Published: May 8th 2012 – at 2:36 pm
BBC changes fracking story to help ‘deniers’
”this is typical BBC double think. Their mask of fairness slips every time they support the criminal British State”
by Tim Fenton No matter how cautiously the words are phrased, and in spite of a range of caveats, when a former minister mentions the subject of shale gas live on the BBC, the hacks’ antennae twitch to attention and those words are instantly spun.
And the Beeb’s own report hasn’t helped matters, as it has relayed the sentiments of Chris Smith, who is now head of the Environment Agency.
Smith, recently elevated to the Peerage, has given cautious support to the extraction of gas from shale, but is by no means cheerleading: Continue reading “BBC changes fracking story to help ‘deniers’”
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