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I mentioned last week about the Mail's attitude towards the BBC. My theory is that they see the Beeb as direct (and unfair) competition, given that the BBC is funded by the evil state; and as the DMGT share price plummets, the attacks on Auntie will gather pace.

Anyway, have a look at today's news list at the Mail website and see if you can spot anything interesting:

The Lancashire mafia spring on Brown a PM faces the 'beginning of the end'
Whips launch witch-hunt over `Pollygate' email sent to every Labour MP
Kate McCann's secret diary: 'How can I go on knowing Madeleine's life could have ended like this?'
Thousands stranded as two airlines collapse - but their bankrupt boss is still driving a Bentley
David Cameron's wife uses photograph of Tory leader and son to sell Christmas cards
Fury as BBC boss 'tells staff to lay off Labour'
Now Met boss Dizaei is accused of 'making up' evidence against suspect accused of attacking him with a hubbly-bubbly pipe
Promising teenage footballer stabbed to death outside bar
Church makes 'ludicrous' apology to Charles Darwin - 126 years after his death
Pictured: Smiling Thatcher meets PM on nostalgic trip to Chequers
MI6 spy-turned-author John Le Carre reveals: 'I was tempted to defect to the Soviet Union during the Cold War'
24 killed in Los Angeles after commuter train smashes into freight train
Hurricane Ike hits Texas...as towering waves lash 100,000 homes on the coastline
My 'dead' husband's in Cyprus with a mountain of cash says angry wife of £53m Securitas raid suspect
EU motorcycle laws cost Britain millions in new test centres ... just so riders can do emergency stops at precisely 31mph
British security services 'recorded Omagh bombers phone calls' - but still failed to prevent attack Six children, four mothers - and one father none of them has met. Meet the `family' of Donor 66
Suspect in Meredith murder demands separate trial fearing Foxy Knoxy and boyfriend are plotting against him
Fury as BBC boss 'tells staff to lay off Labour'
British soldier killed in Afghanistan named by MoD
Police watchdog probes Met officer who 'told race-claim lawyer how to win court case against his own force'
Blood clot fears on UK's `cattle-truck' railways
Young mother who admitted hiding her two stillborn babies in shoe boxes escapes jail
No10 in secret bid to recruit Obama aides to help beat Cameron
'Have more babies and Muslims can take over the UK' hate fanatic says, as warning comes that 'next 9/11 will be in UK'

Christ, I've lost the will to live just looking at the headlines. But here are just two stories on the news list:

Fury as BBC boss 'tells staff to lay off Labour'

at number six, and

Fury as BBC boss 'tells staff to lay off Labour'

at position 19. Just in case you didn't miss it, I should imagine.

And the story? Well:

The BBC was at the centre of a political bias row last night over claims a senior executive told reporters to ‘go easy’ on the Labour Government now it is lagging behind the Tories in the polls.
According to a well-placed source, the man in charge of BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today In Parliament told his staff that it was right to be ‘aggressive’ when things were going well for the Government but not when it was in trouble.
Some of those present were outraged by the comments attributed to Peter Knowles, editor of the BBC’s parliamentary programmes, at an ‘away day’ gathering in London.

Hang on, if the BBC's so biased, why does the idea of 'going easy on Labour' 'outrage' anyone? Although:

He was strongly defended by fellow managers. ‘It is absurd to suggest anyone would stand up and say, “Look, we should abandon impartiality and go easy on the Government,” ’ said one.
‘Peter did not say that. It is not a version of events that he recognises.’

But that's not the point. The foaming Mailites don't read those bits of a story. The headline, which seems pretty certain about what's happened, and the first three pars are enough to convince them that something has definitely happened, and they pile in with the usual bashing comments that the Mail no doubt laps up.

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