You're never too young to be indoctrinated by the BBC

I have blogged before about the BBC's CBBC news being used to indoctrinate the children of the UK, so I was interested to compare the coverage of Barack Obama's inauguration with the coverage of George W. Bush.

The BBC is unbiased by charter, so let's take a look...

The Obama page includes this line "When he's officially signed up as America's 44th president, it's time for a fresh wave of celebrations. ". There's no mention of any celebrations on the George Bush page.

However there is this "Inauguration Day in the US is a huge event, costing around $40m (£21.3m) and the president makes a big speech." No mention of the cost estimated to be $170m on the Barack Obama page.

The Obama page ends

"Later in the day, it's party, party, party for the new president as he's expected to go to about 10 celebration balls across the city before heading back to his new home - the White House.

Loads of countries are joining in the fun by holding their own celebrations to honour him.

In the UK, events are being held in cities including Belfast, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and London.

Organisers say it's important for UK communities to mark Obama's success. "

Whilst George Bush's ends

"Recently polls in the US show Mr Bush to be one of the least popular presidents there, even though he won the election by a lot of votes.

Americans are getting more and more unhappy about the war in Iraq, and the number who approve of Mr Bush's leadership is around 50%.

That's the lowest number a president has started his second term with since 1957. "

I cannot find a CBBC article devoted to George W. Bush's first inauguration, but I am pretty sure the tone was not as adulatory as the page for Barack Obama is. The BBC not too proud to start the indoctrinating young.












Thanks to a contributor at Biased-BBC for the spot.