tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post1238148314427866813..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: You don’t look JudokishCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-47456760136213391032016-08-14T15:18:24.530+01:002016-08-14T15:18:24.530+01:00I'll just lift one of those comments before Ro...I'll just lift one of those comments before Rod Liddle's piece, as it makes a point which chimes very strongly with me at the moment:<br /><br />Siree • 4 hours ago<br /><br />An awful lot of people have been asking similar questions. As an exercise in amusement I've been looking at the latest news and comments on this story on Twitter. I'm not a twitterati and I know that it is a self-selecting commentariat and audience but then so is The Speccie site, and every other news outlet that allows people to post comments. Forgive me if this is a statement of the obvious (it's what I excel at) but what is really interesting is that the media and the "authorities" know by now that the plebs have lost trust in them. It's been going on for a long time and the Brexit vote was only one indicator of this. So what do they do? They merely increase that lack of trust by refusing to give the information they have about incidents like this. Perhaps you can't make public comments when there is a real lack of information but until quite recently people in Europe were not attacked on public transport or in public places with knives, axes, trucks etc. We now know the likely background of the perpetrators and their motivation and the "authorities" should also know that people make assumptions when similar things happen. Assumptions aren't always correct but hey, they've been pretty good over the past year or so. Mental illness, repressed homosexuality and being a "loner" don't cut it. They never really did and explanations along these lines, or no explanation at all, just dropping the subject, actually serve only to increase lack of trust and a suspicion that there really is a conspiracy.<br /><br />Anyone hear about the molotov cocktail attack on a bus in St Denis recently? Nope? I thought not. Even the French didn't bother with it initially. It was only because someone uploaded a video to youtube that it was grudgingly reported. In Paris I think, but nowhere else.<br /><br />The "authorities" are playing a number of dangerous games and refusal to release information is now pretty high up there.<br /><br />http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/something-bbc-isnt-telling-us-norwegians/#comment-2836773195Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.com