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.
Since praise is due where praise is due, I hereby award the BBC 6s/10d for this article on Lance Corporal Jabron Hashmi.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5144526.stm
Muslim soldier who wanted to help
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Certainly alot more solemn pride, and I think the family feel’s alot beetter knowing how appreciated their sons sacrifice is.
Not that this in any way detracts from the heroism of Corporal Peter Thorpe, who also died in the same attack.
Pounce you’re a hero. I hope your sister’s all right now.
6s/10d
NO. 6/10d
I thank Gordon-Bennett for unearthing that interesting article on the going-ons in Hull City Council. It appears that the (Labour) leader of the council – Colin Inglis – did not want the city’s police chief sacked for incompetence relating to the Soham murders because said police chief was blocking any investigation into the paedophilic activities of said council leader: and the BBC does not consider this worthy of note!
Dear Socialism Is Necrotizing (Re: 05.07.06 – 2:23 am),
Many thanks for finding those examples where the Beeb were able to provide us with the party affiliation of the people concerned.
However, time and again, the BBC lapses and fails to provide this information in certain other cases:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2882633.stm
I wonder what might explain why they are so assiduous in some cases and lackadaisical in others?
Hazel
In response to the question posed in my comment of 2.07 pm yesterday there has been a deafening silence
Cockney
“In fairness the event at Ally Pally was booked years ago””
Funny then that the Muslim Association of Britain should have started publicising the event only in January this year http://www.mabonline.info/englis…article&sid=648
Do you know this booking date for a fact or is this just wishful thinking on your part?
Umbongo | 04.07.06 – 2:07 pm |
Not that anybody has to reply to a question posed on this or any other thread but I think we can take it that Cockney was indulging in a bit of wishful thinking.
“Pounce you’re a hero.”
And so say all of us.
Hear, hear. Excellent post, Pounce.
Pounce, in attempting to fathom the reason behind the BBC statement:
‘Some of the placards waved outside the Danish Embassy during the protest are alleged to have incited violence.’
You forgot to cite the following placard that was shown that day:
“Behead those who say Islam is violent”
Presumably the BBC journalist is afraid.
Nice going Pounce.
The Beeb is a crudely made organisation that fails to provide us with unbiased news. Amen!
disillusioned_german | 05.07.06 – 2:00 am
Thanks for the laugh. If you hand me that baton, I’ll run with it:
The Beeb is a crude organisation firing improvised, inaccurate, home-made news at us.
Over at a site I frequent called expose the left there is a British fellow who goes by the name of HappySmokerUK who believes anything and everything the BBC says. I’ve told him about your site but his only interest is ragging on the U.S. with lovely little tidbits from the beeb. If any of you have the time or interest to drop by I would bet a weeks pay you would have a blast confronting him. It would be terrific to hear logical thinking Brits telling it like it is. Us Americans cant seem to get through to him. Anyway I love your biased bbc site and really get a kick out of reading all of your post.
pounce,
It would be great if there were more like you in this world – people prepared to fight real injustice.
Locrian
I look at exposetheleft most days – it carries video clips from US TV, as you know. I will watch out for the clown you mention – I saw he had made some silly remarks on the 4th July thread there yesterday – and posted a riposte to him. But without mentioning his name.
dumbcisco, that would be so cool. You rock!
The Beeb is a crude organisation firing improvised, inaccurate, home-made news at us.
Yes, good one disillusioned_german!
More use of loaded words from the organisation that swears it tries not to use them:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5149308.stm
Israeli planes bombed Gaza for a sixth night, wounding at least five people.
I believe the Israelis are using precision guided missiles, but of course “bombs” conjure up images of Dresden or the London Blitz, much more useful for obtaining sympathy for the “Palestinians” and giving the impression that Israel is meting out indiscriminate violence.
Overnight Israel carried out more air raids in the Gaza Strip, including the second missile attack against the Palestinian interior ministry complex in a week.
At least four people where injured in the bombing, which destroyed the top two floors of the main building and left a housing block in flames.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5145876.stm
“Iraq’s deputy electricity minister and bodyguards kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad have been released”
being released implies that the kidnappers let them go.
err no. they actually ESCAPED
“The guards managed to free themselves and then the deputy minister, Raad al-Harith, the officials said.”
Sob story of the day
“US Muslims alienated by Patriot Act”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/file_on_4/5145970.stm
Market Participant 05.07.06 – 2:05 am,
Alan Johnston appears to be discarding all pretence at balance in his reporting with his mention of Palestinian ‘collaborators’.
But for the use of bland, meaningless words, the following sentence is incomparable:
The soldier may well be in the company of the most senior Hamas militants.
Johnston knows very well that ‘company’ means free association without any coercion.
