Media Coverage of R(Miller) v Secretary of State for exiting the European Union

Media Coverage about Brexit Court Case

 

Like many media outlets, the BBC coverage of the court case brought by Gina Miller has been totally misleading.

This case was primarily about the British constitution and the Sovereignty of Parliament.

Please read the Court Verdict, at least the summary, and report the facts.

In brief it said If parliament votes to execute plan A and a law is then enacted for Plan A, then the executive cannot repeal Plan A without the authority of Parliament.

Relating this to Article 50, says that Parliament passed an Act to join the EU, therefore Parliament must give its consent to leave the EU.

The court also said that once article 50 is triggered that it cannot be reversed and that triggering article 50 therefore was effectively that statute for leaving the EU.

Most of the so called experts in this case failed, miserably, to identify the proper context and meaning of the case.

Also, please note that if the UK cannot agree terms for leaving the EU, it will leave automatically 2 years after article 50 is triggered, unless there is unanimous agreement by all EU member countries and the UK to grant an extension.

In this case the standard of BBC reporting has fallen far below what is expected and what once gained the BBC their enviable reputation.

 

In the case of the printed media, their standards have fallen so low that their content would be more appropriate in some fan rag of whichever cause they try to fool the British people with.

 

Summary of Court Judgement

Full Court Judgement

 

 

 

Rory Cellen-Jones, BBC blogger or Shill for US Corporations?

Yes, US companies do tend to dominate technology today, but what encouragement do we give to our UK companies?

Looking at the last 30 articles by our British Broadcasting correspondent, we can see an article about a British company being sold to a US Giant; British newspapers creating apps for US Smartphone’s; and how bad British broadband really is.

US corporations like Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon get plugs in almost every article. Does Rory or the BBC make any effort to find out what UK companies and businesses are doing?

So once again, the British tax payer is footing the bill to shoot itself in the foot thanks to the BBC and people like Rory Cellen-Jones.

These are the last 30 articles published by this BBC blogger:

1. Amazon buying LoveFilm

2. British Newspapers launch News apps for smartphones and tablets. Of course the Apple iPad gets its usual mention wherever possible.

3. Fundraising for Wikipedia

4. Twitter proves its worth

5. Spotify - giving up on US ambitions

6. Apple launching its Mac App store

7. Is Facebook worth $50bn?

8. Tech in 2012: UK TV; Facebook; Apple iPad 2; Google.

9. Skype

10. Tech in 2010: iPhone; Windows Phone 7; Android; Wikileaks.

11. Foursquare

12. Wayne Ting: US college student not as successful as Mark Zuckerberg.

13. US guys making show for BBC.

14. Bebo trying to make a comeback after selling out.

15. Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook

16. Friendster / Facebook.

17. Network pioneers Friendster / Facebook.

18. Social networking Twitter and Facebook.

19. Google Book Store.

20. British Broadband that fails miserably to tell it how it really is.

21. Google and Amazon.

22. Teachers using the Wii and iPad.

23. Virgin web TV.

24. Google V Regulators.

25. Exo PC V Apple iPad.

26. Hacking smartphones. Mention Apple iPhone, of course.

27. Government Transparency.

28. Children in need. Mention Twitter, Facebook, eBay and YouTube.

29. Google and Amazon.

30. Apple and Google Android.


Of course, one can appreciate that they are the companies making the news, but the BBC must take some responsibility for the UK companies and the UK News that it completely ignores. The UK is lucky if it get 10% of the coverage that US companies get.

Web sites like http://www.ratingsworld.co.uk/ (a UK shopping website that lets users shop in hundreds of stores whilst only needing to visit one website) or http://www.youcouldgetme.com/ (which is a universal wish list that allows you to add items from any website and could even take the place of Yahoo’s http://www.delicious.com if it goes the way of the dodo).

Small innovative UK businesses like these struggle to reach critical mass because the UK media are totally unaware of the economic impact they create when all of their free coverage is directed to foreign corporations.

This situation is really easy to turn around. Media outlets, like the BBC, and bloggers, correspondents and reporters like Rory Cellen-Jones just need to give UK businesses a more balanced share of their reporting. Try to ensure that 50% of your endeavours and output covers UK business and stop being shills for US corporations on the dime of the UK consumer and the UK taxpayer (and BBC license payer).

The solution does not involve any cost and should be a no brainer.

Limmy's Show

I stayed up late to watch Stephen Fry and company on BBC2 in QI XL on Saturday night. BBC 2 had scheduled a new show: ‘Limmy’s Show’ to broadcast immediately before QI.

Lucky Limmy, an audience who like comedy drawn to his show whilst waiting for QI.

Oh, but you have to sympathise for anyone who actually watched Limmy’s show. It must rank as one of the worst shows ever broadcast. Does the BBC no longer have any standards? How could such unutterable drivel get past any quality control?

A sketch show is not easy to put together, and you will get some sketches that don’t quite hit the mark. Limmy’s sketch show, however, was a complete failure. Not one single sketch could have drawn a smile from even the most happy and easily pleased person in this universe.

I do hope BBC Scotland wake up and pull this show before the public are put to the sword again. Torture is illegal you know.

The person who thought that this show was of broadcast standard and allowed the public to view such utter mince hopefully will realise this was a tragedy of such epic proportions that a career as a hermit would be much more appropriate to their qualifications and taste.