The BBC asks: How do you sum up a life story in two words? Well? How would you sum up this man's life story in two words, reader?
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MrEugenides on 1st Sep 2010 (via mreugenides.blogspot.com)
That the BBC has refused to broadcast the DEC appeal on Gaza is shocking. In other words, the BBC have given in to those just waiting to grasp at the slightest hint of bias before they’d even had a chance to. It wasn’t as if this was just going to be on the BBC;
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LiberalConspiracy on 24th Jan 2009 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Pythagorean theorem: 24 words. Archimedes' Principle: 67 words. The 10 Commandments: 179 words. The Gettysburg address: 286 words. The US Declaration of Independence : 1,300 words. The US Constitution with all 27 Amendments: 7,818 words. EU regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words. Let's hope the cabbage tastes really good and worth every one of those words
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PopularAlliance on 18th Aug 2011 (via popularalliance.org)
The BBC News website takes a look at some of the political words and phrases that made the headlines in 2008.
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BBCPolitics on 24th Dec 2008 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Did you see that words associated with Christianity, the monarchy and British history have been dropped from a leading dictionary for children? "Oxford University Press has removed words like "aisle", "bishop", "chapel", "empire" and "monarch" from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them with words like "blog", "broadband" and "celebrity". Dozens of words related to the countryside have also been ...
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ATangledWeb on 7th Dec 2008 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)
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Middlesbrough - according to Experian research - is ranked at number 324 out of 324 council areas. In other words (according to the BBC website) it "will be the least resilient to such public sector cuts." The BBC has chosen...
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CentreRight on 19th Oct 2010 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Apparently, and get this, the BBC can now say that they’ve run the Dan Hannan speech. Well, that’s what the presenters of the Daily Politics say right at the very end of this video. I suppose we should applaud them for it given that, in the BBC’s words, Daniel Hannan is “a little known Conservative
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TheEnglandProject on 26th Mar 2009 (via theenglandproject.net)
Our leaders have lost the rhetorical arts at the very moment when I most need to hear a speech of convincing reassurance Words, words, words. We hear them these days by the million, in communiques, minutes, memorandums, press releases. They are a running commentary on disaster. Yet as they are about economics they carry no meaning for most people. So why bother? The answer is that the words do mat...
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Guardian on 3rd Apr 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
Here’s a really shocking piece of BBC editing, that involves the presentation of an intervewee’s words in a manner that is truely “out of context“: Why is the BBC obsessed with making working-class people seem racist? Watching BBC news bulletins yesterday, it was very easy to believe claims that the current spate of wildcat strikes is inherently
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HarrysPlace on 3rd Feb 2009 (via hurryupharry.org)
Robert Fisk doesn't mince his words... How can you trust the cowardly BBC? This after a groveling BBC Trust report decided that using the phrase... Zionism's "innate instinct to push out the frontier" had been unqualified and Bowen's statement that Israel was "in defiance of everyone's interpretation of international law except its own" had been imprecise.
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BobPiper on 16th Apr 2009 (via bobpiper.co.uk)