Today's From Our Own Correspondent began by focusing on the frontrunner in the upcoming Brazilian election.
The BBC presenter (Kate Adie) and BBC correspondent (Katy Watson) strew around a fair few adjectives about this man, Jair Bolsonaro. According to them he's "controversial", "right-wing", "notorious", "sexist", "homophobic" and "infamous". Plus he argues some things "falsely" and is guilty of "scaremongering".
Maybe it's just me but I couldn't help getting the feeling that they weren't that keen on him.
As for his likely left-wing opponent in the second round, he was described as "left-wing" and...oh, nothing else. So he must be OK then.
The title of today's episode on the BBC website is:
Reminds me...the BBC hated Duarte being elected as President of the Philippines...personally I didn't like him much either...but after a flurry of reports, I've heard v. little about his Presidency from the BBC...they have to devote all their reporting resources to Donald Trump don't they?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Duarte is definitely a populist - not my type of populist - but a populist nonetheless...
I wonder if the reason the BBC is ignoring him is because the Philippino economy is booming at 6.8% growth rate.
While I was researching that figure, I noted that Ethiopia has had an average GDP growth rate of an incredible 9.8%. What great news! but it points out how much the BBC is addicted to presenting bad news stories from Africa. I am really interested to hear about how some African countries are dragging themselves out of poverty. The BBC isn't. They just want to feed us gargantuan amounts of anti-Trump and anti-Brexit propaganda.