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When Your Doctor is a Muslim: “Medical Terrorism Comes to America”
Muslim Doctor Refused to Treat Jews
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/05/when_your_docto.html
The BBC its hatred of Israel and half a story
BBC picture
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42976000/jpg/_42976919_gaza_afp_203i.jpg
Reuters picture
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070527/i/r3926503468.jpg?x=380&y=249&sig=ijfp7kL06t2i4uKoGwQwbg–
Same place different angle. Guess which one looks the worse?
Strange as how the BBC one has children in it. Does Hamas always allow children to play in its training compounds?
The BBC its hatred of Israel and half a story
BBC pictures of the Hamas compound post air strike
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42974000/jpg/_42974487_compound_afp_416.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42974000/jpg/_42974495_wounded_afp_203.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42974000/jpg/_42974499_woundedafp_416.jpg
Reuters pictures of the Hamas compound post air strike
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070526/capt.akcf11405261204.mideast_israel_palestinians_akcf114.jpg?x=380&y=253&sig=sY0Jljo0U5Gf4m7cJWOtWg–
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070526/capt.akcf11505261207.mideast_israel_palestinians_akcf115.jpg?x=380&y=231&sig=f4fn_vAqPTNRuvIWO8BcDQ–
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070526/capt.akcf10905261203.mideast_israel_palestinians_akcf109.jpg?x=380&y=266&sig=VF487PLAAo16oXu05L5srQ–
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070526/capt.akcf11305261204.mideast_israel_palestinians_akcf113.jpg?x=380&y=250&sig=Dxj_Cm9VwnO7BSxkny9vfQ–
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070526/capt.akcf10805261203.mideast_israel_palestinians_akcf108.jpg?x=380&y=257&sig=EFQwzlqPMpnF5gjtEnlxUg–
How come none of the BBC pictures of the crowds around that Hamas compound show no gunmen. The Reuters one do.
The BBC its hatred of Israel and half a story
oh my link to the reuters photos;
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/sm/events/wl/080601mideast/p:209
From MSN news ‘Alan Johnston is alive and well and could be released “very soon”, a Palestinian government official has said.
Dr Ghazi Hamad, the government’s spokesman and member of Hamas, said he knows the group holding the BBC’s Gaza correspondent and is personally involved in negotiations to free him.
Dr Hamad, who has been friends with the reporter for two years, said: “I know that he is well and healthy, and in a good situation. No one has tried to harm him or hurt him.”
A BBC journalist is a friend of a senior member of Hamas – I hope this did not influence his reports before he was kidnapped.
Anyone who found the ‘Obsession’ trailer interesting may well wish to watch the full version of ‘Islam: What the West Needs to Know’ available below.
http://www.whatthewestneedstoknow.com/view_trailer.asp
“Palestinian Government Spokesman Dr. Ghazi Hamad said that Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3325327,00.html
“Iran’s new president created a sense of outrage in the west yesterday by describing Israel as a “disgraceful blot” that should be “wiped off the face of the earth”. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who is more hardline than his predecessor, told students in Tehran that a new wave of Palestinian attacks would be enough to finish off Israel.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1601413,00.html
Spot the difference.
Radio 4 this rainy Sunday morning in a piece on Ireland I heard the female BBC reporter (extended gap year) referring to ‘the North of Ireland’ when what she should have said was ‘Northern Ireland’, the former tending to be used as light code for ‘I believe in a united Ireland’.
Still, it could have been worse, she could have referred to Nothern Ireland as ‘The Six Counties’.
And to think I read yesterday (no doubt in a Bush House press release) of the BBC’s reputation of fearless impartiality.
‘Hunt for Madelene’
I see ex-BBC hack Clarence Mitchell is now appearing on our screens as ‘McCann family spokesman’.
Is he still in charge of the sinister sounding Government Comminication Network?
Who is paying him? Has their plight now been ‘nationalised’? Does Gordon think he can get some good press out of this tragic situation?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6695959.stm
An Israeli man has been killed in the border town of Sderot by a Palestinian rocket fired from the Gaza Strip.
