Please forgive me for lapsing into Twitterspeak - or Vickypollardspeak - but...
O.M.G. Former UK deputy prime minister, Lord Prescott of Dunderhead-in-the-Marsh, has only gone and well-and-truly slagged off his former boss, Tony Blair, saying that "he [Tony] wants to invade everywhere".
That's newsworthy.
Two Jabs Prezza (one more than Jezza) also said:
When I hear people talking about how people are radicalised, young Muslims. I’ll tell you how they are radicalised. Every time they watch the television where their families are worried, their kids are being killed and murdered and rockets firing on all these people, that’s what radicalises them.
Oh F.F.S. - the idiot, pace Sarah AB at Harry's Place, is channeling Asghar Bukhari: It's British foreign policy that's to blame (British foreign policy enacted when, for our sins, Lord Prescott was the country's deputy prime minister.)
Also newsworthy.
Indeed, lots of media organisations agree that John Prescott's controversial remarks are newsworthy - from Sky News to the Independent, Daily Mail and Telegraph.
They aren't being reported on the BBC News website though.
Why?
Every time they watch the television where their families are worried, their kids are being killed and murdered and rockets firing on all these people, that’s what radicalises them.
ReplyDeleteWell, then, perhaps Al Qaeda and ISIS and Procol Harum and and the Gazans should stop firing all those rockets and beheading people and whatnot.
Oh, sorry. Actually, there is no noise from the BBC on this because they do not see it as controversial at all. They agree with him. We've heard it from Beeboids time and time again. To them, as Jeff Randell would say, this is the middle ground. We don't even have to speculate or dream it up to suit our own view of the BBC. They've said it many times, and it's on record.
To answer you question, as the BBC is most certainly unlikely to, one has to understand that there are two varieties of news the BBC recognises: stuff it likes and stuff it doesn't.
ReplyDeleteWhat it likes goes out, often in enhanced forms.
What it doesn't like gets edited, often to the point of oblivion.
It's not very professional, but like they care.