Well, tuning into the TODAY programme after a break of a few days doesn’t last long before out jumps the rampant bias with which that this site so concerned. Did you catch the simpering pro-Russian interview conducted at 7.09? US Ambassador to Nato Kurt Volker was directly asked if a/ He accepted that the US was to blame for the Russian assault on Georgia and if b/Georgia was partly to blame for the Russian assault on Georgia? The icy tone adopted by Sarah Montague when interviewing the amiable Volker was telling – this was an interview with a clear subtext; Russia is not to blame for invading another sovereign State and Russia is also the victim of American imperialism. All that was missing was the Russian Anthem playing gently in the background whilst this interview was being conducted. How the BBC must miss the glory years of the USSR…
BACK IN THE USSR….
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Absolutely right.
Montague is another ambulance chaser, looking for soundbites to show other people’s bias.
But have you noticed that no one on any BBC radio programme can pronounce Medvedev’s name properly – only one person a woman reporter in Ukraine got it almost right – so much for the international training of the BBC.
Just check out this article on the BBC today. it seems that the BBC are now recognizing Abkhazi and South Ossetia as their own countries complete with an info box detailing the capital and the president of these new countries.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7587598.stm
It’s interesting to note the words that the BBC uses on its Listen Again page to describe the interview with the US Ambassador to NATO :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/default.stm
Vladimir Putin has suggested in an interview with CNN that the United States helped provoke the conflict in Georgia, and that it was done to influence the US election. US Ambassador to Nato Kurt Volker explains why he thinks Putin believes this.
And then on the link itself :
US Ambassador explains why he thinks Putin believes the US provoked conflict in Georgia
The suggestion that the US Ambassador to NATO thinks Putin really does believe that the US provoked the conflict in Georgia to influence the US election is astonishing. So I listened to the clip.
It emerges that the US Ambassador was never asked whether he thought Putin believed such a thing, and it was obvious from the rest of the interview that he thought the Russian story was transparently absurd and that had he been asked whether he thought Putin really believed this stuff, he would have laughed. And yet the BBC has him not only thinking that Putin believes what he is claiming, but even explaining why Putin believes it !
To get some balance surely whenever the Beeboids question a Russian representative they should be asked if Chechnya is soon going to be recognised as a separate entity, like the two parts of Georgia, and when Russian forces will be moving out of Chechnya to prevent the population there being threatened by a nasty regime.
It is ridiculous that the “BBC” has been giving such prominence to this laughable propaganda ploy by Putin.
The only reason the “BBC” runs this is that it is anti-Bush and anti-McCain. The rest of the UK media have largely ignored this “story”.
@Phil 29.08.08 – 10:55 am
unbelievable ! the bbc , russia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Transnistria recognise abhazia and south ossetia as independent countries !
i haven’t checked the bbc website yet but presumably in the light of the above, the west bank has now been renamed samaria and judea ?
Vladimir Putin has suggested in an interview with CNN that the United States helped provoke the conflict in Georgia, and that it was done to influence the US election
I think I would settle, as a UK citizen, for the election of Obama if it would silence thee many fools in the West who are eager to believe any conspiracy theory that makes Western leaders the villain of the piece (from 9/11 onwards).
Give me McCain and Palin any day.
will | 29.08.08 – 7:45 pm | #
I think I would settle, as a UK citizen, for the election of Obama if it would silence thee many fools in the West who are eager to believe any conspiracy theory that makes Western leaders the villain of the piece (from 9/11 onwards).
Interesting thought… but I reassure you – even Barack Hussein Obama can become a baddie in the eyes on European leftists.
McCain / Palin for me too, please.