Could there be a posse of pixel setting Reds in the technical dept of the beeb who've done this?
Incidentally, is that a MCC tie that Bloom is wearing?
That would certainly take some organising. First of all, quite a few people would have to be involved including the director of the programme plus the vision mixer and then the technical crew who would have to mock up a fake digital 'pixel drop out'.
When you think of it in those terms, it sounds quite far fetched that the BBC would deliberately leave itself open to allegations of bias, especially as it could quite easily be proven (by tech experts).
I find it quite surprising that anyone could believe this.
Perhaps, but however it happened, they couldn't wait to make the most of it. Why bring up comments he made at school? I'm sure we've all said some daft things in our time.
Yes, it was the media i was criticising, not yourself, sp. He won't get an easy ride, but sometimes the reporters/papers make themselves look more stupid than whoever they are trying to ridicule. They have misrepresented/misunderstood the other meaning of "sluts" and asking someone why all the faces are white in a photo is a clearly racist remark and should have been thought out first. Although smacking a reporter on the head with a leaflet is not the most intelligent response.
I don't think smacking reporters will lose him any votes. But I don't think this was deliberate by the Beeb - it looks like a captioning glitch; note that there's another one above his head.
These are the MCC colours, nothing like Farage's tie
// seems odd to me, conveniently under the nose, how precise is that? //
I imagine Farage was moving about a bit on screen. The black rectangle could have been over his mouth, over his chin, between his eyes.
They have just taken a screen capture at a point it was under his nose.
And this is not how it was broadcast to the public. This was a tv screen in the studio possibly in the background. When the live feed from Farage was boadcast, it would not have had the tash.