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Some time ago I complained about the identity of the BBC World Service. Since then I have been educated as to the inner workings of the media mind:
The BBC and CNN are “international” broadcasters. That is: they require local audiences and serve local needs. This results in the watering down of a British (BBC) or US (CNN) message. CNN needs Arab advertising, the BBC loves its “vast international” audience. Both follow the old adage “give the public what it wants” – hence the anti-Israeli stuff.
In contrast Fox news has resisted Fox News International, believing their remit is to reflect US right and center-right concerns.
As long as the BBC remains a ‘world’ broadcaster and not a British broadcaster transmitting to the world, they will skew the agenda. To put it bluntly, they are not on our side.
we dont want “reform”… we want utter abolition.
archduke | 02.12.08 – 11:04 pm |
I may not post as frequently Archduke does, and I know he doesn’t claim to speak for the whole blog, but I’m opting out of his ‘we’ above.
I want utter reform not abolition.
If he gets his wish what would we be left with?
A choice between ratings-driven dumbed down crap and dumbed down crap.
Having spent the last few years demolishing the credibility of its long held reputation for quality and impartiality, the BBC will soon have to admit to themselves that the masses are beginning to realise there’s something nasty in the woodshed.
Not just Brand, Ross, the fat disc-jockey, and John Barrowsomething somehow performing exhibitionism on the radio. Not the Blue Peter trickery or the Annie Leibovitz and the Queen trickery. They use those as a smokescreen, holding up their hands, saying “sorry everyone we’re guilty of these moderately trivial offences, see, there, we apologised and we won’t do it again.”
They do that in the same way that they pretend the immigrant debate is about Poles when it’s really about Muslims.
The real bias concerns the reluctance to use the word Terror when it’s blindingly obvious that it is the appropriate word, the contortions brought about by having to defend and justify doing so, the preferential treatment given to the teacher’s pet of a religion, the constant and relentless normalisation of bizarre and un western practices such as arranged marriages and wearing a tent, all this is now beginning to look suspicious to the man on the London Omnibus.
“Give the public what it wants” – hence the anti-Israeli stuff.John Bosworth | 07.12.08 – 7:50 pm
By public demand, then:
On a brief news bulletin this morning there was a gleefully read out announcement that Israel has blocked another shipment of humanitarian aid bound for Gaza adding “It would have been against Israeli law.” It was a very very brief news bulletin, so this must have been included merely because of its usefulness in maintaining the demonisation of Israel.
Reuters has: http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSL751709520081207
“Dozens of rockets and mortar bombs have been fired at Israel since the weekend.”
Can’t find the story anywhere on the Beeb now; they wouldn’t have bothered to mention that last bit anyhow. Just bash Israel. It’s what we do.
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Sue,
Yes, they’ve been too busy bashing Israel as a “human rights violator” to mention the Pali bombardment. Pathetic.
It is incredible how many times a BBC radio news bulletin includes the latest “news” from Gaza, always anti-Israel. Thousands and thousands die in conflict all around the world but the only conflict guaranteed full coverage is that of Israel and the Palestinians. Anyone might think that the BBC had an agenda to pursue. Maybe if they released the Balen report we would be less suspicious.
From Pravda (the original one).
“Quite simply, as the UK sinks into the deepest reaches of an Orwellian Police State, where the government tracks every car on the autobahns, every phone call, all Internet usage and even has council members rummaging through people’s dust bins before the rubbish is picked up, and all the while their own industry is pushed off to third world nations and the British themselves are pushed off by a tsunami of third world immigrants bent on making the English like them not themselves like the English, the beleaguered and enslaved subjects of Her Majesty are looking for someone to strike out of sheer anger. Instead of looking inwardly and to God and solving the myriad of their own problems, they have instead chosen the easier route of striking at far off Russians. Of course it is the now long habit of taking the easier route that has brought the English to the point of possible extinction on the English Isles. A sorry state indeed.”
http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/106710-1/
Now some would say this is propaganda – but we all know its true.
