Wow, the BBC is running a real Israel hit-job just now on the 10 o'clock news. A human rights group have given Palestinian settlers video cameras to capture Israeli violence. Naturally, the BBC is happy to run video of an elderly Palestinian woman being beaten up by masked men (who are presumed to be Jewish); the correspondent also dropped in that the 'entire world is in agreement that Israel are illegally occupying these Palestinian lands' (oh, and apparently some of the occupiers...err...I mean, Israelis get hurt a little too). Good old honest reporting from the Beeb.
Actually, while I'm writing about the BBC, I had to endure another awful 'cultural' piece at half-time in the Austria - Poland match. Do-all presenter, Adrian Chiles, the soporific Brummie, did a truly dire little story on Freud and psychoanalysis -- urgh -- if that wasn't bad enough all I could think when I was watching it was, 'this is taxpayer money, this is public money and this guy is getting paid to be there, he was flown out there, his crew are getting paid to be there, they were flown out, they're all getting their accommodation and food and expenses paid for, and for what? 5 minutes of unendurable nonsense?'. In case you can't tell, nothing annoys me more than the BBC, whether it's their anti-Israel, pro-global warming drivel, or their constant waste of public money, I find the entire corporation entirely offensive on almost every level.
And now it's Question Time...so I'm turning it off.
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