DROPPING THE PRETENCE

I commend this post by my colleague Andrew McCann over on A Tangled Web to you. Andrew is able to listen to the atrocious 5LIve more than I and so he gets to endure the full-on bias from that particular broadcasting delight. Give it a read, I think he makes some excellent points.

WHY FIVE A DAY IS BAD FOR YOU!

I try not to listen to BBC Radio 5 Live for health reasons. It is so appallingly biased that raised blood pressure is the inevitable consequence and that’s just not good for me!One program that I try to avoid at all costs is that of Simon Mayo in the afternoon. The good news is that Mayo is away at the moment. The bad news is that Colin Murray is replacing him and he makes Mayo look almost adequate. During an interview with the Minister of State for Schools Jim Knight I heard him ask if Knight “who works 24/7 to make things better” got depressed by the bad publicity from the delays in getting SAT results out. Toughie, huh? Meanwhile Colin let the dark Knight distance himself and his lousy Department from having ANY responsibility for the process it instigated and manages.