. As Tim Blair reports, Iraq’s anti-terrorism demonstrations are ‘all over the internet’. Sadly, as well as missing out on coverage in newspapers, the demonstrations have somehow eluded our national broadcaster’s World edition website, renowned though the BBC is for its World Service. When you think of how they like to get the opinions of ‘real’ Iraqis, it’s strange they haven’t interviewed any of the marchers to see why they were risking their lives by defying the vicious Baathist losers. Funnily enough, this ‘crucial’ story hasn’t missed out, and nor has this opportunity to paint the USA in its usual colours. Update. To reinforce the picture, Nicholas Vance presents us with a good round up of what was not, and what was, the Ten O’clock News on the BBC last night (10 Dec. post).
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Just for the record, you’re absolutely right – it’s completely silly that the Beeb hasn’t covered these.
Not sure why you’re so scathing about the French headscarves story – it’s quite a significant clash of political correctnesses, with pretty significant implications in a country of over 4 million Muslims.
It’s not silly at all.
It’s simply not in the interest of the progressive wing of the human race, of which the BBC is splayed at the vanguard together with its compatriots at Al-Jazeera, Le Monde, and Pravda (e.g.), to countenance that there is any conflation between American/British/Allied actions in Iraq and the interests of the Iraqi populace (unless the latter can, in no small way, be portrayed as either lackeys or quislings of the oil-thirsty, imperialist, colonialist, Zionist-supporting, Nazi American entity—by no means to be understood as dislike of the American people, of course).
Obscene, certainly, but by no means silly.
(To be sure, given such short notice, the BBC has been unable to portray the Iraqi protesters in quite the way it would like. Not yet. In the interest of fairness, though, the least one could do is give the BBC a bit of time to find itself the correct angle on this affair.)
What on earth will they do when the world passes them by? – when they have nothing else to hate? – when the nations and the people they loath feed and clothe the poor of humanity?
They will pat themselves on the back and try to take credit for it – because the NEEEED YOUR LOVE…. and the boys at the bar wont talk to them!