Oh my, there was a classic panel on Dateline London today!
The cast list essentially moved from the centre to the hard-left; beginning with the vaguely centrist Stephanie Baker (Bloomberg News), passing to the left-leaning Marc Roche of Le Soir and then moving on to the even-more-left-wing Portuguese writer Eunice Goes and finally to the yet-more-left-wing-still Owen Jones of The Guardian.
A classic Dateline panel indeed!
It was very lively though. When you've got Eurofanatic Marc Roche on the panel but the other guests - especially the deeply disillusioned leftists - just can't take his unconditional defence of the EU and the euro seriously, then sparks are bound to fly. And fly they did (in a good-natured way).
Didn't see it but the debate generally seems to divide into those, like me , who want Greece out of the Euro and the EU and the fanatics who think the heavens will fall in if Greece leaves. Where do the BBC fall, I wonder ?
ReplyDeleteThe BBC always claims you can't judge a single episode and must take the long term numbers into account. But we know from your excellent work on that score that it's a complete lie when it comes to Dateline.
ReplyDeleteWho at the BBC honestly thinks the Jones blot on the landscape is any kind of respectable mind on this topic, never mind any other. I'd really like to hear somebody explain his qualities to me. Is the fact that he's an extreme Left-wing popular voice enough? How is that quality broadcasting?