We already have apocalyptic fires, now we can have an apocalyptic war to go along with them. Oh, happy day!
Quote from: andy popp on January 03, 2020, 11:45:17 amWe already have apocalyptic fires, now we can have an apocalyptic war to go along with them. Oh, happy day!We can only hope he's thought carefully about the consequences, and has a clear plan for foreign policy, and the inevitable Iranian retaliation. Or possibly, he just did it on a whim because he thought it'd play well with his voting base. I wonder which is closer to the truth....
I don't think it's melodramatic ... American democracy is deeply impoverished.
Cummings has similarly dodged the electoral commission investigation into the conduct of the vote leave campaign.
The UK government has made a habit of repeating proven lies so often that the media gets tired of trying to refute them.
Quote from: TobyD on January 26, 2020, 10:40:26 amThe UK government has made a habit of repeating proven lies so often that the media gets tired of trying to refute them. It would be nice if they tried. The constant lies, bullshit and exaggerations are only effective because the majority of the media parrots them back all the time without scrutiny or fact checking.They couldn't get away with it without a complicit media.
Quote from: sdm on January 26, 2020, 01:26:50 pmQuote from: TobyD on January 26, 2020, 10:40:26 amThe UK government has made a habit of repeating proven lies so often that the media gets tired of trying to refute them. It would be nice if they tried. The constant lies, bullshit and exaggerations are only effective because the majority of the media parrots them back all the time without scrutiny or fact checking.They couldn't get away with it without a complicit media.This is manifestly not true. The BBC routinely checks figures and claims. I hardly heard a single report in the whole election campaign that didn't point out that there would not be 40 new hospitals, for example. Rather more on topic, the Washington Post has a running total of Trump's lies in office.
Equally Toby, the BBC are not perfect examples of a media organisation - and they made several fuckups during the election coverage (the edits to JC cenetaph for example - and others).
I don't understand the lefts obsession with trashing the media at every opportunity. If you trash the BBC, you won't get some perfect arbiter, you'll get Fox News.
They surpassed themselves on the news at ten last night, showing footage of Le Bron James instead of Bryant.
As TTT said, the BBC have had a seriously bad few months. You know this as well as I, but if you really need the evidence I'll make a list this evening. I'd be interested in seeing whether a comparable list could be compiled detailing supposed BBC bias *in favour* of the left. No one will be able to, because it doesn't exist.