Some links to peruse at your leisure that may help you form an opinion of the BBC’s coverage of world affairs:
How Marine Le Pen is winning France’s gay vote
How will the Guardian and the BBC cover the Trinity Mirror phone hacking?
Steerpike is curious to see what coverage the trial will get in the papers and from the BBC. Both the corporation and the Guardian have taken glee in the past at resting the phone hacking crimes firmly in Rupert Murdoch’s court. Giving the impression, of course, that the sin of hacking came straight from the blackness of Murdoch’s heart – rather than a sin that was spread right across an industry.
Pakistan dares to ask: will school attack finally end myth of the ‘good Taliban’?
Decades of state support for jihadis has led to national confusion over who the real enemies are. But the latest attack might be a watershed
Viewpoint: Confrontation key to tackling violent extremism
The challenge for societies is to react and respond to terrorist communications in a different way.
Terrorists do and say things they believe will be successful.
When journalists and analysts comment on terrorist communications they unwittingly serve the terrorists’ purpose.
Discredited ideologies
The most positive new development in terrorism has been that its veneer of championing a noble cause has been stripped to reveal its vulgar lust for violence.
By targeting children, education, sympathetic journalists and aid workers it has exposed its inherent ignorance, its absence of humanity and its innate cowardice.
The invention of Islamophobia
Islamophobia was invented to silence those Muslims who question the Koran and who demand equality of the sexes. By Pascal Bruckner
The term “Islamophobia” serves a number of functions: it denies the reality of an Islamic offensive in Europe all the better to justify it; it attacks secularism by equating it with fundamentalism. Above all, however, it wants to silence all those Muslims who question the Koran, who demand equality of the sexes, who claim the right to renounce religion, and who want to practice their faith freely and without submitting to the dictates of the bearded and doctrinaire.
The BBC filters the world in the same way that a prism filters light into different colours. No matter what happens, the BBC prism processes it into a selection of seven basic themes: race; gender; global warming; UN propaganda; Islam; EU; socialism. Often these themes blend into one another seamlessly, much like the way the colours of a rainbow do. The important thing to remember is that a prism does not choose which colours to display – it is a function of its very nature. And so it is with the BBC. Staffed exclusively with people of a certain background, mentality and outlook, coercively financed, unaccountable and protected by like minded collectives in politics, academia and the legal sphere, it is incapable of illuminating the world in anything but false colours. It is time to smash the prism into a thousand pieces and bathe in the bright sunlight!
Very well written.
Brilliant – succinct analysis of the BBC mindset.
But what appals me more then the mindset,is the dumbing down of the material – including science. This could be because BBC minds think their audience is dumb, or the BBC mindset you describe, happens in minds that are “dumbed”.
This from Richard D. North, who attended the infamous 28 Gate meeting:
‘I found the seminar frankly shocking, The BBC crew (senior executives from every branch of the Corporation) were matched by a equal number of specialists, almost all (and maybe all) of whom could be said to have come from the ‘we must support Kyoto’ school of climate change activists… I was frankly appalled by the level of ignorance of the issue which the BBC people showed.,I mean that I heard nothing which made me think any of them read any broadsheet newspaper coverage of the topic (except maybe the Guardian and that lazily).’
http://joannenova.com.au/2012/11/bbc-secret-exposed-greenpeace-activists-bp-decide-what-sciencebrits-see-hello-twentyeightgate/
And 9 years later, the ignorance persists – doesn’t it, Harrabin?
”much like the way the colours of a rainbow do”
Talking of rainbows, South Africa is called the Rainbow nation, yet in a Rainbow there is no black.
I am not in the least surprised that Marine Le Pen is attracting the gay vote in Paris – they know that the threat to them is very real, and it ain’t coming from the “far-right”. And before Scott launches into a tirade I should point out that I am gay myself.
That won’t stop him…
‘Woman’s Hour’ had a report on Marine Le Pen a few days ago. A right character assignation – I did not expect anything else, but this was so evil.
As always Pat is spot on.
As always…but you will NEVER see him on Question Time.
I want to be celebrity homosexual like John Wayne.
I think Wayne Sleep is more your type.
Can you be our celebrity homosexual, like your nearly namesake Scott ?
Yes I could, I think Nigel Farage is a hunk.
so the bbc wont use the word terrorist to describe a terrorist, because it might upset and hurt the feelings of the muslim lobby into pretending to us that all this terrorism is nothing at all to do with islam at all,nothing at all,so i will put my mindset into bbc thinking.the 2 militant gunman in france who shot shot dead 12 charlie hebdo journalists did not do it in the name of islam instead they had mental health problems and was down on there luck, also the militant gunmen with mental health problems and living in poverty did not attack that jewish supermarket because they hate jews, no no no ,they attacked it because they was starving and hunger drove them to attack this supermarket,not once did i mention the word terrorist then.not once bbc.give us a job bbc ?
Stuart, do you really want a job with probably the biggest racist organisation in Great Britain?