BBC Advocacy I

The Friends of the Earth pressure group has just published a new bogus report on climate change. It entirely predictably calls for the kind of reduction in carbon emission that would reduce our economy to pre industrial levels. Newsnight, as they would, has given prime space to the report and had a panel consisting of a FotE spokesman, a former labour environment minister and an environment spokesman from the former Concervative party.

The reverent tones that the report was discussed in (this was a real love feast) was by it self advocacy but that is not what struck me. At some point the Labour spokesman criticised FotE's stance on nuclear power pointing out that this is the only carbon neutral mass energy source we currently yet they oppose its use. Or rather he would have had the host not cut him off. You see the BBC is on the anti nuclear bandwagon... Can't have people speaking up favorably about nuclear power on the BBC.
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