If you want to know
about bad things in Russia, then watch the BBC.
But if you want to
know about bad things in Britain, then watch Russia Today.
It regularly covers
the anti-austerity movement. It reported the huge demonstration against NHS
privatisation that Chris Patten's plaything blacked out entirely.
No wonder, then, that
there
are those who want Ofcom to revoke its license. A charge of anti-Semitism?
From supporters of Svoboda and of Pravy Sektor, and from uncritical reporters
of anti-Putin demonstrations characterised by the flags of the National
Bolsheviks and of the ultranationalists, against whom Putin, for all his
faults, is a bulwark?
Ofcom did in fact
revoke the license of Press TV for having dared to cover a gigantic student
demonstration in London when the BBC and Sky stuck to the script and refused to
mention it. Some other rubbish is cited as the official reason, but forget
that.
But Ofcom would not
even consider my complaint that Fox News, shown on Sky, was promoting the EDL,
which it was.
Soon, it may very
well be a lot more difficult that it is now to find out about the bad things in
Britain. Or even about the interesting things in Britain.
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