Posted on 06/02/2009 6:46:37 AM PDT by BGHater
The BBC Trust has dismissed a complaint about an episode of Bonekickers, a BBC One drama series about a team of archaeologists, that involved a fundamentalist Christian beheading a Muslim (as so often happens in real life, right?). The Trust has backed an earlier BBC ruling that there is "no reason why viewers would have been given the impression that the fanatics in the programme were evangelical Christians or that the programme gave an offensive portrayal of such people".
We are deep into the realms of BBC bias and ignorance here. Only a BBC drama series would, to quote the complainant, "transfer the practice of terrorist beheadings from Islamist radicals to a fantasised group of fundamentalist Christians". And only the staff of the Beeb, or perhaps the Guardian, would be so ignorant of Christianity as not to realise that nearly all fundamentalists are evangelicals of one sort or another (though most evangelicals are not fundamentalists).
This ruling (relating to an episode shown on July 8) was made public in the week that the BBC offered to apologise to the Muslim Council of Britain after Charles Moore made the perfectly true statement on Question Time that the MCB had been slow to condemn the killing and kidnapping of British soldiers in Iraq. I can't pretend to be surprised by such double standards. But this is publicly funded hypocrisy - that's what rankles.
If Ken Loach or someone wants to make a fantasy drama about gangs of homicidal Christians beheading Christians, then fine. Using the licence fee? Not fine.
Oh, and just in case you missed it, Bonekickers ("Time Team meets CSI") was crap.
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Simply unbelievable!
Words fail.
2,000 years backwards
And....Europe called Americans dumb.....
Brilliant. Attribute your behaviors to your enemy. I woke up this morning and the world is still upside down.
In the past 100 years, I would love to hear how many documented cases there were of Christians beheading muslims.
The MSM hates us - they’ll use whatever lies they can find to trash us. Fight the Machine - Quit supporting the MSM...
I’ve said it before: Britain is lost...
Formerly Great Britain exists solely as a warning to the rest of us.
I wonder if “Christ” would call anyone a “Christian” that commits murder in His name?
These same anti-Western communists ran British media in the age of George Orwell as well.
From the Church of England to being another outpost for the Islamic empire. Political correctness is killing the West.
When muslims speak out against the abuses against non-muslims in the nation of Saudi Arabia and the city they bow to five times a day every day, Mecca, then maybe I’ll see that they are tolerant towards those of other faiths.
The Beeb is an epic lesson in why you don't want a government broadcast network. For the Yanks who do not know, every TV in Britain must pay a licensing fee EVERY YEAR and there are inspectors with equipment to detect operating TVs against payment records. Current rate is £142.50 for a color TV / £48 for B&W. A significant portion of that fee goes to the BBC and thus pays for dreck like this.
The BBC’s Charter and the BBC Producers Guidelines state that the BBC shall…
• “…contain comprehensive, authoritative and impartial coverage of news and current affairs in the United Kingdom and throughout the world…”
• “…treat controversial subjects with due accuracy and impartiality… and…not contain any material expressing the opinion of the corporation…”
• “…Due impartiality lies at the heart of the BBC. All programs and services should be open minded, fair and show a respect for truth…The BBC applies due impartiality to all its broadcasting and services, both to domestic and international audiences…”
We will have Gov’t run media here in the USA soon as well.
Reminds me of the Soviet Union's Constitution - reads great but something seems to be lacking in the execution.
Typical of quasi-independent governmental institutions, they rapidly become sinecures for bureaucrats and since there are no financial / shareholder constraints, 'activism' and 'for the public good' become the mantras to live by.
In the US, there has been the great debacle of 'Fannie Mae' etc. where upper echelon bureaucrats were political creatures taking a 'breather' at 6 digit salaries before returning to the next Democrat Administration (or so it appears). Tax dollars at work for the 'public good'!
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