Sunday, April 01, 2007

Official Reports

Meaningless Poop

The BBC went to the High Court today in an attempt to overturn a ruling that a member of the public has the right under freedom of information laws to see an internal report on its Middle East coverage.

Critics of the BBC want to know if the Balen Report, believed to run to 20,000 words, includes evidence of bias against Israel in news programming.

Steven Sugar, a London solicitor, fought a lengthy battle to get access to the report under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

How freaking silly can we get?  That's like CBS asking a commission to discover whether there was any anti-Bush bias at CBS in the wake of their manufacturing a story meant to defeat him in the 2004 election.  Did any breathing person need that report?  The commission found no such bias existed.  Feh. That sure changed a lot of minds, didn't it?   The only thing that matters is whether the peeps are sufficiently alert to spot it, and understand the dangers of media manipulation in a free society.  If they're not, or are too disinterested to care, then "reports" won't matter.

1 comment:

Forceleader999 said...

Yeah, but in this case it's a bit different, as the BBC is owned by Her Majesty's Government, and as such is subject (supposedly) to different standards.

Not that they provide coverage one iota better than any private news organ, but hey, Leftards will dream, won't they?

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