Wednesday, 6 February 2008

I sniff news - do you?

I have just discovered Newssniffer.co.uk - it monitors BBC feedback and comments and publishes all the stuff that's censored.

There is one particularly interesting thread about NHS reform in which, if I understand it right, a whopping 340 comments were censored and only ONE comment published! If you read the thread (here) you will see that many of the comments are not particularly extreme or prejudiced, they just oppose New Labour's intentions to reform (i.e. privatise) large chunks of the NHS.

One guy even writes:

"My comments have clearly been removed.

I have read the house rules and cannot see where I have contravened them.

So that I dont repeat my mistake, could a moderator please email me and explain what I am guilty of other, unlike the BBC of not being a new labour fan."

This speaks volumes about the BBC's subservience to the government. You wouldn't get such censorship on any large mainstream private media site... or would you?

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