Picture the scene. France under President Hollande goes against the will of the gay community and rules out the prospect of”gay marriage”. A gay man, distraught at this news, goes to the altar at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris and shoots himself, in despair. Can you IMAGINE the BBC take on that? Right, now compare with how they deal with this.
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That’s what I thought when this came up on the Open thread, all they can do is rub in that he was “far-right”
BBC disinformation department sprints into action.
The patriotic French party “Front National”, which regularly polls 20% of French votes – more than the Lib Dems here – translated as “far right National Front” ( Same name as “British nazi party” with 2% of votes if that)
The bBC are “disgusting”, to borrow a phrase adopted by their beloved Labour activists. Mass denial of license fee. They can spout such crap at their own expense. Wake up Patten the dozy useless featherbedded tosspot who claims the BBC Chairman’s salary for doing nothing.
As for Cameron rushing home to sit at COBRA – stay on holiday or whatever you were doing, pretend Prime Minister who hopes one day the bBC will like him.
On the plus side, with this case we’ve now got a marker for how the BBC treats suicide as a political gesture.
Hey, aren’t the folks in Gitmo also kind of extreme? The BBC certainly thinks so when it pushes the ‘tiny minority’ line ergo I guess we’ll have no more shroud-waving when they top themselves, right?
Ooh! It’s reported as ‘terrorism’ when a man kills himself but injures no-one else for cultural-religious reasons and they explain or at least allude to the ideology concerned, if in little enough detail, but when a man kills himself and others within the blast radius for, ah, other cultural-religious reasons, the BBC tends to keep away from the ideology that might explain it. Here’s an old but collosssal case of the BBC pointedly NOT pointing out what a bunch of credentialled numpties failed to notice. Read it – it’s a hoot.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4958314.stm
Yes, or when two men drive over another man, hack him up and attack the police when they arrive, that is not terrorism, that is “police are still trying to understand motives for this attack”.
Also, there is barely any mention of the person who died or his beliefs, except reported second-hand through his enemies.
In the same way, local news is always angled form a certain perspective, depending on the party that acted, like this :
“The Labour party today announced a new initiative….”
vs
“The Labour party today condemned a new initiative by the Conservatives to …..”