Remarkable lack of outrage from the BBC for this story in comparison to its hyperbolic reporting of white cops killing blacks in the US…..no mention whatsoever of race in these two reports….
Louisiana marshals face murder charge over boy’s gun death
Jeremy Mardis: Driver’s hands ‘were up’ when boy killed
An unarmed white man with his hands up and his 6 year old son were shot, the boy killed, by two, not one, but two black cops….can you imagine the reaction if this were black victims shot by white police?
Looking at those photos, using the always unique BBC commitment to balance, I am surprised reverse Zimmerman-Obama rules have not been applied to claim they are not actually black.
Could also have benefited from more on what this second job lark was all about.
So add a remarkable lack of even basic reporting interest, rather typically, when it doesn’t suit to delve.
Those cops look stoned out of their minds, especially the one on the right.
They are cops? For a moment I thought they were criminals.
One of them has some prior thing, no time to check now. Anyway, I guess they soon will be criminals once convicted.
In the Orwellian Newspeak world of the bBBC, this story would merely translate into the rather boring headline ” two shot by police” and so not rate airtime.
Spaeking of Orwellian
Modern Educashun.
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Francesca Unsworth, Director of the BBC World Service Group at a salary of 215000 quid pa before expenses,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/insidethebbc/managementstructure/biographies/unsworth_francesca
is due an email from one among the unwashed masses for the BBC’s appalling omission of coverage of this brutal killing by black cops of an innocent white child.
This is the same Fran Unsworth whose mealy-mouthed defence on Newswatch of the BBC’s minimal coverage of the savage racist murder of Chriss Donald should be broadcast far and wide as a fine example of the inability of the ‘liberal’ left to honestly confront its own bias. Unfortunately it seems not to be available on YouTube or elsewhere on the Internet.
The only other possibility I can think of is for one of my worthy colleagues here to explore the Newswatch archives to see whether the incisive interview by Raymond Snoddy is available. I would do so myself but I’m locked out of the site since I don’t live in the UK.
Meanwhile it’s almost certainly no use to approach the ‘Complaints’ website since complaints re the World Service don’t get a reference number – at least I didn’t get one last time I tried.
So here’s the only other option I can think of re Fran, the erstwhile head of Newsgathering – who evidently felt at the time that the savage murder of a white child by Pakistani brutes was not newsworthy while the far less savage murder of Anthony Walker by whites was shouted from the rooftops:
Francesca.unsworth@bbc.co.uk (or Fran.unsworth@bbc.co.uk)
Why does a little voice tell me I’m wasting my time?
While scouting for the interview I came across this comprehensive post on BBC bias:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC
Well worth putting in ‘Favourites.’
£215,000 a year + expenses???? WTF?
How many more are there like her?
At such a reduced level? Not as many as those on more, probably.
It’s an obscene amount of money for someone to sit on their arse and ensure that its business as usual and the propaganda is working smoothly to fool as many people as much of the time as possible.
TT
Please do not quote Wikipedia to us.
Wikipedia is a hotbed of BBC type “liberalism” and partiality. Both the BBC and Wikipedia have impartiality as one of their basic goals, strange.
One, just one, example, of Wikipedia “accuracy”.
BBC pro-Muslim bias, Wikipedia has reams of stuff about complaints from Sikh and Hindus.
Not one word about Christians.
I don’t often visit Wikipedia but I have seen some fine articles on the site. And it seems to me that since anyone can contribute to an article there bias in any one direction is precluded.
Why not have a look at the article I linked to rather than rushing to judgement?
TT
“And it seems to me that since anyone can contribute to an article there bias in any one direction is precluded.”
Well it seems to me that your innocence is so childlike that Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are well within your purview.
Anyone can contribute, however those who do contribute are the Al Beeboids.
The Al Beeboids who are as neutral as the driven snow.
Just read the article. Unless of course you are apprehensive about discovering that you are wrong.
