A Tangled Web

Expurgated News - BBC Style



How on earth the BBC ever came to be regarded as one of the world's great news institutions is beyond me. The corporation is stridently Left-wing, anti-Israel and anti-American. Most worryingly of all, from my perspective, is its pro-nationalist bias on matters in Northern Ireland. For example, it may interest readers from outside the UK that BBC Northern Ireland always does its utmost to keep live footage of the Last Night of the Proms in Belfast to a minimum, lest the waving of Union Flags by the huge crowds assembled upset the republican Piltdown men of the Falls Road and beyond.



This story is typical of the BBC's style. It deals with the deleterious effects of tobacco smuggling in the Province, claiming that a quarter of all tobacco retailers in the Province are under threat because of this practice. However, nowhere in the story does it even hint at the primary offenders - Sinn Fein/IRA. Cigarette smuggling in Northern Ireland has long been the preserve of republican terrorists (loyalist paramilitaries prefer to turn their 'talents' to drug dealing and prostitution) who see a porous, badly patrolled border as an opportunity to swell their coffers with the proceeds of contraband. Doubtless the omnipresent, and highly irritating, Denis Murray will be there in the autumn telling us how wonderful it is that unrepentant republicanism has finally pulled off the 'deal of the century' with a supine DUP. I wonder if Mr Murray could turn super sleuth and expose the myriad of appalling criminality currently practiced by the Republican Movement. No, that would really take the shine off the saturnalian celebrations planned for the revival of Stormont come September, wouldn't it!!