The BBC is becoming proficient in excising meaning from statements in order to minimise and defend acts of terror. To this end, BBC hacks are quite prepared to mangle the English language – and Johnston is leading the sorry pack.
But John Reith will pop in here to make uninformed comments about rockets while ignoring the most extreme examples of BBC bias.
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=2&threadID=2421&start=30&tstart=0&edition=1&ttl=20060705111739&#paginator
“I am tired of hearing about us having to bend over backwards for Muslims. Why is it that the Poles can come over here in their 100s of thousands, do their utmost to work, earn money and contribute wholeheartedly to this nation without anyone hearing of any inter racial tension, but Muslims must be ‘engaged’ and catered for?
Chris W, Wallsend, United Kingdom
Recommended by 100 people”
Damn good point.
archduke
That is not just a stupid article sobbing about the patriot Act. It is an entire radio 4 File-on-Four programme – which will also be beamed round the World Service.
Typical BBC. Taking its news feed from discredited CAIR which is stuffed with tacit terrorism supporters, and the far-left ACLU.
http://www.anti-cair-net.org/
http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2005/11/10/top-ten-reasons-to-stop-the-aclu/
Keep The Red Gloves Flying
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2256643,00.html
We have lots of Poles up in the Far North now – the local RC Church has a Polish mass once a month for them and I have several Polish kids in my class. They work hard because they know they can provide a better standard of living etc for their kids and also help their relatives back home. Niether do they expect Polish lanaguage leaflets, notices etc. The first thing they do up here is sign on for English classes if they don’t already know the language. The local college is well subscribed.
What a difference in their attitude.
dave t
And a lot of us remember the crucial contribution made by Polish pilots to the Battle of Britain. They swung the balance. And most of them were killed in action.
dave t-> and i’d bet the Poles dont have an unemployment problem here in the UK either.
Today Slogan
The EU is updating its motto, launching a competition to replace “United in Diversity”. We want you to email us suggestions for a slogan that sums up the Today programme
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/
Time to let the spudthick biased bastards at Socialism Central know just what you think of thier output.
good god -this is getting ridiculous.
now we’ve got CND on the front page
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
dumbcisco:
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2006/07/tim_montgomerie.html
dumbcisco | 04.07.06 – 9:31 pm |
Thanks for posting that link to Tim Montgomerie’s article. I particularly liked this bit:
“BBC programming is more comprehensive and is better produced than anything in America “
Finish the sentence John Reith
…..but it offers a fraction of the diversity of opinion
Crude, home-made devices.
See the results:
Yasser Arafat insisted that Qassam rockets are harmless
In other words, “Comprehensive and well produced” Socialist Broadcasting.
These fools fail to grasp the narrowness of thier own minds!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5149308.stm
The news ticker link to that is saying “Explosion rips through building in eastern Gaza – cause unknown” while the report actually says, “Later, a Palestinian was killed in an explosion that ripped through a house in eastern Gaza City. Israel denied involvement in what appeared to have been an accident while the man was handling explosives.”
So, once again the “Palestinians” via the BBC are trying to blame the Israelis for a “work accident”.
In the same report:
In a separate development, Israeli troops killed a veteran Palestinian militant during a raid in the West Bank town of Jericho.
Witnesses said Mahmoud Haimoor, 37, was shot after emerging from his home unarmed. An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers had opened fire when he tried to flee arrest, adding that he was wanted for the deaths of two Israelis in a 2000 attack.
Israel’s version, with a little more detail:
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=2810
A snap terror alert was clamped down on the Shomron and Sharon districts north of Tel Aviv Wednesday, July 5, until the bomber was captured before he reached his target, the Barkan industrial zone between Rosh Ha’ayin and Ariel.
In a second incident, police and Nahal Haredi commando forces shot dead a Palestinian terrorist wanted for a 2001 murder at the Ain Sultan camp near Jericho on the West Bank. An explosive device was found in his possession.
Socialism Is Necrotizing:
…..but it offers a fraction of the diversity of opinion
Socialism Is Necrotizing | 05.07.06 – 12:51 pm
…well we are less diverse society. We don’t, for example, have any ‘Native British’ indians. Unless you count the Celts.
More on the “unarmed, veteran militant”
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885924001&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Earlier, a Police SWAT team and IDF Nahal Haredi troops operating in the Ein Sultan refugee camp near Jericho killed a Palestinian fugitive.
The forces surrounded a house where the wanted man was hiding and asked him to come out.
The suspect tried to evade capture and opened fire at the troops.
The forces shot and killed him. Palestinian security officials identified the dead man as Mahmoud Shaheen Haymour, a member of the Al Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades, a violent group linked to the Fatah.
