Posted on 10/24/2006 5:59:16 AM PDT by NYer
An internal British Broadcasting Corporation memo reveals senior figures admitted the national news agency was guilty of promoting left-wing views and anti-Christian sentiment.
News of the memo, reported by British media, comes as the BBC continues to struggle against claims of biased reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and distorted coverage of the global fight against terror, reports the Israeli YnetNews.com.
The admissions of bias were made at a recent "impartiality" summit the BBC held. Most executives admitted the corporation's representation of homosexuals and ethnic minorities was unbalanced and disproportionate, YnetNews.com said. The British news agency, the report said, leaned too strongly towards political correctness, the overt promotion of multiculturalism, anti-Americanism and discrimination against the countryside.
At the summit, executives were given a fictitious scenario in which they were asked to make a judgment.
In the illustration, Jewish comedian Sasha Baron Cohen would participate in a studio program in which guests were allowed to symbolically throw in a garbage bin things they hated.
What would you do, the executives were asked, if Cohen decided to throw kosher food, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bible and the Quran in the trash.
Everything would be allowed, the executives said, except for the Quran, for fear of offending the British Muslim community.
The BBC also revealed its executives favored interviewing terrorist leader Osama bin Laden if the opportunity arose, the Washington Times reported.
The executives were presented with a current hot-button issue in Britain, the wearing of Muslim veils. Should a veiled woman be allowed to present the news, they were asked. The BBC's diversity editor said yes, since news anchors were allowed to wear crosses.
A senior BBC executive admitted to the British paper Daily Express, "There was a widespread acknowledgement that we may have gone too far in the direction of political correctness. Unfortunately, much of it is so deeply embedded in the BBC's culture, that it is very hard to change it."
Senior executives recognizing that they may have gone too far in political correctness?!??! This has the potential to be a watershed.
MSM bias ? I'm shocked. Shocked !
If they look like Helen Thomas, you bet!
Pope confesses he is Catholic.
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Here's an idea: BBC upper management could issue a new policy decree. But according to this guy, BBC employees would willfully disobey new corporate edicts issued by upper management, and upper management would be hunky-dory with that, apparently.
The government should sell the BBC, maybe breaking it up first. Government media ios a huge danger to freedom. New owners can change culture in competivie environment.
Geez. What a scumbag.
Even though you can't respect them for it, there is something at least unburdoning about the blunt truth.
It's like the Ku Klux Klan openly admitting that it's racist. You don't respect them, but at least the blunt truth is admitted. Maybe it's that, contemptible as they are, at least the truth is out there and easier to deal with.
It also calls forth images of King Lear, unburdoned crawling toward death--and all that his foolishness brought on.
Leftists are cowards. Pure and simple. The rest is hand-waving.
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LOL!
The socialists wuld never privatize BBC. BBC is the greatest weapon they have.
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