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Monday, 1 March 2010

Is this BBC wording misleading?

The headline news story on the BBC is not the collapse of the value of Sterling today or the Chilean earthquake but the Lord Ashcroft statement. The current BBC website headline is:
"Ashcroft admits 'non-dom' status - Lord Ashcroft, one of the Tory party's biggest donors, admits he does not pay full British tax on all of his earnings. "
Leaving aside the use of the word "admit" the key phrase is "does not pay full British tax on all of his earnings", surely a more accurate wording would be "does not pay full British tax on his foreign earnings". That's no longer a wording and more accurate BUT of course it doesn't lead people to think of tax evasion which is the BBC's aim.

Another headline to meet with the approval of Gordon, Peter, Alastair and Charlie and nicely avoiding mention of Swaraj Paul, Lakshmi Mittal, Sir Ronald Cohen etc. etc. etc.

The BBC's bias is obvious but it is also working and unless the Conservatives take a stand Labour could well win the coming election with all that that would entail for the UK. Why are the Conservatives so scared of the BBC? The BBC hate them, they could scarcely be more biased; so point out the bias, challenge the BBC and put some fire in your supporters' bellies.

2 comments:

ChrisM said...

I have noticed that Sky are taking the same line and not mentioning the Labour non-doms either. The only one who did was Andrew Neil, he stiched up Hutton at lunchtime.

Anonymous said...

Cameron's response to bbc bias is almost nil.
The odious Nic Robinson this morning on the Toady Programme was almost tearfully gleeful in stating his two differences between Sraj Paul and Ashcroft.
About time it came out that NuLabor non-doms have paid for their so called knighthoods and influences. One week before the election should do it.