Deception in Broadcasting

The manipulation of Current Affairs broadcasting by the BBC and other media in the UK is now so longstanding and of such all encompassing depth that it is unworthy of further comment. The evening before last, however, a new level of devious distortion was reached in an area one would have assumed might remain free of such distortions, namely the upper intellectual end of quiz shows. University Challenge has been a regular feature of the BBC's output for many years, so much so that it has been described as part of the fabric of the nation on one internet site devoted to gameshows. This year, the BBC as ever ready to further flog a dead horse, extended the gendre to what they described as 'The Professionals' read the blurb from here. This week we witnessed the final, where a team from the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington were pitched against a lacklustre team from - wait for it- the Department of Justice! The latter, not content with having destroyed the entire system of justice and punishment within the UK over the recent past in their daytime jobs, had obviously decreed that public defeat would be unacceptable so the questions were clearly rigged in their favour to make such a possibility to all intents and purposes, practically impossible. Their ignorance in their own supposed professional area of competence,however, was so complete that they nevertheless almost managed to succeed and towards the end of the programme it appeared that an emergency set of back-up questions had to be produced to ensure the required result was achieved. The highpoint of the farce came when the Department of Justice team could not name the body that will in future be the ultimate power in Britain - the European Council! The same European Council that will have gained such powers through the soon to be effected ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, courtesy of the negligence, incompetence and treacherous betrayal of our country by the staff and Lord Chancellor of this same Department of Justice. Jeremy Paxman exploded in frustrated rage at the dumb individuals seated before him in what appeared to be genuine disbelief at this point in the show. How he managed to continue through the farce of the prize giving at the end of show is testimony to his acting ability - he is sharp enough to fully be aware of how Britain is run today, why a supposedly intelligent man wishes to be party to such deceits is a mystery to me - one guess must be pure vanity the self-same motive which must drive the disgusting supposed civil-servants in the Department of Justice to perpetrate such an obvious and brazen display of misplaced power.