Sometimes when you read an article on the BBC News web site you have to wonder if their journalists get gifts from Microsoft every week or if they just live in 5-star hotels at the expense of the Redmond giant.
RoughlyDrafted tears BBC Columnist a new rectum regarding his recent article comparing Apple to Microsoft.
It’s bad enough that the BBC needs to bend facts to support fear, uncertainty and doubt about the iPhone. Now consider that the BBC–as a public corporation funded by British TV license taxes–is building its web video strategy on failed, proprietary technology propped up by an internationally convicted monopolist. At the same time, its publishing a uninformed rant based on speculation and conjecture that accuses Apple of doing things that approach the gravity of its own activities.
This hypocrisy slows from the words of Bill Thompson, who followed the crowd in reporting that Microsoft’s failed appeal in its EU monopoly case says less about Microsoft’s established, anticompetitive practices spanning the last thirty years than it does about Apple’s iPod popularity over the last five.
Thompson weeps for Microsoft because “its every move is examined for evidence that it might be making life difficult for its rivals,” while noting that “some of its competitors seem to get a very easy ride.” One might expect the BBC to make excuses for the crimes of its iPlayer partner as it giggly walks lockstep with Microsoft in using the company’s proprietary and Windows-only DRM for video distribution of its publicly funded content.
Read RoughlyDrafted and don’t bother going to the BBC web site. If they’re not making up facts to help the Government justify a war then they’re doing infomercials about their business partners.
Twunts.