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Jane
@localnotail.bsky.social
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local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary
taking notes, library & research assistant

English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth.
Meet me in my pinned if you want.

🙏 ask me #alttxtplz if I missed alt-txt & you'd like it
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<stop! stop! he's already dead! Simpsons meme>
Avidreader @avidreader1000.15h Replying to @Joyce Carol Oates Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He ... Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce Carol Oates "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. Nov 11, 2025
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
localnotail.bsky.social
Oh it might be a Blinkist advert idk. I just couldn't find it with that image of Musk.
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Joyce Carol Oates' mentions rn
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
<stop! stop! he's already dead! Simpsons meme>
Avidreader @avidreader1000.15h Replying to @Joyce Carol Oates Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He ... Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce Carol Oates "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. Nov 11, 2025
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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"I worked with extraordinarily talented colleagues... reporting of which I am deeply proud, yet likewise it was a time of profound disillusionment with an organisation I had revered since I was a boy. I could feel the place lose its nerve, against a Conservative govt of which it was deeply afraid"
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Aug 2016 BBC Trust Impartiality Review: Making Sense of
Statistics'
"content analysis demonstrates that there is an especially high number of political figures providing statistical information on the BBC (1/5 of sources)

Conservative politicians represented 73% of these statistical references"
We are conscious that difficult judgements are involved in deciding when, and how, to challenge particular claims. However, complex situations could arise if specific sources are continually left without challenge. In particular, the content analysis demonstrates that there is an especially high number of political figures providing statistical information on the BBC (21% of all sources used in the period monitored by Cardiff). And Conservative politicians represented nearly three quarters (73%) of these statistical references, which Cardiff University concludes “shows a high dependence on the governing party”. It is reasonable to expect the BBC to cover statements which the UK or devolved governments make. However, as Cardiff’s content analysis points out, it does make it vital that those statements are challenged where necessary so that the impartiality of the BBC’s coverage of political affairs is not affected. Following a statement in November 2015 by the Prime Minister that 43% of EU migrants claimed benefits in their first four years of being in the UK, Cardiff University tracked this story in their content analysis of BBC news coverage. Reservations had been expressed about the methodology of this figure before it was used by the Prime Minister and, particularly, that the official source had not been released. However, Cardiff found many instances of it being quoted by government sources in BBC content without challenge on any fundamental level by journalists. This included in the Radio 5 live studio interview which took place with Cabinet Minister Michael Fallon on 10 Nov 2015 in which he made a statement that “. . . around 40% of those who come here from the rest of the Union are claiming benefits straight away and that isn’t right”. As the content analysis notes, while the presenter made a point about the use of statistics, the veracity of the figure or the methodology behind it were not subject to a great deal of interrogation.
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
Ha, blunkist specialise in summaries and helping people to sniff like they have read chins that they haven't

They aren't very active on X-Twitter these days. The text in that advert for "Elon loves books" was from 2021
Blinkist @blinkist When he's not building rockets, boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles, or sending cars into space, Elon Musk reads a lot. Here are 9 nonfiction books he thinks we should all read. 9 Books From Elon Musk's Reading List That Will ... From blinkist.com 11:53 AM Jun 2, 2021
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
localnotail.bsky.social
Yes, she really stung him.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
localnotail.bsky.social
Joyce Carol Oates' mentions rn
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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May 2018, Marcus Moore wrote this detailed summary of the Conservative Party's capture of the BBC on so many levels after Cameron was elected

