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You would have thought that, following the outrageous and evil ‘Question Time’ following 9/11 when the BBC packed the audience with Muslim extremists, they would have learnt their lesson. Clearly not.
Time for independent oversight with the power to discipline and fire.
‘Any idea’s where Mark’s 18 grand bonus went?’
IiD | 03.07.07 – 12:35 pm |
‘Gave it all to the ‘children of Africa’ did he?’
Doubt it, but definately an overseas account.
I haven’t seen any publicity for an annual 2 minutes’ silence of remembrance, THIS SATURDAY, 7 JULY, for the victims of the Islamic jihad murders in London, 2 years ago.
Lest we forget, indeed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/running/executive/eb_samir_shah.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/categories/execs.shtml
For Al Beeb, and beyond:
“Denial in Britain” (3 July, Robert Spencer)
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com
I never realized that Al Beeb also provided an outlet for employees holiday snaps:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/
Getting value for money here Beeboids?
Now, BBC “misguides” children
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/default.stm
It’s OK to be upset by the news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_2330000/newsid_2333800/2333893.stm
In the related links on the Right, BBC teaches Children on School Safety!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_1950000/newsid_1953800/1953842.stm
CBBC Host’s reply to a child’s question:
“If you’re worried because of something you’ve heard in the news:
Always check the facts if you hear a nasty story – it might not be true or it could be exaggerated.
Remember that things in the news are often in the news because they don’t happen very often.
Discuss the news with your parents or friends, or chat about it on a message board. You’ll be reassured that you’re not the only one worried.
You could also talk to your teacher about it – maybe you could have a class discussion which would help you understand the issue better. ”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbnewsround/F2706291?thread=4322457
By the way, under Spanish law the accused is allowed to lie in his defence. Witnesses may not.
Biodegradable | 03.07.07 – 11:37 am | #
That would suit muslims. They are permitted to lie (by the koran) for the benefit of their dogma. Our meat-headed judiciary really should be made aware of this.
looks like somebody on newsround has the right idea.
and she’s only a kid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6260000/newsid_6261700/6261704.stm
dont forget to do your semi-automatic glock training when you get to switzerland love. best of luck to you.
and so the kids of the UK continue to be misinformed by omission
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6260000/newsid_6263800/6263852.stm
no “allah allah” reference in there, no siree.
Alabala:
CBBC Host’s reply to a child’s question:
“If you’re worried because of something you’ve heard in the news:
Always check the facts if you hear a nasty story – it might not be true or it could be exaggerated.
Shouldn’t they have added;
Especially if you hear it from the BBC!
Spot the difference
From the top Article: BBC in the News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/
http://www.presstv.ir/news.aspx
Few minutes back, I noticed the following on BBC:
LATEST: Muslim Council of Britain condemns failed UK bomb attacks. More soon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Now, it’s missing; I’ve searched for it; there’s no relavant article on AL-Beeb now.
buzzdroid:
Yes. They present 1/2 a story to adults like us.
They present 1/4 or 1/6 or 1/100…
Wayne: Very true
Always check the facts if you hear a nasty story – it might not be true or it could be exaggerated. Especially if you hear it from the BBC!
buzzdroid:
Yes. They present 1/2 a story to adults like us.
They present 1/4 or 1/6 or 1/100… to kids
Alabala;
The latest headline regarding the MCB refers to this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6260000/newsid_6264400/6264418.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm
Dr Abdula Shehu, a member of the Muslim Doctors Association and chairman of the Muslim Council of Britain’s health committee , said he was worried about a possible backlash against Muslim doctors.
“To generalise for an event like this and think that Muslim doctors generally should have a different kind of treatment or perception in a negative way should not be the issue here.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6264236.stm
shows the closer ties between MCB (Muslim Council of Britain) and MDA (Muslim Doctors Association)
Wayne: Thanks.
From the BBC News website: “The NHS has traditionally depended on overseas doctors to help keep the health service running. ”
Traditionally? I was under the impression that when the NHS was created there was very little immigration and therefore we can assume it was not full of overseas doctors. Perhaps the fact it is full of Islam Jihadis is putting off the locals from working there….
