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BBC caught with pants down
Melanie Phillips’s Diary ^ | July 12, 2007 | Melanie Phillips

Posted on 07/13/2007 8:25:23 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 07/13/2007 8:25:25 PM PDT by neverdem
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A camera crew was invited to film the encounter for a fly-on-the-wall BBC One series, A Year with the Queen, ...

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SWAT!!!

2 posted on 07/13/2007 8:26:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...)
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If it transposes a picture sequence like this to sex up a story about the Queen by transmitting an outright falsehood, just think what it is doing in the Middle East.

Yep... only fools believe the BBC on anything of importance.

3 posted on 07/13/2007 8:29:03 PM PDT by LowOiL (Paul wrote, "Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil" (Rom. 12:9))
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... The BBC has a world-wide reputation for integrity and truth-telling ...

BWaaaaaa Haaaaaa ... Too funny!

4 posted on 07/13/2007 8:29:20 PM PDT by TexGuy
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Probably the silliest part of the story is the author’s surprise that the BBC’s dishonest. Oh well, better a late enlightenment than none at all.


5 posted on 07/13/2007 8:31:44 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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To: neverdem

an odd choice to foto the queen.

at local libraries are multiple copies of

annie leibowitz’

10 lb coffee table book of fotos,

many of her lover, susan sontag, without her clothes.


6 posted on 07/13/2007 8:32:50 PM PDT by ken21 ( b 4 fred.)
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To: TexGuy

No kidding WTF!!!


7 posted on 07/13/2007 8:33:06 PM PDT by liberty or death
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To: NormsRevenge
BBC caught with pants down

Seems to be their preferred position lately.
8 posted on 07/13/2007 8:34:53 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: neverdem

i heard phillips on the o’reilly radio show at least 6 months ago. she’s correct about multiculturalism.

she’s the author of the book “londonstan”.

from her website:

“The suicide bombings carried out in London in 2005 by British Muslims revealed an alarming network of Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers. Under the noses of British intelligence, London became the European hub for the promotion, recruitment and financing of Islamist terror and extremism - so much so that it has been mockingly dubbed ‘Londonistan’. In this ground-breaking book, Melanie Phillips pieces together the story of how Londonistan developed as a result of the collapse of British self-confidence and national identity and its resulting paralysis by multiculturalism and appeasement. The result is an ugly climate in Britain of irrationality and defeatism, which now threatens to undermine the alliance with America and imperil the defence of the free world.”


9 posted on 07/13/2007 8:36:57 PM PDT by ken21 ( b 4 fred.)
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>> The BBC had falsified the sequence of events - at least in the video trailer it made available to the press - to make a better story.

At least there appears to be some sense of shame no doubt contrived. The obnoxious David Gregory comes to mind.


10 posted on 07/13/2007 8:39:15 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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BBC apologises to Queen over footage
11 posted on 07/13/2007 8:39:52 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Thanks for the link.


12 posted on 07/13/2007 8:45:43 PM PDT by neverdem (Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
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To: neverdem
The BBC has a world-wide reputation for integrity and truth-telling.

(gurgle choke sputter gag) HAhahahahaaaaa....!

13 posted on 07/13/2007 8:49:21 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: neverdem

This isn’t news to many of us Yanks. We’ve seen and read the anti-American bias at the Beeb, and even heard an internal report confirmed this. The problem is with others to whom this is “news” such as the author of this article. Us unwashed ex-colonistas are miles ahead on reading the Beeb and its slant. How about the coverage of Israel Mr. BBC General Manager? Any “slight of truth” there too?


14 posted on 07/13/2007 8:51:30 PM PDT by bajabaja
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“The BBC has a world-wide reputation for integrity and truth-telling.”

My family used to look forward to BBC Masterpiece Theater productions on PBS. Now I shun them. The last one’s I saw seemed politically correct. It was like they were trying to be hip and with it. I managed a few Jane (you ignorant slut) Tennison episode fragments. They even managed to ruin Sherlock Holmes, played by Jeremy Brett, in an episode where Sherlock was dumber than the villain, and where Holmes chose to cover-up a premeditated murder. So out of character. Now it’s “MasterPOS Theater” as far as I’m concerned.

15 posted on 07/13/2007 8:55:03 PM PDT by ChessExpert (Main Stream Media: Always ready to take side)
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My pals used to call it “Ordinarypiece Theater”, and now that’s more accurate than ever.


16 posted on 07/13/2007 9:02:03 PM PDT by Moonmad27
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To: neverdem
The BBC's trustees have asked the Director General Mark Thompson to explain what the hell went on here.

Back in the day, Mark Thompson would have been beheaded by now - or at least confined to the Tower. Where is Henry VIII when you need him?

17 posted on 07/13/2007 9:11:51 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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To: neverdem

Falsehood and misrepresentation have become the hallmarks of the modern media. Those same traits will also feature prominently in their epitaphs.


18 posted on 07/13/2007 9:22:15 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: neverdem
BBC caught with pants down

That is something Annie Leibowitz would really enjoy photographing.

19 posted on 07/13/2007 9:23:39 PM PDT by vox humana
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This is low, even for the BBC. I hope heads roll ;)


20 posted on 07/13/2007 9:33:58 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Head Caterer for the FIRM)
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