Monday 11 November 2019

Early Monday morning thoughts


This is odd. Overnight both the Sky News and ITV News websites have Keith Vaz stepping down as an MP as their second stories. In contrast, the BBC News website doesn't have the story among their headlines at all. Wonder what the thinking is there?

This isn't odd. The rise of national conservative VOX in Spain sees the BBC going into overdrive with the term "far-right" to describe them, whereas the fall of leftist Bolivian president Evo Morales over electoral fraud allegations sees the BBC curiously avoiding terms like 'socialist', 'left-wing' or 'far-left' to describe him. 

Ah, what's in The Times this morning? Ah, here's Matt Chorley. (I do like Chorley cakes. Are they only a Northern thing?)
In addition to holding debates almost every Friday night, the BBC has gone full W1A (the sitcom that tries to spoof the unspoofable corporation). A press release announcing election plans confirms that Huw Edwards will take over from David Dimbleby, but also promises a podcast called Election and Chill, Radio 1 touring the country in the BBC’s “Travelling Living Room” (a campervan) and BBC Breakfast asking normal people what normal people think “over a morning cup of coffee from a specially converted BBC Breakfast Coffee Cart”. I think someone’s had enough coffee already.
I should probably have less coffee. I might have been asleep now.

4 comments:

  1. I suppose they could have hidden it under "news from Leicester" but they chose to hide it on the election page (released late in the evening, about 10 pm on Sunday night):

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50369905

    Apparently, MPs hiring male East European prostitutes and getting involved in cocaine is not newsworthy enough for the News home page these days...would the same strictures apply to a prominent Conservative MP in the same position (let's not forget Vaz used to be a "go to" guy for moral high ground quotes as far as the BBC were concerned)? Call me cynical but I think not.

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  2. I don't know about northern. Is he perhaps American given all this talk about normal people and coffee? I have tea in the mornings but I may or may not be normal.

    What a nice surprise it was to hear Dimblebum D doing the Remembrance broadcast yesterday so we didn't have to listen to Red Huw. I wouldn't go quite as far as having him back for Question Time, though I am not endorsing the Bruce either. Can't say I'm looking forward to a Red Huw election night.

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    1. I know what you mean. The thought of Huw makes me almost regret the near-passing of Tweedle D too.

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  3. #bbceditorialintegrity means there is not always time or space for things that do not suit, but all platforms all week for something that does.

    Eh, Rob?

    Seems HRC was 'du jour' Today.

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