Sderot is not a “border town”. It is in Israel and lies a kilometre from the Gaza Strip.
There is no border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Sderot.
Sderot is not a “border town”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sderot
Iranian scholar’s family in the dark about her fate
Potomac, Maryland: The only contact Haleh Esfandiari’s family has with her are short phone calls from one of Iran’s most notorious prisons. They usually come in the evening to her 93-year-old mother’s home in Tehran.
More
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Iran/10127991.html
So, Alan Johnston has been friends for two years with Dr. Ghazi “Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth” Hamad.
A Beeboid being friends with an anti-Semite – who’d have thunk it?
border town of Sderot
BBC reporter asks resident, “Why don’t you leave?”
Does he mean the ME?
The BBC so full of its own importance.
“And our next prime minister, unencumbered by the need to go to the country, has so far not felt the need to spell out his vision on Newsnight, though we remain hopeful that will soon be addressed.
There is of course no constitutional imperative to appear on Newsnight – would that there were – but we’d like to think there is a convention that if you want to be prime minister you should.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/05/prime_ministers_questions.html#commentsanchor
“When it comes to party leaders Sir Ming Campbell is the easiest to persuade onto Newsnight. Scotland’s new First Minister Alex Salmond is also rarely unavailable, though that may change.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/05/prime_ministers_questions.html#commentsanchor
No suprise there – isn’t it strange though that they address Sir Walter Menzies Campbell as “Sir Ming Campbell”.
“South Africa has seen the coldest temperatures on Monday: 3.2 Celsius degrees in Jamestown. At least 21 people died.
Southern California has experienced near-record low temperatures yesterday, too. The seawater temperatures on the Central Coast are currently almost 1 Celsius degree below the normal. Parts of China, parts of Canada, places in Australia, Oregon, Wyoming, and Colorado are under snow.”
http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/05/record-cold-temperature-south-africa.html
Anyone heard this on the BBC?
BBC Radio Presenter charged with rape:
(doubt this will make bbc.co.uk )
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=JH2737938B&news_headline=bbc_radio_presenter_faces_rape_trial_
BBC reports of Business “Not Balanced”
Click to access fde132b6-0acc-11dc-8412-000b5df10621.pdf
Slightly easy ride from this report where one of the main conclusions appears to be that consumer interests are often given precedence over wider business issues.
As with other bbc coverage it’s really down to angle. The bbc have always got to have one and can’t just simply report the news in a matter of fact way. That’s why its coverage is simply so frustrating.
I personally find business coverage on the homepage one of the less informative sections and rarely go there, relying instead on other sources: chiefly yahoo, reuters and the ft. A couple of the podcasts are actually surprisingly good however.
It does make me wonder slightly why other reports of BBC coverage aren’t equally as accessible as this one though.
The blog of our own hill troll (he has comment sections 😉
http://davehill.typepad.com/temperama/
Well their you go: http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=JH2737938B&news_headline=bbc_radio_presenter_faces_rape_trial_
BBC – The home of holocaust deniers and rapists.
Here’s the BBC “reporting” on the current Lebanon crisis:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6696359.stm
Talks began hours after their leader, Shaker al-Abssi, said in a video message that Fatah al-Islam would “fight Jews, Americans and their allies”.
And
Sunnis will be a spearhead in fighting the Jews, Americans and their allies
Shaker al-Abssi
Fatah al-Islam leader
And
But in a video message released late on Saturday, the Fatah al-Islam leader ruled out surrender.
“O advocates of the US plan, we tell you that Sunnis will be a spearhead in fighting the Jews, Americans and their allies,” he said.
I’m wondering why it is necessary to have the same message pumped out three times in one short article. Bad editing?
Now we await a similar repetition of, for example, Israei spokesman Mark Regev pointing out that attacks on Gaza are a response to the Kassam bombardment of Sderot.
Imagine if a Tory were to be stealing from the taxpayer. The BBC wouldn’t let it rest would they. They’d be all over the story like a dustbin full of maggots.
