Ah, I see Dame Emma has now got her own headline on the BBC News website:
Go to Paragraph 6 and you'll see this:
She joined the protests in London after flying from Los Angeles on Thursday.
And that's that.
(Not even a critical tweet, such as usually festoon BBC articles these days).
(Not even a critical tweet, such as usually festoon BBC articles these days).
I heard her being interviewed by an SJW reporter from the BBC very symnpathetically after a sympathetic intro from Mark "Fake News" Mardell. The reporter referred obliquely to "air miles" and allowed her to witter on about there being no alternatives and that she had been calling for "green aviation" for years...she wasn't challenged on that. What does she mean? Bio fuels? Well how much Native lands in Brazil will be taken over for that?
ReplyDeleteGood summary.
DeleteThe SJW reporter was Chris Vallance, and hearing just how "obliquely" he put the "air miles" point made me laugh.
Mark Mardell will have earned himself even more brownie points with the SJWs on Twitter for that introduction. He even got in another of his digs at the right-wing media for their "ire" over skateboarding Met policemen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000462w
Emma is obviously ignorant about the miracles of modern technology. She didn’t need to be there in person at all. But where is the fun if you can’t satisfy your your enormous ego by addressing the revolutionaries at at the barricades.
ReplyDeleteAh. There is no alternative (TINA). The alternative, surely, would be not gadding about all over the globe. I thought that's what they're all shouting about. Or is it only others who must stop their gadding and ruining 'the planet'?
ReplyDeleteActors & actresses whose careers are fading obviously need to step into the limelight from time to time to remind agents & directors that they are still alive & available - if only for the occasional tv commercial.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to do an environmental cost analysis of the "demo"
ReplyDeleteReminds of when Radiohead were going to do a "save the planet" world tour and an unhelpful soul with a wicked sense of humour worked out how much carbon emissions would be involved...forget their air miles, the worst part is when they get their fans to turn up to their concerts...but of course that just so happens to be how they make their money.
DeleteSame with Dame Emma. She should be telling people "Please don't go into town to watch my godawful films. Stay at home. Stream them. Better still, turn off your device and save the electricity. I'll get less money but I don't mind."
After 36 hours or so the BBC seem finally to have twigged...there is an issue over Dame Emma flying 5000 miles to join the demo.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-47991377/dame-emma-thompson-if-i-could-fly-cleanly-i-would
But the way they deal with it couldn't have been more biased in Emma's favour. So fluffily supportive of her. Why? Because the BBC favours the Extinction Rebellion.
I'm also thinking there's maybe something underlying this whole ER thing. It is vital for the BBC that young people don't put join the dots about how badly served they have been by PC no borders globalism which has delivered precarious employment, diminishing prospects of home ownership, reduced real incomes, withdrawal of free speech rights and increased social-psychological pressures. Whipping up ecohysteria makes sense when you look at it that way - it is a marvellous diversion from reality, and the imagined threat of apocalypse makes current deprivation more bearable. I never said the BBC were stupid - just malign.