on active service in Afghanistan, the fourth and fifth such deaths in the course of a week. Their deaths were reported as the second item on this evening’s BBC Ten O’Clock News bulletin. What story was judged by the BBC as being more important than the sacrifice of two British soldiers?
Yes, you’ve guessed it – the BBC’s fifteen minute long Ten O’Clock News programme was led by a full five minutes on the resignation of David Beckham as Captain of the England football team, with filmed pieces about the return of the squad (oh look, an aeroplane landing), the disappointment of Sven Goran Eriksson and an obituary style review of David Beckham’s time as captain, “those legendary free kicks”, and so on, even though Beckham has made it clear that he’s staying on as an England player.
The Beckham story is a big story – a big sports story – but it shouldn’t have led the Ten O’Clock News on any but the slowest of news days, and certainly not on a day with sad news like today. It’s not as if England’s football disappointment wasn’t fully covered yesterday, over and above the deaths of sixty people in a Baghdad bombing.
The producers of the Ten O’Clock News should be ashamed of their choice this evening – the British Broadcasting Corporation should know better.
“it’s always denial, statements of victimhood and passing the buck”
well, they *cant* apologise. we’re dirty , filthy kuffars arent we?
it’d be like Heinrich Himmler saying sorry about Treblinka.
(D)HYS’s most recommended posts on “How can the Muslim community be engaged?” aren’t exactly “on message” as far as multi-culti, PC Beeboids are concerned:
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=2&threadID=2421&edition=1&ttl=20060704184331&#paginator
Hazel;
Anyone see Jon Snow on channel 4 news, ‘interviewing’ the Israel Deputy Ambassador Zvi Ravner?
HonestReporting have it here:
http://www.honestreporting.co.uk/articles/critiques/Jon_Snows_Explosive_C4_Attack_on_Israel.asp
Further to (D)HYS’s most recommended posts on “How can the Muslim community be engaged?”
Jon Snow finds (via “snowmail”, & I presume, C4 News at 7pm)
I’ve just returned from Whitechapel where I spoke to Muslims near the mosque and non-Muslims at the infamous Blind Beggar where, legend has it the Krays once hung out.
Bizarrely, opinion was pretty united on Tony Blair’s declaration today that moderate Muslims need to stand up more against extremism in their midst and that it is time to tell extremists that their grievances are false.
This has irritated many who believe in both the grievances themselves and those who simply believe we should all have the right to air them.
Whereas massively recommneded posts on (D)HYS are more in accord with Blair, i.e. it’s time for the “Muslim Community” to integrate & isolate the extremists.
Oh, golly!
Most Britons see America as a cruel, vulgar, arrogant society, riven by class and racism, crime-ridden, obsessed with money and led by an incompetent hypocrite.
So speaks the D-T about a new survey.
Pity nobody bothered to ask those polled how they see themselves.
Many Brits struggle to even find the US on the map, so the poll raises obvious questions about the role of your media. Anyone care to interview Frei or Simpson on one subject they actually know about? It won’t happen, of course, but that won’t help Britain avoid the inevitable need to pay the piper.
For a preview, watch what’s happening as the wheels come off in NZealand and France.
Who needs you?
http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000751.html
and the classic :
http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/BBC.htm
I wonder if the BBC, as a further experiment(what exactly is the point of all of this?), will consider other national flags in certain parts of England. Any suggestions to pass onto them for the IslamExpo in London?
NEWSNIGHT – TUESDAY 4 JULY 22:30 BST – BBC TWO
SCOTLAND
The row over Newsnight Friday’s film continues. If you missed it, reporter Tim Samuels drove a car around Scotland bedecked in St George’s flags ahead of England’s game with Portugal.
Tim’s experiment met with a mixed reaction ranging from good-natured banter to foul language, but when he left it unattended in the Gallowgate area of Glasgow it was attacked within 20 minutes by a group of youths with bricks.
Today the SNP have criticised the programme and asked for a House of
Commons debate – we’ll be asking them why.
TPO
“I may be nit picking, but I find the BBC’s continued use of the word ‘rockets’ to describe the deadly missiles fired by Hamas terrorists into Israel as another piece of spin and manipulation.”
TPO | 03.07.06 – 10:24 am | #
The IDF call them “Qassam rockets”.
http://www1.idf.il/DOVER/site/mainpage.asp?clr=1&sl=EN&id=7&docid=42551
so maybe you are being a bit nit-picking.