Prescott stretches ‘junket’ into family holiday
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=WCYST0PUHNFPLQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/05/26/nprescott26.xml
The farewell itinerary
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=35TIYZTOPB0EHQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/05/26/nprescott126.xml
Of course if it’s a stinking socialist pig with his snout in the public funding trough well different reporting rules apply. Is it on the BBC? No of course not.
Imagine if a Tory were to buy a second home so that his child could have access to a posh school nearby. The BBC wouldn’t let it rest would they. They’d be all over the story like a dustbin full of maggots.
Cruddas in storm over second home
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=W5K4QYA1UGB5FQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/05/28/npoll128.xml
Of course if it’s a stinking socialist pig displaying double standards well different reporting rules apply. Is it on the BBC? No of course not.
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If, like me, you’re planning on selling your house soon, you’ll be aware of the staggering incompetence of the stupid socialist bimbos in charge of the Home Information Pack fiasco. When you think of the incredibly stupid Patricia Hewitt it is difficult to imagine anything worse. Until, of course, you come across Ruth Kelly and Yvette Cooper (married to a load of bollocks)
Another fine mess
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=C5TTIQTDK2AMXQFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/05/27/nhips27.xml
Brown keeps faith in Kelly despite fiasco of home sale packs
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1832306.ece
Ministers mess up in triplicate
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1844500.ece
Now look at how the BBC are spinning it.
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=%22Home+Information+Pack%22&scope=all&edition=d&tab=all&recipe=all&x=54&y=11
What does it take to get the BBC to report news when it’s detrimental to the party they support.
I think we should find out if Nigel Wrench went on the march to force the age of gay sex down to 16…….
…..I wonder what sort of images Wrench has on his hard drive…..?
And yes..I wonder if the BBC will report this.
Top Radio 4 Presenter charged with Male Rape?…….I think we have a right to know what sort of people are deleivering our “unbiased” news…
It’s all falling apart for the BBC. I can’t think of any good news they’ve had for years? It all seems to be downhill…….ever fewer viewers, increasingly ignored, used by politicians, hopeslessly biased news that drives millions away each year………bye bye BBC..lol.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=582113
Torture, Al-Qaeda Style
Drawings, tools seized from Iraq safe house in U.S. military raid.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0524072torture1.html
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Block 813 | 28.05.07 – 8:32 am
Top Radio 4 Presenter charged with Male Rape?…….I think we have a right to know what sort of people are delivering our “unbiased” news…
Male Rape or attempted murder?
TPO | 28.05.07 – 8:30 am
You ask:
What does it take to get the BBC to report news when it’s detrimental to the party they support?
When you find out please let me know.
Block 813 | 28.05.07 – 8:32 am
Time for a reality check.
You are always posting comments suggesting that BBC News is some sort of declining brand.
Not true.
The actual weekly reach of BBC News and current affairs continues to increase.
Panorama is getting 700,000 more viewers in its new Monday slot. (And that was before Sweeney.) The audience for this programme is now c4million.
BBC TV NEWS continues to outperform ITV news in each of the 3 main bulletins.
The BBC NEWS 24 audience is up 400,000 while Sky News is down 500,000.
The Today Programme now has an audience of 6.4 million. The Radio 4 audience as a whole is up by 346,000 to 9.64 million • the highest in four years. And listeners are listening for longer – The typical Radio 4 listener now tunes in for 13 hours and 12 minutes each week, the highest average of any national radio station.
The BBC News website reports its highest ever number of unique users along with a record number of podcast listeners.
BBC Global News has also had a record year with an average weekly reach of a staggering 233 million.
BBC World Service’s weekly radio audience is a record 183 million, up 20 million on last year.
BBC World •now has 76 million viewers a week, up from 65 million in 2005/6.
