Friday, September 28, 2007

Save the BBC (and schools) from political interference!

Honestly! First the Beeb is told to pull the plug on a night of environmental awareness "because its not its duty to save the planet". We all live on the same planet unless there's something I'm completely unaware of like the planned colonisation of the asteroid belt. Or maybe Venus has been habitable all along and it was just a big secret or something.

The BBC is a public service. The welfare of this planet and its ecosystem affects all of us. I can think of no public service more justifiable than saving our planet!

Secondly, some (expletive deleted) is trying to take the government to court to stop them showing "An Inconvenient Truth" as it's "politically biased". Is educating children about the Holocaust "politically biased"? Was Pol Pot simply misunderstood, do we now say he was trying to do the right thing with the materials at his disposal?

Of course the education system has the potential to indoctinate and brainwash children, thats what "education" ultimately boils down to, but this doesn't mean that the young and the public in general shouldn't be exposed to rational debate: This is the WORST form of sensorship, whoever is doing the sensoring.

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