A blogger alerts me to an oddity, and asks...
'Why does the BBC page on Dawn Butler's letter from Barack Obama show the version of the letter without the House of Commons portcullis? Could someone ask the BBC to explain why..'.
I'm not from the BBC of course, but there could be a few reasons...
1) It is part of an 'emerging truth', with the bit that might not help with the truth not quite emerging as much as it might... yet. (I must get the leader of the free world to slap his John Hancock and a piece of paper I have to hand... he seems a trusting sort, and I have some prime swamp land in Florida. Just hope those tinkers at the CIA don't think up a similar wheeze to get him to OK something he shouldn't...)
2) Susan Watts and the Newsnight crew have been sharing their expertise on 'rejigging' anything with Pres. Obama associated with it to suit the narrative.
3) This is an 'event' that need 'interpreting', and that bit at the top may just have confused a few simple folk in to asking what the heck was going on, not to mention in the tiny minds of all the protagonists.
But I 'm sure someone from the BBC will be better placed to clarify.
Oh, this just in, Jeremy has called to say his man on the pulse in Gaza says his brother heard his cousin say it's all kosher... but then the line went dead for some reason. Possibly along with the cousin.
Aunty, you are becoming a bad joke, like most of mine here. Trouble is, I am not laughing to the tune of £139.50pa, and Mr. Ross tonight is unlikely to improve my mood.
Telegraph - BBC in more trouble over edited pieces
BBBC - I was interested in the link to Dowdification:
The omission of a word or a phrase in order to reframe a quote and alter its meaning.
This is usually done to help an author portray a particular viewpoint and is very common amongst weblogs.
The term is named after the New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
Times - Did Barack Obama really write about Labour MP Dawn Butler?
The Editors' blog is moving
13 years ago