Jack Bauer:
“Blimp is a GREAT movie.”
It is a great movie. Apparently Churchill hated it and tried to get it banned.
It is a great movie. Apparently Churchill hated it and tried to get it banned.
Mark2 | 07.12.08 – 11:01 pm | #
True the great man didn’t care for it. Not true he tried to get it banned.
with the riots in greece, i suspect we arent getting the full picture.
why are they so ferocious?
i mean – even “anarchists” need a reason to be so violent. and i dont think it was just the shooting of just the one teenager.
can anyone enlighten us with more detail than whats on the 24 hour news channels?
Jon | 07.12.08 – 10:58 pm |
and the russians are major league Anglophiles. we should listen to them. no seriously – we should.
their truck is with the Germanic led EU , not with Britain. to them NATO & EU are equivalent, so in their mind, expansion of NATO equals the new Third Reich.
thats the Russian mindset.
whether that is right or wrong is by the by – thats just the reality of how they see things.
but britain – well, the russians are a soft spot for britain… its in their culture – their writers, their poetry, their art.. all of it refers not to america, but to british culture.
unfortunately, our Year Zero crowd dont seem to have wisened up to that.. instead of a bridge to america, we’re more useful as a bridge to russia.
am i right – or am i barking mad?
i think i’m right – and we’re missing a huge geopolitical opportunity here.
by the way , the reason why i deduce the above is from THAT pravda article you quoted.
that is a critique of britain – no doubt it is… but it reads to me as if it is a critique of a country they love. and there is a lot of sadness in it.
it is not a critique full of utter hatred. i read something into it.
putin has to appear to be the hard guy… but theres an opening to russia. and its there if you look for it.
pity our year zero lot are fully signed up to the EU …we’d be able, as a nation, to calm things down a hell of a lot more.
oh wow – sarkozy – same country that actually fucking INVADED russia under napoleon.
besides our skirmish in ukrainian crimea, what the hell have we ever done to harm the russians? bugger all compared to the Germans, Poles, French, Italians, Hungarians. Austrians, Serbians, etc etc etc..
bbc news 24 is now reporting on the Hajj..
now we have a bbc reporter in full hajj gear ( white robes) reporting to the camera.
giving a full islamic thing to the camera.
millions of catholics go to lourdes every year. extra cookie for you if you spot it on the BBC.
now they are reporting on ghana.. there is an election going on there.
well, ghana aint a bad country. and i wonder why.
just waiting for the bbc explanation
still waiting…
err no… they dont explain ghana.
ok – i’ll fill in the details – ghana is an ex british colony. and they have done the “common law” , british parliament stuff as best they can.
but of course the bbc doesnt mention that. in the chaos of west african wars, ghana should be admired.
but the bbc never says that.
That Pravda article is probably the best article I’ve read about contemporary British politics in months. It’s still inaccurate tabloid rubbish but it’s in the right ballpark, it even references cultural marxism. I wish I could say the same for our own newspapers.
“their truck is with the Germanic led EU , not with Britain. to them NATO & EU are equivalent, so in their mind, expansion of NATO equals the new Third Reich.”
Russians are not children Archduke, they can make informed judgements. NATO is a lot like the Third Reich. NATO exploits regional political faultlines for political gain i.e. strategic racism. It began with arming the mujahideen in Afghanistan, former Yugoslavia (Albanian racist nationalism and Croat Nazism) and again in Georgia. NATO is a seriously evil organisation lead by people who think that the world’s resources should be benevolently administered by an American lead global government i.e. Neocons. The EU and the UN share this goal, except they don’t utilise on an American pseudo-nationalism as a military tool.
The recent conflict in Georgia has brought home to the whole world how evil NATO is. Russia has put an end to NATO expansion and the EU and others know this. Russia’s side of the story has been upheld, Russia has emerged both the military and moral victor. This is good news for everyone.