"This means they can not only dictate what information is made available to the public, but also the manner in which it is presented"
Marcus Moore With apologies for the length of this comment, but I used to write for the BBC and have a lingering fondness for the place, which is one of the reasons I've been paying very close attention to what's been happening behind the scenes. A number of changes made during the last seven years or so, spearheaded by David Cameron, have led to the corporation's news and politics departments becoming little more than ventriloquists' dummies. Of particular note are the following: a) important posts at the BBC being filled by pro-government figures from the private sector (Rona Fairhead, David Clementi, James Harding, Robbie Gibb etc) b) direct links with the manipulative tabloid press being strengthened by Downing Street giving important positions to dubious characters like Andy Coulson and Craig Oliver c) the subsequent recruitment of people like Alison Fuller Pedley (of Mentorn Media), who is responsible for choosing who gets to be in the Question Time audience, and Sarah Sands (formerly of the Telegraph, Mail and Evening Standard) who now edits Radio 4's Today programme d) all of the above follows Cameron's appointment, in June 2010, of John Browne (Baron Browne of Madingley) to the post of 'Lead Non-Executive Director' for Downing Street, his role being that of 'recruiting business leaders to reformed departmental boards' - Browne's questionable history at BP notwithstanding (remember Deep Horizon!) e) how all of this quiet, underhand activity has been largely unreported, but has given the current Conservative government immense power within fashionable and influential circles. This means they can not only dictate what information is made available to the public, but also the manner in which it is presented. You don't need to read many pages of that book by George Orwell to grasp how easy it is to control the populace once you have control of the means of communication.
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
The British middle class are the people that the lower class look down on because they've got above themselves by earning enough money to buy property,
and the upper class look down on because they haven't been born into wealth and landownership.
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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And the gutting of Trump administration scrutiny with the trap they set for those US legacy media organisations who had journalistic standards to uphold
localnotail.bsky.social Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 19d
Legitimate media walked out of the Pentagon after refusing to submit to Hegseth's censorship demand so he made his own press pack, from alt-right media

"Their reach + impact collectively are far more effective + balanced than the self-righteous media who chose to self-deport from the Pentagon"
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Keep in mind Trump's Presidential Action Executive Order May 1, 2025 where he ceased Federal funding for NPR and PBS
aka ENDING TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZATION OF BIASED MEDIA
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Taxpayer Subsidization Of Biased Media
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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remembered this after Tim Davie took the chance to skip out, and the cognitive dissonance of Andrew Neil complaining about unchallenged bias in BBC presentation is still deafening
BBC cancels The Mash Report, show criticised for 'Left-wing bias' Critics include veteran journalist Andrew Neil, who described it as 'self-satisfied, unchallenged Left-wing propaganda' [The Mash Report host Nish Kumar regularly targeted the Government and Brexit 12 March 2021 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/11/bbc-cancels-mash-report-show-became-focus-perceived-left-wing/ https://archive.ph/Z598v]
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Ros Atkins on... the BBC resignations
The chairman of the BBC has apologised for what he called an "error of judgement" in how a Panorama edited Donald Trump's speech

BBC director general, Tim Davie, and CEO of news, Deborah Turness, resigned on Sunday.

But this crisis didn't come out of nowhere
Ros Atkins on... the BBC resignations
The BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at the resignations of BBC bosses - and how this crisis didn't come out of nowhere.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
"I worked with extraordinarily talented colleagues... reporting of which I am deeply proud, yet likewise it was a time of profound disillusionment with an organisation I had revered since I was a boy. I could feel the place lose its nerve, against a Conservative govt of which it was deeply afraid"
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
It was so funny
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
Aug 2016 BBC Trust Impartiality Review: Making Sense of
Statistics' download link:
downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/ass...
downloads.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
Aug 2016 BBC Trust Impartiality Review: Making Sense of
Statistics'
"content analysis demonstrates that there is an especially high number of political figures providing statistical information on the BBC (1/5 of sources)

Conservative politicians represented 73% of these statistical references"
We are conscious that difficult judgements are involved in deciding when, and how, to challenge particular claims. However, complex situations could arise if specific sources are continually left without challenge. In particular, the content analysis demonstrates that there is an especially high number of political figures providing statistical information on the BBC (21% of all sources used in the period monitored by Cardiff). And Conservative politicians represented nearly three quarters (73%) of these statistical references, which Cardiff University concludes “shows a high dependence on the governing party”. It is reasonable to expect the BBC to cover statements which the UK or devolved governments make. However, as Cardiff’s content analysis points out, it does make it vital that those statements are challenged where necessary so that the impartiality of the BBC’s coverage of political affairs is not affected. Following a statement in November 2015 by the Prime Minister that 43% of EU migrants claimed benefits in their first four years of being in the UK, Cardiff University tracked this story in their content analysis of BBC news coverage. Reservations had been expressed about the methodology of this figure before it was used by the Prime Minister and, particularly, that the official source had not been released. However, Cardiff found many instances of it being quoted by government sources in BBC content without challenge on any fundamental level by journalists. This included in the Radio 5 live studio interview which took place with Cabinet Minister Michael Fallon on 10 Nov 2015 in which he made a statement that “. . . around 40% of those who come here from the rest of the Union are claiming benefits straight away and that isn’t right”. As the content analysis notes, while the presenter made a point about the use of statistics, the veracity of the figure or the methodology behind it were not subject to a great deal of interrogation.
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM