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further to the above, the bbc would better serve us if it wore it stated that the likes of “Today” was actually a left-wing program. we could all adjust our attenaes and get stuck into the debate.
the “impartiality” clause on the bbc is what is killin it. if it stood up and said certain programs were from a certain perspective, then i think we would all accept that. as long as equal airtime was given to alternative perspectives. i would be happy with that. “impartiality” in today’s world is utterly impossible.
oops typos – “killin” is “killing”
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“if it wore it stated that the likes of”
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As an NUJ member can I just say I’m not impressed with this vote for a boycott of Israel. As posters here have pointed out it compromises the work of journalists in this complex area. I had no idea this vote was taking place, and will raise the matter at our next Chapel Meeting. It was at least a fairly close vote, plenty of NUJ members presumably feel like me.
Finally
Archduke:
Doughty was never advertised as a “bash the bbc” outfit.
Perhaps not, but they did ask for help with and create an anti-BBC ad didn’t they?
Cheers
Dave (BBC)
so, no internet , besides microsoft.com , for those journalists.
archduke | 14.04.07 – 10:27 pm
The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola-Israel. Motorola built its largest development center worldwide in Israel.
Windows NT software was developed by Microsoft-Israel.
The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
AOL’s instant message program was designed by an Israeli software company.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
New Intel chips based on technology developed in Israel. Intel has replaced its basic series of processors with the new Core 2 Duo series, which has doubled the computing core, and was designed at Intel’s Haifa R&D center in Israel.
Source: http://www.newsoftheday.com/
Now see To Those Who Want to Boycott Israel – A Little Perspective
We thought it is a shame to do it, but if you do, do it right!
“HOW TO DIVEST FROM ISRAEL PROPERLY?”
Something else the NUJ will have to boycott:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152784864&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer
The NUJ boycotts Israel? How many journos have been abducted and held captive by the Jooze?
So what is the purpose of all these “boycott Isreal” votes going around?
Can journalists really expect the public to believe their articles when they are trying to supress the views from a democratic country.
I thought journalists were employed to report the news but it seems that they believe the hyped up nonsense spewed out from the likes of Fisk and Al Bowen at the BBC.
I have a great idea lets find out who these journalists write for and start a campaign to boycott those newspapers.
And if any journalist from the BBC votes for this “boycott” then letters of comlaint should be sent to the BBC and MPs to inform them that this would be a breach of the code of conduct and the charter.
Anonymous | 15.04.07 – 2:41 am
http://pressgazette.co.uk/article/130407/nuj_israel_boycott
The controversial clause was part of a motion proposed by James Gosling, of the Press and PR branch, and called for the union to “condemn the savage, pre-planned attack on Lebanon” last summer and the “slaughter of civilians in Gaza” over the last few years.
A little late, the war’s over and Israel doesn’t occupy Gaza any more, but what the heck, it’s never too late to throw the Jew down the well.
http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2007/04/14/nuj-adm-should-journalists-boycott-israel-and-can-they/
“One commenter on Harden’s blog notes that given Israel’s booming high-tech industry, boycotting the country could prove rather difficult:
“[I]f the NUJ are serious about boycotting Israel, they should throw out their laptops and cellphones: all Windows software was and is developed in Israel, and the Motorola, Nokia and most other cellphone CIM’s are all made there too. Back to Underwood manual typewriters and two tin cans with a string for the Fourth Estate!”
http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2007/04/14/nuj-adm-should-journalists-boycott-israel-and-can-they/
“The motion was passed on a vote of 66 to 54 out of a union of some 40,000 people. Democratic?”
http://staticsquid.blogspot.com/
He expects democracy in a marxist union – Unions are not (and never have been) democratic.
“I’ve been reviled and abused by some fellow British journalists for suggesting in a series of articles (some published on Israel Insider) that they are partisan against Israel. One particularly anti-Israel BBC correspondent told another BBC employee that he personally wanted to “kill” me.”
http://web.israelinsider.com/views/11156.htm
“USC Students for Justice in Palestine
history, analysis, news, and event updates on the struggle for justice in palestine”
http://uscsjp.wordpress.com/tag/news/
A pretty nasty anti-Isreal, US etc site – but have a look on the right of the web site at the links to their Blogroll.
