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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Reply
Posted by: Andrew Farmer
Date/Time: 08/05/20 16:21:00

Mr Chadburn, I can only agree with you about the unreliability of the MSM but Piers Morgan is perhaps not a happy example of something better, sacked from the Mirror after authorising fake photographs of British soldiers abusing prisoners and condemned by Leveson for unreliable testimony. Jimmy Savile, of course, was a fan.
 
Morgan was on TV a few days ago interviewing a good reason for mistrusting the BBC, the disgraced Panorama producer, John Sweeney, evidently trying to insinuate himself back into public acceptability after his humiliation.

Did you pick up on the hilarious expose of Sweeney?  In case you didn’t, let me describe what happened.
 
Sweeney turned up in a studio to grill a victim for an upcoming show, only to find the studio had been set up to set him up.   He was confronted with a video of himself getting a young lady drunk so that she would dish the dirt on the subject of the programme he was “researching”.  Acting as agent provocateur, he used foul racist and homophobic language (“bloody woofter” “Irish scum”, “Honkey”).  He recounted gleefully how he shouted sexually offensive remarks at lady in a street in Tehran.   (Persian ladies have enough to contend with since the country was taken over by a totalitarian Arabic cult).  He remarked at one point: “It was unusual to meet a white working class male in the news room. It was so unusual that me and one of my mates went down there to have a drink with him in the way you would with a cannibal from the Amazonia or maybe a creature from outer space”.    And there was worse:   shooting gays.

The shocking thing was the BBC did not sack him.  I complained directly to the Director General (Tony Hall).  He did not respond himself of course.  It was treated as a routine complaint.  The final thing the BBC was prepared to offer was that it noted the points I has made but didn’t “consider they suggest evidence of a possible breach of standards.”  Which tells us all we need to know about the standards prevailing at the BBC.
   
And, of course, this incident, as hilarious as it was sinister and which had public showings around the country somehow did not make it onto BBC news.  BBC news distorts news by omission and edits events according to an agenda.
 
Another example of bad practice: the recent revelation that all the NHS representatives in a recent Panorama programme were specially selected Labour activists.  Randomly selected contributors might have voiced the same views; they had valid points to make; the matter was serious; but this evidence of an agenda destroyed trust in the programme.

At least with the Guardian and the Mail we know where they stand and are sometimes able, with the aid of social media, to fathom the truth in the gulf between them.  But the BBC?  

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TopicDate PostedPosted By
SALUTE A LOCAL HERO03/05/20 11:05:00 Andrew Farmer
   Re:SALUTE A LOCAL HERO03/05/20 11:53:00 Peter Chadburn
      Re:Re:SALUTE A LOCAL HERO03/05/20 12:51:00 Philippa Bond
         Reply03/05/20 18:58:00 N V Brooks
            Re:Reply04/05/20 00:05:00 Ben Owen
               Re:Re:Reply to Ben04/05/20 15:26:00 Keith Iddon
                  Re:Re:Re:Reply to Ben05/05/20 10:42:00 Andrew Farmer
   Re:SALUTE A LOCAL HERO04/05/20 13:56:00 Susan Kelly
      Re:Re:SALUTE A LOCAL HERO04/05/20 14:16:00 Rosco White
         Re:Re:Re:SALUTE A LOCAL HERO04/05/20 14:24:00 Peter Chadburn
         Re:Re:Re:SALUTE A LOCAL HERO04/05/20 19:23:00 Susan Kelly
            Re:Re:Re:Re:SALUTE A LOCAL HERO04/05/20 20:33:00 Rosco White
   Reply05/05/20 11:29:00 N V Brooks
      Re:Reply05/05/20 13:46:00 Andrew Farmer
         Reply05/05/20 19:53:00 N V Brooks
            Re:Reply06/05/20 16:07:00 Andrew Farmer
               Re:Re:Reply06/05/20 19:03:00 Peter Chadburn
                  Re:Re:Re:Reply08/05/20 16:21:00 Andrew Farmer
               Reply06/05/20 19:25:00 N V Brooks
                  Re:Reply10/05/20 12:32:00 Andrew Farmer
                     Re:Re:Reply10/05/20 15:59:00 Keith Iddon
                        Reply10/05/20 17:52:00 N V Brooks
                           Re:Reply10/05/20 19:01:00 Keith Iddon
                              Re:Re:Reply11/05/20 18:18:00 vincent paul wrigley
                                 Re:Re:Re:Reply11/05/20 19:51:00 Keith Iddon
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/05/20 09:02:00 Andrew Farmer
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/05/20 10:25:00 Keith Iddon
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/05/20 12:36:00 Bettina Margaret Thwaite
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/05/20 07:16:00 Philippa Bond
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/05/20 16:28:00 Andrew Farmer
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply18/05/20 13:26:00 Andrew Farmer
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply18/05/20 14:14:00 Peter Chadburn
                                                         Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply19/05/20 10:54:00 Philippa Bond
                                                            Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply23/05/20 10:50:00 Andrew Farmer
                                                         Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply19/05/20 16:32:00 Andrew Farmer

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