Comments on: President Batman http://ignore.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/ Living Without Privacy Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: martin http://ignore.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/comment-page-1/#comment-24451 martin Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:09:20 +0000 http://ignore-your.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/#comment-24451 BBC is actually relatively free. They might focus more on a case because someone in Britain is intressted, but they don't normaly care much about the views of their politicians. BBC World is one of the best news channels there is. But everyone is flawed so we should use several. BBC have had a relatively balanced coverage of the Iraq conflict for one. They interview the enemies of the British armed forces and talk with them seriously on TV. BBC is actually relatively free. They might focus more on a case because someone in Britain is intressted, but they don’t normaly care much about the views of their politicians.

BBC World is one of the best news channels there is. But everyone is flawed so we should use several.

BBC have had a relatively balanced coverage of the Iraq conflict for one. They interview the enemies of the British armed forces and talk with them seriously on TV.

]]> By: Chris Cunningham http://ignore.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/comment-page-1/#comment-24449 Chris Cunningham Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:00:43 +0000 http://ignore-your.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/#comment-24449 Hardly. The BBC gets shrill and sensationalist about most anything these days, and it's often pulling in different directions; site articles have a strong tendency to be pro-free software, for instance, while the embarrassing "tech news" sections they have on News 24 are practically Microsoft adverts half the time. The fact is that it's really quite difficult not to get sensationalist when spies are going around slipping deadly isotopes into people's Martinis, and in a post-9/11 world where every commercial news channel has lost any sense of integrity whatsoever there's little holding the BBC to a higher standard other than viewer complaints. That said, if they wheel out any more estranged fathers of dead prostitutes tomorrow they're getting mailed from work about it. - Chris Hardly. The BBC gets shrill and sensationalist about most anything these days, and it’s often pulling in different directions; site articles have a strong tendency to be pro-free software, for instance, while the embarrassing “tech news” sections they have on News 24 are practically Microsoft adverts half the time.

The fact is that it’s really quite difficult not to get sensationalist when spies are going around slipping deadly isotopes into people’s Martinis, and in a post-9/11 world where every commercial news channel has lost any sense of integrity whatsoever there’s little holding the BBC to a higher standard other than viewer complaints. That said, if they wheel out any more estranged fathers of dead prostitutes tomorrow they’re getting mailed from work about it.

— Chris

]]> By: iain http://ignore.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/comment-page-1/#comment-24448 iain Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:41:29 +0000 http://ignore-your.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/#comment-24448 I'd say its more nu-old-skool batman logo myself http://www.gearlive.com/blogimages/batman_begins_logo.jpg I’d say its more nu-old-skool batman logo myself

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]]> By: James Cape http://ignore.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/comment-page-1/#comment-24445 James Cape Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:13:15 +0000 http://ignore-your.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/#comment-24445 Yeah, amazing how global public relations machinery grinds to a halt when the BBC shows up, isn't it. Lucky for you the "First Draft of History" virus hasn't crossed the Atlantic. ;-) On a serious note, the dead man was writing hack propaganda while on the payroll one of Russia's billionaires who got rich by robbing the country blind during the 90s. From what I've heard, the books are full of the sort of wild accusations that couldn't pass a libel case over there, and keep special prosecutors busy investigating Democratic Presidents over here. Believing the billionaire in question is working the media over is not simply my cynicism towards American media run amok overseas: there is still the fact that the deceased was being paid by the billionaire to work the media over when he was murdered. Is that the sole reason the BBC is covering the case? Of course not. Is that why it's being extraordinarily shrill and throwing out the wild sort of fearmongering and mockery that the article I linked to was? I think so, yes. Yeah, amazing how global public relations machinery grinds to a halt when the BBC shows up, isn’t it. Lucky for you the “First Draft of History” virus hasn’t crossed the Atlantic. ;-)

On a serious note, the dead man was writing hack propaganda while on the payroll one of Russia’s billionaires who got rich by robbing the country blind during the 90s. From what I’ve heard, the books are full of the sort of wild accusations that couldn’t pass a libel case over there, and keep special prosecutors busy investigating Democratic Presidents over here. Believing the billionaire in question is working the media over is not simply my cynicism towards American media run amok overseas: there is still the fact that the deceased was being paid by the billionaire to work the media over when he was murdered.

Is that the sole reason the BBC is covering the case? Of course not. Is that why it’s being extraordinarily shrill and throwing out the wild sort of fearmongering and mockery that the article I linked to was? I think so, yes.

]]> By: Chris Cunningham http://ignore.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/comment-page-1/#comment-24442 Chris Cunningham Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:16:38 +0000 http://ignore-your.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/#comment-24442 Yes, because clearly the reason the BBC is intrigued by KGB assassinations in the capital is because of all those cosy corporate ties the dead man has. The BBC might not be the shining paragon of journalistic integrity I wish it were, but it isn't CNN. The Batman thing though. Rock hard. And after the whole Polonium thing, hey, no DC lawsuits! - Chris Yes, because clearly the reason the BBC is intrigued by KGB assassinations in the capital is because of all those cosy corporate ties the dead man has. The BBC might not be the shining paragon of journalistic integrity I wish it were, but it isn’t CNN.

The Batman thing though. Rock hard. And after the whole Polonium thing, hey, no DC lawsuits!

— Chris

]]> By: James Cape http://ignore.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/comment-page-1/#comment-24441 James Cape Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:51:49 +0000 http://ignore-your.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/#comment-24441 And one of Putin's rivals just happens to be an exiled billionaire living in London, who bankrolls both the poisoned man and the "friend" who claims the dead guy blamed Putin. Certainly he wouldn't be planting stories in the British press about how crazy Russia is, or talking up the death into something "spectacular" or anything... :-) And one of Putin’s rivals just happens to be an exiled billionaire living in London, who bankrolls both the poisoned man and the “friend” who claims the dead guy blamed Putin. Certainly he wouldn’t be planting stories in the British press about how crazy Russia is, or talking up the death into something “spectacular” or anything… :-)

]]> By: Joe Buck http://ignore.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/comment-page-1/#comment-24439 Joe Buck Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:00:31 +0000 http://ignore-your.tv/2006/12/13/president-batman/#comment-24439 Um, a spectacular murder by means of Po-210 might also have something to do with all the attention paid to Russian secret police (even if it turns out that it's Putin's rivals that are responsible). Um, a spectacular murder by means of Po-210 might also have something to do with all the attention paid to Russian secret police (even if it turns out that it’s Putin’s rivals that are responsible).

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