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Stephen Pollard

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Stephen Pollard

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The BBC and cricket: we don't want it

August 5, 2008 00:00
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Here's my theory: the BBC's casually misleading attitude to news- its refusal to accept that Israel ever has a case for self-defence, its failure to label terrorism as terrorism, its sneering reporting of anything which doesn't fit into its left-liberal prejudices - is now so deep a part of its culture that its own executives don't even realise that their own deeply misleading statements (I'm being charitable) are so easy to spot.

This morning's reaction to the sale of Test cricket rights to Sky is a case in point.

Sky paid

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