… that make a BBC worldview. Take the coverage of today’s March for Free Expression, a response to the recent world-wide outbreak of cartoonophobia.
“Blog site
The free speech movement was born from a blog site on the internet and rallied hundreds from across the political spectrum to join Saturday’s rally.”
You’d think the story might contain a link to said blog. Ah yes, there’s a link at the side of the story.
But it’s a link to the cartoonophobic Global Civility site ! However could that have happened ?
Elsewhere, Stephen Pollard notes a remarkable contribution to BBC Radio Four’s “Thought For The Day”.
“Paying taxes is how love operates at a distance”
You can see how a service funded by a compulsory levy might warm to such a religion. As Pollard says, “we either pay to have this stuff broadcast or get sent to prison”.