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Thursday, May 22, 2008


I still can't watch the intro to the BBC News without thinking of this.

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What does the word 'Nationalist' in a French context suggest?

Monday, January 15, 2007
An otherwise rather amusing item on the BBC site about a prospective Anglo-French union in the 50s includes this comment, "Nationalist MP Jacques Myard was similarly stunned on being shown the papers, saying: "I tell you the truth, when I read that I am quite astonished. I had a good opinion of Mr Mollet before. I think I am going to revise that opinion".

Monsieur Myard is associated with what was Rassemblement pour la République, the straight down the line Gaullist party. It wasn't what I expected from 'nationalist', and having tried the smell test on others, neither did they. Don't you just love the BBC and its inherent biases?

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BBC Tebbit bashing

Friday, July 21, 2006
Just seen this on the BBC site: "What has been dubbed his "hug a hoodie" speech did receive the surprise backing from a bastion of the party's right wing Lord Tebbit, however".

Why was it necessary to insert 'surprise', I wonder? I suppose in the BBC's universe anyone they dub 'right wing' is automatically in favour of the hanging and flogging of offenders and never shows any interest in prevention or rehabilitation.

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How the media works - The BBC...

Monday, July 17, 2006
Just spotted this, an item on the BBC site about a sectarian killing .

Now we all know that the BBC doesn't like using the 'M' or 'I' words when referring to the July 2005 homicide bombers, but they now seem to be going still further: a tale of what the plod are calling a sectarian atack in Londonderry that does not mention whether it was Protestant on Catholic, Catholic on Protestant, or for all one would know from reading it Mithraist on Ancestor Worshipper. Really helpful people - do keep up the good work.

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The Jerusalem Post is less than impressed with the BBC

Friday, June 30, 2006
The JP covers the reaction to a call "for an independent panel studying charges of bias in its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict".

"Using the word "terrorist" to describe attacks on civilians, BBC management argued in a paper released June 19, would make the "very value judgments" it had been asked to eschew".



Don't you just love 'moral equivalence'? While I appreciate that however the BBC covers issues Middle Eastern will irk some, I find the use of the weasel word 'militant' spectacularly irritating. I would think 'insurgents' or 'gunmen' would be rather more suitable. Meanwhile, which word will they pull out of the bran tub to term what used to be called 'union militants' the next time Bob Crowe or somesuch is on the rampage?


And here's another kicker: "The BBC's Board of Governors "welcomed the finding of no deliberate or systematic bias" noting, "most viewers and listeners" in the UK "regard the BBC as unbiased." I wonder if they have commissioned any research to show this, because I certainly haven't seen any.

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
BBC coverage of Israel

"BBC correspondent Caroline Hawley in Jerusalem says it is not clear why the army moved against Hamad."

So, being the architect of mass murder is insufficient reason to seek his capture? Maybe the Israeli government won't go along with the BBC's agenda that it is in the way of all of those nice moderate Arabs and allow itself to be homicide bombed out of existence in order to please 'anti-Zionists'?

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