Ara Darzi: Still a lickspittle rent-a-gob wanker.
If someone said to you : ""We need to separate that fantastic relationship between a patient and a doctor.", would you think that it meant the same as ""We need to support that fantastic relationship between a patient and a doctor."?
Well, that's what the BBC seem to think. Recently, health minister, and gong-junky fuckwit, Professor Lord Sir Ara Darzi was all over the BBC espousing his ivory tower 'polyclinics' as an improvement on traditional general practice. Dr Rant wasn't impressed at the time, and he heard the slimy bastard in question say 'separated' with his own ears.
However the BBC, despite initially reporting correctly that he said 'separated', have seen fit to 'correct' the the quote to say 'supported'. Have a look at this article on News Sniffer for the details.
What the fuck are the BBC doing changing verbatim quotes to radically alter the meaning of what was actually said?
He said what he said on BBC morning television, and he was heard by millions - there was no ambiguity in what he said, yet the revision of the online news report significantly improves the image of what a government minister said, without acknowledging the change. Why has a public service broadcaster done this? The George Orwell coincidences are coming too thick and fast for my liking.
There is only one context in which the words 'support' and 'separate' have even remote equivalence:
Was that a Freudian slip there Lord Sir Ara? Are you trying to tell us something?
There is only one context in which the words 'support' and 'separate' have even remote equivalence:
Women's underwear!
Was that a Freudian slip there Lord Sir Ara? Are you trying to tell us something?
Dr Rant
Dr Cardigan
Dr Blue
Dr Brown
Rev Dr Green
Dr Mustard
Mr Orange
Dr Pink
Dr Purple
Mr Salmon
Dr White
Mr Beige
Ms Scarlet
Dr Informed
Posts
6 comments:
doesn't he look like giles brandreth?
Getting more and more like Stalin's approach every day. How long before we see inconvenient people airbrushed out of history as Commissar Yezhov was.
http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/vanishes.htm
Progress towards a Soviet Style Police state continues at a pace with the BBC being the equivalent of Pravda.
Good God. I'm writing to the press complaints comission, the bbc and whoever else I should be writing to as soon as I get home from the wards tomorrow.
I hate, hate, hate the BBCs syrupy dumbed down, subjective and opinionated news. What the hell happened to investigative journalism? All the BBC do today is have some annimatedly gesturing, metaphor spouting fuckwit rephrasing government press releases without any attempt to report the facts surrounding (and behind) these announcements.
"From our own correspondent," and "letter from America" are notable exceptions to this otherwise unbroken rule.
A Student.
I havent watched the BBC news for ages. I get more factual accuracy from the Simpsons.
I have had the dubious honour to work with Lord Darzi and at the BBC. (Not at the same time.) I am not sure which I trust least.
In my six months with BBC News I was struck by one thing. The old guard were being increasingly pushed out by a younger trendier crowd, for whom editorial guidelines were just something that came in the top drawer. Much like a Gideon's Bible. God forbid anyone should actually read them.
Now that is a sweeping generalisation made easier by anonymity on the net. There are some great foreign correspondents there - shielded from the crap that goes on at White City. But in the rush to appeal to the yoof, its all about the headlines rather then the substance.
i wonder if dr rants team could apply under the freedom of information act to the doh or no 10 to find who 'corrected' the report; presumeably the 'correction' came from one of these sources? i know the smug bar stewards who occupy the house of commons are exempt from this law(democracy in action folks) but presumeably their minions are not?
Post a Comment