I managed to listen to the full video from the MCB before Al-beeb tampered with it by shortening the official statement and adding their own negative spin in the form of selected interviews with young muslims.
Why can’t they just leave it alone for fucks sake.
The original statement carried a powerful message to all muslims to cooperate with police and to fight extremism. Maybe Al-beeb doesn’t want that message conveyed for some reason!
Compare and contrast
Sky’s political editor (paraphrased)
Given the attacks on the world trade centre were originally in 1993 and even 9/11 preceded Iraq those at the top are coming to the view that it is the logic of world islamist jihadists that attacks must be made on the west and that all lands that once were muslim will return to being muslim or they wont stop…
Al beeb appeasers view
Withdraw immediately from Iraq, Afghanistan and any other muslim country. Support independance for Kosovo and Kashmir. Boycott Israel. Support Palestinians to replace Jewish state. Allow sharia in the muslim community in UK. Allow mass immigration into the UK from muslim countries. Support muslim countries getting nuclear technology. Withdraw his knighthood and sentance Salman Rushdie to death. Carefully limit (or better still close) all direct affronts to islam including pubs, clubs, casinos, betting shops, cinemas and western butchers. Allow muslims to take all islamic festivals off as annual leave. End co-ed schools. Then hopefully they won’t attack us…
I know which is the right view and it aint the al beeb appeasers.
The BBC, its liberal approach to criminals and the wrong apology
Killer’s mind ‘must have snapped’
Michael Mullen was a drug addict whose “brain must have snapped” to rape and murder his two-year-old niece, a former close friend has said. Paul Mackwell, 24, became “best mates” with Mullen about eight years ago when the pair were both living on the Beckhill Estate in Meanwood, Leeds. He described Mullen as quiet but close to his family. Mullen was said to have been addicted to cocaine and was once jailed for attacking a woman. Mr Mackwell said: “Everyone I’ve spoken to has said this isn’t something we would have expected Michael to do.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/6260950.stm
Yup some close friend of 8 years as here is something the BBC reports he did 4 years ago;
A man jailed for life for the rape and murder of his two-year-old niece was charged with raping a 12-year-old girl four years ago, it has emerged.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/6264340.stm
The liberal outlook at the BBC always blames society rather than the individual .
The BBC, its liberal approach to criminals and the wrong apology
The latest Kiwi VC STILL not mentioned at all on the BBC website anywhere….now had the headline been ‘Taliban kills 2 Kiwi SAS soldiers’ it would have been front page and up for weeks! BBC all the news that WE think is important not the factual stuff…
PS – Hillhumpf:
As I and others have already pointed out elsewhere, 2IC Belfast PIRA in 1993 was Micky the Mad Prot. Not very Catholic was he?
“The original statement carried a powerful message to all muslims to cooperate with police and to fight extremism. Maybe Al-beeb doesn’t want that message conveyed for some reason!”
So we can assume that there are many working in BBC News that are allied to the thinking of Ken Livingstone and George Galloway rather than that of Gordon Brown. No big surprise there. They probably consider that socialist revolution can be achieved by subverting the BBC to spread propaganda and allying with radical elements of British Islam.
Perhaps these are the remnants of 60’s students that were brainwashed by the KGB and the Stasi and have now risen to positions of influence in the media.
In that case needn’t worry. They will be gone long before I am.
Where is Reith? I ask because when the Today programme’s recent “interview” with Jimmy Carter was mentioned we heard from Reith who talked about presenter tool kits and what inquisitorial tool to use for what guest.
The octogenarian Carter seemingly needed the gentle touch.
Now Al Gore is younger than Lord Tebbit (anyone think the Toady show would roll over and let him tickle their tummies?) so why does the Goracle get the easy ride?
Same worldview as the Beeboids?
In other words, BIAS?
LATEST: Muslim Council of Britain condemns failed UK bomb attacks. More soon.
That’s an entertainingly ambiguous headline. The cynic in me sees the MCB condemning the failure rather than the attack, and promising more ‘new and improved’ attacks soon.