Nice to see you back.
That was a long time at Sainsbury’s!
Do we have another distinguished visitor from the BBC on another thread?
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/patrickcrozier/115188137414176794/#292286
BBC1 6pm News had a report from Pakistan by dear Ms Plett. She shows that she has again gone native, at least in dress, only probably in opinions.
Just been scanning the new editors page on the bbc. Actually it looks like they follow a lot of what’s going on and being said on the blogs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/
Can it change the overall quality of BBC news output though?
Ah, I see the European Parliament want to make it harder for us to leave their Socialist paradise:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5143914.stm
I wonder why? Give me 100000 Euros and I’m off for good.
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John Reith
TPO
“I may be nit picking, but I find the BBC’s continued use of the word ‘rockets’ to describe the deadly missiles fired by Hamas terrorists into Israel as another piece of spin and manipulation.”
TPO | 03.07.06 – 10:24 am | #
The IDF call them “Qassam rockets”.
http://www1.idf.il/DOVER/site/ma…d=7&docid=42551
so maybe you are being a bit nit-picking.
Nice to see you back.
That was a long time at Sainsbury’s!
John Reith
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That’s a fair point, John, they do call them ‘rockets’ or ‘Kassam Rockets’.
However, they also call the people firing them ‘terrorists’ rather than ‘militants’.
Crack on, then, you’ve got lots of changes to make.
:o)
just seen on guido
http://5thnovember.blogspot.com/2006/07/meanwhile-back-at-ranch.html
“You can tell it is a big story because Nick Robinson is ignoring it“
Biodegradable
Thanks for the tip. I’ve just emailed Snow and Ch 4 news.
Hazel
Hamas rocket attack on Ashkelon:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885918391&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Olmert calls it a “grave escalation”.
Ashkelon, unlike Sderot, does not have the Red Dawn early warning system.
this attack is buried in this BBC report:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5145846.stm
what the BBC dont mention is that it hit a school playground. (although thankfully, nobody was injured)
as an antidote to the BBC’s constant trashing of the US :
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/07/a_world_without_america.html
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/394fhqwe.asp
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2006/07/tim_montgomerie.html
Biased BBC and how it blatantly lies to defend those who wish to kill us.
Muslim cartoon protest man fined
A man arrested after a protest march in London over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad has been fined for failing to notify police about the demo.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5148364.stm
So how does the BBC describe that protest march to the great unwashed;
‘Some of the placards waved outside the Danish Embassy during the protest are alleged to have incited violence.’
Alleged Al beeb?
Here is how the guardian reported the above;
‘Most of the placards appeared on Friday, running through permutations on several themes. They read: “Butcher those who mock Islam”, “Slay those who insult Islam”, “Behead those who insult Islam”, and “Kill those who insult Islam”. Some evoked previous al-Qaida suicide bombings: “Europe you will pay, your 9/11 is on the way”, or “7/7 is on its way”, “Europe you will pay, fantastic 4 are on their way”, and “Europe you will pay, Bin Laden is on his way”. As well as the rhyming “Europe you’ll come crawling, when the Mujahideen come roaring”, there were splenetic varieties: “Freedom go to hell”, “Liberalism go to hell”, and “Freedom of expression go to hell”.’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1703181,00.html?gusrc=rss
Al Beeb dancing to its master’s fiddle.
if it wasnt so serious, it would make me laugh.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5148364.stm
dont those idiots understand the point of the cartoons?
the cartoons satirised the blood thirsty nature of Islam – so they go about protesting against that by being – well, blood thirsty. thereby confirming the validity of the satire in the cartoons.
if it was buddhists being satirised as being violent , they’d probably give you a big group hug while throwing flowers at you.
Biased BBC and how its disgr-ace of a reporter once again defends those who prefer the bullet and the bomb to the ballot box.
Madrassas ‘nothing to do with 7/7’
By Barbara Plett
BBC News, Karachi
The 7 July attacks in England last year once again drew attention to Pakistani madrassas, with allegations that a London suicide bomber had spent time in one.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5148502.stm
Allegations Miss Plett?
Tell me have you spent time in one. I have. In fact I have spent a lot of time in one. I had no choice it was either go or get the shit kicked out of me by my thug of a father.
(And it was in England too)
So I went, and I was taught that all Pakistani were evil, that Blacks cannot be trusted and that white people hated us. The only problem was we lived no where near the rest of the Muslims of my home town and walked around 30 minutes to get to the local masjid.
