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this from today's story on a Vagas gunfight


"Kenneth Cherry Jr, 27, known as Kenny Clutch, was driving a Maserati when a gunman in a Range Rover opened fire into the car early on Thursday.
The Maserati then struck a taxi, which exploded, killing the driver and passenger inside, as well as Cherry.
Authorities have launched a multi-state manhunt for the Range Rover."
 
Anyone watching Newsnight?, they have a special on about the future of benefits and it is so biased:, Lilley is on it as is the hard right author of 'The welfare state we are in'', the counter view is provided by LP MP Kate Green and the G/P/Spirit Level's Katie Pickett, *Allegra Stratton questioning Mark Hoban, has just asked , ''couldn't you have gone further with benefit cuts given the financial situation and suggested spending was still too high...

What is it with N/N?, they have even had authored pieces on by the inventor of Workfare in the U.S..:mad:


*might have been Stephanie Flanders...
 
This Week: The Cheeky Girls talking about people coming from Romania to claim benefits. Portillo is looking at them like they're skidmarks on a hotel towel and Andrew Neil looks a bit scared.
 
CyberRose said:
But they don't report benefit fraud...
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Who don't? Newsnight?

Perhaps they leave that to papers like the Mail, which use 'benefit fraud' as if the term is

(a) rampantly widespread and a real serious crisis !!!!1!
and as if it's
(b) a term that's a factual description of something

:hmm:

ETA : Not saying the BBC's coverage of this subject is any good, but just questioning CyberRose's post here ...
 
William of Walworth said:
Who don't? Newsnight?

Perhaps they leave that to papers like the Mail, which use 'benefit fraud' as if the term is

(a) rampantly widespread and a real serious crisis !!!!1!
and as if it's
(b) a term that's a factual description of something

:hmm:

ETA : Not saying the BBC's coverage of this subject is any good, but just questioning CyberRose's post here ...
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treelover said:
Sorry, don't understand the post...
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While I can forgive WoW for questioning my post, you're the one who bloody watched the programme!
That was a quote from one of the pundits on the show who was talking about media bias and, ironically for your post, seemed to accuse the BBC of left wing bias (along with the Guardian etc) for the types of media who won't, for example, report on benefit fraud stories because it doesn't fit in with their narrative, while those on the right (like the Mail) will only report on the negative aspects of benefits for the same reason.
This ain't my view just repeating the guy on the programme.
One thing I did pick up on was that the headline figure was we spend one third (or was it two thirds?) of all our tax money on benefits (which includes pensions) but then proceeded to have a programme mainly about unemployed benefits (this was picked up by one of the pundits)
 
The disingenuous bastards gave Di Canio a blog on their website, never once challenged his views in interview and spent his years at Swindon portraying him as a zany maverick. They have only just now, apparently, noticed his self proclaimed and long held fascist views.
 
lagtbd said:
The disingenuous bastards gave Di Canio a blog on their website, never once challenged his views in interview and spent his years at Swindon portraying him as a zany maverick. They have only just now, apparently, noticed his self proclaimed and long held fascist views.
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And posted an article claiming Di Canio is upset by being portrayed as a fascist in the media
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21994889
 
Whatever the BBC failings are, and they are legion(especially on benefit issues) they don't support any kind of fascism, or are even blasé about it and they are famously "not neutral on multi-culturalism".
 
treelover said:
Whatever the BBC failings are, and they are legion(especially on benefit issues) they don't support any kind of fascism, or are even blasé about it and they are famously "not neutral on multi-culturalism".
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It is pro-multicultural but as a whole anti-immigrant - see its reporting of Romanian and Bulgarian workers, or the Panorama on immigrants wheeling out a retired councillor to say we were right to accept the Uganda Asians but this lot are too much, or the Panorama on council tax which fingered multi-occupancy homes full of immigrants only paying one council tax as the root of the problem in local authority finance.
 
Exactly. And the email he received was both informal (not on behalf of the BBC) and a terrible mix of understandings of multiculturalism, multi-racialism and diversity.
 
butchersapron said:
Exactly. And the email he received was both informal (not on behalf of the BBC) and a terrible mix of understandings of multiculturalism, multi-racialism and diversity.
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It's always been a murky quote origin is here:

He goes over to his files to find a print-out of an email he received from a "very senior BBC person" while he was an employee there. Carefully obscuring the name of the sender, he shows it to me: "The BBC internally is not neutral about multiculturalism. It believes in it and promotes diversity, let's face up to that." Randall says: "I'm amazed he put that down. What happened next was the BBC ran into a horrible brick wall when Trevor Phillips, the Chief Rabbi and then George Alagiah, its own British-Asian reporter, came out and said actually this headlong dash for multiculturalism is creating a divided society.
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It happened after the controversies about immigration asylum seekers was big at the time as were the riots in the northern cities, Randall thought they should have been tougher on immigrants:

In 2003, I was fighting an internal battle to bring more balance to the BBC's coverage of immigration. I felt that some of its reporters had been programmed to promote the benefits of cultural diversity as an incontrovertible fact. Fed up with what he perceived to be my subversion, one of the BBC's most senior figures sent me an email: "The BBC internally is not neutral about multiculturalism. It believes in it and promotes diversity. Let's face up to that."
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Does anyone know who the actual executive was. Also what did Phillipps, Alagiah and Rabbi Sacks actually say?
 
I know I shouldn't be surprised but had to comment on this drivel from the hagiography package, on the right-to-buy policy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22077190
Not only does he keep pretending to speak for a strawman Karl Marx he's almost certainly never read, he has the cheek to push the line that it was selling off council houses that created communities with a 'vibrant' social mix, whereas all i read was that it was having a significant section of the population have access to social housing that meant you'd have teachers living next door to shop-floor workers, quite apart from the houses meaning waged and non-waged workers were anywhere near anyone else rather than in some slum anyhow.
ETA: Oh, and a muso called Fabian and some incomer architect who's cashed in agree they are better for the communtiy than the povos who preceded them.
 
JimW said:
I know I shouldn't be surprised but had to comment on this drivel from the hagiography package, on the right-to-buy policy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22077190
Not only does he keep pretending to speak for a strawman Karl Marx he's almost certainly never read, he has the cheek to push the line that it was selling off council houses that created communities with a 'vibrant' social mix, whereas all i read was that it was having a significant section of the population have access to social housing that meant you'd have teachers living next door to shop-floor workers, quite apart from the houses meaning waged and non-waged workers were anywhere near anyone else rather than in some slum anyhow.
ETA: Oh, and a muso called Fabian and some incomer architect who's cashed in agree they are better for the communtiy than the povos who preceded them.
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The author of that piece is the brother of Stephen Milligan, who died in mysterious circumstances with an orange in his gob and a bin liner over his head.
 
I don't think you could say the BBC is stridently pro multi-culturalism, but it is strongly pro diversity and is bound as a public body to an equality duty.

Doing stuff which should be normal gets the world in a tis. A certain section of the population claims it's positive discrimination gone mad when anyone other than a white person presents a programme.
 
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