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Wednesday 31 March 2010

The Prime Minister misleads the public AGAIN and the BBC think the story is really not that important

The BBC's bias is unreal, Gordon Brown gets caught out misleading the country again and the BBC report it with the lines:
'the head of UK Statistics Authority agreed with a Tory complaint that he had made inaccurate comparisons.

Downing Street said it accepted the statistics had been "unclear".

But it insisted that Mr Brown had since corrected them. '
Can you imagine the outcry on the BBC if a Conservative politician had mislead the country AGAIN? Indeed do you remember the furore when the Conservatives were accused of using misleading crime statistics, the story ran for days and there were strong interviews of the 'guilty'? But now the Labour Prime Minister does it then it's all forgiven by the 'fact' that Gordon Brown had corrected the mistake; no interrogations, no shock just acceptance that it was a mistake, and no mention that it was yet another in a long line of Gordon Brown 'mistakes'. Just as with misleading the Chilcot Inquiry & the House of Commons and then misleading the House of Commons again with his grudging "in one or two years..." when it actually fell in four years, Gordon Brown knows he can rely on the protection of the BBC.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I've just been sifting through Craig's site as well. These posts really should be getting cross-posted on B-BBC.

Craig said...

Mark Easton, the BBC's home affairs editor, has blogged a loyal defence of Brown over this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2010/03/the_war_of_numbers_revisited.html

He even sneaks in a sly dig at the Conservatives AND 'forgets' to mention any of Labour's many other abuses of statistics - all of which you've chronicled here over the months.

Mark Easton can almost always be relied upon by Labour.