But hey Miss Plett I’m sure you’ve love to cover up how we preferred the company of white people to those of our own skin colour. About how I would rather play at the wreck (Yorkshire slang for playground) than go to daily prayers after school. How all my school friends would warn me, when my Muslim biological father would come a looking and how I would get a bloody good hiding by being tied up in the celler by my hands and getting whipped naked for bunking off religious indoctrination and all before the age of 10.
Have I told you Platt about I was beaten Black and Blue with a cane by the local Mullah for defending my younger sister, and how when my father came home he dragged me out of the cellar by my hair and on looking at the welt marks on my body (for having standing up for my own sister.) He let me crawl back to the pit my sister and I called home.
All of this happened Miss Platt in the 70s in the Uk . I have seen at first hand how f-ing polarised the Muslim community is. For you to stand there and try and tell me Mosques have no role what so ever in indoctrinating the young and impressionable is like saying that hell has frozen over.
Every idiot who commandeered a plane in 2001 was a member of a mosque.
Every idiot who blew himself up in London last year was a member of a mosque.
I am not saying all mosques are schools of evil.
But I am saying they do have a hand in the scheme of things.
Like you I have seen the evil that men do in the name of religion.
Unlike you I will never defend them. Be it Eastern, Western or Middle Eastern.
Please feel free to respond I will be waiting to prove you wrong.
“Snatched Iraqi minister is freed ”
Wow I thought, the headline says they have actually let someone go. Better read more:
“Iraq’s deputy electricity minister and bodyguards kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad have been released, Iraqi officials have said.”
Yes, it seems it is true, they have been released……but wait, what’s this?
“The guards managed to free themselves and then the deputy minister, Raad al-Harith, the officials said.”
????? So, let me get this straight, they weren’t freed, they weren’t released, they ESCAPED.
How much lower can the BBC go?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5145876.stm
for the US visitors to this site :
http://www.exposetheleft.com/2006/07/04/happy-230th-america/
pounce:
So how does the BBC describe that protest march to the great unwashed;
‘Some of the placards waved outside the Danish Embassy during the protest are alleged to have incited violence.’
See a video of it here, and hear the slogans:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19405&only
Bio
There goes the BBC again, sanitising evil
Today is the Yanks’* day of independence and I think that it is only right and proper to post a link that serves as a perfect riposte to Dominic Casiani’s BBC article, which has been brutally fisked above.
The link perhaps provides some answers to the questions posed by Casiani’s dismal piece of hackery. The link also – tacitly – offers possible motives for the actions of the 7/7 posse and offers some insight into the how Islam views its relationship with the Western world.
Take it away, Robert Spencer.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/012088.php
* I use the term ‘Yanks’ affectionately, not pejoratively.
How many BBC viewers/listeners/readers do you think have or have had bodyguards?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5148356.stm
Have you ever had bodyguards you would have felt safer without? Do you feel they are a liability full stop? Or perhaps you think they always get a bad press? Send us your comments using the form below.
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bets on it staying?
Biodegradable | 04.07.06 – 5:19 pm
If I were a betting man, I’d put a lot of money on that post staying on HYS. I also complained about it. They’ll simply ignore all complaints.
Bryan,
It is still there.
Recommended by 3 people
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=1&threadID=2304&start=15&tstart=0&&&&edition=2&ttl=20060704234424
The most recommended, with a few exceptions, are typical products of “Palestinian” disinformation as mirrored by the BBC.
Israel vows to keep up Gaza raids
Fair enough, except that the “Latest” ticker on http://news.bbc.co.uk/ International version that links to that piece says “Israeli PM vows revenge after Palestinian rocket attack on a school.”
Nowhere is Olmert quoted as using the word “revenge”.
I thought the BBC were concerned about using “loaded” words like ‘kidnap’, ‘terrorist’ etc. yet here they are doing their best to misrepresent the Israeli PM.
@archduke.
If I was Olmert, I would be puting down some fuel air bombs at this point. As I see it the best response to vaporise each location from which Kassams are launched irregardless of the circumstances of the location.
The only way to end popular support for terrorism is to the bring the reality of the futility of war home untill the terrorists are defeated.
