The Ed Balls’ ‘Turkey Taunt’ story is still on the BBC’s frontpage in a prominent place….strangely this story, via Guido, is nowhere to be seen on the website as far as I can see, not even on the ‘Health’ page….you have to dig for it:
NHS Accuse Burnham of ‘Misreporting Facts For Political Gain’
Senior Official Says Shadow Health Secretary Misled Commons
A senior NHS official has accused Andy Burnham’s office of ”misinterpreting and misreporting” evidence about taxis being used as ambulances “in order to present a grossly inaccurate picture for the purposes of apparent political gain”.
Pretty serious accusations you would think….but the BBC clearly doesn’t seem to agree.
It has managed to report it….hidden away on the ‘Democracy Live’ page…under the ‘House of Commons’ sub-section:
Labour criticised over A&E claims
A claim that Labour had “misinterpreted and misreported [the information] in order to present a grossly inaccurate picture for the purposes of apparent political gain” should surely merit a major headline on the Frontpage…instead the BBC has buried the story where no one will ever look or come across it by accident.
No accident that?
All the more curious because it was only a few days ago that the BBC were trumpeting their own investigation into waiting times at hospitals and the use of ambulances….all given lots of airtime on the radio:
Some patients taken by ambulance to A&E departments are waiting in the vehicle for much longer than the recommended 15 minutes, with one case involving a six-hour delay, figures show.
Data for ambulance services in England, Scotland and Wales, obtained by the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act, suggest Wales had the longest waits.
Why so coy now?
The BBC does seem to again be making interesting decisions with what it doesn’t feel is newsworthy so much, and what it does.
http://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2013/12/from-harryph-councils-are-right-to-warn-their-tenants-of-excess-christmas-spending-causes-rent-arrears.html
‘The BBC reports that Hammersmith and Fulham Council claims that “tenants” have found “disgusting” and “offensive” a card sent out urging them. They manage to come up with two. There was Tina Buckley – who is a prominent left wing local activist – and her mother.’
If accurate, they do seem to have made a fair old leap from reporting news through enhancing it to downright making a meal of a political PR push, again being less than honest as to who their vox pops actually are.
Is this card tacky? Yes.
Is what the BBC doing worse? Yes.
Because it is bent.
Interestingly the comments are from a mixed pack, but even the BBCphiles know they’ve screwed the pooch on this one. Again.
Also, would it not just be awful were it to transpire that others, say the BBC’s revenue collection arm, were often the teensiest bit lacking in tact with their ongoing ‘marketing’ efforts?
It may even be victims of this blood-sucking outfit could be found who are not bestest buds with the BBC producer teams already.
Yep…heard Peter Allen on 5 Drive giving Ed Miliband a plug on the basis of this…..the council said it had 46% in rent arrears…Allen suggested that this was indicative of the cost of living crisis…we might have jobs but no money.
the 99,000 new jobs have been dismissed all day by the BBC…as per normal.
It’s not newsworthy that’s why.
Look, look everyone, there’s a former Tory councillor’s brother-in-law’s sister’s husband riding a bicycle without a helmet. Now THAT is newsworthy to the BBC.
The BBC. Beyond parody that’s what they do.
The bBBC seldom tells the truth about Labour’s Nationalised Death Service, because, I believe, they see the BBC and NHS as kindred spirits, both massive taxpayer-funded monopolies, forever trumpeted by lefties as ‘the envy of the world’ whilst the majority of the sheeple seem content to put up with the poor service from both.
Add to that the Police and the Judiciary, all converted during the Blair years.