tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666299513340228510.post7527786321546884568..comments2024-01-24T02:38:11.323+11:00Comments on Impact of Climate Change: Environmentalism as ReligionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666299513340228510.post-62704888976442958432011-04-03T12:18:16.428+10:002011-04-03T12:18:16.428+10:00Michael Buerk,“Blowing the BBC’s Gaff.”
“[Peter S...Michael Buerk,“<a href="http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/3815/full" rel="nofollow">Blowing the BBC’s Gaff</a>.”<br /><br />“[Peter Sissons in his memoirs] doesn’t quite skewer the complicated issue of the BBC’s supposed institutional bias. What the BBC regards as normal and abnormal, what is moderate or extreme, where the centre of gravity of an issue lies, are conditioned by the common set of assumptions held by the people who work for it. These are uniformly middle class, well educated, living in north London, or maybe its Manchester equivalent. Urban, bright thirty-somethings with a pleasing record of achievement in a series of institutions, school, university, BBC, with little experience of — and perhaps not very well disguised contempt for — business, industry, the countryside, localness, traditions and politicians. The Guardian is their bible and political correctness their creed. In the Corporation’s collective eye, Tony Benn is a lovable national treasure, Melanie Phillips a swivel-eyed fanatic. It’s all very well-meaning, and painstakingly even-handed, but often notably adrift of the overriding national sentiment.”Deadmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05012725254441170657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666299513340228510.post-70394547802739734102011-04-03T12:03:31.781+10:002011-04-03T12:03:31.781+10:00The BBC’s Michael Buerk says that the BBC’s report...The BBC’s Michael Buerk <a rel="nofollow">says</a> that the BBC’s reporters have an “uncritical love affair with environmentalism”.<br />Same goes, of course, for the ABC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666299513340228510.post-68737027760906788782011-03-31T21:25:41.475+11:002011-03-31T21:25:41.475+11:00See also Freeman Dyson, “The Question of Global Wa...See also Freeman Dyson, “<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/jun/12/the-question-of-global-warming/" rel="nofollow">The Question of Global Warming</a>” at <i>the New York Times Review of Books.</i>Deadmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05012725254441170657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666299513340228510.post-1869041748089437822011-03-29T07:09:13.370+11:002011-03-29T07:09:13.370+11:00Keep putting the info up....Keep putting the info up....ItsFairCommenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14652686357897257329noreply@blogger.com