FT journalist Janan Ganesh is not impressed with the fawning media coverage of Obama. The BBC’s Dominic Laurie agrees and concedes that the BBC does not escape blame.
@jananganesh agreed
— Dominic Laurie (@dominic_laurie) January 21, 2013
Yes, BBC included. @dominic_laurie @jananganesh
— DB (@4d2b) January 22, 2013
@4d2bdon’t deny that
— Dominic Laurie (@dominic_laurie) January 22, 2013
Nice of them to agree with themselves.
Ah…. but… in the wonderful world of BBC semantics, especially now they are flogging the Yes, Minister horse around the block again, is ‘not denying’ the same as agreeing?
Still, two who may find white feathers in their pay packets come month’s end.
Isn’t there something missing above? I always find it hard to read these twit things with # and @ everywhere but shouldn’t DB’s original question be in there somewhere?
I’ve checked it in Firefox and IE and the embedded tweets show up fine. Perhaps someone with better tech knowledge can explain why this might not be the case for you. Sorry can’t be of more help.
I can see the “reply” tweets but I don’t see your original question. I’m using Chrome. Anyway…never mind…..I get the gist from the thread title!
Cheers
Just checked it out in IE…..now I see it! Must be something with Chrome and embedded tweets, maybe because of my security settings….learn something new everyday….
It all looks fine on Chrome when I try it. Maybe you have something messing with the embed script?
It seems OK now, after a restart…..
I agree too, yes, I think we can ALL say that we agree. That’s agreed then.
I wonder which ‘parts of the media’ Ganesh has in mind. Surely not the ones (like the bBBC) who currently can’t see daylight because they are so far up the ‘O’ in Obama?
Good catch, DB. They’re only now realizing this after four plus years of it? Baby steps! I blame the unwieldy management system and biddable types who prevent the stalwart, impartial journalists from doing their jobs properly.
It’s a good thing the regular defenders of the indefensible have given up on this site, or they’d have to figure out a way to claim that it’s mainstream public opinion to worship Him and so the BBC isn’t being biased when they reflect that.
Our newest righteous warrior will have to work a little harder, I think.
The saddest part is that if Dominic Laurie realizes they’re biased and unprofessional here, at least a few other Beeboids do as well. But they won’t do a thing to change it.
I wonder if this could become a thing – journalists who can’t hide that nagging sense of self-loathing over their profession’s gushing, fawning coverage of Obama.
Nah. They’ll just carry on blaming it all on the Republicans as before.
DB, if you have the time and energy, how about posing the same question to all the other Beeboids on your list: Katty, Nasaw, Danzico, Rachel Kennedy, the Bacon miscreant, Jane Bradley, Paul Adams, et al.
I bet their responses would make a hilarious collection.
A reminder of why this kind of thing happens at the BBC:
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Jan. 15: Obama: ‘Israel Doesn’t Know What Its Own Best Interests Are’
Jan. 22: U.S. gift of F-16 fighters headed to Egypt, despite Morsi’s harsh rhetoric
BBC: ZZZzzzzzzzz
no doubt obama is a decent kind of bloke and i would love to share a pint with him in the pub,but as a politician,he is no more a bigger bullshitter than,,cameron ,clegg or milliband.
What’s the weather like in your fantasy world?
Which makes him nothing mroe than a village idiot gravelling at the feet of America’s enemies. Alfred Nobel died in 1896 and set up his foundation. Earlier today, the Norwegian Nobel Committee declared Liu Xiaobo the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.