Vaclav Klaus prime minister of the Czech has even favoured closer tie’s with Russia (natural gas). And that’s very significant because right-wing Czechs are supposed to hate the Russians more than we hate the French. This would be an incredibly smart move on the part of Klaus, because NATO is a sinking ship, and the EU is a pernicious and destructive influence on all the European continent.
Could it really be true? That Russia is back and is now a force for good?
It is incredible how many times a BBC radio news bulletin includes the latest “news” from Gaza, always anti-Israel. Thousands and thousands die in conflict all around the world but the only conflict guaranteed full coverage is that of Israel and the Palestinians.
NotaSheep | 07.12.08 – 10:49 pm
It’s half agenda and half laziness. Israel is a great ‘gig’ for a journo – live in the 1st World, Jerusalem or Tel Aviv but report from the third; wear a flak jacket for show but rely on the IDF to protect you in Israel and Hamas/Fatah to protect you in Gaza/West Bank; repeat Arab press releases verbatim and rely on Arab ‘stringers’ to guide you and translate for you; for ‘balance’ take reports from anti-Israel Israelis because anti-Palestinian Arabs die and you never get to talk with them.
eco-fascists raid airport, Al Beeb wants moonbats to email them pics and inside info
aiding and abetting is a criminal offence is a criminal offence beeboids
hang ’em high
as its bloody freezing, these ppl are plain stupid
Doubt it’ll disrupt any Beeboids as they of course fly business class from Heathrow.
*******PUBLIC SERVICE WARNING*******
I have just discovered a ‘TV licensing cookie’ hidden away on my computer as I performed a spring clean on it!
I own no TV and I have no licence yet they have secreted a cookie on my hard disk, I wonder if others have the same problem!
The tellytax stasi are on the move against computer owners now?
Mister Ed & Deegee, re-Greece & Gaza. There’s a link here, related to the BBC’s pet biases. They know nothing about Greece, never report from there, can’t speak the language, and would prefer to remain ignorant of the whole country. Don’t expect any elucidation any time soon – after all, there’s important things like the Haj and islamic surfboards in Australia to report
Miss a wedding in Italy? Or a job interview in Brussels? Or an important business meeting in Germany that could mean jobs for people at a hard-pressed company in Essex?
Who cares? Well at least the BBC dioesn’t as the Today programme smoothly passdes over all that to facilitate proclamation of the message from the “activists” at Stanstead.
‘Abolish Farming Today’ in full cry this morning over the Irish pork affair. Perfect for thier not-very-subtle ‘meat is eeeeeeevil’ veggie agenda, depserately trying to find someone to agree with their hypothesis that all pork everywhere should be withdrawn.
And did John Craven really refer to ‘a phenomena’ on Huggabunny Countryfile yesterday? Could have been the manflu again.
more moonbattery in an attempt to turn our kids into Zanulab drones
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7770469.stm
u couldnt make this shit up if u tried
Cassandra wrote;
“I have just discovered a ‘TV licensing cookie’ hidden away on my computer as I performed a spring clean on it! I own no TV and I have no licence yet they have secreted a cookie on my hard disk, I wonder if others have the same problem!”
A cookie isn’t anything to worry about. It’s simply code(Not programs) that is used by websites in which to recognise you when you return. Yes that may sound somewhat surreptitious and a little nefarious but it isn’t. However if you are concerned simply set your browser to clean all cookies on exit. (You can set your browser not to accept cookies , but that only serves the purpose of cutting off your nose to spite your face) Or as some people do purchase a half decent spyware cleaner and get that to clean you browsing habits on a daily basis.
On that note I’ve heard that the new google browser has a silent mode which allows you to peruse the net to your heart’s desire free from the worry of anybody tracking your whereabouts.