“A Mother From Gaza
Angry Arab (Asad Abukhalil)
BBC News
Counterpunch
Democracy Now!
Electronic Intifada
Electronic Lebanon
End The Occupation
Gaza’s Mona ElFarra
Ha’aretz (Israeli newspaper)
Jewish Voice for Peace
Lebanon-Civilian Resistance
ME Children’s Alliance
Noam Chomsky
Norman Finkelstein
Palestinian Pundit
Rachel Corrie
Third World Traveler”
Do you think that the BBC is included for its “impartial” news – I think not.
If the NUJ instituted a boycott of the Palestinians on account of their abduction of a Beebie, what products would that involve? Suicide bomb vests?
And Kassam rockets.
try reading that BBC sentence again anonymous – I think you’ll find they know what the Mehdi Army is and the second bit is explaining it…not imaging some other outfit.
william | 14.04.07 – 11:12 pm
Instead of the BBC informing us about the differences of opinion in this matter, how about it actually finding out what the truth is here? After all, it employs journalists doesn’t it?
NUJ – any plans to boycott North Korea? Zimbabwe? Iran? Sudan?
I like this, Beeboids not knowing how to spell the name of their own BBC World News editor!
http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/37235/diff/1/2
As an NUJ member can I just say I’m not impressed with this vote for a boycott of Israel. As posters here have pointed out it compromises the work of journalists in this complex area. I had no idea this vote was taking place, and will raise the
matter at our next Chapel Meeting. It was at least a fairly close vote, plenty of NUJ members presumably feel like me.
David Gregory | 15.04.07 – 1:46 am
Fair enough. But given the fact that the boycott resolution was couched in terms demonising Israel over the Lebanon war and given BBC’s obsessive anti-Israel reporting (and fawning support of Hezbollah) during the war, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that BBC journalists were among those voting for the boycott.
It would be interesting to know whether any of the following main culprits were at the meeting and if so, which way they voted:
Jeremy Bowen
Jim Muir
Hugh Sykes
Nick Thorpe
Orla Guering
But I guess they were too busy pumping out propaganda from their current locations.
Anonymous | 15.04.07 – 8:54 am,
Fascinating stuff. So John (or Jon) Williams, editor of BBC World News, addressed the annual Birmingham conference of the NUJ, where he paid tribute to Alan Johnston?
One would think that a logical extension of that address would be a vote to boycott the Palestinian “government” over Johnston’s detention.
But, predictably, when thing are going wrong the anti-Semites jump on the Jews. Since they can’t blame Israel for Johnston’s abduction, the next best thing is to go back to the Lebanon war.
I wonder if Williams hung around for the vote to boycott Israel?
it’d be a bit difficult to boycott the P.A. when their only export is the Kassam rocket and the suicide bomber.
on the technology front , the Americans seem to have a sweet deal dont they?
bung the israelis a few billion a year. and they get in return all that ground breaking high tech stuff that powers the global economy. israel is like another silicon valley for them.
besides exporting oil and terrorism, what have the Arab states developed?
the NUJ boycott has made it to the front page of jpost.com
http://www.jpost.com
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1176152792457&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The BBC’s David Gregory writes: As an NUJ member can I just say I’m not impressed with this vote for a boycott of Israel. As posters here have pointed out it compromises the work of journalists in this complex area. I had no idea this vote was taking place, and will raise the matter at our next Chapel Meeting. It was at least a fairly close vote, plenty of NUJ members presumably feel like me.
Dave, will you come back on here and tell us how the reps from the various BBC Chapels voted? If you’re not prepared to do that, is there any way we could find out?
I see from the NUJ conference blog that the union is also in favour of censorship :
The NUJ will renew its efforts to have fascist website “Redwatch’ closed down after delegates voted in favour of a motion to investigate the possibility of legal action.
And here’s a photo of the Solidarity With Cuba (SWC) stall at the conference. I can’t see a Solidarity With Imprisoned Cuban Journalists stall. It’s amazing to think that there are journalists out there who believe the drivel promoted by SWC. Its website answers the question “Is Castro a Dictator?” with this laughable piece of reasoning: “If Castro is such a dictator, why did he receive such overwhelming support in the elections?” And its not just fringe loonies taken in by this nonsense; last week a glowing tribute to a SWC campaigner appeared in the Guardian – written by Jeremy Paxman.
