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The British Called, They Want Their Guns Back (YouTube, hat tip John B., via The Naive Abroad ):

surprising!also another hat pourboire to john b. for this article: cut and paste journalism at climate resistance. here’s a teeny-weeny portion, but please go read it all.

BBC bosses today tried to make excuses for the cut-and-paste job by BBC science journalist, Susan Watts, as discovered by Tony at Harmless Sky recently. Answering criticism on Watts’ blog, Newsnight Editor Peter Rippon said:

We did edit sections of the speech to reflect the elements in it that referred to Science. The aim was to give people an impression or montage of what Obama said about science in his inauguration speech. This was signposted to audiences with fades between each point. It in no way altered the meaning or misrepresented what the President was saying. You can look for yourself above.

If this is true, it means that the editorial team at BBC Newsnight are shockingly naive. If that is true, then we would like to know, what are they doing producing the networks flagship current affairs magazine programme?

Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt with respect to their editorial oversight, by which we mean that we accept that they are naive, the feature drips with the kind of ideological prejudice that any run-of-the-mill eco-warrior can muster. This is not news, nor is it analysis. It is projection.

Here is a transcript of the feature, Restoring science to its rightful place, with our commentary.

OBAMA: We will restore science to its rightful place [snip] roll back the spectre of a warming planet [snip] we will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

Read it all here.

John B. says:

The once-great BBC has fallen from the peak of excellence in journalistic standards into the abyss of partisan politics. The BBC did a cut-and-paste job on the Obama inaugural speech in order to support their liberal science agenda. The BBC fall from grace has been going on for some time, much like that of the NY Times. But it is only beginning to show just how incredibly biased they are and how they will edit the sound clips to agree with their position.May they rest in peace! (or in the venacular — you can stick a fork in them!)EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS BEING PHOTO-SHOPPED FOR OUR “CONVENIENCE.”–John B

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