As a project for the weekend I’ve decided to make a start on the World’s first Beebish/English dictionary. My hope is it will eventually prove an invaluable tool for the audience to better understand the BBC’s news reports – or that I might be able to flog it to the Beeb as a training resource for bucket loads of cash.
I have a few entries below already, but I’d be grateful for suggestions of others* that should be included.
- Australian MP = an Australian Labor politician
- Black MPs = Black Labour MPs
- Daring = Murderous
- Defamatory = Disagreeable
- Far right = Pro-life
- Liberal (in the US sense) = the consensus view in the UK
- Men = Islamist terrorists
- Plumbers = Islamist terrorists
- Republican official = a Republican official
- US mayor = a Democratic US mayor
* with links if possible.
Hugh, this is excellent. And it’s a start on exactly the sort of systematic documenting of bias we need. However, what would make the post even more compelling would be to have, alongside a story that makes no reference to the Party affiliation of the disgraced Democrat mayor, another story in which an equivalent Republican malefactor is identified as Republican in clear terms. That’s irrefutable evidence.
But I know how much work that would involve, and this is a great post.
British man = terrorist of Pakistani descent.
Mikewhineliberal: unfortunately your alternative lexicon can’t really be denied, though many of us here despise the terms that get thrown around by some of the more rabid contributors, but in any case, please don’t let that distract you from the fact that those contributors are not publicly-funded, are not news organisations but private individuals, have every right to their opinions, and do not operate under a charter which legally obliges them to impartiality, neutrality, and which forbids them from broadcasting their own personal opinions and calling it “news”, in return for which, anyone refusing to fund them gets fined a grand or sent to prison.
You can see that, whatever shortcomings certain individual commenters may have, that really has no bearing on whether or not the BBC breaks its charter commitment to neutrality every single day.
So why don’t you address the issue?
“Prophet” = Muhammad
“prophet” = revered figure of other religions
“Conservative” (bad) = Republican/Tory/Right-winger/Orthodox Christian
“Conservative” (good) = Iranian mullah/Saudi royal/Backward Islamic ruling clique
“christian” – redneck gun toting racist.
Andy
That truly is an amazing article about the restored RAF Vulcan. Pacifism personified.
here is your link again :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7351628.stm
So how about :
“Symbol of destruction” = RAF plane designed to deter Russian aggression
The stupid Radio 4 prog the BBC has on Saturday at 9am came today complete with a vacuous leftie idiot spouting “poetry” and one of the womyn who hung around US air force bases, she was proud to have lived off benefits and behaved like a loon. And we keep paying appearance fees to these Trots ?
Social commentator = some loony lefty like Polly Toynbee
Environment correspondent = some guy with an arts degree trying to browbeat us with false science about the climate
Reporting from the ME = hysterical anti-Israel propaganda.
mikewineliberal = hysterical lefty loon.
“education” – teaching 5 year olds about sex and drugs
“reactionary” – someone who would rather teach them how to read and write
“bigot” – a teacher who would prefer to teach them a bit of history about England
“enlightened” – teaching kids that islam is wonderful.
archduke = doesn’t understand that CO2 is not claimed to be toxic.
“the Prophet Muhammad” = The Bandit-leader, Assassin Master and Genocidal Maniac considered a prophet only by muslims but deferred to by us troskiite and gramscian loons here at the BBC.
racists = white British working class people fed up with being made second class citizens in their own country by immigrants from Stone Age Islamic hellholes bent on destroying Western liberal civilisation.
JohnA: Yes this classic snippet
“…The debate over whether a symbol of destruction should be restored will continue; the team now planning the next flight are convinced the Vulcan is a potent piece of living history reminding today’s young of how near the world came to the brink…”
No mention of th eCommie bastards that would have happily wiped out out.
And I wonder who is debating this? Not the general public of course, but the liberal Islington lefties who’d rather have had a statue of Stalin restored no doubt.
The above can also include Sikhs etc, by the way.
When describing areas, or schools;
rich and diverse = poor and crime ridden
vibrant = no English people left
enriched = impoverished
leader = left-wing dictator
dictator = right-wing dictator
“modern world history” – World War Two didnt happen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/
“archduke = doesn’t understand that CO2 is not claimed to be toxic.
Nearly Oxfordian | 01.11.08 – 3:37 pm”
i was merely jesting. a reflection of the near hysteria when it comes to reporting about CO2 by “environment” reporters.
“nationalists” – working class
“racists” – working class
example here.. at the bottom – about who the Nazis were popular with
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/nazibeliefsrev2.shtml
note how explicit references to working class support is left out.
(which of course would not fit with the Gramscian rewriting of history when it comes to the NSDAP…)
How about some BBC grammar?
To the BBC, adding “Israeli” into the sentence makes any military action a possible War Crime. For a like-with-like comparison, compare:
“Lebanon army ‘wins camp battle'”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6228766.stm
“Analysis: ‘War crimes’ on West Bank”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1935198.stm
“global financial crisis” – a recession caused by a labour government
“recession” – a recession caused by a tory government
“mass unemployment” – what happens during a Tory recession
“market correction” – mass unemployment during a Labour recession
“shooting” – something that only happens in america and should be put as the top headline on the bbc children’s news website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/default.stm
“european union/ european army” – something that is a figment of your kids imagination and really doesnt exist…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7700000/newsid_7703800/7703841.stm
leafy suburb = place where nasty middle class people live who have the audacity to want to get their children into a good school
middle class = nasty people who inconveniently are in the majority, go to work, pay their taxes, probably read The Daily Mail, and don’t understand our marxist dreams
Middle England = those awful working people we despise because we consider them to be intellectually inferior to us leftie types (we won’t mention theyre the ones who pay the taxes)
Question Time = SWP weekly meeting
Christian fundamentalist – A nun.
