It’s interesting the language that the BBC chooses at times. As we know language and images are the main currencies of the BBC so words matter. The BBC were to the fore in attacking every action of NOTW when it came to phone tapping and most certainly adopted high moral tone suggesting that Murdoch’s newspaper empire was evil. Come this morning, we read that the Daily Mirror has “been hit” by legal claims that it engaged in similar acts of phone tapping. Curious – almost as if this was an accident. There was the Mirror, innocently churning our day and day of left wing propaganda and trash, and ..whoops.. it “is hit.” Throughout this entire phone tapping saga, I have felt that the BBC seemed determined to place Murdoch at the center when in fact, as we all know, the practise was common across the media. It’s a pity nobody tapped Jimmy Savile’s phone…
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Turning out to be a bad month for the axis of progressive leftism.
The Guardian are skint, the BBC are on the rack and now the Mirror are drawn into the phone hacking scandal.
About time.
Leveson and the Tom Watson Cabaret (ie the House of Commons select committee) soon turned into an attack on Murdoch and the Mirror and Piers Moron went away scott free.
I expect the BBC and Guardian to play down this Mirror epsiode,
They may just catch up with Mr slippery moron soon. I live in hope.
If only some squadies would catch up with the traitor.
Time I think that the BBC was broken up.
Saville is far more serious than the hacking. The BBC called for the break up of Murdoch as a result.
The BBC should be broken up by their own logic.
At a minimum, children’s programs should be stripped from the BBC, along with the funding, plus a punitive reduction in funding.
That it is, although it was interesting to hear the small spin the Toady programme tried to put on it yesterday.
During the interview with the chairman of the select committee looking at the case there was a little bit of sleight of hand slipped in.
Into that interview there was a suggestion that it was badly handled by the BBC but not by deliberate cover up. I don’t recall the precise words but it suggested that the BBC hadn’t sought to hide it unlike other organisations might look to cover up a scandal.
Now I wonder who that little effort was aimed at to set a position on the “bad practice scale”
Don’t forget the Guardian admitted phone tapping but Levenson ignored it, deliberately, just as he accepted without query Morgan’s claim of innocence.
I’m sure someone on here put a link to an old Mirror headline where Morgan was boasting about how they had used phone tapping. Which he totally contradicted at the Levenson witch-hunt.
I wonder if Heather Mills McCartney will be added to the plaintiffs
And don’t forget that Piers Morgan was allowed by Leveson to give his ‘evidence’ from the USA, and not completted to appear in person, as he should have been.
The scandal of Leveson was it was a blatantly “get-Murdoch” inquiry, and the Guradian and Mirror (and BBC) simply got free passes.
Of course, I meant to type “compelled to appear in person …”
Mmm, -haven’t seen ‘Mirror’s Kevin Maguire on BBC-NUJ for a few hours.
He was on itv this morning, (daybreak?) along with her off SML. He was tossed a benign Q about the hacking and fudged a reply.
He was his usual objectionable self on Sky ‘Press Review’ last night, shouting down all opinions that he didn’t agree with.
He actually said he detested PM, had left the DM over his appointment and returned when he was sacked. However, he didn’t believe that hacking has taken place: DM had told Paxo about how to hack (the source of the story) and KM said Piers was a bullshitter who came out with utter tosh to impress people when socialising. Being an utter prat is PMs speciality but you can’t be jailed for it. There’s no evidence against PM that stands up to scrutiny (alas).
And the Mirror has to pay wee Frankie Boyle £55,000 for calling him a “racist”.
Hardly a peep from the BBC about this one. You`d think that the Rainbow Alliance of reds, greens and pinks was woven seamlessly to “big up the progressive narrative” wouldn`t you?
Luckily the Mirror is aimed at Sun Readers with Special Needs, so not to worry…Robert Maxwells arsewipe is as nasty and irrelevant as the Guardian.
Independent & ex-BBC Steve Richards interviewed on sky News re BBC/Savile seeks to excuse BBCfolk as “Departments are so large”. Odd that with hacking no similar slack was available to Murdock who heads perhaps a larger, & certainly more diverse & dispersed, organisation
I can’t stand Kevin Maguire. He’s such a rabid lefty he makes the BBC look tame in comparison!