Here’s a great example of the BBC advancing its own narrative by choosing to have a faux “debate” with both participants holding the same liberal view as the BBC. Ken Clarke is another BBC hero and it continually finds opportunities to “prove” how his liberal approach to criminal justice works!
Two criminal justice experts from each side of the Atlantic – filmmaker Roger Graef and the Harvard professor of Criminology Christopher Stone, discuss why showing “respect” to convicts along with reducing prison sentences and making prisons nicer places..
Just pathetic. Listen to the guy praise community organiser Charles Bronson. A true gent. No time, of course, for those who believe prisoner should offer punishment.
PS My thanks to Beeboidal and Natsman for correcting my typo on the convict name!
Wrong maniac, Graef guy is praising Charles Bronson (not the actor) , not Charles Manson.
Same old left wing narrative, but I have to alert the BBC politburo that a rogue programme got through. A couple of weeks ago, there was a programme on BBC1 which exposed tough community sentencing as a farce (youths loungeing in a park smoking dope, youths ‘working’ for an hour and a half and being credited for six hours and so on). When presented with the evidence, po-faced officials expressed their horror, said these examples weren’t representative and said the were committed to tough community sentencing. Well Beeb, wait six months, do the same programme again only more wide rangeing. I dare you.
Just to acknowledge, as it can be frustrating when such as the bbc does not, that your well noted identity parade swap has been made retroactively.
Manson’s stary eyes – creepy. Similar, I have noticed, to those of Simon Hughes…
Just once I’d like to hear a discussion of the prison system without conflating it with the issue of sentencing and somebody babbling about the US equivalent of “hug a hoodie”.
Nick Cohen also spotted this practice of rigged debate, as indicated by ‘biodegradable’ at ‘Impartiality-gene’ thread of ‘B-BBC’:
http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3390