The NUJ. Boycotting democracy. Supporting dictatorship.
http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/37235/diff/1/2
interesting. that “story needs to be told” meme pops up again…
Jon Williams, editor of BBC World News, said: “Alan stayed when everyone else left because he believed that the story of Gaza must be told.”
call me old fashioned, but i thought journalists were supposed to report the news, not tell “stories”…
archduke | 15.04.07 – 10:43 am |
It may have escaped your attention, but those things in newspapers with a headline at the top are called ‘stories’.
They have been since around the end of the Boer War ( before that they were called ‘letters’ or ‘dispatches’).
WorldWeb Dictionary’s definition of news story is…surprise, surprise…..
an article reporting news
http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/NEWSSTORY
Not just a beeb thang
it’d be a bit difficult to boycott the P.A. when their only export is the Kassam rocket and the suicide bomber.
Yeah, I know. I meant boycott reporting on the PA.
Boycott Now!
By VIRGINIA TILLEY
Johannesburg, South Africa.
It is finally time. After years of internal arguments, confusion, and dithering, the time has come for a full-fledged international boycott of Israel. Good cause for a boycott has, of course, been in place for decades, as a raft of initiatives already attests. But Israel’s war crimes are now so shocking, its extremism so clear, the suffering so great, the UN so helpless, and the international community’s need to contain Israel’s behavior so urgent and compelling, that the time for global action has matured. A coordinated movement of divestment, sanctions, and boycotts against Israel must convene to contain not only Israel’s aggressive acts and crimes against humanitarian law but also, as in South Africa, its founding racist logics that inspired and still drive the entire Palestinian problem.
That second goal of the boycott campaign is indeed the primary one. Calls for a boycott have long cited specific crimes: Israel’s continual attacks on Palestinian civilians; its casual disdain for the Palestinian civilian lives “accidentally” destroyed in its assassinations and bombings; its deliberate ruin of the Palestinians’ economic and social conditions; its continuing annexation and dismemberment of Palestinian land; its torture of prisoners; its contempt for UN resolutions and international law; and especially, its refusal to allow Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland. But the boycott cannot target these practices alone. It must target their ideological source.
The true offence to the international community is the racist motivation for these practices, which violates fundamental values and norms of the post-World War II order. That racial ideology isn’t subtle or obscure. Mr. Olmert himself has repeatedly thumped the public podium about the “demographic threat” facing Israel: the “threat” that too many non-Jews will – the horror – someday become citizens of Israel. It is the “demographic threat” that, in Israeli doctrine, justifies sealing off the West Bank and Gaza Strip as open-air prisons for millions of people whose only real crime is that they are not Jewish. It is the “demographic threat,” not security (Mr. Olmert has clarified), that requires the dreadful Wall to separate Arab and Jewish communities, now juxtaposed in a fragmented landscape, who might otherwise mingle.
“Demographic threat” is the most disgustingly racist phrase still openly deployed in international parlance. It has been mysteriously tolerated by a perplexed international community. But it can be tolerated no longer.
“Yeah, I know. I meant boycott reporting on the PA.
Bryan | 15.04.07 – 11:21 am”
theres an idea. imagine an entire year with no depressing seething IslamoNazi “stories” from Gaza…. that’d be very nice.
meanwhile, slugger o’toole has a Star Trek clip that has never been shown in the uk or ireland, because the android Data argues thats sometimes terrorism is justified…
http://sluggerotoole.com/index.php/weblog/comments/irish-unification-for-2024-nah-science-fiction-surely/
whats interesting is that the clip was edited out way back in 1990 and has never been shown on terrestrial tv or Sky.
“Anonymous | 15.04.07 – 11:21 am ”
the simple answer to that is that most Jewish Israelis do not want the Muslims taking over their country. there are numerous references from Jihadist Imams who mention the demographic aspect to global Jihad, in their aim to establish an Islamic Caliphate.
when you have a genocidal Jew-hating ideology like Islamofascism, then its only natural that Israel would do anything to protect themselves from that.
what israeli products can one buy, if we want to organise a counter-boycott?
i suppose i’ll be stocking up on Jaffa oranges. anything else?
