Sunday 10 March 2019

The M-word


Listening to this morning's Sunday on Radio 4, Jane noticed something I also noticed:


Now, to be strictly accurate, the programme's interviewee, Amanda Spielman (Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools) did mention the M-word midway through the interview. It was presenter William Crawley who went out of his way to find ways not to mention it. 

5 comments:

  1. The BBC, and staff, have turned the editorial integrity of omission into an art form.

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  2. OFFICIAL BBC EDITORIAL GUIDELINES:

    Don't mention the M word, I word, K word, Sh word or the other M word (unless you put the P word before it).

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  3. The first version of this post read "Now, to the strictly accurate"...which is a nice example of that internet law that says that anyone claiming to be strictly accurate about something will then make a mistake whilst so claiming.

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    1. Lol - you could never work for the BBC...you're far too honest to be one of their stealth editors! :)

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  4. The BBC celebrates the propaganda of the Chinese Communist regime. Not even a smidgeon of moral condemnation:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/44hl41NY7Mb4Jx4tPJpzwty/seeing-red-the-propaganda-art-of-china-s-cultural-revolution

    This is a regime, lest we forget, that is responsible directly for the deaths of something like 80 million people, according to experts.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes#People's_Republic_of_China

    Expect more of this after May delivers us into the hands of a Far Left Corbyn regime.

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