Yes, interesting that not only have the known Beeboids stopped posting here, but HillHunt’s output has diminished markedly at the same time. Coincidence? I doubt it. Another reason to believe that HillHunt really is a BBC stooge.
The BBC, it’s love for Tehran and another Islamic news outlet.
Iran launches English TV channel
Iran’s state broadcaster has launched a 24-hour English-language news channel.
Press TV, based in Tehran but with 26 correspondents around the world, says it aims to break a “stranglehold” it says the West has over world media. Mohammad Sarafraz, vice-president of Iran’s state broadcaster, said Press TV would offer “another point of view” unlike Western channels or al-Jazeera.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6260716.stm
And here is how the Guardian reports on the New ‘Press TV’ station;
‘An antidote to Fox’: Iran launches English TV channel
It was intended to be a radical departure in global news coverage, and few could argue that in this, at least, it succeeded. Iran’s new state-run English-language 24-hour news channel, which launched yesterday, was aimed at viewers in the US and Europe, its director said. But despite the clipped English tones of its anchorman, Henry Morton – “Salaam, and welcome” – the channel, called Press TV, still needed to learn a thing or two about western attention spans.
……………
Press TV’s website took a more forthrightly partisan approach, emulating the design of the BBC News site to an almost spooky degree, but with material to make the BBC blanch.
……………..
Mohammad Sarafraz, head of the new channel, said most of Press TV’s 30 journalists were non-Iranians, and included many Britons as well as Americans. The channel will have correspondents in London, New York, Washington, Beirut, Damascus, Moscow and several other European capitals, as well as three correspondents covering the Israel-Palestine conflict from Gaza, Ramallah and Jerusalem. Mr Sarafraz said training had been provided by a BBC employee.The most well-known face at the London bureau, based in Ealing, is Yvonne Ridley, the former Sunday Express journalist who converted to Islam after being captured by the Taliban in 2001.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2117128,00.html
Their website is currently down so I can’t link into just what it looks like.
The BBC, it’s love for Tehran and another Islamic news outlet.
Iran launches English TV channel
Iran’s state broadcaster has launched a 24-hour English-language news channel.
Press TV, based in Tehran but with 26 correspondents around the world, says it aims to break a “stranglehold” it says the West has over world media. Mohammad Sarafraz, vice-president of Iran’s state broadcaster, said Press TV would offer “another point of view” unlike Western channels or al-Jazeera.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6260716.stm
And here is how the Guardian reports on the New ‘Press TV’ station;
‘An antidote to Fox’: Iran launches English TV channel
It was intended to be a radical departure in global news coverage, and few could argue that in this, at least, it succeeded. Iran’s new state-run English-language 24-hour news channel, which launched yesterday, was aimed at viewers in the US and Europe, its director said. But despite the clipped English tones of its anchorman, Henry Morton – “Salaam, and welcome” – the channel, called Press TV, still needed to learn a thing or two about western attention spans.
……………
Press TV’s website took a more forthrightly partisan approach, emulating the design of the BBC News site to an almost spooky degree, but with material to make the BBC blanch.
……………..
Mohammad Sarafraz, head of the new channel, said most of Press TV’s 30 journalists were non-Iranians, and included many Britons as well as Americans. The channel will have correspondents in London, New York, Washington, Beirut, Damascus, Moscow and several other European capitals, as well as three correspondents covering the Israel-Palestine conflict from Gaza, Ramallah and Jerusalem. Mr Sarafraz said training had been provided by a BBC employee.The most well-known face at the London bureau, based in Ealing, is Yvonne Ridley, the former Sunday Express journalist who converted to Islam after being captured by the Taliban in 2001.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2117128,00.html
Strange how the BBC springs up in that Guardian story a couple of times.
Their (Press TV)website is currently down so I can’t link into just what it looks like.
Damn posted twice. Sorry
Al Beeb obfuscation:
“Terror suspects all linked to NHS”
(Al Beeb ‘News’ 3 July, 16.10 GMT),
SHOULD READ:
Terror suspects all linked to Islam”.
