Claims are already starting that The Alex Salmond Show (catch it on RT at 6:30 or 11:30 this evening) is somehow indulging in sharp practice. But compared to what? Television pretends things. It records two game shows or whatever back to back, and then broadcasts them a day or a week apart, with the presenter, having changed his shirt, saying "Yesterday" or "Last week" during the second one. That kind of thing. That's just what television does.
"But this is supposed to be journalism," you say? Well, the BBC recently made up an imaginary bodyguard that no one could see or hear. Longer ago, it baldly reported as a suicide a death that had been discovered less than an hour before, and into which there has still never been a Coroner's Inquest, although the body has recently been exhumed and cremated in anticipation of a Corbyn Government. It and everyone else that officially existed said that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and screamed abuse for years at everyone who pointed out the truth. Its coverage of Orgreave ranked with The Sun's of Hillsborough. And so on.
Cremation or no cremation, I shall continue to demand the Coroner's Inquest that has never been held into the death of Dr David Kelly. Also, had I the money, then I would bring an action before the High Court of Justiciary of Scotland, asking it to exercise its declaratory power against Tony Blair and his accomplices in relation to their crime of aggression against Iraq in 2003. At worst, the Court could say no. Perhaps Alex Salmond might accompany me?
"But this is supposed to be journalism," you say? Well, the BBC recently made up an imaginary bodyguard that no one could see or hear. Longer ago, it baldly reported as a suicide a death that had been discovered less than an hour before, and into which there has still never been a Coroner's Inquest, although the body has recently been exhumed and cremated in anticipation of a Corbyn Government. It and everyone else that officially existed said that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and screamed abuse for years at everyone who pointed out the truth. Its coverage of Orgreave ranked with The Sun's of Hillsborough. And so on.
Cremation or no cremation, I shall continue to demand the Coroner's Inquest that has never been held into the death of Dr David Kelly. Also, had I the money, then I would bring an action before the High Court of Justiciary of Scotland, asking it to exercise its declaratory power against Tony Blair and his accomplices in relation to their crime of aggression against Iraq in 2003. At worst, the Court could say no. Perhaps Alex Salmond might accompany me?
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