No, I'm not talking about Sarah Palin - though she is lovely! I'm talking about the generosity the BBC extends here to McDoom's wife, Sarah and her new blog on the risible G8 conference. I recall the BBC desperately spinning the tall tale that 'twas the intrepid Sarah that came to save her husband at the last Labour conference, as she added humanity to her husband's profile. Looks like Sarah is back on the BBC narrative...
"We get from time to time people saying you're biased in favour of the Labour Party. Every time I ask people - show me a case of that bias, explain to me where we got it wrong and why what we said was so unfair - they seem to be unable to do so",
Andrew Marr May 11th, 2001.
"The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias",
Andrew Marr
the Daily Mail, Oct 21st, 2006.
"It's not a conspiracy. It's visceral. They think they are on the middle ground",
Jeff Randall former BBC Business Editor,
in The Observer, Jan 15th, 2006.
"The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?",
James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, Aug 24th, 2007.
"People who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that [global warming] is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago",
Media Guardian, Jan 31st, 2007.
"I do remember... the corridors of Broadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles. I'll always remember that"
Jane Garvey
BBC Five Live, May 10th, 2007, recalling May 2nd, 1997.
'We need to foster peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-of-centre thinking.'-BBC drama commissioning controller, Ben Stephenson in the Guardian, July 16 2009
9 comments:
Not G8 but a really good article about the climate change bollocks
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1198188/Hysteria-real-threat-global-warming.html#comments
Yes, Labour's Sarah Brown is fully in BBC's good books, after her enthusiastic march for homosexuals last Saturday, as part of Labour's legislation ('Equality Bill'!) to PROMOTE homosexuality in Britain.
The Comments are 'off' on Sarah's blog, which is a shame. I was wanting her to pass on some of my thoughts to her crappy husband.
Still her blog's more interesting than James Landale's. That's got even more joyless statistics than my blog!
Craig,
Yeah - he's grim.
Martin - Excellent link. Thanks
When I think of "lovely Sarah", I think of Teather, but, I guess I need to seek help.
Sarah Palin 'lovely'?
Sorry David you are losing the plot on this one.
But then I am a happily married man, I just don't see it.
Anon,
I am also a very happily married man but I can appreciate the virtues of Mrs Palin. I think she personifies many of the best qualities of America and the more the elite damn her, the more I like her.
David 4:51
As another happily married man, I can dream about Sarah Teather without my wife being jealous.
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