Going back to the aggressive nature of the BBC licensing cookie (We met a while ago) if the BBC did indeed start trying to insert programs into people’s computers (Maybe there lies their reason to defend that tosser ‘Gary McKinnon.’) I can assure you the geeks out there would be red flagging it to all the world. Not that you would hear about it on the BBC. They would somehow find a way to blame the Jews for it.
Vicki Pollard (Derbyshire) spouting utter bollocks about climate change on Radio 5. She even let her personal view slip over the morons at Standsted when she said “We need someone to protest for us”
Oh really. So what about democracy then?
The bBC, time flies by when you’re the owner of a train and half the story.
More and faster trains promised
Rail passengers across Britain will benefit from almost 700 extra services a day on weekdays when a new timetable begins next week, train operators say. The Association of Train Operating Companies said weekday services would increase by 3.4%, including some faster and longer trains. Customer watchdog Passenger Focus said it particularly welcomed the completion of the West Coast main line upgrade.
But the move comes as fares are due to rise on average by 6% from 2 January.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7770077.stm
Talk about shouting out the wrong story. The real story is about how fares in the UK are rising yet again at a time when all the bBC talks about is CC. Why its cheaper (And quicker) to fly from Scotland to London than catch the train. Sometimes i do wonder if the bBC is the mouthpiece of this odious labour government.
The bBC, time flies by when you’re the owner of a train and half the story.
I couldn’t hellp noticing over the weekend, as the thermometer barely reached freezing, and I was snuggled up on the sofa under a duvet in front of a log fire (did I mention i wasn’t well?) that the BBC weatherman (and I use the ‘man’ bit reluctantly) was in shirtsleeves. OK, it meant we didn’t have to endure a shiny suit and a pinky-lilac tie, but I’m intruigued to know just how heated Beeboid-land is. Fairly big on the carbon footprint, I would have thought.
Cassandra | 08.12.08 – 8:30 am |
Yes, I noticed the tvl cookie some time ago, it’s a result of visiting bbc websites – yuk! Best to use Firefox and set the cookie option to “ask every time”, result is only cookies you want get in…
David Vance,
You and your many excellent contributors on this blog might want to think about putting blogs on the Daily Express site. Eg today there is an article about Stanstead airport protests and I put what I think is a good post with a dig at the BBC which appeared after 1 minute! They seem very fast at moderating them.
(Martin might have to use a slightly different style if he goes there)
As they only have a few postings, the ones that are there stand out and loads of people will read them.
StephenB: You mena I can’t be my usual diplomatic self 🙂
Chuffer – it will be the studio lighting. Studios everywhere are freezing cold, unless you stand under the lights, then they are unbearably hot.
Sarah Jane | 08.12.08 – 1:23 pm |
What !!!! you mean they don’t use CFL lights like the rest of us are obliged to.
Carbon criminals is what they are, if they won’t follow there own (boring, boring) eco-narrative, how can we believe anything they say.
The BBC’s continuing blind-spot re- Islamic jihad: in India, Pakistan and in Britain.
This political ‘blind-spot’ means that the BBC reporters cannot, or will not, see the security risk which these Islamic jihad connections (among some Muslim immigrants here) pose to British people.
In contrast, this article in ‘The Times’ points to the Islamic jihad connections between all three countries. Although the author, Anthony Loyd, falls into the euphemistic trap of calling the Islamic jihadists, ‘militants’, at least he sees something of the global extent of the jihadist operation. The BBC, however, is disinclined to point to the centrality of Islamic jihad in all this , and dhimmi-like, refuses to search out the connections with the U.K., and with Islamic ‘charities’:
‘Times’:
‘The ‘charity’ that plotted Mumbai attacks’
[Extract]:
“LeT was formed in Kunar province, Afghanistan, in 1989 by the Islamist Hafiz Mohammed Saeed. After the withdrawal of the Russians from Afghanistan the LeT, funded by the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI, turned its attention to fighting Indian forces in Kashmir. The LeT’s December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament drew the neighbouring countries to the edge of war, after which the organisation was banned. The JuD, formed by Hafiz Saeed in 2002 as a charity organisation, emerged directly from the LeT being forced underground.
