Man in a Shed: Institutional Bias at the BBC

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Institutional Bias at the BBC - explained

Just watched this video of Robin Aitken on Conservative home ( its an 18DT 15 min video .) I recommend watching it... going to put Robin Aitken's book on my reading list.

Update: Earlier problem with the wrong video link now sorted !

3 comments:

Wrinkled Weasel said...: I am not sure if you have the right video piece, MIAS, but the actual Aitken talk was fascinating.

I suppose he has summed up what, depressingly, we all suspected. Let us hope that this scandal can be dealt with.; 5:59 pm
Man in a Shed said...: WW - your right ! I wrote the post as I was listening to the article and just assumed the link to object embedding was right ! ( Going to try and fix it now.... ); 7:27 pm
Man in a Shed said...: OK - thats it sorted. Thanks for the tip off WW. ( Have a look - its edited down - but your right its what we all expected. Its just useful to be able to quote a ex-BBC employee to confirm it when catting to leftie types.); 7:37 pm

The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman