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Following on from my last-but-one post, it's looking as if the BBC is determined to bury the Peter Watt story. It's potentially deeply damaging to Gordon Brown, and the BBC look as if they're not going to let that happen. The story remains buried away on their website at the bottom of an article about Brown being determined to get on which the job. An unsuspecting visitor to the BBC News website would only find it by accident.
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Not so Sky News. Their website gives the story its own article and headline ('Shambles At No 10' Spurs Call To Oust PM), and features it prominently on its front page. Sky looks at what Mr Watt says in far, far greater detail than the BBC. http://news.sky.com/skynews/ (indeed, as of 12.30pm today) it tops their list of 'Latest News Stories'.
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Nor ITN News. 'Shambles Brown' must go says ex-party chief is their headline, and the article is featured first on their 'Top Stories' section. http://itn.co.uk/
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Correct me if I'm wrong but did not the leadership of the BBC send out a memo to its staff to 'go easy' on Gordon and Labour when Brown moved into 10 Downing Street.
ReplyDeleteAnd did not Andrew Marr conduct one of the most fawning, sycophantic lickspittle "interviews" with Brown, stagemanaged by the BBC at a school library in Kirkaldy. The soft-tone lighting, the sepia effect around Brown, tomes of wisdom on the bookshelves behind Brown and Marr genuflecting and grovelling before the monster styopping just short of saying "And what question would like to answer next Your Munificence"
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Thank God I missed that one !
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