The BBC's attitude to a news story is usually clear from the tone and way that the story is presented so today's 5Live breakfast news was a surprise to me. The programme tone was that fathers being able to find out whether they actually were the fathers of their children was dangerous to family stability and that householders being able to see what crimes had happened in their local area might increase the fear of crime. This is odd as the recent release of Wikileaks revelations were justified by the the fact that the public should know all the facts regarding the invasion of Iraq and previously that the public should know about MPs dodgy expenses claims (so long as it was Tory MPs that took the brunt).
Odd?
Odd?
And in the BBC spirit that information should be freely available to all (especially those that PAID for it). I await the immediate publication of the Balen report.
ReplyDeleteWhats that sound? Oh yes thats hell freezing over.
Hell won't be freezing over any time soon, what with all that man-made global warming around.Don't think so ? Just ask the BBC then.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is feminists who don't want men to know whether they are fathers of children they are called upon to support financially because that would reduce women's freedom. And the BBC is a bastion of feminism ( amongst all the other areas of blatant bias ).