How the BBC uses Shoddy reporting in which to push the Anti-war message in the UK;
Check out the latest on this screen grab and the top story;
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/2051/bbcli4.jpg
Now see how the BBC re-write that story in which to push the anti-war message for the UK elections next month if you click on the US story;
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7830/bbc2zs7.jpg
Of course it could all be a mistake. But one from the ever so so PC BBC?
Ref my last my direction with that post is how the BBC states it won’t report bad news until it gains all the facts. Yet for some strange reason while it will delay the publication of bad news about Muslim terrorists (Usually not at all) it has no problem reporting ever cut finger,bad boots or payment for story told about the British Military.
P.S
On another note any news about that BBC reporter. I do hope to see him on the TV soon to the sounds of Allah Ackba.
Archduke wrote;
What israeli products can one buy, if we want to organise a counter-boycott? i suppose i’ll be stocking up on Jaffa oranges. anything else?
Matzo crackers (Tescos in central finchley sell them)
http://www.rakusens.co.uk/Matzo%20Crackers.htm
Also Marks and Sparks
avocado pears
David Gregory writes:
“I had no idea this vote was taking place, and will raise the matter at our next Chapel Meeting.”
I imagine the usual union process took place, whereby the only people involved were the foaming radicals. If past precedent is anything to go by, the rest were almost certainly too busy doing thir jobs.
archduke | 15.04.07 – 11:31 am |
… whats interesting is that the clip was edited out way back in 1990 and has never been shown on terrestrial tv or Sky.
As a Star Trek fan (I know a shocking admission) I’d say this statement is incorrect. As I do not own any DVDs of any series (I’m not that sad) I have seen this clip on Sky at least. Can’t vouch for the BBC but it would suprise me if it had excised it. The BBC is after all pretty much on the side of the ‘Unificationists’.
In fact the Irish seem to get a strange treatment on Star Trek. In the ‘Voyager’ series’ there is even a holodeck programme that features in many episodes that ‘replicates’ an Irish village. The whole thing is very much an idealised version of Ireland, the sort of thing that contributors to Noraid must have loved. The whole millieu is rather patronising but at least it is positive …
Shock horror! BBC give a mildly positive spin to a pro-secularist demo in Turkey:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6554851.stm
Have their on-message ‘correspondents’ in Gaza, Iraq and Iran been informed of this radical departure from the al-Beeb line? Read it now before the White City mullahs realise there’s a fifth columnist at work…
This will be a hoot!
ONE of Britain’s best known authors has been shortlisted for a national writing prize for a story that takes a blackly comic approach to the execution of hostages in Iraq.
The BBC is due to broadcast the story this week on Radio 4.
But wait a mo. We don’t want to go giving those Palis ideas whilst they’ve got one of our boys.
But Alex Linklater, associate editor of Prospect magazine, founder of the prize, said the BBC may alter this plan, particularly while the whereabouts of Alan Johnston, its abducted Gaza correspondent, are still unknown.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/
The BBC, the baker, the terrorist maker.
My Iraq: Baghdad baker
Abdul Hussain Shakarchi, 62, started learning the bakery trade from his uncle when he was seven. Nowadays, he supervises the making of baklava, Turkish delight, halva and other traditional sweets at his factory in Baghdad. We have more customers than we did four years ago. We used to sell between 20-25 trays of baklava a day – now it’s more than 50 a day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/6471221.stm
The BBC reports on a human interest story from downtown Baghdad. From somebody who sees business booming. (No pun intended) However the BBC can’t let any story from the region go by without the customary anti western angle;
“The presence of coalition troops is not in our interest. They attack many people. Once they hit my car, but I didn’t say anything to them. And they speak rudely – Iraqis don’t approve of that. I would rather they speak softly to people. It’s true they helped rid us of the old regime and of that criminal Saddam. But now they’ve made things worse.”
The BBC, the baker, the terrorist maker.
