tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post8033239022544235595..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: James Naughtie gives us his impartial view again (sic)Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-45992909652384145362018-01-21T20:53:33.713+00:002018-01-21T20:53:33.713+00:00Naughtie's American junkets and jaunts should ...Naughtie's American junkets and jaunts should be viewed through the lens of literature because, after all [getting excited], is the nation not indebted to the BBC for awarding him with this platform from which he can enrich the nation's literary tradition - one that stretches back as far as the enigmatic Beowulf, through the Bard himself, through supreme story-tellers like Dickens and Greene, and is now held like a much valued family heirloom in Naughtie's plump, protective palm - as I say, to enrich this nation's literary lifeblood, nourish it anew, by use of ornate, convoluted, frankly baroque sentence construction that now hangs in the air, now soars skyward and now lands with a bathetic bump, not unlike Trump himself who seems only too ready to dishonour the office of the Presidency that once was once hovered just above the ground, as in the years of Clinton and Eisenhower, or - when America felt lucky - was taken to the heights of oratory and promise by the greatest of them all: FDR, Kennedy and Obama, all Democrats of course, but let that pass. Perhaps. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.com