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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
'News' as in 23 years after the event. Hmm. That's one hell of a long-term political campaign if it's worth digging up now, 20 years after Maggie stepped down.
Matt Smith is wearing a red bow tie in the new series. That's got to mean something, hasn't it?
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If people decide to talk openly about something they previously haven't, that makes it newsworthy.
If a survivor from Waterloo decides, after all this time, to tell of his experiences, that might be deemed 'news' too.
I think the trouble with the Beeb, and the accusations of political bias, is that as well as supposedly reporting the news accurately, they also have licence to carry out investagative journalism, Panorama, Newsnight etc.
Since there's probably more interesting things to investigate about the governing party, rather than the relatively powerless opposition, that leads the government of the day to cry political bias.
Which happened in the eighties, when the Tories accused the BBC of left-wing allegiance, and which today Mancie's now proclaiming is an anti-Labour bias.
I'm sure each successive government will carry on shouting 'They're pickin' on us', when the news is not what they'd like to see reported.