Beau Bo D'Or

An oldie which I did for Guardian Unlimited who didn’t notice that my final version was slightly altered to obscure the ‘F’ in ‘Flying Circus‘.
But a link to The Independent’s Simon Carr, ‘Blair shows Britain’s got talent for the unfathomable answer’.
Hat Tip Chicken Yoghurt. “Rejoice everybody, it’s all over bar the hanging of the bunting.”

After deleting comments and changing content in news articles on its website, Sky News has now publicly stated that it will not broadcast the DEC Gaza appeal.

It’s pretty obvious that the plan, as I mentioned here was to  let The BBC take the flak (and stoke the flames in its reports) over the weekend while falsely claiming Sky was still discussing whether or not to run the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal for Gaza.

The TV station had help from its sister company The Times in its deception which, on Friday, said “Sky immediately denied that it had also had reservations.” but Sky News slipped up in an article titled “BBC Under Fire Over Gaza Appeal“, when it published “Mr Thompson said he was concerned that broadcasting the appeal to help Gazans in need of food and shelter might compromise the BBC’s impartiality.
Sky has also refused to run the appeal for the same reason.”
Later, Sky changed the article and removed the comments feature.

If you search for the removed text via Google you will see a listing for the article, but the story is not cached and the url redirects.  However, Yahoo uses Sky as a news provider and you can still see its version of the original article (minus comments) here.

And I thought the BBC was cowardly.
Sky manipulated the news for their own benefit and majored on the BBC angle until the day the DEC broadcast was due to run.

Sky News – First for breaking news word.