Who says the BBC even tries anymore to be a straight news source that has not taken a side in the ideological debate?Here is how their latest article on Pakistani President Musharraf starts:
Posted on 09/30/2006 6:38:14 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Who says the BBC even tries anymore to be a straight news source that has not taken a side in the ideological debate?
Here is how their latest article on Pakistani President Musharraf starts:
West 'will fail' without Pakistan
'We helped the West' Pakistan's president has warned the West would be "brought to its knees" without his country's co-operation in the so-called war on terror.
Unfortunately, Britons at large see the WOT as a fictitious concept by "those ignorant redneck Yanks". The Beeb is just reflecting their beliefs, or that the Britons' belief is reinforced by the Beeb.
I listen to some of that BBC World Service stuff and they made reference to "President Bush's war on terror" in one story about dealing with the terrorist prisoners.
And by the way that's not to be confused with "President Roosevelt's World War II."
Sadly, I agree with you.
And FWIW, the Beeb has been calling it "the so called war on terror" for a loooooong time.
I dread what it will take to wake the Brits up. I have loved ones over there.
They're already seeing the fight in Afghanistan as their "Vietnam".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=407830&in_page_id=1770&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=NEWS&ct=5
A number of posters on this site who hail from Britain also believe in this nonsense, unfortunately.
Well, they don't like to talk about Roosevelt's War on Nazis because they sat in terror down in holes in the ground until we came along to let them out.
;)
We relay BBC's news reports here on TV1's One News in NZ and I can confirm that this term was adopted right from day 1. It had never been the plain WOT in the Beeb.
Yep.
Jokes aside, even after the Battle of Britain contrary to what many Britons today claim, the nation did not have enough resources to really defend itself on its own - not even the ability to hold the fort, and the Lend Lease came just in time to divert Britain's capitulation. But even after that it was more of a stalemate until Pearl Harbour plunged the US into WWII.
BBC = Bagdad Broadcasting Corp.
This is the government-sponsored entity that decide to de-throne Blair over the Downing Street memo and the Nigerian Uranium issues, only to find out that the government actually wanted them to get their facts straight. A few people were sacked, but obviously the BBC is still slightly on this side of its spin-off, Al Jezeera.
Looks like the Brits are in a big hurry to commit national suicide.
Daily Mail is conventionally Britain's second/the most conservative paper. If even they call it quits, imagine what the reactions are on their Left (the British Left is one of the most leftist in the West, and traditionally their Right is also one of the most conservative).
Well, Britain has traditionally been able to awake at the last minute, but I doubt it can really pull the work this time round.
Is the BBC planning an historical series on "Winston Churchill's war with Germany?"
When terrorism happens in your own back yard, you start seeing the real ugly side of it real quick.
As Mark Steyn so aptly summerizes it: "...Europe simply no longer has the will to survive. Our Marshall Plan, nuclear umbrella, and so forth relieved the Europeans of their adult responsibility to fend for themselves. Their own socialist governments compounded the problem by freeing them from responsibility to take care of their own families. And so the Europeans became perpetual teenagers, with plenty of energy to whine about and rebel against the adults (that’s us), but no capacity to plan for the future. In fact, they aren’t forward-thinking enough even to reproduce themselves. European birthrates are so low that they can’t possibly recover: France will soon be a Muslim country. America’s soon going to be what’s left of Western Civilization -- with maybe a little support from Australia."
Why is this even worth reporting ? Would we have raised eyebrows if CNN called it Bush's so-called WOT. The BBC is just another member of the Drive By Media and they are virulently anti American, as they have been for decades. Just because they express their anti Americanism with sophistication does not make them any more credible.
The BBC is the granddaddy of worldwide media. Its circulation could easily reach half of the populations of the world.
I think they will. After that, maybe a series to "re-evaluate" Oswald Mosley's legacies i.e. rehabiliate him.
Really sad, isn't it?
Even so soon after the 5th anniversary of 9/11, they've forgotten (As have quite a few Americans, it seems.)
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