{"id":36,"date":"2010-04-30T21:53:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T21:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=36"},"modified":"2010-07-09T22:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T22:24:54","slug":"trying-to-keep-the-bbc-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Trying to keep the BBC honest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deploy-clegg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39\" class=\"size-medium  wp-image-39\" title=\"Placard: &quot;Deploy The Clegg&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deploy-clegg-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deploy-clegg-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deploy-clegg.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Folkes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nick Clegg visited De Montfort University in Leicester today. The campus is near to two seats where the Lib Dems finished a close second in 2005: Leicester South and Harborough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haq4harborough.org.uk\">Zuffar Haq<\/a>, Lib Dem candidate for Harborough was on hand to welcome Nick to the area.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC would <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/election_2010\/8655162.stm\">have you think<\/a> (2nd image in their slideshow) that the visit was &#8220;ambushed&#8221; by Labour.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/libdems\/4564950297\/in\/photostream\/\">Alex Folkes&#8217; photos<\/a> show in fact that there were few Labour posters. it&#8217;s just that the BBC managed to get them all in one close-up shot. As you can see there a couple of home-made Lib Dem placards too.<\/p>\n<p>I have pointed this out to the BBC via their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/complaints\/forms\/\">complaints page<\/a> and also corrected them in their spelling of De Montfort.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/clegg-crowd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"size-medium  wp-image-40\" title=\"Nick Clegg speaks to a crowd of around  1000 at De Montfort University, Leicester\" src=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/clegg-crowd-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Clegg speaks to a crowd of around 1000 at De Montfort  University, Leicester\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/clegg-crowd-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/clegg-crowd.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Folkes<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Clegg visited De Montfort University in Leicester today. The campus is near to two seats where the Lib Dems finished a close second in 2005: Leicester South and Harborough. Zuffar Haq, Lib Dem candidate for Harborough was on hand to welcome Nick to the area. The BBC would have you think (2nd image in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23],"tags":[16,15,48,17,19,14,18],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-bbc","tag-de-montfort","tag-harborough","tag-leicester","tag-lib-dems","tag-nick-clegg","tag-zuffar-haq"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6dbnw-A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}