Good for a laugh
James Forsyth has a short post at the Spectator’s Coffee House on the Beeb’s odd decision to keep its business editor Robert Peston off Have I Got News For You. The killer paragraph, though, relates to Peston’s reports last week on Osborne:
What makes this decision all the more absurd is that the BBC is happy for Peston to report on George Osborne and the Deripaska affair without mentioning that Osborne’s office is supporting a Serious Fraud Office investigation into who Peston’s sources have been on various recent stories. The BBC should be able to work out which of these is a genuine editorial issue.
I’m probably not alone in wondering, though, whether this wasn’t precisely why Peston was kept off. I certainly think Hislop would have had some fun with it…
Nick Robertson/Robert Peston/Steve mawhinney are all in deepest doodoo over this and the reporting of the financial crisis, murky sources,collusion with nuLabour,partisan reporting,selective amnesia,passing off innuendo and rumours as fact and they have not only broken the BBC charter they have smashed it to pieces!
Even the pussywhipped BBC trust will have trouble sweeping the mess under the carpet!
The BBC and its employees dont like awkward questions, the BBC looks after its own(they have to because they are all in it upto their necks) I hope they get whats coming to them and i dont mean a huge bonus!
Funny how often our objective, publicly-funded, national broadcaster, its employees intricate inter-personal and/or professional relationships and ‘odd’ editorial selectivity crops up:
When you are a defender of democracy, beware the servant of many masters
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/opinion/stephen-glover/stephen-glover-when-you-are-a-defender-of-democracy-beware-the-servant-of-many-masters-974270.html
Even more so for where the eyebrows are now being raised these days.
Thing is, I don’t have to pay for propaganda from almost all, bar one.
1.) Labour government pulls Woolas from BBC ‘Question Time’;
2.) BBC pulls Peston from ‘Have I Got News For You’.
Neither organisation wants the public to know the truth.
I subscribe to the BBC email daily newsletter across several topic areas.
Every so often you get an additional email ‘BBC Breaking News’ when something of massive, topical importance takes place.
Air crashes, assassinations, wars breaking out, etc..
OR:
Osborne admits donation ‘mistake’
George Osborne says he made a “mistake” in becoming involved in a discussion on a possible donation to the Tories by a Russian billionaire.
For more details: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news
They really are determined to go down in flames, it seems.