The BBC’s international-facing online news sites attracted a record 763 million page impressions in March 2007, up from 546 million in March 2006. There were a record 38.5 million unique online users across the globe during March 2007, up from 32.8 million a year ago.
lol…
“Ashley Highfield’s thunktank of ‘New Media’ darlings has to be paid for somehow, along with their travel budget to attend trade shows & conferences..
Including a Controller of Controllers to try & control the deputy visionaries. “
JBH,
Surely you have enough experience of the legal system to be aware of the concept of innocent until proven guilty.
Maybe he’s been stitched up like your mate Neil? or not…
Biased-BBC: “a contemporary resource of identifiable examples of the BBC’s biased reporting” (c) JBH QC
Highlights of the weekend’s “resource”…
1. Blood-soaked acts of mass terror aren’t so bad, so long as you phone first and say you were provoked.
Bryan | 25.05.07 – 4:58 pm
2. JBH QC still has no takers for his BBC/Guardian/Conrad Black axis of evil theories.
Jonathan Boyd Hunt | 25.05.07 – 9:18 pm
3.He’s also turned down an exciting day out at BBC Birmingham. (Not as daft as he looks).
Jonathan Boyd Hunt | 26.05.07 – 7:48 am
4. pounce, in no way deranged, thinks a BBC digest of a Pentagon report expressing concern over Chinese military expansion is in some Machiavellian way pro-Chinese and anti-American.
pounce | 26.05.07 – 11:37 am
5. Islamic terrorists are gay. And in the closet, too.
Ultraviolets | 26.05.07 – 5:20 pm
6. Be “rude to socialists”, otherwise we’ll end up “in the gas chamber or the prison cell.”
garypowell | 27.05.07 – 7:53 am
7. By describing a dead Iraqi as “wanted for weapons trafficking, theft, financing illegal militias and carrying out attacks on British forces” the BBC is, apparently, “lying about the background of a terrorist …to play the sympathy card”.
pounce | 27.05.07 – 10:02 am
8. Gordon Brown and Hitler… so much in common. Both gay, obviously, plus Brown’s going to cancel elections, then form a government of national unity which will really be a one-party state. No, really.
garypowell | 27.05.07 – 1:26 pm
9. Exciting new bias category: Referring to the top end of a country as “the north of…” is sooooo biased. We unbiased people use “northern”. Guess where the BBC sits? That’s right… slap bang in bias country.
(Applies to Ireland only)
joe bonanno | 27.05.07 – 5:37 pm
10. An exciting new campaign, too. We’re dead against “kindergarten” language. And CBBC should be ashamed for using it. That’s the CBBC that does, er, programming for young children.
deegee | 27.05.07 – 6:21 pm
11.) Oh, and “childish” content on CBBC? Just plain wrong.
Just an American | 27.05.07 – 12:23 am
12. Bird poop on President Bush? Hilarious fun for Sky News, the Daily Mail, ABC News, NBC too, even the stuffy old Washington Post among hundreds of other outlets. Evidence of dumbing down – and worse – when the poop pops up on al-Beeb’s, ahem, children’s pages.
Ed Thomas | Main thread
13. Sub judice? Contempt of court? (NB: CoC = Unlimited fines). Fairness to a person facing trial? We don’t care so long as we can get in a cheap jibe (sorry, anti-bias “resource”) about the BBC.
Ultraviolets | 28.05.07 – 3:53 am (and others)
14. Not content with trying a man ahead of the jury, we’re adding a graver offence to the charge sheet. (Contempt of Court is for cissies, says JBH QC)
Jonathan Boyd Hunt | 28.05.07 – 9:54 am
15. Ultraviolets has trouble sleeping.
Ultraviolets | 28.05.07 – 3:53 am
16. We’re dead against anything that “makes the leader of a major country look foolish”. Obviously.
David Preiser | 27.05.07 – 11:35 pm
17. But there is an exception – the leadership of the United Kingdom. They’re “stinking socialist pigs with their snout in the public funding trough” or “stupid socialist bimbos”. Cos that’s what they are. Fact.