“Based in Lahore, the JuD has been accused ever since of being little more than the public front for the LeT’s Kashmiri militants, in much the same way as Sinn Féin was for the IRA. Thanks to its high-profile relief work, notably in the wake of the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir, and a continued desire to preserve strategic assets to counter India’s regional jockeying, Pakistani authorities have to date been unwilling to close down JuD offices, despite growing evidence of its involvement in terrorism.
“Shehzad Tanweer, one of the 7/7 London Tube bombers, allegedly met al-Qaeda commanders at the JuD madrassa in Lahore in 2004 and Hafiz Saeed was himself briefly detained there in 2006 – where he was questioned by British anti-terrorist squad detectives – and investigated for connections to the British-based terror cell plotting to blow up airliners over the Atlantic. (Rashid Rauf, the former baker boy from Birmingham on the run from authorities for his involvement in this plot, was killed by a US drone in Pakistan just a week before the Mumbai attacks.)
“America’s headache with Jamaat-ud-Dawa is straightforward enough. Washington accuses it of recruiting and funding for the LeT, who in turn are attempting to reverse the US strategy of improving relations between Pakistan and India so as to focus Pakistan’s efforts on the militant sanctuaries along its border with Afghanistan.
“Britain’s worries are more acute and related directly to the disproportionate number of Kashmiris among the UK’s 480,000-strong Pakistani population. Since 2001 British intelligence officers and diplomats have noted with alarm al-Qaeda’s success in merging Kashmiri militants with the global jihadi network. British passportholders are particularly attractive recruits and the JuD, its offices and camps so far untouched in Pakistan, is now regarded as a key portal for young British Muslims seeking to join al-Qaeda. ‘These training camps… pose a real threat to the UK,’ a diplomat in Islamabad told me in October. ‘Which is why Britain is asking for them to be closed down. The chief worry is that young British radicals travel to Pakistan, connect into Pakistani Kashmir and may gain some training there. They are then passed on to facilitation camps in Waziristan or Bajaur. Some then reappear in the UK. Others stay on in the tribal areas planning attack operation on the UK.'”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5303725.ece
Front page of the BBC News website
How unedifying to see their multi-cultural dogma being rammed down our throats yet again with BBC currently running with “The Hajj: pilgrimage to Mecca” as its lead pic on the news front page.
The timing is carefully planned of course. I seem to recall the beeb went big on this story last December (and all the way throughout Christmas in fact) on both web and TV news, lest we forget, oh silly us, our Muslim brothers, while we sing Christmas carols and generally enjoy what for most people (outside the BBC at least) is still recognised as a Christian festival. Celebrate Christmas? How terribly “exclusive” of us.
I anticipate seeing stretched news items at 6pm and 10pm news on the pilgrimms at Mecca, over coming days and weeks. Fancy a mince-pie anyone?
I see som eof the towel heads in Guantanamo have aske dto plead guilty to the 9/11 attacks.
Oh dear BBC, so the Americans actually did catch the guilty scum.
I wonder what excuse the BBC will come up with.
Vasili,
Sorry mate, but your Russian state sponsored education is showing through in spades.
Russia was the aggressor in Georgia, anyone with half a brain that doesnt visit Al Beeb for the news already knows this (I wont go in to the history of the conflict as I fear your puny russian mind would explode from all the truth being dumped on you).
Secondly, Im sure the Czech’s would love to cosey up with Russia again…after all, its not like Mother Russia screwed the place over already under its benevolent administration is it (insert rolling eyes).
Finally, the only reason NATO exists is because of Russia and its communist expansion after WWII.
Its quite simple really, no aggressive communism, no NATO. So in effect, Russia created NATO, just as islam created the crusades.
