Why Uncover News when you can use the old stuff? The BBC seems to be stuck in the glory years of the 1980's when they reported on seals being killed, on the Amazon basin under threat, and on Aborigines campaigning for their birth rights. That's why they're reporting seals being killed, the Amazon basin under threat, and Aborigines campaigning for their birth rights.


I suppose each issue deserves a separate hearing, but I am sure these represent a small fraction of the environmental and human issues that are ongoing at the moment. For one example, an unexamined factoid that emerged from a BBC report on Rwanda was that 20, 000 Rwandan genocide suspects were released from prison last year. They had faced no trial, and we do not know how many innocent men may have been locked up for years without trial, or how many murderers have been released serving less than ten years. Big issue, I'd have thought; current news I'd have thought; but nothing about it except the factoid. Yet here we have either bleeding hearts (over seal culls), a complex developmental argument (the Amazon) or the neverending industry of grievances that the Aborigines make out of their secret store of grievances- all reduced to advertising for protest movements. Get a life, BBC. Investigate today's news. Do something to surprise me.