The Mail picks up on the story as well here.
Silence? Hardly. There has been much coverage – just not in the tones that you would prefer, telling you want to hear.
Oh, and that Telegraph post looks like it was written by Damian Thompson, rather than Delingpole. Nice to see that the first post of 2012 contains David Vance’s tracdemark laxity with factual accuracy…
Scott, Happy New Year!
No mention of DV’s electoral defeat last year. Progress!
Oh look Scott has surfaced, I dread to think where he’s been these months.
Scott, the leftist scum BBC is like the EU on the way down the toilet U-bend. I for one can’t wait to flush it away once and for all.
Happy new year by the way.
Scott, old chum. Where have you been? What joy on the first day of the year to hear from you again. Keep drinking the cool aid. Come back soon.
where has he been?
defintely not for cosmetic surgery anyway!!
“Want to hear ”
What do we want to hear then ?
“contains David Vance’s tracdemark laxity with factual accuracy.”
Yeah, when you dare to lecture others about accuracy then its best if you dont make spelling mistakes eh comrade?
Listen up wing nut, open those ear flaps. We dont just want one side, we want and expect a full and unbiased appraisal of the issues and facts from ALL sides.
What is so hard to understand about that? Up you pop with your petty anti DV jihad, the snide comments and the snarky greasy insults, you are a joke, and a piss poor one at that.
Is it so hard for the BBC to separate their political beliefs and just report the facts? Not to keep adding their tuppence worth just in case we thicko public get the worng idea and perhaps maybe even commit the ultimate crime of making our own minds up with all the facts from all sides?
You talk about the ‘coverage’ but don’t say where, or on what….
No sources… no need for any ‘factual accuracy’ on your part, Scott.
Appropriate references would help, rather than empty whispers you scatter here…
We don’t really go for that conjecure stuff here.
Happy New Year to you and your fellow liberal leftoids.
Scott
What joy you bring, although sadly little on the substance, as we expect. I will amend, of course. By the way, have a word with your own copy writer as I don’t know what “tracdemark” is? Factual accuracy and all that, pal.
“tracdemark”
This a term exchanged between loveable West Indian rogues having spotted their next victim at Kingston International arrival lounge.
I remember Naughtie’s breathless ‘reporting’, like a groupie at a Rolling Stones concert. Clearly designed to make people feel bad about Britain not being part of this visionary project paving the way to Heaven. He was not alone. The BBC has a lot to answer for.
From the Mail link:-
“In 2005, after an internal BBC report admitted that it had promoted a pro-EU bias across its output, the Corporation pledged to make its coverage ‘more sophisticated’.
Why do I get the feeling what the BBC meant was to give more plausible deniability to its bias?
“European integration that we can get behind”
Fraser Nelson
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/7537778/european-integration-that-we-can-get-behind.thtml
It’s not just spelling mistakes either:
…telling you want to hear.
What does that mean? 🙁
Yup, you’re right, I made a couple of typos. Whoops.
“we want and expect a full and unbiased appraisal of the issues and facts from ALL sides.”
A laudable aim, if it were true. Unfortunately, this blog – both in its posts and the comments beneath – frequently shows that it’s not.
Yet again Scotty you rehash the same old bollocks. This is a blog, you’re free to comment or not, but you’re NOT forced to pay for it.
Unlike the BBC and the Guardian both of which receive huge state funding.
Why do you find that so hard to get through your thick skull?
Tell me Scott would you like to be forced to fund Sky even if you didn’t want to watch it?
Or rather would he like to pay for Fox News if he didn’t want to watch it.
scotty boy keeps getting offended
yet he keeps coming back for more…….LOL
Scott wrote:-
“Yup, you’re right, I made a couple of typos. Whoops.”
I know Scott, isn’t such pettiness so juvenile and pathetic.
So is a lack of irony and self knowledge.
People were making these observations to highlight your own embarrassing pettiness towards DV. Still, we’re nearly 22 hours into 2012 and you still haven’t made any ad hominem comment about DV having lost an election. You’re doing well, I’m rooting for you Scotty! 🙂
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“we want and expect a full and unbiased appraisal of the issues and facts from ALL sides.”
A laudable aim, if it were true. Unfortunately, this blog – both in its posts and the comments beneath – frequently shows that it’s not.
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Yet your comments make it through regularly, don’t they. Proving that all sides of the argument are allowed on this blog, if not in BBC reporting.
Whoops Scotty. Brilliant that he starts on the 1st January 2012 as pathetically as he’s always managed. Scotty, you should have made a New Year’s Resolution to engage brain and actually think before typing and making yourself look a complete tit.
Scott n Dez are very much the Ant and Dec of this blog…can`t tell one from the other, and neither could possibly be confused with a ray of sunshine.
A pair of lovebirds down the gaseous and toxic mines of the BBC, but who choose to hold each others beaks whilst telling us that the whiff of privilege, platitudes and dead canards from Red Lion Square days is actually our own body odour.
Trust and obey…and read the Guardian instead of lining their cages with the damn Pravda for the likes of them.
Still-as long as we get the occassional squauk from under the damp towel covering the cage…we know we`re alive, and they continue to remind us of the Pathe cockerel atop the dunghill!
Hope Dez won`t be telling us that it wasn`t a cockerel, but a hen…it`s the kind of thing he does!
Scott and Dez are two cheeks of the same arse.. 🙂
You can tell this is a good blog because it allows BBC shills to comment too. I only wish the beeb site would return the favour.
So according to Scott, it’s perfectly fine if the BBC continues to promote the Euro and take sides on the issue. I think that’s what he means by the BBC’s coverage not being in the “tones you would prefer.”
Is that an accurate assessment of your statement, Scott?
It’s about as accurate as all the other guff you come out with. Which is to say, not at all. BUt why change the habit of a lifetime?
David Vance says the BBC has been “silent” on issues which it has actually been reporting. By “silence”, he means “not presenting issues in a manner which makes my own opinions seem fair and reasonable.” Or alternatively, “please put me on telly/radio again so I can assuage my own egotistical desires.”
Again you can’t give a specific instance, or reference we can look at.
You do love your empty conjecture and whispers, Scott.
Until you do no one here will ever take you seriously, be a troll or start a debate, your choice.
I hope the beeb isn’t paying him to come on here and troll about
if he’s getting anyhting more than a couple of quid a week,it’s a real waste of licence payers money-much like the rest of them in fact
good job they don’t het to waste any of mine 🙂
Hi Scott,
Andy Marr said that the BBC was an “urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people”
im just wondering what category you fall within? you sound Gay
Beebinator, for your info he is gay; it irrelevant of course. The only thing that matters is him showing his total lack of self awareness, e.g. when he tries to pull David apart for a technical mistake (naming the wrong presenter) and then squealing loudly when people pull him up on his techniacal mistakes. Like Dezzy, he will never address the real issues raised in this blog and will happily support the BBC’s total lack of debate on any subject.
hi Demon, indeed you are right, i was just being facetious
🙂
Missed that. I was surprised to be honest that you weren’t aware. Must have been too early in the morning.
Talking of Holmes, I thoroughly enjoyed Sherlock last night.
Pure, unalloyed entertainment with no sub-plots involving global warming, Mossad killers or head-lopping Christian evangelists.
Bags of action, a razor-sharp script and fine performances all around – the sort of thing the Beeb can do very well if it tries. Okay, so Sherlock Holmes purists may object but I too am a Doyle fan and I think they have retained the spirit of the books and updated them with some panache.