TPO | 28.05.07 – 8:30 am
Biased BBC: More nuts than a castrator’s waste bin
Reith et al-BBC,
Please bear in mind that your constant attempts to denigrate this useful site (and I mean useful in the sense that you find out about stories here from other media outlets that strangely don’t make it to the pages of the “world’s number one news provider”) only illustrates both your frustration and desperation with the growing view that your “news” is slanted and increasingly irrelevant. You won’t even call terrorists terrorists for fear of upsetting your Urdu-speaking world service audience. I can’t think of the last time I trusted the Beeb on a story about Israel, America or that most peaceful of religions.
If you want the facts on such stories best to try the Telegraph, Jerusalem Post, Times, Fox, Hot Air, LGF, Hugh Hewitt, Bill Roggio or Michael Yon (in Iraq).
I just hope that other readers of this blog realise that your unpleasant posts aren’t from objective readers but from paid employees of the BBC.
Nice work if you can get it.
To wit,
No coverage of this story on the BBC’s main news page.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275716,00.html
Guess it wasn’t newsworthy.
K:
Never, ever been an employee of the BBC.
Unpleasant? Moi? Jamais…
I see that even the right-on New Statesman got a bit queasy a while ago – about colourful Radio 4 PM presenter Nigel Wrench’s rather exotic lifestyle choices:-
http://www.newstatesman.com/200003270022
And that was when they were “consenting” adults – which seems to be doubtful in the case of his present little difficulty:-
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007240408,00.html
But I remember from Robin Aitken’s book that this wasn’t seen as “controversial” at the Beeb.
The BBC – this is what we do.
K,
All increasingly correct about the Beeb, however if you genuinely think that the Jerusalem Post offers wholly ‘factual’ and unbiased stories on Israel, Fox on the US administration and LGF a wide ranging coverage of Islamic issues then frankly you’re deluding yourself.
Huraa for the BBC one has slipped though the mind controll net.
Have just seen a interview with Frank Field MP, about his attempts to enact Tony Blairs promissed and then promissed again and then promissed again welfair reforms.
Admittedly on the Parliament channel so about 3 people and a dog will wittness it but give credit where credit is due I say.
It seems that the reason why these reforms never happened was because Gordon Brown stopped them in there tracks 9 years ago. Saving money was the last reason given by Brown to FF who later lost his job for simply having the stupidity to stand up to Gordon Brown. Something that Tony Blair did not even attempt to do at the time he also states.
Interesting facts emerged including the fact that due to working tax credits a single parents average income after working just 16 hours is over £500 pw.
For the average married couple on tax credits, to obtain the same income after fares and sundry expenses both parents now have to work over 120 hours pw between them.
A fact that Gordon Brown is more then aware of and still he does nothing.
Frank Field made the observation that he was not so much supprised that we had more one parent families in Britain then anywhere in the whole world. But that it supprised him that so many people got married and still had children in Britain at all.
You would think that only a rampant
Stalinist homosexual trying delliberately to destroy the fabrick of the nation with a pathological hated of normal married people could devise such a situation, as a matter of policy.
But as the BBC keep indicting to us all Gordon Brown is, is an honest neo Thatcherite and is as straight as a die in all respects. So that could not be the reason could it John Reith?
Hillhunt
I hope you didn’t get over excited during that long diatribe and end up with STICKY HANDS
http://nothingtodowithhunting.bl…g.blogspot.com/
Sorry – dud link, should be:-
http://nothingtodowithhunting.blogspot.com/
Robbiekeane | 28.05.07 – 10:48 am:
Surely you have enough experience of the legal system to be aware of the concept of innocent until proven guilty.
I’m not pre-judging Nigel Wrench’s innocence or guilt. I merely point out that if Wrench has indeed been charged with rape, as appears to be the case, then his alleged offence is surely compounded by his awareness of his own AIDS condition.
John Reith’s data on the (allegedly) growing audience share for all BBC output is worrying in the extreme.
