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   ROBBIE to All   
   Re: RIP 21 January 1950   
   09 Feb 05 13:59:52   
   
   From: hfjjhgfhdsagfdhsjafgdhsjhs@ghjghjaksgh.com   
      
   "Iain"  wrote in message   
   news:1107953288.034783.230120@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   > ROBBIE wrote:   
   > > "Henry"  wrote in message   
   > > news:1gqq7i4.1fi1r3i16cn654N%henry999@eircom.net...   
   > > > BBC online has posted their (lying pinko multicultural   
   > > > politically-correct gobshite) obituary notice.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > It interests me how the average leftie cannot face or take criticism   
   > of the   
   > > BBC without recourse to weak, jeering sarcasm. A better tactic-for   
   > those who   
   > > don't mind or think that it's all grist to the mill of the Great   
   > Journey to   
   > > the Sunny Uplands-would be just to admit it for the evidence is their   
   > every   
   > > day. If pointing this out doesn't provoke weak, jeering sarcasm it   
   > usually   
   > > provokes condescending lectures about 'Fox News'. I have never seen   
   > Fox   
   > > News, nor do I want to. I'm English. I don't want news with a Right   
   > Wing   
   > > bias, I want what the BBC purports to give: rigorous, impartial   
   > programming.   
   > > I don't want a left wing agenda peddled pretty remorselessly across   
   > the BBC'   
   > > s content. That wouldn't be healthy on a commercial channel; in a   
   > > corporation funded the way the BBC is, it is disgraceful and any   
   > grown up   
   > > person, on any side of the political debate, will agree more or less.   
   > > Unfortunately the left has more of its fair share of superannuated   
   > > teenagers, as the above post shows.   
   >   
   > My problem with people who criticise the B.B.C. is that they often want   
   > to abolish it instead of improve it(Kilroy-Silk comes to mind).   
      
   I believe it should be downsized some and be made well aware of living up to   
   its purported rigour and impartiality.   
      
      
   >   
   > Also note that very opinionated people   
      
   Ooh, get you! I like opinionated people; I think they're a healthy sign of   
   life.   
      
      
    often mistake indifference for   
   > bias towards the other side.   
      
   It clearly, manifestly operating to a Left Wing agenda and news bias.   
   However, *if it was* merely showing 'indifference' then that is laziness and   
   incompetence.   
      
      
   >   
   > Besides, I think Director-General Mark Thompson is providing a better   
   > balance   
      
   Explain exactly what you mean by ' providing a better balance'?   
      
      
    and has a better understanding of the spirit of the B.B.C. so I   
   > think the inspiration for your concerns will pass.   
      
   I cannot be so Panglossian. It isn't really about the DG. It is about who is   
   employed by the corporation and what they believe.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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