The AM Glass Box
Welcome to the AM Glass Box - your chance to help shape tonight's PM.
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
Just as the PM Glass Box emulates the meeting we have AFTER the show, the AM Glass Box will be like the real meeting we have every day at 11.00, in that all ideas are welcome.
Just like the real meeting, most ideas that are suggested will not make it on air. But we would like to try this to see how it works. It's best that you make your suggestion before 10am.
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Eddie and Team
When the Mumbai attacks took place last year, the media covered in the days that followed. As the details emerged, all the mainstream press declared the 'terrorists' were of British origin. (The exception was the Daily Mail which went with the Damian Green story.) Their reporting ranged in intensity, from saying '7 out 10' of the 'terrorists' had travelled from Britain, to one paper(Mirror) even going as far as naming the towns from where they came: Leeds, Bradford and Hartlepool. This went on for several days.
The Ch4 programme on the Mumbai attacks last night showed there was no truth in these claims.
The press coverage last year resulted in a fairly charged atmosphere at the time. Racist attacks and other troubles might well have followed.
How does this happen?
Is it a form of 'media groupthink?'
Does the regulatory body follow these up?
Should you get an Editor from the Times, Express or Mirror on the prog to explain themselves?
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Get Ray O'Lieary on from National Xpress so you can call him out on his bull about 'maybe carrying on with the franchise' if things get better.
Is that a flying pig I see on the East Coast Mainline ??
And will it affect the profit they make on their other franchises ? 'Will it heck!'
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The 'benefit thieves' threat public information film is back after its apparent hiatus during the MP expenses revelations.
1. Why do the government think the public need to reminded that this is a crime? They know, and there are plenty of worse ones around.
2. Those on benefits are the poorest amongst us. Why do the poor in particular need to be warned in this way? Are they all potential criminals, or merely feckless? A ministerial opinion would be welcome.
3. Will MPs be given a DVD 'How not to milk public funds to enrich yourself on the property market' complete with stern warnings about fines, imprisonment, and a criminal record?
4. Will the government ever stop demonising groups within its own electorate to pander to the narrow-minded i.e. the folk who believe BNP nonsense, rather than just protest voting ?
5. How have they got the gall to show this rot after what they have done?
I lost it a bit there. I'm angry.
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Your Lordship didn't I hear the CEO of NX go further than whats being quoted.
And as for Rob Peston comments.
Shouldn't this be expanded.
Hint Hint
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I think you'd be right to do something on the system of Rail franchises tonight. After all, these companies are involved in one of the essential transit systems of the country. I seem to remember that one of the franchisees recently complained that the length of the franchise terms was too short, reducing the incentive of the operators to invest in newer rolling stock, improvements to the services, etc. I'd like to hear more from that side of things. It would also be interesting to hear what (if at all) is being done to increase the use of the rail system to move freight around the country.
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scousedwill - Well, it may not have been a 'direct quote' as I was relying on my memory.
But this stinks, it's a scandal, and although the Eye gives early warning on a lot of things, I feel this has come out of the blue..
Shocking and disgusting. But of course, it is only the taxpayer's money, and there is plenty more where that came from to, er, throw up against a wall...
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Sorry, but I would also like to contrast the amount of coverage of that Air France flight that went down with the other air crash involving French people.
How do the editors decide that one is so much more important the other ?? Surely not because one happens on a 'slow news' day ?
Perish the thought !!
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Well, this is how it is:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=192
And this is how the Bank of England thinks, ....er.. thought,...er....realises it isn't with probability....(right hand side, green fans)
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/inflationreport/irfanch.htm
Look at when it was that, according to the BoE, the economy hit zero growth.
In February it said, 'In the middle of of 2008'
In May it said 'In the middle of 2008'
But Flaunders told us that the economy went into recession earlier than 'we' thought.
But the ONS shows all three sources to be wrong (Where DID Stephanie get her version from?)
The economy hit zero growth at the end of 2008 and only went into recession in the last quarter.
