Apologies.

107 Responses to Apologies.

1. JohninLondon says:

   July 6, 2005 at 7:57 pm

   DJ

   Interesting that the Head of World News, Richard Sambrook, appears to be taking the threats to the Afghan blogger seriously enough to investigate.

   Let’s hope he is more thorough than the cock-up he made with Gilligan !

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2. Andrew Paterson says:

   July 6, 2005 at 9:58 pm

   Interesting Dan, though I can’t help but notice how much the BBC play up his former ties to Enron…. It seems they think that is just as important as the actual story.

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3. Hal says:

   July 7, 2005 at 8:21 am

   Dan, read your link on the BBC’s report into the Lords Global Warming Report. How it ends is as revealing as how it begins. Truly scandalous.

   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_po…ics/ 4655373.stm

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4. Lee says:

   July 7, 2005 at 9:02 am

   OFF TOPIC- Something you may have already covered here, another ex BBC employee, a producer from the Today program, and author of a book on the Today program admits that:

   “it is painfully obvious that the corporation (BBC) is saturated with left-wing values. It disparages competition and worships consensus. Views prevalent in liberal universities percolate through every aspect of policy. Political correctness and cultural relativism are holy writ. Democracy is usually good, but not in America where it produces the wrong result…..Producers argued when asked to consider private schools in a report on educational standards and complained when instructed to interview a French opponent of the euro.
   BBC journalists are aware of their duty to be impartial but they understand it intellectually not instinctively. While the BBC would never endorse one political party, its dominant attitudes are rigidly social democratic. Those values are so dominant that they are treated as virtues not opinions. It is why a BBC correspondent cried when Yassir Arafat died and a Today presenter referred to the Labour Party as “we”.
   These political prejudices are innate because too few BBC employees have ever experienced life in the free market and those who have are often refugees from it. The corporation grows its own managers in preference to recruiting from outside and advertises for staff in left-wing newspapers.”

   http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-1559499,00.html

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5. Anonymous says:

   July 7, 2005 at 9:37 am

   “Bring me some BBC links describing some rampaging Muslims as “fanatics” and “mobs” and “extremists” and I’ll concede you made a point”

   Here you go:
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3496638.stm
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4184359.stm

   “I never mentioned LK Advani — so why do you bring him up now?”

   It’s interesting to be lectured on relvancy when you managed to shoehorn a secondhand account of the BBC’s commentary of Beslan into the argument.

   Advani is important because as the leader of the Hindu nationalist party, it is patently clear that he is playing politics with this issue. On the one hand preaching tolerance, compromise and respect for law, on the other his supporters surge forth to tear down the mosque, he gets charged with incitement, and then commits to building a Hindu temple on the exact same site. Honest, compromise politics or plain old nationalism. You decide.

   By the way, as far as I can tell, the compromise offer came 10 years *after* the mosque was destroyed:

   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3050388.stm

   “I find your adamancy over this issue puzzling. Obviously you have some sort of personal attachment to the Ayodhya issue that is clouding your commentary. ”

   I find your continual habit of accusing someone who disagrees with you of having a vested interest puzzling and pathetically transparent. What’s your involvement in this specific issue? Why your adamacy? You *clearly* have a financial/political/other stake in denigrating muslims, anyone to the left of you, the BBC blah, blah.

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6. Anonymous says:

   July 7, 2005 at 9:40 am

   PS – don’t click on my “homepage”. It’s not my homepage and trojanned work PC puts the link in automatically.

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7. Susan says:

   July 7, 2005 at 3:10 pm

   Anonymous:

   I don’t know the date of the offer by Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati, but the fact is, the offer was made, and was rejected. The Beeb should have noted that in its current coverage of Ayodhya.

   I still don’t find in your links derogatory terms about Muslims that are comparable to the negative way that Hindus are routinely described by the Beeb in the Ayodhya issue.

   As for the personal insults to me and other stuff, I don’t have the heart to respond right now, because of the “militant” action today in London.

   I hope you have not been personally affected by the blasts. Take care.

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