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The Daily Mail is worried, the sky is blue, and other obvious statements

January 30, 2011 3 comments

The Daily Mail has noticed a littleĀ  impartiality issue coming up for the BBC.

In an upcoming documentary, presented by political baldicoot Nick Robinson, the BBC will show the worst case scenarios caused by the government cuts in public spending.

Filming has already got underway. To show what we can expect our country to soon look like, a street in Preston was mocked up as ‘dire vision of municipal Armageddon’. The odd uncollected wheely bin is probably not technically an Armageddon, but you can see what they are trying here.

For those with an eye on impartiality, it will be interesting to see how the programme manages not to fall too heavily on one side of the argument. By hiring in 20 dogs to mark their territories on a Lancashire cul-de-sac, the obvious angle seems to be critical of Coalition policy. But they could quite easily present this downpour of dog dumps as only an unrealistic fear.

So whatever your political preference may be (please don’t tell me, you’ll only embarrass yourself), this documentary could well kick up a bit of stink.