Peter Cunningham writes: “The following article on BBC online “US abortion rights in the balance?” ends with the sentence “And for many women with unwanted pregnancies in that southern state, little would change.” It is interesting that the author choose not to use the equivalent, “And for many unborn babies in California, little would change – they would continue to be killed.”
Ritter pointed out this Newswatch article on the higher coverage of the white-on-black murder of Anthony Walker compared to the coverage of the black-on-white murder of Richard Whelan, the asian-on-white murder of Christopher Yates, or various other killings. Ritter writes, “I agree with the editors laying out of the facts in terms of how these horrific murders are covered by the BBC. I don’t agree with his conclusion though. One horrific murder is not much more newsworthy than another simply because it is classed as ‘racist’. But at the BBC, this fact is all important.”
Another correspondent pointed out this story: Gaza gang seizes lion in zoo raid. She writes, “This is an item about how a “mafia-style gang” may be holding a lion-cub and two ‘Arabic-speaking parrots’ – fine as far as it goes. She adds:
But please note the following:
“The BBC’s Alan Johnston in Gaza says human abductions in the Gaza Strip usually end with the victim being freed quite quickly and unharmed”.
There is something soooooooo nauseatingly mild and reassuring about this. It’s saying, well there are kidnappings, but absolutely no need to condemn or worry about them because, don’t you see, nothing happens to the victim, it’s quite lot of fun really for them, takes them out of their boring routine.
Where is the condemnation of such a horrible crime against humans, and awful for animals too?
There have been a number of kidnappings in Gaza, which is in a state of chaos and lawlessness since the israeli withdrawal. Often the kidnap victims are foreign aid workers and journalists. I just wonder if Alan Johnston and the BBC are worried he could become such a victim if he doesn’t say the right things on the BBC website to appease potential kidnappers.
So we are forced to pay for such appeasement through our licence fee.
As usual, could correspondents note that I will quote their names if and as they appear in the text of the email, or, if taken from a comment, using the form of their names that they have filled in the comments box. Let me know if your name has been quoted when you would prefer it was not, or omitted when you would prefer to have it quoted. Do not rely on my memory!
J.G.
Israel missile test ‘successful’
I also noticed that, but because of the sneer quotes. The BBC continually puts any statement from the Israelis in quotes, indicating that there’s no way it will accept the truth of anything the Jews say, but swallows the Palestinian narrative whole. It would be hard to find a clearer indicator of its bias, given the misinformation streaming from the Palestinian side.
Can anyone imagine this headline from the BBC:
Gaza reconstruction ‘successful’
Or:
Palestinians ‘stick to truce’
I can’t. When the BBC does put a Palestinian statement in quotes, there’s no sly agenda behind it.
The BBC goes to such extraordinary lengths to perpetuate its bias.
What’s it going to take to get the leaky Plett and the US basher Webb fired from our bbc?
“What’s it going to take to get the leaky Plett and the US basher Webb fired from our bbc?”
Somehow hypnotise them into producing pro-Bush articles. They’d be out of the door in 30 seconds.
A tall order though – it might fry their brains as it would totally go against their programming. Well, never mind, some risks just have to be taken.
For anyone who doesn’t believe the BBC is biased, I invite them to listen to or read the website of “From Our Own Adolescent” (or rather “From Our Own Correspondent” as they officially call it).
Simply dripping with anti-US, anti-Christian, pro-Left and pro-Islamic bias. Then again why should we be surprised? Any programme hosted by Kate Aidie is hardly going to be balanced…
More from “From our Own Adolescent”:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4487998.stm
“This fight is not about religion, or ideology, or race…the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “a dispute over real estate.” ”
That’s why you are so dangerous – you have completely swallowed this rubbish and just can not (or will not) see the real agenda, which is the extermination or expulsion of all Jews from the Middle East. How can it be anything else, when the Palestinians rejected 95% of a new state even as a starting point for negotiations? Ever considered that, Ms Guerin?
O/T
More questions for Charles Kennedy, MP to answer:
http://tinyurl.com/88vpd
How long before the Beeb reports it?
Staff at the BBC have accused the corporation of squandering licence fee payers’ money on excessive transport and accommodation costs.
BBC employees have told the corporation that its internal travel service is, in some instances, buying hotel rooms, taxi fares and train tickets at more than three times the normal rate.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/04/nbeeb04.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/12/04/ixhome.html
On R5 “Upallnight” an interview was held with a loon who has travelled throughout the UK & US on £5/$5 per day – basically begging transport, food & accommodation from kind people – who may have been influenced by the presence of a camera crew.
However the camera crew travelled & slept in 5* style so the loon’s frugality will not necessarily have been translated into cheap programming for the licence payer
Hah, “BBC” and “value for money” in the same sentence. Other similar amusing juxtapositions of words or phrases:
“Balanced” and “The Independent”
“Open minded” and “Osama Bin Laden”
“Integrity” and “French Politics”
Rob
“from our own adolescent” LOL!
has any body seen the bbc report abou the iran air crash. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4502966.stm look its the wests fault again. :Officials blame the high frequency of crashes on a lack of aviation spare parts due to US sanctions.