Latest terror arrests: two more xxxxxxx arrested in that hot-bed of the NHS in Blackburn, Lancashire.
Terror suspects all linked to NHS”
So it isn’t just plumbers but NHS doctors too – the biggest terror threat in the country.
Why doest the BBC go the whole hog and combine its favorite PC euphmishms.
Communities instead of Muslims and Activists instead of Terrorists.
So CCBC can explain to children the world over how on 9/11
Community Acivists smashed passenger planes into the World Trade Centre in order killing 3,000 peopel to protest the support of America for the enemies of Communities the Israeli Jews..
nearly up to the 1000 pint target for that glasgow airport hero:
http://www.johnsmeaton.com
incredible. when i bought a beer for him this morning it was up at the 400 mark.
PRESS TV: HOW THE BBC IS AIDING THE EXPANSION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLICS PROPAGANDA
Part of the BBCs growing allaince with the Islamic Republic of Iran has led to this:
Speaking to Iran
Richard Sambrook 10 Oct 06
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2006/10/speaking_to_iran_1.html
and now we have the dubious pleasue of watching this:
‘An antidote to Fox’: Iran launches English TV channel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2117128,00.html
Press TV’s website took a more forthrightly partisan approach, emulating the design of the BBC News site to an almost spooky degree, but with material to make the BBC blanch. A story about the attempted attacks on London and Glasgow airport, headlined More threadbare propaganda from the west, was a perfectly serviceable account of recent events – until the final paragraphs, where the reporter suggested they were staged by the UK government, in order to tarnish the image of Muslims enraged by the knighting of Salman Rushdie.
The website also included a “quick vote” poll – “Do you think the withdrawal of the occupation forces is the best solution to the restoration of peace in Iraq?” – but, as if to invite mockery, refused to allow users to see the results.
Here are some of the stories you wont see on Press TV or BBC
A good one from the Wall Street Journal Online:
“An Iraqi junior doctor and a brilliant neurologist working for the NHS [National Health Service] are among the suspects being quizzed over the series of bomb attacks across Britain, it emerged today.”
Others have made the obvious points that (1) this belies the sob-sister stereotype that terrorists are impoverished and desperate, and (2) maybe there’s an argument against socialized medicine here.
ITN are now saying that MI5 knew two of the suspects and knew that they were connected to terrorist groups.
makes you wonder what the hell is going on here.
TOP 10 EUPHMISMS FOR ISLAMIC TERRORIST
I can only think of 5 poss. 6 that both this government and the BBC would approve of. Would be greatful for any suggestions … If we can get to 10 then I will email the list to the BBC editors blog.
1. NHS Doctor
2. Communitarian
3. Activist
4. Peacenik (As in adherent of RoP)
5. Humanist
6. Libertarian
7.
8.
9
10.
In R4 Today they were discussing – shock horror – results of a survey showing that a lot of people are sceptical about GM. They were complaining that their [brainwashing] work has very little effect. Perfect – people have more common sense than our Orwellian friends would like them to.
itn. mori poll – 56% doubt the global warming hysteria.
just goes to show how increasingly out of touch the BBC is.
itn are now interviewing the goracle and are not giving him an easy time.
6. plumber
7. asian
8. man
9. student
10. social worker
Ryan
BBC stooge.
Thats for certain.
The BBC not only hates and dispises its unwilling customers, it truely believes that we are all certifiably stupid as well.
dont hold your breath if you think that these people are just going to fade away with time. Because IMO their are two strands of world view at the BBC. Both not good to say the least for the interests of British of European individual liberty.
Revolutionary Marxist Socialism and Corporate Fascist Socialism. The first represented by the likes of Livingstone and Galloway. The second by the likes of Brown Blair and possibly Cameron.
However, as Cameron and his party is still being treated by the BBC and the MSM like a easily transmitable deadly virus,and their voters like ignorent baby-eating racist swine, there is still hope.
11:misguided criminal
BBC1 News at Six surpassed itself with the opener: “All eight suspects have ONE thing in common” – yes – you guessed it – they’re all doctors.
