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Another BBC twitterer, spotted by DB:
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2010/04/frank-spencer.html
http://twitter.com/brettsr
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Under Brett's bio it says "Views are personal not those of the BBC. Mostly."
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An e-mail from on high came to us at work yesterday, telling us to remember that we should all behave responsibly on Twitter, Facebook and the like, should we choose to mention who we work for. They don't want us to bring them into discredit. A similar e-mail should perhaps be sent from the BBC's top brass to all their members of staff requesting something similar!
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As well as all those unpleasant comments about David Cameron, Brett has a few digs at Nick Clegg too. One of the party leaders, however, doesn't attract his scorn. I think we can guess who he's voting for:
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Brown seems well ahead to me, and is now playing his joker.
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Brown suddenly seeming like he knows infinitely more than the other two.
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Did Gordon say we should be going around by train and getting off 'domestic air flights'. Tick that box then.
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BBC1 Breakfast just now (my jaw dropped so fast and hard it's still hurting):
ReplyDeleteAccording to the ones in the glowing red studio the polls are all too close to call for any party. Fact. (Ahem, BBC fact.) Not a single mention of Brown coming last in EVERY SINGLE POLL. Some gritted teeth mention of the Conservatives claiming their man did better this week. But still very even for everyone. BBC News, always even handed when their candidate is down.
Rory Cellan-Jones, Digital Correspondent, parks himself ont he sofa and says he's going to tell us about all the comments in the blogosphere, then proceeds to tell us only about Twitter, where miraculously, some vague graph shows the "mentions" of the three parties were "absolutely even" at the end of the debate. Notably, the graph isn't shown continuing after the debate when all the real polls started showing Cameron and Clegg at the top and Brown in his slump.
This is either really really bad journalism, or naked propaganda. Any complaint to the BBC will result in wide-eyed affirmations of fairness at all junctures. I'm guessing this is Labour-speak fairness.
Completely off topic, Craig, but I have just seen a heading on Guido which you would be proud of.
ReplyDelete"Ban the Bercow" !
HAPPY ST. GEORGE'S DAY TO YOU AND ALL YOUR READERS:
ReplyDelete"Is this a call to war? Does anyone pretend that preparation for resistance to aggression is unleashing war? I declare it to be the sole guarantee of peace. We need the swift gathering of forces to confront not only military but moral aggression; the resolute and sober acceptance of their duty by the English-speaking peoples and by all the nations, great and small, who wish to walk with them. Their faithful and zealous comradeship would almost between night and morning clear the path of progress and banish from all our lives the fear which already darkens the sunlight to hundreds of millions of men." Winston Churchil, The Defence of Freedom and Peace (The Lights are Going Out), 16th October 1938
David, Rory Cellan-Jones needs watching. As I found recently, his blog articles link to 'The Guardian' to a startling degree. (Love the image by the way!)
ReplyDeleteGrant, you can go off topic as often as you like! A fine pun by Guido indeed (what a guy!)- it wins on several fronts.
Hippiepooter, now that's a speech!
Craig, Actually I think Guido may have picked it up from Nigel Farage, or vice versa !
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