Read the article, I wrote some of it.
Just read the article. The majority of it doesn’t support the BBC.
Perhaps the BBC’s problem is that if Obama had a son, he wouldn’t look like Jeremy Mardis, but like the men who shot him?
Every time a liberal is forced to confront reality the liberal fails. For me the Fogel killings were the final straw. This latest by the BBC and I presume the liberal media generally is just another day at the office for the liberal lugenpresse.
All lives matter but so deficient in morality is liberalism that it grades deaths on it’s own scale. It is past time that this scourge of liberalism was excised from our culture.
Has there been any rioting by white gangs since the shootings?
Has there been any looting by white gangs since the shootings?
Has Obama appealed for calm and promised that justice will be done?
Have BBC reporters thronged the streets involved in the shootings?
Has the BBC claimed that racism by the police is the cause of the shootings?
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“…can you imagine the reaction if this were black victims shot by white police?”
Aiyana Jones was shot and killed by Officer Joseph Weekley during a bungled police raid in 2010. Afasik, the case and subsequent aborted trials were only briefly reported in the UK by the Daily Mail & Guardian.
On the BBC… nothing.
I can’t find a single BBC report about this seven year old black girl being shot in the head by a white police officer.
So where is your outrage Alan? Where is your post about Aiyana Jones in the BiasedBBC archives? It seems to be missing…
‘Nights’ again Jason ? Drawn the short straw?
Always feels good to drop an ad-hom when you’ve got nothing else taffman.
What stirs you from your slumbers is rather predictable.
As is the Mishal Husain moral equivalence tally after an all nighter down the BBC archives not finding something.
Is that really the best you can do?
At least you appear to have solved the problem of sleeping at night.
If not grasping what an ad hom is.
I can’t find a single BBC report about this seven year old black girl being shot in the head by a white police officer.
I guess that could just indicate that the BBC’s propaganda machine is not perfect: they slipped up and missed that one. However, it was back in 2010 and I have no doubt that the machine has since been honed to near-perfection.
@Jason- The black girl you speak of was shot accidentally during a police raid searching for a dangerous relative.
The officer was tried and found innocent. Check your favourite paper the Guardian here:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/31/detroit-aiyana-stanley-jones-police-officer-cleared
This example of yours is NOTHING like the twin murders we are discussing. The black officers fired numerous shots directly into the stationary car at the 7 year old child and his father. All recorded on body cams.
Your indignation is dishonest and malicious. I wonder why?
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The office of the eminent Fran Unsworth, bleeding-heart ‘liberal’ leftie and expert propagandist in the omission or minimising of news the BBC doesn’t like, erstwhile head of ‘Newsavoiding’ … er, I mean ‘Newsgathering,’ and currently the Director of the BBC World Service Group, has just received a lengthy, polite but firm email from one of the unwashed masses re the above-mentioned racial bias.
Her office did indeed receive it at fran.unsworth@bbc.co.uk, since it didn’t bounce back at the sender.
At present, it is of course impossible to know whether she will in fact read it or whether it will be read by a member of staff with the responsibility to shield her delicate sensibilities from the harsh reality of the BBC’s implacable bias and the negative consequences of that bias on the public.
In the unlikely event of a response, my esteemed colleagues on this fine site will be informed.
Seems catch22 to me. It would be much easier to critise the bBC for not reporting, if the American black civil rights groups were demonstrating. I put them them all in the same bucket, agenda driven, hypocite, racist, opportunists.
@Jason- The black girl you speak of was shot accidentally during a police raid searching for a dangerous relative.
The officer was tried and found innocent. Check your favourite paper the Guardian here:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/31/detroit-aiyana-stanley-jones-police-officer-cleared
This example of yours is NOTHING like the twin murders we are discussing. The black officers fired numerous shots directly into the stationary car at the 7 year old child and his father. All recorded on body cams.
Your indignation is dishonest and malicious. I wonder why?
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