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Quote Originally Posted by Ram59 View Post

Out of interest Ram, which bit of my post was defending the BBC? Not that it needs me to and not that I accept your description of the ‘government hating BBC’.

My point was that perhaps the good news about vaccines was somewhat outweighed by the news about the dangers presented by the new variants (please note I avoided reference to the ‘British variant/virus’ to avoid offending your sensibilities) and the doubts raised by the Israelis about the efficacy of one of the vaccines.

I don’t know if you’re referring to the six o’clock or ten o’clock news. Tbh I didn’t watch either, largely because I’d sat through ninety minutes of the ‘Coronavirus Update’ programme and didn’t want depressing further.

I suppose, from the list you have provided, the message may be that there is other ‘news’ going on in our country and elsewhere.

Surely, had the BBC been as ‘government’ hating as you imply then news items such as the Home Office’s incompetent loss of criminal data, the fact that the UK has the worst (world leading!) per capita Covid figures in the World, and the news that the original information given out about the new variants (anything but British!) seems to have been hopelessly incorrect would have been given priority. Your list suggests they weren’t even mentioned.
If you actually read my post properly, you would see that I said that it was on the 'BBC news UK' website. Then on my answer to your first defence of the BBC, stating that maybe there were more important things to consider, I gave you a list of 'news headlines' which the BBC obviously thought were more important than the vaccine success.

So I gather from your comments that an 'Edinburgh landmark site going back on the market', is a more newsworthy item than the fact that the government is 'currently' on target, with the only action that will free us from this pandemic. IMO, I believe that the success of these vaccines, is the most important thing at the moment, not just for the UK, but the whole world.

I think that you would fail your English 'O' level exam, if you took it again.