DJ - it's not easy to imagine an intelligent Guardian journalist who doesn't know that their job is to stroke the bias of a biased audience. Maybe they do know, but make a good job of hiding it.
dearieme - it leads me to wonder if a US AI system wrote it, or at least rewrote and padded out the outline of an article.
It’s worth noting that the guardian’s report on the furore over the edited Panorama film is almost beyond parody. It begins: ‘The BBC has been accused of selectively editing a Donald Trump speech to make it appear clearer that he encouraged the US Capitol attack’.
It then goes on to quote a BBC spokesperson: “Michael Prescott is a former adviser to a board committee where differing views and opinions of our coverage are routinely discussed and debated.”
The article ends by citing a (more or less irrelevant) previous instance of Trump ‘wrongly accusing the BBC of removing a story about a fatal attack in Gaza, with the final sentence beginning: ‘Senior BBC journalists said the White House was point-scoring…’
I’m not often at a loss for words but that article managed to leave me speechless.
Macheath - ‘The BBC has been accused of selectively editing a Donald Trump speech to make it appear clearer that he encouraged the US Capitol attack’.
Interestingly distorted but that does seem to be the problem, ring-fenced conclusions. It's like corrupt science, select and manipulate the data towards a ring-fenced conclusion. In this case the data being selected and manipulated is the video. It's rather like a faked climate temperature series.
There is a moral aspect as well of course, an intact moral compass would dissuade people from excusing this kind of behaviour as a rather blatant form of lying. Unfortunately the BBC seems to have no moral compass when it comes to misinformation, only a political one which doesn't serve them as well as they seem to imagine.
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The Grauniad should note the biblical advice:
"Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?"
But that advice doesn't advance the Cause...
"to a whole new level": a hackneyed phrase - it may be the Guardian!
A hackneyed American phrase - it must be the Guardian!
DJ - it's not easy to imagine an intelligent Guardian journalist who doesn't know that their job is to stroke the bias of a biased audience. Maybe they do know, but make a good job of hiding it.
dearieme - it leads me to wonder if a US AI system wrote it, or at least rewrote and padded out the outline of an article.
It’s worth noting that the guardian’s report on the furore over the edited Panorama film is almost beyond parody. It begins:
‘The BBC has been accused of selectively editing a Donald Trump speech to make it appear clearer that he encouraged the US Capitol attack’.
It then goes on to quote a BBC spokesperson:
“Michael Prescott is a former adviser to a board committee where differing views and opinions of our coverage are routinely discussed and debated.”
The article ends by citing a (more or less irrelevant) previous instance of Trump ‘wrongly accusing the BBC of removing a story about a fatal attack in Gaza, with the final sentence beginning:
‘Senior BBC journalists said the White House was point-scoring…’
I’m not often at a loss for words but that article managed to leave me speechless.
Macheath - ‘The BBC has been accused of selectively editing a Donald Trump speech to make it appear clearer that he encouraged the US Capitol attack’.
Interestingly distorted but that does seem to be the problem, ring-fenced conclusions. It's like corrupt science, select and manipulate the data towards a ring-fenced conclusion. In this case the data being selected and manipulated is the video. It's rather like a faked climate temperature series.
There is a moral aspect as well of course, an intact moral compass would dissuade people from excusing this kind of behaviour as a rather blatant form of lying. Unfortunately the BBC seems to have no moral compass when it comes to misinformation, only a political one which doesn't serve them as well as they seem to imagine.
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