BBC's own man blasts his bosses over 'bias'

The Sun ^ | Mar 25, 2003 | TREVOR KAVANAGH

[capitan_refugio]

I take it that it is much better to be gobsmacked than buggered! ;^)

[Timesink]

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[rimmont]

The Bolshevik Bias Corporation's reporting reminds me of the bad old days in the U.S. when we had no one to keep old marxists like Eric Severeid honest.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: I take it that it is much better to be gobsmacked than buggered! ;^)

That or have a Brit knock you up in the morning.

Official "I luv Brits!" BUMP!!!!

[zook]

Here in southern Taiwan, I have to get most of my news from BBC World Service (shortwave). But it's become unbearable in the last 3 days. What they call "journalism" is literally a constant barrage of Iraqi spokesmen, anti-war "war experts," and leftwing propaganda.

Four times in the past 24 hours, for example, they've presented the same "feature" about Iraqis who had earlier fled the country to escape Hussein now boarding buses to head back home to "fight for their country", i.e. against the Coalition.

In one sorry display, the BBC reporter asked a group of men on a bus, "do all of you agree that you'd rather live under Sadam Hussein than see the coalition win?" To which, of course, several spoke in the affirmative.

And then there's the continuous rant that prefaces every question, "The Americans didn't plan for this resistance, did they?"

What's needed, tongue in cheek of course, is a major coalition attack on Bush House (BBC headquarters).

[Straight Vermonter]

My thought exactly!

[driftless]

The embedded reporter thing pulls the rug out from under the lefties and fellow-travelers (like on DU) who claim that our military is nothing but a bunch of crazed baby-killers. The truly far gone lefties will claim all this is planted, but they will be in the severe minority. A brilliant tactical plan.

[LiberationIT]

Regrettably I'm stuck where the only English language broadcasts I get are the BBC and CNN.
The BBC is overtly biased. In every interview I hear the interviewer starts with a premise (usually that a major disaster or crisis is about to occur,) then asks questions and debates the interviewee trying to prove the interviewer’s preconception.
If the responses start to disprove the theory, the BBC interviewer switches to another line of questions.
It is nothing short of amazing how biased they are. The BBC is more propaganda, than news.

[Brian Allen]

Britains State Propaganda Organization, the much-vaunted BBC [Baghdad Broadcasting Co-op?] has always been is and will always be a hideout for the broadcasting industry's most virilently-post-modernist, totalitarian-agenda-driven, hesperophobic haters of all things Western [And, perhaps especially, Jewish and/or Israeli!] -- and other rabidly amoral "moral" relativists.

The BBC is the bitter enemy of Moral Integrity, Truth, Democracy and/or the Principle of Individual Liberty upon which Our Beloved FRaternal Republic is Founded and upon which it Stands.

In the current conflict its Goebbelsian-school "reporting," particularly on its Arabic services, is so visciously slanted and, often, simply untrue, as to best be called subversive -- and more accurately, TREASONOUS!

That it exists after decades in which Britain's self-styled "conservatives" have held the reins of power a good part of the time speaks to the difference between what is gathered under the mis-applied label "conservative" over there -- and American Conservativism.

[Pete'sWife]

Hopefully, they'll come home with different attitudes.

Maybe one of 'em will "explain" the real world to Katie Colic.

Embedded reporters are, for the most part, a good thing.

[crazycat]

Also the reporters will come back with a totally new perspective on the military and a very changed attitude to the world.

Much of their touchy feely liberal bias will have dissapeared after a few weeks with soldiers.

[FreedomPoster]

Official policy and what really goes down in the field, when you're dealing with an enemy that routinely engages in atrocities, might be two very different things.

I'd sure find a .45. At least.

[FreedomPoster]

Index bump.

[crazycat]

The BBC is a world unto itself.

Everyone in the UK has to pay a licence fee, which is 116 pounds ($ 180) per yr if you have a tv. They have an income of 2.4 billion pounds ($3.72 billion), so they are a very rich organisation.

They are a closed shop mentaly, either you tow the party line or you don't get on.

However they are very pro labour, so although they are not helping Blair in the war, the labour party loves them.

Nothing will happen unless the UK gets a tory government, which might attack the licence fee, until then because of their huge income they will continue to put out 24/7 their own view of the world, one which many would call very liberal left.

[Redleg Duke]

Embedded reporters...another massive error by the dimwit President Fratboy!

NOT!!!!!

[PhilipFreneau]

>> Embedded reporters are becoming a fine source in defense of bias.

Believe it or not, during an interview by PBS NewsHour, a New York Times reporter in Bagdad (Foster, I believe is his name) stated there was much anticipation of the arrival of the American troops by the Iraqi's -- anticipation that they would soon be free from Saddam's regimed. The NewsHour interviewer appeared stunned.

[muggs]

Thanks for answering.

These reporters have made me aware of more what war is really like. It has made it easier for me to keep the troops and their families in my thoughts and prayers. As a mother, I'm not so sure I could endure having my only child there without lots of prayers from everyone.

[oldironsides]

The UK reporters working for the Sun became upset when they saw a French ship anchored in the Thames. They rented a 38 footer and circled the FS Flamant and threw chicken feathers at them while saying "grand poulet"
The NY Post gossip coilumn reported it today...........Good for them.

[cyncooper]

Believe it or not, during an interview by PBS NewsHour, a New York Times reporter in Bagdad (Foster, I believe is his name) stated there was much anticipation of the arrival of the American troops by the Iraqi's -- anticipation that they would soon be free from Saddam's regimed. The NewsHour interviewer appeared stunned.

Yet another account of the innocent Iraqis WANTING us to help them.

I love the embedded reporters---the ones I've seen and heard on the three cables, anyway.