A few years back I went to the London Barbican to watch Outfoxed, a documentary feature film that made the outrageous claim that Fox TV was rather to the Right in its coverage of political issues.
Astounding! The cinema audience laughed and wailed and expressed outrage at the channels obvious political distortion. And in the morning, I imagine, those same people turned on their radio to listen to the Today programme confident that this was the undistorted truth free from bias and lies.
But while Fox has certainly influenced politics in the US, in terms of shifting the terms of cultural and political debate it is like Austin Powers to the BBCs James Bond.
The latest revelation to come out of the BBC is the guidance issued at the BBC editorial meeting suggesting that Abu Qatada, the Jordanian whom the British government is too gutless to deport, should not be described as an extremist because that would suggest a value judgment.
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One man's terrorist is another man's BBC journalist.
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Oh god, I don't trust Sky, and I don't trust the BBC - and it is such a rip off. £140 a year and the BBC make like 6 channels, close their world service and make a mockery of programs. Channel 4 sponsors a few fairly good ones and I tell you that they aren't funded by TV license payers money. Its a joke. The BBC should really heed the calling for firing a bunch of people because if I was prime minister I would see the whole lot go into administration. Jesus Trading standards should step in because no one is satisfied. Have you seen Eastenders. Makes me mad. Anyway evening all
As always, the BBC-TV casting,make-up, costumes and scripting are almost always excellent; until that cloying, One-worlder guilt-trip mind-messaging begins to seep into the "Family Room/Den/Man-Cave carpet.
That said, I totally enjoyed "The Queen" (+Corgi dogs)and "The King's Speech" Brit movies released in the past 5 years.Very moving.
and they can't show pictures of him looking fat either But we can...
BBC journalists have been told not to call hate preacher Abu Qatada an 'extremist'.
Using such a term to describe the man once called 'Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe', is making a 'value judgment' and should be avoided, bosses have said.
The corporation's managers have insisted he should be described as 'radical', according to meeting notes seen by the Telegraph.
Journalists were also advised not to use images that suggest the preacher is overweight, the paper says.
But nothing they show can hide the fact that Pastor Abu Qatada is the very definition of not a handsome man, with a beard that looks as if the glue will give way at any moment.
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