That is exactly what General Sherman did, and that is what convinced the South that the Civil war could not be won.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5148554.stm
Israel PM warns of ‘escalation’
Last Updated: Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 21:30 GMT 22:30 UK
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“His remarks came after the crude device struck an empty school in the deepest rocket strike inside Israel yet.”
So the ‘device’ is crude? I thought they were home-made, or was it clumsy?
What kind of ‘device’ was it? Was it a flying toaster or a tin of “Tate and Lyle’s Golden Syrup” with wings?
“While Qassams regularly strike another Israeli town, Sderot, Ashkelon is further away from Gaza – some 10km (six miles) – and has been spared direct hits until now.”
At least the BBC admits that the rocket bombs are fired regularly.
“The Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, whose Gaza offices were hit in a symbolic Israeli missile strike two days ago, appealed on Tuesday for Cpl Shalit’s life to be spared.
“The government… is still calling for preserving the life of the captured Israeli soldier and for him to receive good treatment,” Mr Haniya said”
Fascinating, now which groups “military wing” was the lead organiser of the kidnapping syndicate? Does it start with an ‘H’ ?
More boilerplate propaganda from Alan Johnston.
No swift solution to Gaza crisis
[…]
And while Israel is in Gaza it has business besides Cpl Shalit.
It will attend to militants firing rockets across the border into southern Israel. These are crudely made devices that very rarely kill or cause serious damage.
a) Israel IS NOT “in Gaza”.
b) I’m fed up to the back teeth with this repetition of the “crudely made devices that very rarely kill or cause serious damage” mantra!
Charles Johnson’s correct use of the English language. Alan Johnston please note.
Palestinians Attempt Mass Murder
Just watched the BBC coverage of the Shuttle Launch. Never seen such biased anti-american reporting ever.
Sickening….
I would like to know… does the BBC actualy have simple journalists?
Top tip – GOOGLE IT!
So, what political party was the defendent in this case…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/5145492.stm
…a member of?
So can the BBC online ask on “Have Your Say” – “Are you from Japan? do you feel threatened by some random country lobbing missiles at you”????
I’ve got 50GBP on they dont.
The July 7th bombs that killed so many Londoners were crude, home made devices.
Can John Reith tell us if the BBC is planning on mentioning this during the anniversary reports?
.
The Beeb is a crudely made organisation that fails to provide us with unbiased news. Amen!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5148232.stm
No swift solution to Gaza crisis
Last Updated: Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 18:42 GMT 19:42 UK
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“The days since his capture have revealed the limitations of its diplomatic and military options.”
No, they have only revealed that the
Israeli’s are patient and restrained, in the face of an attack on their soverign territory and the kidnapping of a soldier.
The IDF could easily turn Gaza city into to Dresden if they so wished.
“There are about 9,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails. Israel regards many of them as terrorists, but in the eyes of the people of Gaza they are heroes of their national liberation struggle.”
Israel regards many of them as terrorists? Why are these people in Israeli jail then? It costs alot to feed the five thousand.
Did they forget to pay the telly tax?
— Now this is special, watch closely.
“Palestinians feel that they have some leverage here over Israel and for the moment at least, they can dictate terms.
Needless suffering
Israel has tried to undermine that sentiment. It has put considerable pressure on the civilian population. The air force has knocked out nearly half of Gaza’s electricity supply, and initially it cut all flows of food and fuel to the territory.”
So then this “suffering” isn’t needless, it has a firm and logical basis. The Israeli’s are trying to convince the palestinians that they don’t have nearly the leverage they think they do. The goal is to convince the palestinains to hand back the kidnapped soldier unmolested.
Also Israel is letting shipments of fuel and food in, no one is starving in Gaza.
“But the mood here only seemed to harden in Hamas’s favour.
At the same time, the tactic has played badly around the world.”
Really? With whom did it play badly? The UN, the Swiss, the Palestinians, and the BBC.
The US doesn’t care, the EU doesn’t care, the UK doesn’t care, and Russia doesn’t care. NO ONE CARES ANYMORE!
“If they were to thrust into the refugee camps – as they have in the past – there would be many Palestinian casualties. And many of those killed in the alleyways would be children and teenagers. ”
And the casualties would be self inflicted. If you don’t want to killed by a tank, don’t do anything to annoy the people inside of it.
“But the Israelis will be doing everything they can to establish where the soldier is being held. They have a network of collaborators built up in Gaza during nearly 40 years of occupation.”
“Collaborators”, that is a very loaded word. Perhaps “informants” would be better. Of course anyone who helps to fight terrorism is collaborator to the BBC.
