Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Beeb slammed for 'fawning' to Bill Gates
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> | BBC viewers have flooded the corporation with complaints over how it
> | covered the launch of Microsoft Vista earlier this week.
> |
> | In one cringingly servile interview worthy of Uriah Heep, the
> | Beeb's news presenter Hugh Edwards even thanked Gates at the
> | end of it, presumably in appreciation at being allowed to give
> | the Vole vast coverage for free.
The interview was content free - merely a promo for Vista.
The "Have Your Say" forum was almost totally hostile to Vista and the
Beeb's biased coverage.
> | In other TV news items presenters excitedly explained how Vistac
> | ould be obtained and installed - details courtesy of the BBC's
> | website.
> |
> | But British viewers, currently forced to pay a £131.50 licence
> | fee to maintain the BBC's "impartiality", were less than impressed.
> |
> | Scores got in touch to complain that so much was Auntie up Bill's
> | bum that you could barely see her corset.
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37411
>
> They are trying to bring DRM to Linux now, in order to deliver content which
> we already paid for. They must be acting on Microsoft's advice.
I await with interest to see how the BBC covers the upcoming release of
OS X Leopard sometime this spring.
--
Immunity is better than innoculation.
Peter
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