Git Harri then compared Brownstuff’s latest pretence at being a democrat with the signing of Magna Carta. Oh purlease.
The BBC it’s love for Hamas and half a story.
Hamas arrests over BBC reporter
Hamas security forces in Gaza have detained members of the Palestinian militant group which claims to have abducted BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
Among the arrested was Khattab al-Maqdisi, a spokesman of the Army of Islam group, Hamas said. “The arrests were carried out after all negotiation attempts… failed to free the abducted journalist,” the Hamas-run interior ministry said in a statement.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6260970.stm
and here is how that story is reported on by Ap
Hamas says it has launched an operation to free Alan Johnston
By The Associated Press
Hamas said Monday that its forces had launched an operation aimed at freeing abducted BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who has been held in the Gaza Strip for nearly four months.”The clocks have begun ticking toward the release of Alan Johnston,” said Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad. “The operation of the Interior Ministry Executive Forces has started, and they are tightening the siege on the people involved in his kidnap.”Hamas sources said earlier a Palestinian civilian was killed in an exchange of fire with the group holding Johnston in the Gaza Strip
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALESTINIANS_KIDNAPPED_JOURNALIST?SITE=TNKNN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Why does the BBC version of the above omit that civilian death? I mean in every incident which involves civilian casualties when somebody is fighting terrorists , the BBC is more than happy to promote the collateral damage angle. Yet when Hamas shoots somebody who isn’t packing a weapon. (something they admit themselves)
And that link I gleaned from here;
http://www.ap.org/
using the search function.
The BBC it’s love for Hamas and half a story.
The BBC it’s love for Hamas and half a story.
Hamas arrests over BBC reporter
Hamas security forces in Gaza have detained members of the Palestinian militant group which claims to have abducted BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
Among the arrested was Khattab al-Maqdisi, a spokesman of the Army of Islam group, Hamas said. “The arrests were carried out after all negotiation attempts… failed to free the abducted journalist,” the Hamas-run interior ministry said in a statement.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6260970.stm
and here is how that story is reported on by Ap
Hamas says it has launched an operation to free Alan Johnston
By The Associated Press
Hamas said Monday that its forces had launched an operation aimed at freeing abducted BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who has been held in the Gaza Strip for nearly four months.”The clocks have begun ticking toward the release of Alan Johnston,” said Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad. “The operation of the Interior Ministry Executive Forces has started, and they are tightening the siege on the people involved in his kidnap.”Hamas sources said earlier a Palestinian civilian was killed in an exchange of fire with the group holding Johnston in the Gaza Strip
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALESTINIANS_KIDNAPPED_JOURNALIST?SITE=TNKNN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Why does the BBC version of the above omit that civilian death? I mean in every incident which involves civilian casualties when somebody is fighting terrorists , the BBC is more than happy to promote the collateral damage angle. Yet when Hamas shoots somebody who isn’t packing a weapon. (something they admit themselves)
And that link I gleaned from here;
http://www.ap.org/
using the search function.
The BBC it’s love for Hamas and half a story.
Saving Planet Gore BBC1 7pm
It is nice to have a title and Al Gore is introduced by the BBC as “Former US Presidential Candidate Al Gore” I wonder what HIS Carbon footprint is as he globe trots around the world.
A rare thank you then to BBC London News who estimated Madonnas carbon footprint at over 1,000 tons of carbon compared to the average UK resident of 10 tens. Fronting as she is the Saving Planet Earth music thingy it is also revealed that her carbon footprint is equivalent to that of 14,000 Malawians, one of whose babies she has “adopted”.
For those throwing the Fascist word about a programme on 5 re Mussolini.
Fabio P.Barbieri
The term Fascism is derived from the word “Fascio,” which had
existed in Italian politics for some time and referred to political
action groups of many different orientations.
Have you been watching too much BBC?
Syndicalists, harboured nationalist feelings. They formed a group
called Fasci d’azione rivoluzionaria internazionalista in October
1914.
May I throw a few words about how about misogynist and homophobic. Any guesses?
Also, the BNP is a political party and part of the democratic process whereby individuals can freely vote unlike in a theocracy.