“The soldier may well be in the company of the most senior Hamas militants. These are men who have stayed a step ahead of the Israelis for years in Gaza’s urban maze.”
Well what exactly would that imply Mr Johnson? No doubt he thinks that the “most senior Hamas militants” have no connection to the politicians.
And now the winner of the 1000 Guineas
“It will attend to militants firing rockets across the border into southern Israel. These are crudely made devices that very rarely kill or cause serious damage.”
“The army may well take control of farmland and outlying parts of the north of the territory to deny these areas to the rocket men.”
And cripple the Palestinian Aerospace industry as well.
anonymous, they sure didn`t forget to mention the party affiliation in these cases
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1751552.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2248599.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3899161.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2536075.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3911955.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2823705.stm
BBC protecting its beloved Labour Party………Nah!
Here`s more schlock from the ever spudthick BBC
‘Trying not to harbour hatred’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5130044.stm
Had that been my wife, I`d never forgive, I`d never forget and I`d resent the relativism of a statement such as injuries sustained on the bus blast in Tavistock Square
It wasn`t a freakin` bus blast it was ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN LONDON, ENGLAND.
Anonymous | 05.07.06 – 1:43 am
If only the beeboids had learned to use Google – they could have picked up the following gem:
http://www.red-star-research.org.uk/rpm/inglis.html
I’d like to know how many people throughout the world hear and believe what they hear from the BBC about America. A billion? Or more? And all that ‘stuff’ the whole world has been told had nothing to do with 9/11, did it? It is a “nation speaking ‘peace’ unto nations”? There is a catastrophic failure to own responsibility that allows this continue.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5144372.stm
“Poland marks anti-Semitic pogrom”
Last Updated: Wednesday, 5 July 2006, 00:24 GMT 01:24 UK
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“His comments came at a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of an anti-Semitic massacre in which 42 people, mostly Jews, were killed by Poles in Kielce.”
Who else besides jews are killed in an “anti-Semitic massacre”? I imagine some palestinians were killed as well, but that ‘palestine’ didn’t exist back then.
“After rumours spread that a young Polish boy had been kidnapped by a Jewish family, some of the city’s residents and the police killed an estimated 40 Jews.”
So then its reasonable to assume that all the victems were jews. Especially given that the motivation was an alleged kidnapping of a young Polish boy by a Jewish family.
“The violence caused many of Poland’s 250,000 Jews who survived the Holocaust to emigrate.”
And also Poland was communist. A good enough reason to leave. Many of the survivors lost thier entire families so they had little link to poland, other than that it was thier pre-war home.
That was me
HA! The BBC does a bit of stealthy cleanup.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5148554.stm
Israel PM warns of ‘escalation’
Last Updated: Wednesday, 5 July 2006, 00:34 GMT 01:34 UK
Search this haloscan file for “escalation” to find my previous comments
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“His remarks came after the crude device struck an empty school in the deepest rocket strike inside Israel yet.”
Changed to
“Mr Olmert’s warning came as the attack on Ashkelon struck an empty school in the deepest rocket strike inside Israel yet.”
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At least now we know that the school was not hit by a flying toaster.
Still the BBC isn’t telling us which terrorist group was lead organiser of the kidnapping syndicate.
To the BBC editors reading this blog, HINT: It starts with an ‘H’ and ends with an ‘S’.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885919803&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
“Hamas detainees get first lawyer visit”
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What other country would allow this? If the israeli governemtn had wanted to, it could have classified them as security prisoners and denied them acess to lawyers (or anyone else) for quite a bit longer.
“Earlier Kawar, Sa’adi Osama and representatives of the Israeli Arab human rights organization Adalah had petitioned the High Court, charging that the Prison Service was prohibiting the lawyers from meeting the three detainees, even though it had not issued a formal order prohibiting the visit.”
“A senior Prisons Authority officer told The Jerusalem Post Tuesday that the detainees were being treated just like all other security detainees and that no special considerations would be afforded them due to their political positions. Like other security prisoners, they are forbidden to possess cellular phones. While they are all entitled to a three-hour exercise in the prison courtyard, they are not permitted recess at the same time. Since Shalit’s kidnapping, no security prisoners have been permitted visitors.”
All things considdered, they are being treated quite nicely. For example, Richard Reid the shoebomber is being held in solitary, with only one hour of outside excerise.