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Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:54 pm  

Mugwump wrote:

Another high-profile political scandal NOT broken by the BBC first.

Curious, given that the BBC has more money, more resources (including mind-boggling technological facilities), more reporters, more researchers, more experts of all descriptions and more time on its hands than ANY newspaper - and perhaps ALL put together.

That's because the BBC has been well and truly cowed by the threat to the license fee and the charter. Their political editors and journalists have hearts the size of mouses at the moment. Extremely disappointing, to put it mildly.

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:35 pm  

Is this Murdoch reminding politicians that they do his bidding or else?

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:31 pm  

Mugwump wrote:

Another high-profile political scandal NOT broken by the BBC first.

Curious, given that the BBC has more money, more resources (including mind-boggling technological facilities), more reporters, more researchers, more experts of all descriptions and more time on its hands than ANY newspaper - and perhaps ALL put together.

I wouldn't have thought it was that curious, in a society where there is an independent press financed by private proprietors and a government subsidised press financed by compulsory licence paying, it's more logical that political scandals will be uncovered by the independent press.

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:29 pm  

Plus the bcb has a Tory 'grandee' at the helm. The bcb is now part the of condem propaganda machine. The way the bcb has been manipulated by the cons is shameful. Stuff like saints and scroungers perfectly fit the demonisation of the unemployed and disabled by the current govt

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:31 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

I wouldn't have thought it was that curious, in a society where there is an independent press financed by private proprietors and a government subsidised press financed by compulsory licence paying, it's more logical that political scandals will be uncovered by the independent press.

Which British newspapers operate an "independent press"?

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:57 pm  

Cruddas must be thinking "Why me?"

As Peter Oborne's "The Rise of the Political Class" explains - in painstaking detail - this kind of thing is now everyday behaviour. Politics is big business with ministerial access charged at premium rates.

Housing Benefit Cuts for the Scroungers. : Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:09 am  

rhino phil wrote:

Plus the bcb has a Tory 'grandee' at the helm. The bcb is now part the of condem propaganda machine. The way the bcb has been manipulated by the cons is shameful. Stuff like saints and scroungers perfectly fit the demonisation of the unemployed and disabled by the current govt

This....

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:16 am  

There is also the free way to have access to a minister - tell your local MP to have a word with them, if its an important matter then they will and are probably obliged to - it worked for me and that was while he was in opposition, in fact he was much keener to be given ammunition when he was in opposition.

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:38 am  

McLaren_Field wrote:

There is also the free way to have access to a minister - tell your local MP to have a word with them, if its an important matter then they will and are probably obliged to - it worked for me and that was while he was in opposition, in fact he was much keener to be given ammunition when he was in opposition.

C'mon then 'fess up, which bits of legislation were introduced or influenced by your MP's intervention on your behalf?

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:47 am  

ONE "Tory" is caught doing this and suddently ALL "Tories" are scumbags.

Would this have even made it on here if it was a Labour MP doing the same thing, and if so, would ALL Labour MPs be subsequently branded dodgy?

The bias on here absolutely astounds me at times.