Thursday 26 April 2012

Auntie Is Unwell

And Auntie Evan is positively unhealthy.

The descent of the Today programme into something beyond self-parody continued this morning with Evan Davis's grotesque "interview" of Ed Miliband, full of literal snorts of derision (one suspects that Davis is rather accustomed to snorting) and exasperated schoolmarmish interruptions. It was encapsulated by the assumption that private health insurance is the norm, or at least characteristic of those in the middle of society.

Yesterday, we had Nick Robinson use some paid extra, or member of the production staff, or whoever, to call Miliband by his brother's name for the cameras. And now this. Both entirely typical, of course.

The fantasy persists that because it is extremely liberal socially, and because it is staffed by veterans of 1970s campus Stalinism and Trotskyism, the BBC is somehow of the Left as most people understand the term. Or at the very least possesses a certain basic knowledge of how anyone lives on an annual income below six figures. Nothing could be farther from the case. On the contrary, the first B stands for Blairite.

1 comment:

  1. "one suspects that Davis is rather accustomed to snorting" - miauow! More cream, Dr Lindsay?

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