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BBC Disinformation Alert No. 22476

KC | 06.06.2008 13:16 | Analysis | Social Struggles

BBC2's Working Lunch Friday, 6/6/08 implements 'Gatekeeper' strategy to disorientate viewers over rising oil prices.

Set up:
Anchorman, 'Expert' in studio, further' Expert' video link.

Anchorman asks why prices are rising, Studio 'Expert' informs- 3 reasons- Supply, Demand and an unnamed 'controversial' one.

Studio 'Expert' informes, Supply because oil is running out (?) and is in dodgy antiwestern countries (?)- no counter argument! And Demand because China/India growing economies and subsidised oil- but no counter argument.

Then the big one- the 'controvertial' (meaning naughty, not to be spoken of, not to be taken seriously)- Studio 'Expert' says the S word- Speculators- but can't explain it- over to the video 'Expert'- he's in a trading office- suites and all- he must know. This 'Expert' gives a very obscure/evasive contribution without examples or specifics- result back to the studio- for clarification/debate- no, show over.

Mission accomplished by BBC evasion doctors- covered the material but without any real information forthcoming.

The Gatekeeper Strikes Again!

KC

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More "disinformation" ?

06.06.2008 14:14

So first we had freethepeeps trying to claim that the complaints that IMC gets about all the anti-Semitism on the newswire was a "disinformation campaign" co-ordinated from a shady Zionist cell in Belgium and now we have the BBC who are it seems trying to hide the truth about rising prices from the people of Britain.

What's the word I'm looking for ........................................ pathetic !

cynic

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