From the always good value Rod Liddle
Mark Thompson was returning from Israel having tried to find out more about the abduction from the Gaza Strip of the BBC journalist Alan Johnston. He’d had no luck.
Palestinian media are reporting that Johnston abducted himself in order to claim the insurance, or something. If we were being charitable we might blame the Israeli occupation for the fact that Palestinians seem the most creative liars on earth when it comes to exculpating fellow Arabs from wrongdoing — Jews blew up the World Trade Center; Johnston abducted himself. Every day or so, during the Hamas “ceasefire”, rockets are launched at Israeli villages. Who is firing them? I daresay Palestinians will have an original answer — Jews.
You just pray Johnston has safe passage home
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/
“The Fat Contractor | 15.04.07 – 12:59 pm”
ah ok. i was only reporting what slugger o’toole mentioned. if it was indeed on Sky, then i stand corrected.
who says the Dutch police dont have a sense of humour?
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2050
“Muslim arrestees held in a windowless cell in The Hague have been praying West instead of East, facing Washington DC instead of Mecca. The Dutch press agency ANP revealed today that the compass which the Dutch police painted on the ceiling of the cells in the Segbroek police station to enable Muslim criminals to pray towards Mecca pointed in the wrong, opposite, direction. A police spokesman said a mistake had been made. The mistake has meanwhile been rectified.”
I’ve just submitted an official complaint about this report:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6557041.stm
Your report states:
“They were set to discuss security and humanitarian matters, and the fate of an Israeli soldier captured in Gaza.”
The soldier was NOT captured in Gaza. He was captured on Israeli soil by terrorists who tunneled under the border.
Your continuing use of such misleading statements only serve to cast Israel in the role of agressor and the “Palestinians” as passive victims.
Please make the necessary correction.
The BBC a African racist story and no historical perspective.
Eyewitness: Uganda attacks on Asians
Kampala resident Salim Matovu was at Thursday’s protest against the allocation of a forest reserve to a sugar company, which turned violent leading to the death of at least three people. The sugar company is owned by Ugandan Asians and some protesters started to attack members of the country’s small but economically powerful Asian community.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6551303.stm
So the BBC airs a story about how Black Africans object to Asians (people usually of Indian stock) owning and running business’s in Uganda. But what is strange in the above story is how the BBC (Which has no problem airing historical evidence against the US, Uk and white people in general) omits from a racist story. (Silly me Blacks can’t be racist according to the BBC mantra) how the bread basket of Africa in the 50s and 60s was ruined and consigned to the Stone age by a megalomaniacal Black African Muslim who decided to kick out all the Asians of Uganda in 1972. The same megalomaniac who had strong ties with the terrorist organisation PLO who not only offered the Israeli embassy in Kampala as their headquarters, but allowed that terrorist organisation to seek sanctuary for 4 idiots and the plane they had just hijacked at Entebbe.
Strange how a news organisation which prides itself on the calibre of its service has left out how kicking out Ugandan born Asians in 1972 helped ruin what was until then a very prosperous and affluent country. I wonder which other country in the region fits that bracket? A country which the BBC instead of blaming the political policies of its leader for life always inserts the following at the end of its articles on that country;
“Blames his problems on a Western plot to remove him from power.”
It appears the BBC is unable to produce factual and unbiased news reports when the guilty party are Black, Muslims or simply misguided criminals.
More news from Gaza that Al Johnston wouldn’t cover, even if he could. It doesn’t come under what the BBC sees as the ‘Gaza story’:
Gaza: Explosions rock bookstore, cafes
Three explosions rocked Gaza City early Sunday, damaging two Internet cafes and a Christian bookstore.
…
In recent months, about three dozen Internet cafes and shops selling pop music have been attacked in the Gaza Strip, with assailants detonating small bombs outside businesses at night, causing damage but no injuries. Palestinian security officials have said they suspect a secret “vice squad” of Muslim militants.
A cautionary tale from Irwin Stelzer on the hypocrisy & misguided actions of the BBC supported luvvies (Live Earth etc) & green politicians.
the reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions claimed by those intent on being green without changing their lifestyles are often bogus — they would have happened without the purchase of offsets.
