Talking of DB...
He also spotted a BBC Trending article headlined Gaza medics back striking English junior doctors...:
...less than an hour after it was published, and sent the following tweet to the BBC journalist responsible for the piece, Mario Cacciottolo:
As you can see, Mario had tweeted about the piece himself to telling us all how it came about:
Fancy that!
Given that BBC Trending is supposed to report on major 'trends' in social media, this was hardly much of a 'trend', let alone yer actual news, was it?
DB suggested as much to Mario.
Now, what was it about a tweet linking Gaza with the junior doctors' strike that first attracted BBC reporter Mario Cacciottolo to this story, as Mrs Merton might have asked)?
Would the ever-trending hashtag #bbcbias help supply the answer?
Super Mario already has an entry on Biased BBC's In their Own Tweets, viz.,
ReplyDeleteMario Cacciottolo @m_cacciottolo
Dear America. Your president is cool, witty and classy. Everyone likes you more when he's in charge. Love, The Rest of The World
8:09 AM - 7 Nov 2012
I'd say DB's hypothesis has legs.
http://david-collier.com/?p=1677
ReplyDeleteAs with the defunct "Echo Chambers", BBC Trending is just a reflection of what left-wing Beeboids think is important. Nothing to do with management structure or executive pay.
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