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BBC Buys Google News Keywords In Kelly Case

foreign devil writes "BBC has purchased keywords related to coverage of the Hutton Inquiry in an attempt to direct all traffic to their special news coverage. This would be only moderately interesting, except the BBC is complicit in the death of Dr. Kelly and the 'sexing up' of the Iraq dossier. The article in the Guardian says this is coming out of the GBP 63.5m ad budget. I wonder how much it would cost them if someone, say, automated searching for those links on Google." It doesn't seem fair to pronounce the BBC complicit in Kelly's death (unless that's proven by the facts of the case), but it's certainly an interested party.

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  1. Re:BBC integrity? WHHAAAAAA! by xilmaril · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    no one worth there own pocket change claims the BBC has no bias. it just has bias similiar to a lot of people who read news

    everyone is bias, as some dead person once said.

  2. Re:Thank you by blackpaw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yet the Israelis, who blow up Palestinian babies and other non-combatants far more efficently and in greater numbers than the Palestinians, you think they are not terrorists ?

    Thats right, I forgot - they're government sanctioned, so its OK.