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It’s good to see British blogging’s best and brightest getting stuck into the BBC, isn’t it? If these two are whining about it, the corporation is clearly doing something right.
Iain Dale’s pooterish, self-righteous tone will surely have the BBC quaking in their boots. In fact, the only criticism of the BBC I can think of on this matter is that they seem to be taking Dale and Guido Fawkes’ partisan dogwhistle rhetoric half-seriously for some reason. The Tories are heading south in the polls so it must be the BBC’s fault, mustn’t it? The constant back-biting, fag-packet policies and sub-Blairite window dressing have nothing to do with a 10% Labour lead, obviously.
Dale’s commenters nod along in agreement like the Churchill dog and Fawkes’ hangers-on clap like brain-damaged seals as usual. The BBC clearly have much to learn from a Tory propagandist and a blogger whose stock in trade is third-rate gossip (ooh look, a picture of David Miliband on holiday!), homophobia and censorship.
I for one feel confident in letting these two be the arbiters of our national broadcaster’s output. See it from Dale and Fawkes’ point of view – look at the alternatives they offer to a biased and totalitarian BBC. Minority interest internet television and viral videos of Gordon Brown picking his nose. Gentlemen, let us away to the future!
Posted on August 17th, 2007 at 11:22am under Blog, bloggers and blogging, Culture, media and sport
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There are actually people in the BBC thread complaining that the BBC are not showing Gordon Brown picking his nose enough.
(rolls eyes)
I demand more bogies. MORE BOGIES!
I think the BBC getting into bed with Microsoft on the iPlayer is hardly a public service. The last BBC innovation was colour TV broadcasting.
The Licence Fee is a pretty regressive tax as well. It only seems to be poor people who go to jail for non-payment.
I don’t believe that the BBC is such a good thing. It is establishment to its core.
I think the BBC getting into bed with Microsoft on the iPlayer is hardly a public service.
And yet when the government get into bed with Murdoch, BAE, Accenture, Capita et al, all those concerned citizens who wail on the BBC are nowhere to be seen.
The last BBC innovation was colour TV broadcasting.
What, you mean apart from helping to found the Freeview service, having one of the world’s most popular websites, being in the forefront of digital radio transmission…?
The Licence Fee is a pretty regressive tax as well.
It gives 365 days of 24 hour television, radio, attendant websites and the rest. Can you suggest anything else that gives such value for money for 130 quid? Go on.
I don’t believe that the BBC is such a good thing. It is establishment to its core.
And yet it consistently commands a level of worldwide respect and domestic public support that politician, newspapers and nose-picking internet video purveyors would kill for.
And while we’re at it – “Blog Boy”? Is it just me or is that precisely the sort of profoundly duff online ‘handle’ you’d associate with cack-handed attempts at astroturfing?
Heh heh without doubt one of the funniest fucking characterisations of their comments!
It really is a pathetic joke, isn’t it, the great and the good of the Tory world lining themselves up with that great, completely unbiased august Murdoch publication the Sun in their campaign against the moonbats at the BBC. Someone would almost think it’s the silly season.
Heh. It’s their sheer audacity that keeps me coming back for more.
If these two are whining about it, the corporation is clearly doing something right.
Well, not really. If the BBC cleared the schedules for live executions of immigrants and the rounding up of the working class, most of the maggot-minded, spittle-flecked crew who frequent those two chancers’ blogs would still claim it was too liberal.
Here in Australia, the ABC is funded out of general taxation. It still gets much of the same criticism as being too left wing. The current government is stacking the board with loopy conservatives and some odd balanced reporting requirements. That will all change if Labor somehow manage to pull off an election win.