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This BBC article from March 2016 perfectly illustrates how they betrayed their viewers and their country over Brexit.
Energy Secretary, Amber Rudd, AND National Grid warn about Brexit, Energy prices & security of supply.
How does the Beeb report it?
This BBC article from March 2016 perfectly illustrates how they betrayed their viewers and their country over Brexit.
Energy Secretary, Amber Rudd, AND National Grid warn about Brexit, Energy prices & security of supply.
How does the Beeb report it?
1. The headline reports it as "a row" not what it is: a serious warning from serious experts.
2. First paragraph (in bold) is given to the leave supporters who dispute the claim.
3. They focus on the side issue: possible Russian gas restrictions, rather than the central...
2. First paragraph (in bold) is given to the leave supporters who dispute the claim.
3. They focus on the side issue: possible Russian gas restrictions, rather than the central...
issues; loss of access to implicit day ahead energy trading, and possible exclusion from EU solidarity mechanism.
(TBF, Rudd gave the BBC an opening to build that strawman, but, by golly, the grabbed the opportunity with both hands)
4. They give false equivalence
(TBF, Rudd gave the BBC an opening to build that strawman, but, by golly, the grabbed the opportunity with both hands)
4. They give false equivalence
to the "leave supporters" and the National Grid & Energy Secretary. Who are these "leave supporters?". Are they experts? Engineers? Energy Economists? Academics? The Beeb doesn't say. But it gives these know-nothings the same status as the National Grid and Dept of Energy.
5. The BBC make NO EFFORT to look at the 2 opposing camps' workings. (A very detailed,thorough and clear study by the National Grid on the one hand vs a beer-belch of vacuuous assertion on the other, by...who knows?)
6. What passes for analysis is Clarksonesque "commonsense"...
6. What passes for analysis is Clarksonesque "commonsense"...
dismisal of the experts' warnings "[increased costs] only likely if EU neighbours take decisions against their own best interests, like cutting off electricity interconnectors [ho ho ho]"
The net effect is to discredit the serious warnings of experts in the field and ...
The net effect is to discredit the serious warnings of experts in the field and ...
provide reassurance to the BBC viewers that really all this "Brexit energy price rises / shortages" is all stuff and nonsense; calm down and vote leave!
Energy is just one area, but the BBC did this again and again on everything Brexit has touched.
It is time for a reckoning.
Energy is just one area, but the BBC did this again and again on everything Brexit has touched.
It is time for a reckoning.
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