Tuesday, 1 July 2008

NHS & BBC

The BBC marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the NHS with a story that sets the benchmark for objectivity:
Three generations grateful for NHS
This headline that would do credit to the North Korean news agency was balanced in the story itself by lines like this:
Anthony was born with blue asphyxia. Today he is convinced the NHS saved his life - and that of his mother.
And from there It gets downright sycophantic. Overcrowded hospitals? Endless waiting lists? Mixed sex wards? Treatment rationing? A haemorrhaging budget with an army of bureaucrats to a squad of doctors? Sorry, no mention of that here.

All we need now is a pronouncement from Minitruth that all diseases have been eradicated and we'll have the set.

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