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A good day for burying good news - ELL Phase 2
On 23 Apr, 09:57, "Paul Scott" wrote: "Paul Scott" wrote: "TimB" wrote: On Apr 23, 6:35 am, Mwmbwls wrote: http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/ http://www.itvlocal.com/london/mayor/?void=178830 The ever-assiduous Mr U Thant has a scoop in that Ken Livingstone when being forced into a corner over the Stockwell shooting by the running dogs of the ITV News clique, aided by Boris Wothisname and Hugh Thingumi - Brian Thingumi ? Veering OT a bit is media coverage about the concept of elected mayors legitimate at this time? The headline, picture and caption could be seen as an endorsement of the encumbent perhaps... Er... including link this time: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7362110.stm It's not a public body making that announcement so of course they're not covered by 'purdah'. And the Beeb is just reporting what the IPPR are saying - in actual fact what appears in a paper in the IPPR's quarterly journal: http://www.ippr.org/pressreleases/?id=3103 Given the attention that the London Mayoral election is getting nationally at the moment, it's perhaps as good a time as any for the IPPR to come out with this to get maximum attention. I don't think the headline, picture or caption on the BBC story is really anything other than illustrative of the story itself. It's certainly not an endorsement. Obviously, as a broadcaster the BBC needs to take care to ensure that their reportage is balanced and impartial, but these concerns shouldn't mean they are completely hidebound from reporting what's going on. |
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