It confirms what I’ve long suspected, namely that the institutionally biased BBC reporting of Middle Eastern affairs (where Muslims are always right, one never reports any instance of Muslims killing Christians/Buddhists, etc.) is largely responsible for the ‘radicalisation’ of ‘Young British Muslims’.
If I were to rely entirely on the news ouput from the BBC, I’d end up being radicalised myself, for on the cosily complacent BBC worldview, Muslims are always innocent, unjustly suspected of the most heinous crimes and never ever responsible for anything at all, while Americans and Israelis are always guilty, always rightly convicted prior to any evidence being in of the most heinous crimes and always but really always responsible for everything that goes wrong in the world.
You and your accomplices must be so proud of the perverse power you wield, Mr Reith. The question is, though: when was the last time you took a hard look at your conscience?
Why hasn’t the BBC reported this story about Nigel Wrench?
I mean it is news isn’t it?
Pedant,
I think it’s true to say that the BBC gave us Al-Jazeera. ‘Nuff said.
GP, is it not more sane and rational to suspect that GB might actually be concerned about bailing people out of poverty (and outside DailyMailLand many single mothers are pretty poor), but with a Calvinist/hardcore politics background might not appreciate the true extent of the laziness and sloth of many and hence overfocus on carrot rather than stick.
It takes a bit of a leftfield imagination to believe that he’s actually trying to undermine the social ‘fabrick’ of the country for evil Stalinist homosexual sociopathic purposes (although quite why homosexuals would want a bunch of underpriveleged skinhead psychos running about is beyond me).
Where the neo Thatcherite comes from is his clearly genuine admiration for business leaders and belief in the power of private enterprise, hence PPP etc, which as anyone who works in the City and has to deal with some of the less than impressive on average individuals who ‘run’ British business knows may be slightly OTT. Obviously he’s overtaxed and insufficiently deregulated also so it’s a MIXED BAG, surely demanding DETAILED and IN DEPTH reporting. Easier just to call him a murderous shirt lifter though innit.
lalalalala
Robbiekeane,
But why does the BBC just not report certain stories?
Like the al-Qaeda torture cell or Nigel Wrench or the daily rocket attacks in Israel which only make it into the news when Israel responds.
Good Morning!!
A nice to be back as well-makes a change from my struggle with Dutch grammar!!!!!:)
Now down to business and Hillhunts little outbust.
Hillhunt-I understand you’ve been ‘censored’ by Natalie, but take it on the chin friend, it sharpens you game if you didn’t resort to abuse ,and what is the point of having sour grapes when we’ve all got bigger fish to fry.
Take for example my little foray last weekend to the Islamic Republic of England and Gatwick Airports “nutty” security…and why Al Beeb hasn’t covered it? (After all with the amount of air-travel they should know)
Or the walnut wooden coverage of the FA Cup and its continuing fawning over Manure Utd and Chelski…?
And the continuing habit of peddling old chestnuts like this today in the Times:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article1848240.ece
Or Fran Unworthy muesli bar of sour grapes on Today’s Editors blog:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/fran_unsworth/
Clearly if we are nuts then Al Beebs new anthem is:
“Everybody is a fruit and nut case”
I notice from Never’s post on the last thread-26th 11am- that the BBC is expanding it’s commercial activities.As we are reluctant shareholders via the licence fee do we get any dividends if the money starts to roll in?
How come the BBC can use taxpayers money to compete with commercial companies?.There can be no question of risking a real loss as if the ventures fail the BBC can just demand more tax money.Perhaps the apologists posting here can explain the rationale behind this other than BBC empire building and yet more inflated salary cheques for the staff.
And look at the reporters covering the Middle East:
Rageeh Omar, Caroline Hawley, Alan Johnston, Jeremy Bowen, teary Babs Plett, Orla Guerin. Arabists, Muslims and how many who make the case for Israel. Zero.
More news from Gaza that Alan Johnston is unable to cover, as if he would even if he could.
Gaza baby treated at Israeli hospital
Hillhunt-I understand you’ve been ‘censored’ by Natalie…
IiD | 28.05.07 – 12:21 pm
Oh really?