Right wing Christian fundamentalist – A missionary.
Civilian – Anyone who keeps his AK47 under his dishdash.
Enemy casualties – Wedding party.
Skinhead Neo Nazi – Anyone working class with a haircut.
“little englander” – a person who thinks that self-determination and democracy for this country is a rather good idea.
“anti-european” – someone who wants to withdraw from the european union
“xenophobe” – see above
“racist” – someone who digs up crime statistics by ethnicity
“racist” – someone who doesnt like the idea of living in Hackney and wants to move to a “leafy suburb”
“bigot” – someone who points out that there are certain violent practices in sharia law Islamic society
interchangeable with “racist”
“measured” – when Trevor Philips talks about the white working class
“neo nazi” – when the BNP talks about the white working class
“republican primary season” – a figment of my imagination.
“democrat primary season” – a world changing 24×7 news event
By the way, “broke the truce” was an accusation a BBC news website report flung at David Cameron when he ventured to criticise the government over aspects of the banking crisis.
The temerity of the man!
The supposed broken “truce” must have been invented in a fevered Beeby brain.
“enemy territory” – a Republican state
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/2008/10/obama_in_enemy_territory.html
U.S = responsible for all the problems in the universe and especially the present economic crisis, which has nothing to do with Brown.
by the way – internal GOP polling is showing that NEW JERSEY is breaking for McCain amongst the undecideds..
he’s also ahead in Michigan.
in pennsylvania, its going mccain as well…
take it or leave it. just thought i’d pass that bit of info on to you folks.
“any answers” – a phone in show for left wing chatterati types
“any questions” – where a left wing panel doesnt answer any questions posed by a left wing audience
“Climate experts” – a bloke with green dreadlocks and a ring through his nose who lives up a tree
ok folks.. found a blogpost on the internal GOP polling
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/internal-gop-poll-has-mccain-kicking-butt/
if true, this is going to be earth shattering for the MSM…
mp3 available at the link above.
new jersey: mccain 48, obama 43, undecided 7
michigan: mccain 44 , obama 42 , undecided 10
the shockers:
california: obama 44, mccain 43, undecided 9
pennsylvania: mccain 55, obama 33 , undecided 10
also have a read of this
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=39446
(take with a big pinch of salt, but it mentions buying out the MSM and pollsters…)
quotes:
What truly bothers this campaign is the fact that some pollsters get up to an 80% “refuse to respond” result.
Susan – sorry, the USA is responsible for 90% only.
The other 90% (sic) are Israel’s fault.
HSLD – an idiot who doesn’t understand the term ‘scientist’.
Tories = everything evil under the sun, and never, ever anything good
take it or leave it. just thought i’d pass that bit of info on to you folks.
archduke | 01.11.08 – 5:02 pm
I’ll take it.
“scientist” – someone who receives a lot of funding from the climate change EU sponsored gravy train.
“science” – manipulating the statistics to fit your model.
“climate change skeptic” – a scientist who finds flaws in the aforementioned model.
“poor” – what the climate change skeptic will be if he doesnt shut up
shareholders = greedy people how dare they invest their money in companies and job creation and get profits. We hate the market economy because we don’t understand it as our funding falls from the sky.
taxpayers = people who we rob to fund our lavish lifestyle ,endless champagne, and left wing propaganda
Stakeholder – someone who owns no stake in an enterprise.
“Cosmopolitan” – a part of the Country where no one can speak English.
“Vibrancy” – A palpable menace emanating from a colonised area that is dominated by alien cultural values.
“At risk of Crime” – BBC (and labour) speak for someone who will become more criminalised as they get past puberty.
“Celebrate” – as in “Celebrate diversity” – this is mandatory approval of things that the public cannot object to, non participants criminalised.
“British Army” – fascist organisation that has nothing to do with Britain and has no call on the support or loyalty of the BBC.
“Editorial independence” – great as long as it attacks the right, but never the left or BBC endorsed special interest groups. **cking relatives of retired actors on air is OK as long as it is cutting edge
“Dr Who” – abysmal social engineering intended to make children see that the current BBC narrative, their ‘reality’, has always existed.
the Labour Party – The natural Lords of Creation who excrete manna and pass fragrant zephyrs from their rectums. (sorry that was a bit “contemporary” and “edgy” and quite disgusting – all complaints to the controller of BBC Radio 1 Extra)
Ross must go
.
Representative studio audience =
fruity mix of 90% leftie and 80% non-white
MP found guilty of fiddling expenses =
Labour MP guilty of fiddling expenses
Dow Jones fell by 500 points =
Death of capitalism (given with smile)
Tesco killing small shops =
Consumers paying 30% less for food
NHS doctors planned bombings =
Muslim doctors planned bombings