As for Russia being a force for good…BWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA. Thanks mate, I havent had a good laugh since England got rooted by the Blackness last weekend 🙂
In all seriousness, there is a very REAL difference between Russia and America. America at least believes in the notion of economic advancement for all, whereas your lovely freedom loving despot, Putin, is only interested in furthering his dirty little party’s power at your expense.
Mailman
Rob;
Yes, such is the BBC’s Islamization that the Islamic hajj takes precedence over Christianity’s Advent. It’s what they do -at our expense!
BBC rapped over Palin gag
The BBC has been reprimanded after Doug Stanhope cracked offensive jokes about Sarah Palin live on air.
Watchdog Ofcom has upheld a complaint that the US stand-up was out of line in calling the vice-presidential candidate’s Down’s Syndrome son ‘retarded’, and implying the disability was a punishment from God…
‘Both of these, in Ofcom’s opinion, went well beyond generally accepted standards and the the audience’s expectations for this programme. In this case in was clear that the context did not justify these offensive comments.’
The regulator added: ‘The presenter did not give… a sufficient reprimand or apology, which could have served to reduce the offence.
Of course she didn’t apologise – it’s quite clear that these opinions of Palin were, and remain, acceptable at the BBC.
Isn’t there a sweepstake running (if you’ll excuse the pun)on how many of the faithful will get trampled to death at the hajj?
Anonymous when someone comes up with an eco-friendly xxxxx watt studio rig 😉 then I am sure the BBC will be among the first to use it
Sarah Jane
Shouldn’t the BBC have a legally-binding target date for not using non-eco-friendly studio gig? Regardless of whether the technology currently exists.
That’s how it works in eco-la-la-land.
BBC Radio ‘PM’ minutes ago:
Yes BBC, (and E.Mair) you’ve
finally convinced me: 9/11 happened because of Guantanamo. Useful idiots, to you know whom.
From an article on The Fight for the Family by Lynette Burrows
“By a striking coincidence, on the very day the organisation that published my book held a conference to discuss its findings, the BBC asked to do an interview with me about the smacking debate. Since I was tied up with the conference, they decided to interview me in a side room during the lunch break and, accordingly sent an interviewer and crew. I took the opportunity to introduce them to Ruby Harrold-Claesson, who was one of the principle speakers at the conference and she gave them a brief run-down of what she was saying about Sweden.
The team looked uncomfortable and, when I suggested that they include an interview with her to beef-up the debate, they said they already had been to Sweden and would be including an account of things there, as part of the programme.
When we watched the programme a few days later, sure enough, there they were in Sweden interviewing a handful of schoolchildren who confirmed that their parents were not allowed to smack them. They then asked a senior official about whether many children had been taken from their families as a result of the anti-smacking law. Laughing uproariously, she waved her hand around her, ‘Can you see many children being taken?’ she said. And that was supposed to be a sufficient answer.”
To see it all,
http://www.nkmr.org/english/how_to_control_adults_by_means_%20of_childrens_rights.htm
The BBC doing what it does best .
What the hell is the hajj????
This is the BBCs way of informing the public of the need for keeping a DNA database for the “greater good”…..everybody repeat….GREATER GOOD…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7771283.stm
George R | 08.12.08 – 5:31 pm
Yes, as with its reporting of the execution of the Bali bombers the BBC only ever seems to find British family members on one side of the debate. The lengthy interview on PM with the relative of a 9/11 victim who is opposed to Guantanamo echoes the BBC’s decision to only air the views of those British relatives of Bali victims opposed to the death penalty.
Contrary to the BBC stance re “BBC rapped over Palin gag”, R5 a few night ago had a couple of doctors discussing the Swiss free heroin system. One doctor, a Tory, was less than respectful in his references to heroin addicts. The BBC tosspot interviewer got very hot under the collar, apologising to the nation for the Tory & telling the doc not to use such language ever again. The apology was repeated at the end of the topic – it had shades of the “dirty fork” Python sketch.
