Met PC's political smear
Friday, January 10, 2014
BBC News - 'Plebgate' affair: Met PC admits misconduct.
I hold no brief for the Conservative & Unionist Party, but I can't help feeling it has been mistreated by its fellow vile socialist front; the BBC. The Beeb pushed the 'plebgate' meme relentlessly. Its squadrons of Marxist comedians used it at enormous length to portray the Conservative Party as condescending snobs.
Now the policeman who made up the damaging story has confessed that it was all lies, the BBC's website reports it blandly as unadorned news, without apologies or corrections for its exuberant exploitation of his crime. Perhaps those will follow? Don't hold your breath.
As a student of the art of loaded language, I find the linked three paragraphs impressive. The damning 'plebgate" handle, now revealed to have been nothing more than a political smear, is the first word in the headline and is repeated for good measure in the first paragraph. Let's not forget to rub in the damaging idea that a Tory cabinet minister called policemen 'plebs' even as we report it was a lie, eh?
As to snobbery and condescension, it is the BBC that talks down to us every single day. Its editorial tone is that of a bossy primary school teacher patiently explaining proper behaviour to badly-brought up children. If anyone sneers at us, it is our state broadcaster. It will re-run HIGNFY and other shows featuring the pleb smear for year after year, while the linked paragraphs will disappear into the obscurest recesses of the web.
Tell me again; why does a free nation need a state broadcaster funded by force?
Tom, we have often said over at the Libertarian Alliance that there is no purpose in having any sort of state-broadcasting organisation in a world where there are hundreds, or thousands, of available channels. Not to mention narrowcasting.
We'd shut it down in the first seconds after a Libertarian Poll victory. All its staff would be on the street with their belongings in labelled lines of binliners, its goods would be car-booted to house-clearers, and its archives would be placed in the British Library for free viewing for ever.
We might also perhaps auction off a few of its more valuable copyrights sich as Top Gear, and return any nett monies to living liceense-fee-payers, plus the extant estates of dead ones.
Posted by: David Davis | Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 01:19 PM