Ladies and Gentlemen....A Rant

As it took me so long to sort out my blog, I have a few things to post about that have been knocking around in my head for ages…like this:

Has anyone noticed that since the Hutton report, the BBC news coverage has become a bit…I can’t think of the right words so I’ll call it “Pussy-footish”!!

The clearest recent example I can think of was the recent “Fathers for Justice” protest when Batman scaled the walls of Buckingham Palace. I, along with loads of other people, was watching the unfolding events live on BBC News 24….I chose News 24 as ITV News is cheap and nasty and Sky News were just showing off because they had a helicopter!!....I digress…as I said I was watching it live on the Beeb.

The thing that really got my goat wasn’t their wild over-exaggeration in suggesting that a man in a pair of tights could be a suicide bomber (I mean as if!! Unless that was a stick of dynamite in his pants!! Just how much damage can you do with a cowl!!). No, it was the point when some police officers were stood at the window next to him, trying to decide what to do and the BBC presenter commentating said, and I vaguely quote, “There is a police officer at the window who appears to be wearing a white crash helmet”……..what the f**k do you mean “appears” to be wearing a crash helmet…he was quite clearly wearing a crash helmet!!!! Is the BBC now so afraid of making an error in it’s news coverage that it daren’t even say something that everyone watching at home can clearly see just in case the police officer in question sues them, claiming that he wasn’t wearing a crash helmet he is actually bald and has a Jacksonesque skin disorder and is demanding that BBC heads roll!!

Now I’m not saying that I want them to blatantly lie…that is the job of the tabloid press…but I would like to see a little less fear in their coverage so that events are covered thoroughly and to ensure that the truth is uncovered.