There's one other thing that strikes immediately. In the two BoE accounts the first quarter in 2009 shows a perceptible decline in the rate that the economy is shrinking.
But the ONS shows that to be completely untrue.
How did this second error arise? Well, given the first, one could mention tails on donkeys or some other inappropriate process of random selection.
But the real reason is probably self fulfilling delusion.
The BoE thinks the economy is BOUND to go back up like it came down. Starting at the beginning of the third quarter, they thought in February. No, wait, starting in the middle of the second quarter, they decided, in May.
And if you draw your graphs to show that mirror growth pattern - the U shaped valley, the graph just HAS to ease up in the first quarter.
Now the BoE is saying it did, even though it DIDN'T.
There's still NO evidence, as opposed to the old wishful thinking, the NOBLE LIE, that the economy is bottoming out, is there Nils?
We should be told.
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Is it a bird ? Is it a plane ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/8127670.stm
No, it's a 'superpod' !!
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Darkdesign (4)
I am in total agreement with you.
As you might well be aware, they have started electioneering for the next election already. You may have noticed there has been a marked ratcheting up of knocking one another from the two main parties. Attacking each others assumed policies rather than explaining their own.
One of the essential flavourings for an election recipe is the bashing of those you have already taken away the voice of through years of deliberate propaganda rather than policies that would help. This is because they know that to help the poorest in society would actually mean taking from the 'have mores' and giving it to the 'have a lot less'. This would definitely be a vote looser. So what you do is steriotype the poor into mostly being made up of the cast of 'Shameless' and say "see its there own fault". "if they worked really hard (like we don't) they could claw and drag themselves out of poverty maybe". All they have to do is conform by admitting to themselves that it is their own problem ,and perhaps fault that they are jobless, aspiration starved, disaffected and marginalised".
While the politicos want to carry on business as usual. That is to say the privileged few, dominating the the poorest majority by trying to convince us through various guises that this is the way it was intended to be either through genetics or by God. There are though an increasing number who are seeing through the lies.
Its called hypocrisy.
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Eddie,
Don't let the expenses, second jobs, second homes, disgrace gain any favour by allowing them to believe we might have forgotten about their corruption and stealing.
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I think the idea of a 'public broadcast' film to keep MPs on the straight and narrow is a great one. Could Eddie do the voice over?
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National Express is being run by a dog !
http://en-gb.facebook.com/ray.oleary
'sausages'...
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Big Sis,
Now there would be a novelty. Yeah, couldn't think of a better more resect voice. Good Idea.
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Big Sister (13) perhaps one for Punt and Dennis?
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Great idea, Anne! Hang on, does anyone have their number?
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Testing (whether this now works with IE7 - note IE8 is the latest)
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Ah, good. Having been here but rarely of late, I wonder if this has already been posted:
I want a floating duck house
I want to clear my moat
I need to mend my tennis court
Thats why I need your vote.
I have to build a portico
My swimming pool needs mending
My lovely plants need horse manure
And the Aga needs much tending
A chandelier is vital
Mock Tudor boards are great
My hanging baskets won awards
And Ive earned a tax rebate.
I need a glitter toilet seat.
My piano so needs tuning
Maltesers help me stay awake
And my orchard must need pruning
I could have said the rules were wrong
And often thought I should,
But somehow it was easier
To profit all I could
The public really have to see
That the rules are there to test
And by defrauding taxpayers
We were just doing our best
The Speaker of the House has gone,
Our sacrificial beast,
But the public are still praying
For our corpses at the feast
What do the public want from us,
Those vote-wielding ingrates?
They really should be grateful
To be financing our estates.
The message is so very clear,
(were merely learning late)
That the British way of living well
Is to screw the blinking* state.
Anon
* Word changed for good taste.
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Well, Vyle (18) it works on Firefox 3.5 (latest release) on Windows...
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My comment at 2 has been removed, referred to the mods, but no email explaining why, and now I can't remember what I wrote.
People get a bit touchy when it gets this hot.
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Richard_SM
Just for clarity, could you be a bit more specific about who's included in 'the mainstream press'?
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