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Split Thread BBC news reporting

Carrot Flower King said:
Following on from teh gubbmint's climbdown on IHT for farmers, I've just heard the most soft soap interview of a farmer by Evan Davies on PM: wouldn't pin the bod down on exactly how much, if at all, the family would be affected; wouldn't pin them down on why they have not already taken the obvious steps; let the bod trot out all the "guardians of the countryside" BS, even though the farm's land is mostly within a town; let the bod imply they were long-standing "forever farmers", even though the bod's parents bought the farm as a lifestyle choice in the '80s, i.e. around the time Thatcher's mob abolished IHT on farm land.

FFS, it was straight out of the NFU play book, rather than any attempt at a balanced, factual interview.
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Anybody who knows anything about British farming knows that no actual farmers will be affected by the inheritance tax rules at either the higher or lower levels as they're all tenants.

It's only the greedy landlords who would have had to pay anything at the lower level, and frankly that kind of land owner should be paying masses of all kinds of taxes with an income (not profits, gross) threshold of £0.
 
Posting this here and in the "A Revolution Could Soon Be Under Way in Iran" thread as its relevant to both.


Someone will be along soon to tell us all that this is GB News so the former BBC presenter being interviewed is a lying far-right extremist thug :rolleyes:
 
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smartcooky said:
Posting this here and in the "A Revolution Could Soon Be Under Way in Iran" thread as its relevant to both.


Someone will be along soon to tell us all that this is GB News so the former BBC presenter being interviewed is a lying far-right extremist thug :rolleyes:
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I think I'll tell you that it's currently the top story on the BBC news website.
 
smartcooky said:

Someone will be along soon to tell us all that this is GB News so the former BBC presenter being interviewed is a lying far-right extremist thug :rolleyes:
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Pity there is no transcript.
But I am surprised if the "left" should have a particularly fond view about the Iranian dictatorship.
 
steenkh said:
Pity there is no transcript.
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Yeah, I didn't do one this time. The video-averse on this forum bleat and moan about having to click on a video, and tell me they'd rather read a summary or a transcript, so I do what they want, and then some busybody mod snips 99% of it. That's a lot of work to satisfy the requirements people who are either too lazy, or lack the attention span, to watch a few minutes of video.

Apparently, posting a transcript is a rule violation (who knew) so I won't be doing that again. I will post videos in future and the video-averse can either click on it, or not, I dont care.

steenkh said:
But I am surprised if the "left" should have a particularly fond view about the Iranian dictatorship.
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Yeah, go figure eh? Iran under its current totalitarian regime is an the enemy of Israel. They're not really strange bedfellows when you consider the left is anti-Israel, anti-Zionism and anti-Jewish.
 
Andy_Ross said:
It has been too story for days and featured every day since it started.
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"Featured" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that statement. The protests have been going for almost 20 days (first reports on the news outlets I follow, e.g. Tousi TV, started reporting on it about 28 December). The Guardian first reported the protests five days later, and even then, they framed it as "economic protests". I posted the thread here on January 5.

The BBC may have reported a few column inches well down the page since it started, but they didn't start featuring it until other news outlets (GB News, Talk TV, The Telegraph, Reuters, NPR and the AP Wire) already had it as a major headline.
 
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smartcooky said:
"Featured" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that statement. The protests have been going for almost 20 days (first reports on the news outlets I follow, e.g. Tousi TV, started reporting on it about 28 December). The Guardian first reported the protests five days later, and even then, they framed it as "economic protests". I posted the thread here on January 5.

The BBC may have reported a few column inches well down the page since it started, but they didn't start featuring it until other news outlets (GB News, Talk TV, The Telegraph, Reuters, NPR and the AP Wire) already had it as a major headline.
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Nonsense.
 
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