Friday 22 June 2018

Who Wants to be a Millionaire?



Which of the following do you think is the true version of the way the BBC framed its main story on tonight's BBC One late evening bulletin?

50:50.

Is it?:
BBC Newsreader: Two major employers in the UK criticise what they see as the slow progress of Brexit negotiations. Airbus, which employs 14,000 people here, and which has previously issued similar stark warnings about the risk of the UK not joining the euro and about the UK leaving the EU, says it will now have to reconsider its future if there's no Brexit deal. 
Talking head 1This is just a businessperson sitting here today, explaining the risks we've evaluated for our business - I'm not a politician, and rather than Project Fear, this is dawning reality.  
Talking head 2We are seeing a careful choreography re-run of Project Fear. Airbus and others seem to have been lined up - alongside ex PMs no doubt - to imply end of the world unless blah blah.
Meanwhile, BMW says the uncertainty over Brexit means the UK's car industry could be less competitive. As our economics editor Kamal Ahmed explains though, other big employers in Britain take a different view....
Or?:
BBC NewsreaderTwo big employers in Britain issue stark warnings over the slow progress of Brexit negotiations. Airbus, which employs 14,000 people here, says it will have to reconsider its future if there's no Brexit deal. 
Talking Head 1: This is just a businessperson sitting here today, explaining the risks we've evaluated for our business - I'm not a politician, and rather than Project Fear, this is dawning reality. 
Meanwhile, BMW says the uncertainty over Brexit means the UK's car industry could be less competitive.
I don't think you'll need to ask the audience there.

6 comments:

  1. Any report that neglects to explain the rather bathetically named and English-sounding "Airbus" company is essentially a Franco-German company with close ties to the EU, cannot be trusted...so that's basically all the UK MSM can't be trusted. The idea that Airbus would have made this announcement without consulting with the French and/or German governments I would say is incredibly naive. We seem to have a lot of incredibly naive journalists in the UK, with particular concentration in the BBC.

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    1. Aye. The Spanish government too, I believe.

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  2. The answer, if anyone is still stuck (which I doubt!), is that the second option was the correct BBC one. The slightly longer first one most certainly wasn't the BBC.

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    1. P.S. I'm up unusually late tonight, so late that it's now morning. I've got our windows wide open, and I'm hearing a regular bleating noise. Someone has a goat I think nearby on Morecambe's Promenade. And it's a very vocal and loud one. It's bleating on like a Woman's Hour interviewee. #localcolour

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    2. I hope the goat's not for breakfast.

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    3. I did get this one. With the Issuing of a Stark Warning and its elevation to the bestowed status of prophecy, the air of pontificating gloom and sonorous ramping-up were unmistakably BBC. They love to create drama so long as it's in a certain direction.

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