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1. Hogarth:

I took a different path to building a long-standing internet legacy.

Google “Siberian Crotch Hound” or “german short-hairs pointer” to see how well it worked!

Jan 29, 2005 - 8:10 am 2. Hogarth:

Oh, and don’t forget the quotes.

Jan 29, 2005 - 8:10 am 3. Fausta:

Having been named after grandma Faustina, thank you, Grandma

Jan 29, 2005 - 8:45 am 4. windowlicker:

This is the true, meritocratic measure of status in the modern world. I believe this now entitles you to call yourself Roger IV.

Jan 29, 2005 - 9:06 am 5. Franco Aleman (Barcelona, Spain):

I’d rather not do that…

Jan 29, 2005 - 10:24 am 6. alcibiades:

You may be spending too much time on the internet, Roger, but how come no one is discussing this critical report on the BBC:

The review, set up to discover whether the BBC was “systematically Europhile”, cleared the BBC of any intentional bias either for or against the EU. But it said there was a “serious problem”, with all parties of various shades of Euro-opinion feeling the coverage was not impartial.

“Sometimes being attacked from all sides is a sign that an organisation is getting it right,” the report said.

“That is not so here. It is a sign that the BBC is getting it wrong, and our main conclusion is that urgent action is required to put this right.”

Coverage of EU news needed to be made “more demonstrably impartial”.

And this is just coverage of the EU. Imagine what they would have found if they had studied a controversial subject like America or Israel!

Melanie Phillips wrote it up yesterday, but that is the first and the last I’ve seen of it:

This is a devastating finding for the BBC. The one great attribute that makes the BBC different from any other broadcaster is that people trust it to be objective and impartial. Now that reputation has been blown away. For years, it has been apparent that the BBC is outrageously biased on Europe. Indeed, its general mindset as the Guardian of the airwaves means that it is similarly biased over a wide range of issues, including America, Israel, Iraq, the Conservative party, and a wide range of domestic issues. This report will put the BBC under huge pressure to adjust its set back to objectivity mode over Europe. Will it be able to, though, given the fact that because the dominance of this mindset among its journalists, presenters and production staff the BBC is virtually a closed thought system, so that although it may realise it needs to change it may not be able to recognise how to do it? And will Michael Grade, the energetic new-broom Chairman, seize the moment to institute a more general review of the Beeb’s ‘cultural bias’ over everything else, and restore its journalistic integrity which has become so badly corrupted?

Jan 29, 2005 - 10:38 am 7. Knucklehead:

I’ll pretend this isn’t OT since the T is “too much time on the internet”. The Dimplomad is quickly rising up my list of favorite blogosphere entertainments. I strongly recommend today’s effort, A Tim Blair Compassionate Head Tilt: “We’re Sorry”.

Jan 29, 2005 - 10:48 am 8. gavindow:

I used to enjoy the Boondocks… =(

Jan 29, 2005 - 10:48 am 9. Knucklehead:

Alcibiades,

Did I read the article correctly? Lemme recap:

The BBC hired some independent outfit to go away and discover if they were biased in favor of the EU. The independent outfit retruned and said, basically, “We have good news and bad news for you, BBC. The good news is that you are not intentionally biased. The bad news is that you are so profoundly stupid that everyone you deal with winds up hating you.”

Jan 29, 2005 - 10:56 am 10. Knucklehead:

Check out what one of the senators who voted against Dr. Rice has been up to re: diplomacy. (from Instapundit)

Jan 29, 2005 - 11:18 am 11. charlotte:

Sorry, but there’s another unsavory Franco, Franco. There once was something called “Franco Spaghettios” which were like the “bayonets and blood regime” of the canned food world.

If they still exist, I don’t want to know.

Jan 29, 2005 - 11:31 am 12. alcibiades:

Knucklehead:

A couple of points. So often one hears the BBC assess itself by saying, since we are criticized from both Left and Right that means we are doing the job correctly. This report thoroughly debunks that pathetic excuse.

Heh.

I do find it interesting that the report borrows the Thornburgh language of “no intentional bias.” Seems like the bar has been raised incredibly high as to what now constitutes intentional bias ?or perhaps that’s a scourge reserved solely for conversatives and Israelies. We’ll see.

But be that as it may, what it seems to be saying is that liberal superciliousness so overwhelms the mental functions of these reporters and the entire BBC staff, that they are unable even to recognize the extent to which they hopelessly mired in liberal groupthink. Which more or less translates to: given the nature of things, they’re too stupid and have too little perspective on the world to understand just how biased and agenda-ized they are.

Really it’s like Rather and Mapes all over again.

Jan 29, 2005 - 11:43 am 13. Knucklehead:

If you only read one more thing on the web today, make it this.

Jan 29, 2005 - 11:43 am 14. Lola:

Hey, Roger, check this out . . . there’s going to be 3 billboards up soon near Kodak Theater thanking Hollywood for playing a part during the election . . .

http://www.citizensunited.org/

Jan 29, 2005 - 2:33 pm 15. Will Collier:

You’re just bragging because you have a first name that isn’t also a common word…

(Roger that! –ed.)

Jan 29, 2005 - 6:22 pm 16. Charlie (Colorado):

Will, something tells me that Roger might be less sanguine if he lived in the UK.

Jan 29, 2005 - 7:39 pm 17. Dishman:

Also interesting is searching by last name…

Tim is #4, right behind 10 Downing.

Jan 29, 2005 - 8:14 pm 18. mythusmage:

Sorry, but there’s another unsavory Franco, Franco. There once was something called “Franco Spaghettios” which were like the “bayonets and blood regime” of the canned food world.

If they still exist, I don’t want to know.

That would be FrancoAmerican. The main competitors to Chef Boy-ar-Dee. The products are still around, now under the Campbell label (same folks who produce the soups. Campbell also produces a line of canned chili.

I take it you had a bad Spaghettios experience one time.

Jan 29, 2005 - 8:47 pm 19. mythusmage:

Getting back to the topic.

Did a Kartoo for ‘roger’. No sign of a Roger L. Simon on the first page of the main map. Nor any Roger L. Simon in the topics. Roger Moore and Roger Zelazny, but no Roger Simon. Rog, you can feel humble again.

A Mooter produced one link that I could find. You need to check out the ‘roger’ cluster, followed by the ‘by’ cluster. “Roger L. Simon” being the first link on that page.

Now you have more ways to go ego surfing.

Jan 29, 2005 - 9:09 pm 20. charlotte:

The products are still around.

Thanks, mythusmage, that’s good to know if I’m ever caught in a nuclear winter and all of the toothpaste has been eaten.

Jan 30, 2005 - 8:52 am

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