Anonymous when someone comes up with an eco-friendly xxxxx watt studio rig then I am sure the BBC will be among the first to use it
Since the BBC is currently one of the few major coprorations in the UK not to have a public greenhouse gas emissions target I rather doubt it.
Will.
That was originally broadcast last Sunday morning and I think that the doctor said something about “every tosser in Europe” whilst referring to smackheads. The Beeb man did apologise profusely as you say and on more than one occasion so the good doctor obviously struck a nerve.
Laugh?
I nearly paid my licence tax!
Must we resign ourselves to the obvious fact that we’re being groomed for total subjugation to the Ummah? If that’s the correct word. The BBC is the mouthpiece for whoever it is that has decreed that normalising Islam in the UK is the way to go.
In the exact same vein, a new book by US Stanford grad and author Sumbul Ali Karamali, who must be twinned with someone from the BBC, mirrors what we are being fed by whoever it is that is doing all this decreeing.
“The Muslim Next Door, The Qur’an, the Media and that Veil Thing,”
No surprise that this book purports to be about clearing away “misconceptions” about Islam. In other words, a book after the BBC’s own heart.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023818.php
Robert Spencer links to a critique, by Kamala, of the book.
http://revuse.wetpaint.com/page/Ten+Questions+for+the+Muslim+Next+Door?t=anon
Kamala refuses to have the wool pulled over his/her eyes, and has ten questions for the author, beginning with, “According to many Islamic scholars past and present—including a scholar you mention and praise in your book, Aisha’s marriage was consummated at the age of nine. Why did you write that “the sources variously cite her as somewhere between twelve and sixteen”?
Robert Spencer says:
The rest is just as good. Here are the other questions — all responding to assertions that Ali-Karamali makes in her book: …..
B-BBC should be the mouthpiece for some questions for the BBC in a similar vein. It would not be too hard to adapt some of Kamals’s questions
1. Which BBC scholar first translated the word “`terrorist” as “Militant”?
2. When did you decide to swallow claims that our foreign policy motivated the London and any other bombings?
4. Do you condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization? How do you propose convincing your audience, yourselves and all of your loyal followers that admiration for the tactics of Hamas represent only ‘the bad few’ Muslims?
5. Can you provide evidence to prove that Islam is the religion of Peace?
6. Why don’t you investigatively report on cultural practices that are illegal in the UK?
3. What is the source for your assumption that 99% of the audience are Muslims or are interested in Muslims? Why is there blanket coverage of the hajj, even when none of them have managed to trample each other to death? Why do I have to watch on my local BBC news programme Spotlight Southwest, an item about Devon and Cornwall’s Muslim community celebrating Eid? I thought I lived in a relatively unmulticulti area but obviously I was wrong.
I might have got the numbers a bit muddled up.
To the poster above who asks what is the hajj,
just switch on the BBC and you’ll hear all about ti.
BBC report on Labour’s anti-education, anti-democratic decision to abolish the teaching of the subjects of History and Geography in primary schools:
“Primary school subjects overhaul”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7770469.stm
The BBC repoprt does refer to some Tory and Lib Dem criticisms in final section of its piece; but for a thorough-going excellent critique, suggest see Melanie Phillips’ article:
“Groundhog Day in Primary School”
[Extract]:
“The belief in ‘education for its own sake’ has been trampled underfoot by philistines shrieking ‘skills’ and ‘relevance’. The understanding that education is all about the transmission of knowledge, and that teaching is all about transmitting that knowledge without which children cannot learn how to think for themselves, has been smashed to bits by the brutal re-assertion of the doctrines of ‘creativity’ and ‘self-esteem’ which have replaced knowledge by propaganda, left children unable to form a coherent thought, let alone an argument, let alone to express it, and led to the lunacies of ‘learnacy’ — and to this, from today’s report:
Lessons in being happy proposed.
This really is the way a society tears up its own future.”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3072871/groundhog-day-in-primary-school.thtml