That is the least of the problems created by the new environmental panic. The rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia are being destroyed to clear acreage for the production of palm oil, used as a biofuel. And in many countries poor farmers are having their land confiscated so that rich consumers can plant trees to lighten their carbon footprints.
Rich American agribusinesses are also cashing in on the huge subsidies made available by the government’s decision to subsidise ethanol and biodiesel production from corn, sugar and other crops. Ethanol from corn is a particular favourite of all the presidential candidates vying for votes in corn-growing Iowa, with the honourable exception of John McCain, who knows a boondoggle when he sees one. Crop prices are up, and so are land values.
The result is a problem for central banks. In the past, spikes in food prices have been seen as temporary, usually weather-related, and requiring no reaction from the inflation-controllers. But this rise might be a plateau rather than a spike: chickens and cattle are more expensive to feed, so farmers are keeping fewer of them, driving up the price of eggs, beef and dairy products. This food inflation is felt most keenly in poorer countries, where food accounts for a larger part of the average budget than in the developed world. But even in the richest countries, central bankers are wondering whether to raise interest rates to cool growth sufficiently to offset the effects of rising food prices.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article1654238.ece
The BBC and Not The Nine O/Clock News
Norwegian-Somalian Kadra, who became famous in Norway for exposing imam support of female circumcision, was beaten unconscious on Thursday.
Norwegian-Somalian Kadra has taken risks to front her views.
Kadra was attacked and beaten senseless by seven or eight persons of Somali origin, newspaper VG reports.“I was terrified. While I lay on the pavement they kicked me and screamed that I had trampled on the Koran. Several shouted Allah-o-akbar (God is great) and also recited from the Koran,” Kadra told VG.
Kadra linked the attack to recent remarks in VG where she said that the Koran’s views on women needed to be reinterpreted.Kadra said that the gang of Somali men attacked her around 3 a.m. in downtown Oslo on Thursday. A medical examination found that she had several broken ribs, NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) reports. Kadra filed charges and was due to speak with police on Friday.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1734869.ece
Funny how a story which happened on Thursday in Europe hasn’t been aired on the Pro-Islamic BBC. yet in its haste to report a crash between two RAF Pumas in Iraq the BBC wrote they were US choppers.
The BBC and how it promotes its love of Muslims.
(And it isn’t April the 1st)
UK Muslims ‘more loyal than most’
Muslims in the UK are more likely to identify strongly with Britain and have confidence in its institutions than the population as a whole, a poll suggests.
The survey says they are also more likely to take a positive view of living side-by-side with people of different races and religions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6557003.stm
And a screen shot
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8290/bbc1iv8.jpg
And to the Merchant Banker at the BBC who wrote the headline for the above, please explain the loyalty of the following;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4206708.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4732361.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3752517.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2712445.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4467825.stm
and many more
For the BBC to try and tell me that British Muslims are more loyal to the UK when all they do moan and bitch about how they live in a Nazis society , blow up people on the London transport network, try to blow up planes, cut the throats of their females for dating outside the faith, preach that all non Muslims are evil, defend the actions of Islamic genocide in Sudan, bitch about a few cartoons tells me the BBC has lost the f-ing plot.
“Funny how a story which happened on Thursday in Europe hasn’t been aired on the Pro-Islamic BBC. yet in its haste to report a crash between two RAF Pumas in Iraq the BBC wrote they were US choppers.”
This is also a story that never happened:
http://www.thelocal.se/7002/20070415/
Youths are causing trouble in several European cities. It’s surprising that normally so calm Swedish youths are at it this time.
The entire BBC report of the NUJ meeting was devoted to Al Johnston – not a murmour about the boycott of Israel or the motion supporting the Venezualan dictator Chavez.
According to the Jerusalem Post (bottom line), “Johnston’s kidnapping was not on the NUJ’s agenda.”
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152792457&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Biased reporting? Of course not!
pounce:
Not mentioned by the BBC
“Gallup interviewed 500 Muslims in London between November and January, and 1,200 members of the British public between December and January.”
http://www.24dash.com/communities/19332.htm
Geographical Bias?
Rumours that Johnston has been executed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070415/wl_uk_afp/mideastgazabritain
Oh dear.