Biased BBC contributor Alan writes;
“We have long beentreated to the BBC’s eulogising of China and the delight and envy at itsdecisive decision making, unhindered by the need for public approval. JeremyPaxman only recently telling us ‘China is the great emerging force in theworld, and the sense of apprehension everywhere else must be good.’
But it now seems that long cherished dreams of the return of the Soviet Unionare being dusted off and burnished….the Israeli security barrier may be ahuman rights disaster for Palestinians but the Berlin Wall kept out the evilsof irresponsible capitalism.
Peter Oborne in the Telegraph reveals the BBC have long covered up for Putin…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9055097/The-BBCs-distortion-of-the-truth-helps-Putin-suppress-his-critics.html
‘The BBC’s distortion of the truth helps Putin suppress his critics. A revealing documentary – Putin, Russia and the West – is all very well, but itshould not be playing into the hands of a tyrant.The BBC has heavily bought into prime minister Putin’s own narrative…itsdescription of the programme: “How the great Soviet superpower, crushed andhumiliated, has been resurrected in the form of Vladimir Putin’s new Russia.” ‘
Whilst the BBC happily hunts down every British or American soldier for theslightest misdemeanour Oborne says it is happy for the Russians to devastateChechnya….’this Chechen conflict was an event of hideous brutality, borderingon a genocide: the BBC presents it as something closer to a routine counter-insurgency.’ ‘The overall narrative, I believe, is slanted towards Putin, a fact whichbecomes more disturbing when the identity of the main consultant to the seriesis taken into account.
Angus Roxburgh is well known to the British public as a former BBC Moscowcorrespondent. Much more relevant is the fact that Mr Roxburgh was a publicrelations consultant to the Kremlin for three years between 2006 and 2009.
The Guardian correspondent Luke Harding records in his recent book, MafiaState, “the BBC Moscow bureau in particular is extremely reluctant to report onstories that might offend the Kremlin”.
Some good judges believe that this outcome (of the Russian elections makingPutin President again) might plunge Russia into a new dark age. How fortunatefor Putin that he has a useful idiot in Jonathan Powell and a fearful newsorganisation like the BBC to make life easy for him.”