The Children’s BBC Newsround 9/11 Guide Why did they do it? page, the one that we’ve been complaining about recently, was changed at 2pm yesterday (Saturday) to read: Al-Qaeda is unhappy with America and other countries getting involved in places like the Middle East. People linked to al-Qaeda have used violence to make this point in the USA, and in other countries. The events of 11 September 2001 and other … Continue reading →

Please use this thread for BBC-related comments and analysis. Please keep comments on other threads to the topic at hand. N.B. this is not (and never has been) an invitation for general off-topic comments, rants or use as a chat forum. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog. Please scroll down to find new topic-specific posts. Click through to read and contribute comments on this … Continue reading →

Important: The BBC apology that is anything but an apology, or: Getting to the bottom of the Children’s BBC Newsround 9/11 Scandal is proving a tough battle. First we have lots of complaints on September 11th 2007 about the BBC’s Why did they do it? page, the one that says: The way America has got involved in conflicts in regions like the Middle East has made some people very angry, … Continue reading →

Sinead Rocks, editor of Newsround, the BBC’s new service for children, has written about the ongoing controversy over BBC Newsround’s 9/11 Guide on the BBC Editors Blog. Unfortunately she hasn’t addressed the issues I raised in my blog post late last night, opting instead to confuse matters further. I’ve posted the following comment on her blog post at 2.30pm today: Sinead, your response to recent complaints about CBBC Newsround’s 9/11 … Continue reading →

reports Stop the ACLU blog, including this BBC response to a complaint (about CBBC’s 9/11 ‘guide’ – see posts below for details): Dear Mr O’Connell Thank you for your email to Newsround. The article you are referring to is an old guide that we thought had been purged from our system. It is my understanding that it was written on the day of the attacks back in 2001. I agree … Continue reading →

atrocious explanation for the horrific destruction of September 11th, 2001, six years ago. According to CBBC Newsround, Why did they do it?: The way America has got involved in conflicts in regions like the Middle East has made some people very angry, including a group called al-Qaeda – who are widely thought to have been behind the attacks. In the past, al-Qaeda leaders have declared a holy war – called … Continue reading →

to the September 11th, 2001 attacks and replaced it (see post above), here, for the record, is what the various pages originally said, along with their urls and links to Google’s cache for each page: What happened?(Google’s cached copy): BBC last updated: Thursday May 04 2006 09:03 GMT – this page forms the bulk of the BBC’s ‘new’ page that replaces the ‘guide’. See link in post above. Who did … Continue reading →

Is the EU right to give up on ‘metric Britain’? The decision is a victory for supporters of the ancient imperial system, the so-called “metric martyrs”. What is your reaction to the decision? What does it say about Britain’s attitude to progress? Does it show the influence of people power? It says nothing about our attitude to progress Beeboids, and a whole lot about our attitude to changing our way … Continue reading →

: It was Matt Frei that put me right. On Monday afternoon I watched General David Petraeus testify before Congress. I listened as he went through the facts of the military action in Iraq. I learnt as he outlined the improvements brought about in recent months. But it wasn’t until I heard Frei’s take on General Petraeus’s words that I realised what had really been going on. The BBC Washington … Continue reading →

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