Sorry that I haven’t been posting for a while. Unfortunately my circumstances aren’t likely to change any time soon, so it is not a good idea to write to me with examples of BBC bias for the present. The odds of me posting your observation, however scandalous it is, are small. Best use the comments instead.
That said, here I am today, home unexpectedly. And Fausta writes, “If you guys thought the Beeb’s adoration of Che in English was bad, wait until you see it in Spanish” – see this post on Fausta’s blog.
UPDATE FROM TELFORD: More appalling hagiographies of Che (in addition to the one we posted on recently) from the BBC this week here, here and here (the last includes a sentence from his critics, which makes it unusually balanced by the BBC’s standards) (via Matthew in comments).
I can’t help but smile, albeit wryly.
Search the BBC now for Che, and, as I suggested, the h2g2 link is no longer a ‘best link’ (although it appears right below them as the first link, and still would appear to most users to be BBC editorial, not user-generated content), but they have replaced it with the article that started off this furore last Friday. Hardly an improvement, and I’m still concerned that the h2g2 content appears as BBC-sanctioned content (normally non-BBC content is starred with a warning):
h2g2 – Che Guevara – Revolutionary
Created: 29th November 2000 Che Guevara – Revolutionary Che was the most complete human being of our age.
Incidentally, they do have a ‘Results from the Web’ section.
Guess what the ONLY result given is?
Yup, it’s everybody’s favourite – Marxists.org, complete with a gold ‘BBC recommends’ prefix, and the following summary “An excellent source of info on the revolutionary icon, including images, audio, speech transcripts and biographical articles”
Lots of Che articles today, some more loony than others.
(continued)
More Che Pictures
Latin America’s new look at Che
Cuba pays tribute to Che Guevara
In Pictures: Cuba remembers Che
All very positive of course.
Now if Germany started an ‘Adolf Hitler Day’ what do you suppose the BBC would be saying…? Hmm?
Can anyone actually point me to somewhere ON THE BBC where it actually gives both sides of the coin?
In fact they even have an article with photo alongside the other THREE different articles on the America front page stating ‘Che dies in battle’ and when you click you get the actual story of his being captured and then executed whilst trying to foment rebellion in another country. Funny that the BBC used that word when they imply in the same article that there was no fair trial etc…oh wait.
They use ‘executed’ by the Taliban so they have to do the same for Che or people might think they are biased or something. After all if they said he was ‘murdered’ they’ve have to do the same for our soldiers and those civilians who die as a result of meeting the Taliban.
Andrew tracked down this relevant link the other day, where Che is described as murdering — or “executing” — a teenage boy.