According to the IDF, the suspect had been planning terror attacks against Israel.
During searches of the man’s house, forces found a bag containing a mortar shell.
The fugitive was suspected of involvement in a number of terror attacks in Israel, including the murder of a cab driver, Simcha Ron, 60, of Nahariya, who was found stabbed to death in Kafr Ba’aneh, near Karmiel in 2001.
If the BBC tells us he was unarmed they are either lying or unable, even with all their contacts and means at their disposal, to tell us the truth. In either case they are a disgrace!
Thanks to Archduke for pointing this out;
Biased BBC and its defence of idiots who remain silent on religious and despots who own or wish to own the A bomb.
Whatever happened to CND?
By Finlo Rohrer
BBC News Magazine
It’s many years since its Cold War heyday, but with the debate over replacing the Trident submarines, CND could be born again.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5149520.stm
A debate on western ownership of weapons Al Beeb. Why isn’t Iran, North Korea in the equation?
Why do you defend an organisation which only lambastes the west. I mean during the 80s how it had a hissy fit over the US intentions to deploy the neutron bomb, but then remain silent when Russia and China deployed them.
The very same organisation which while bitching about the use of depleted uranium by the Yanks remains somewhat silent on how the very same tool is in the armoury of the Chinese.
The same organisation which invited the Iranian Ambassador to talk at one of it meetings. (Didn’t see any American or British diplomats getting that accolade)
And the very same organisation which on its web site is also promoting the disbandment of NATO.
Notice something Al Beeb CND isn’t about the hatred of WAR. It is all about the hatred of the US. No wonder you wax lyrical about a bunch of tofu eaters whose motto during the 80s was ‘Better Red than Dead’ and how you ape them today with the motto ‘Better a Plumber than a Hummer’
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“…well we are less diverse society. We don’t, for example, have any ‘Native British’ indians. Unless you count the Celts.”
Thanks, John Reith, for that hilarious illustration of the politically-correct, group-think definition of “diversity” at the BBC.
Delightful.
.
nick robinson, on his non-coverage of Prescott’s other mistress (as revealed by Guido @ 5thnovember.blogspot.com):
http://blogs.bbc.co.uk/nickrobinson/2006/07/prescott_for_du.html
PJF
My bloody head is spinning at Reiths remarks.
Where to begin?
Here’s my suggestion for a motto for the EU:
Arbeid Macht Frei
I hope i spelt that correctly.
nearly – its Arbeit Macht Frei
another good one might be:
“Ein Volk, Ein Directive , Ein Europe”
How about “Arbeit Matt Frei?”
I am afraid Directives are old hat, they far prefer to use directly applicable Regulations to make sure that we all march in step.
On the CND story they have a few key dates.
But no mention of the fall of the Berlin wall. Surely about as key as it gets.
Up to then I was broadly sympathetic • surely nobody wanted a catastrophic war. But from that day I realised the CND were either naïve or had some other agenda other than the eradication of war.
“Iraq’s deputy electricity minister and bodyguards kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad have been released”
being released implies that the kidnappers let them go.
err no. they actually ESCAPED
Similar to the misrepresentation used with the rescue of Kember in Iraq. Reported as “released” (my quotes!) by the BBC.
Re Poles – a large multi-national confectionary company in my town has over the past few years got rid of the long serving, mainly white women. The introduction of people on temporary contracts brought in many locals of Asian heritage. They were not willing workers (e.g. demanded & got a prayer room, but refused to use it after non-Muslims had the nerve to enter it)
These locals are now being displaced by the more industrious Poles. Result unemployed (& more alienated?) UK citizens.
PJF:
Thanks, John Reith, for that hilarious illustration of the politically-correct, group-think definition of “diversity” at the BBC.
Delightful.
PJF | 05.07.06 – 1:47 pm |
Just my little tease. Knew you’d bite.
Socialism Is Necrotizing | 05.07.06 – 2:30 pm
Or even simply:
Bite Matt Frei
This is a perfectly reasonable and sympathetic article allowing a case to be put that is not among the BBC’s own points of view.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5099990.stm
But I was amused by the opening couple of paragraphs :
Big business has something of a poor reputation when it comes to Africa.
Critics accuse multinational oil and mining companies in particular of exploiting local people, damaging the environment and helping to prop-up some of Africa’s more odious regimes.
More or less word for word, exactly the same thing could be, and is, said about the United Nations, international government to government aid programmes, the governments of France, China and Russia and so on. But it would never appear at the top of a BBC article allowing a UN / aid organisation / French government official to spout about the good done by his employers.
The article opened “We are fed reasons daily he BBC why we should hate America.”
reith fails to comment on that. Or on the 10 or 15 challenges on other matters of recent BBC bias he tries to ignore.