They don’t want their reporter Andrew Gilligan’s parliamentary testimony published. It could be too damning. Their official argument? Gilligan is “under stress” and it could affect his health. So a journalist backed by the biggest media entity in Europe who has accused the government of lying is too fragile to have his own public comments published. What a crock. A parliamentary committee member comments: “There appear to be compassionate grounds not to publish the evidence. We’re in a situation here where if we publish the evidence and something happens to Mr Gilligan we’d be in a very difficult situation.” In my opinion, the BBC is going down. But there are plenty of twists to come in this tale, I’m sure.
WEPs: As most people know, we don’t really have a problem in this country with Christians believing that there is no real distinction between religion and politics. Except for one group: white evangelical protestants, who see no reason not to use politics to reflect their sometimes literalist Biblical views. A new poll finds exactly that:
In other findings on religion and politics, the poll found that 48 percent of white evangelical Protestants said their religious beliefs frequently affected their voting, compared with 10 percent of white mainline Protestants, 12 percent of white non-Hispanic Catholics and 12 percent of Hispanic Catholics.
That’s quite some discrepancy. And it suggests a theocratic alliance between WEPs and Catholic Hispanics may well not come to fruition.
A BBC RANT: This time against its soccer coverage. I loved this guy’s attitude:
It’s insane but we live in a country where it’s illegal to watch – or even own – a television unless you pay the BBC money.
You can’t argue about it.
You can’t demand money back for all the years they paid Sid Little’s wages. You can’t demand a rebate because you don’t want to see the bloody Proms or because Peter Sissons has a pointy head or because you think Andrew ‘sexed up’ Gilligan is a liar.
You just have to pay. No arguing.
-The BBC can and does put people in jail for not paying them money to watch TV. Even if they don’t watch the BBC much, or even at all.
-You wouldn’t think that watching TV is a crime punishable by imprisonment would you? But it is.
-Once the BBC has our money, they spend a lot of it pompously telling us how we should ‘get a different perspective’.
Of course, every weekend millions of us get a different perspective not by watching Jim Davidson on the Generation Game but by taking ecstasy and other mind-bending intoxicants, which is frankly the only way to endure much of the BBC’s output.
Amen, brother. But when does the revolution begin?
CNN CORRECTS: The media giant sends the following message: “It is entirely untrue that CNN declined to air a video tape purporting to show an attack by agents of the Iranian regime on students in their dormitory. CNN was never offered such a tape, does not know if such a tape exists, does not have an office in Iran and never has.”
The Dish 