PM rages at Beeb war slur (BBC says Anglo-American rule worse than Saddam)

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[Tomalak]

Blair ... fury at report Picture: REUTERS

PM rages at Beeb war slur

By DAVID WOODING

TONY Blair blitzed the BBC on Friday over its twisted coverage of the Iraq war.

The PM was furious after a newsman claimed terror in Baghdad is worse than under Saddam.

War reporter Andrew Gilligan said on Radio 4’s Today programme: “Baghdad’s people are passing their first days of liberty in a greater fear than they’ve ever before known.

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“The old fear of the regime was habitual, low-level. This fear is sharp and immediate.”

Mr Blair was furious at a War Cabinet meeting on Friday.

He gave his official spokesman his blessing to say: “Try telling that to people whose relatives have been dropped head-first into shredders.

“I doubt if the Iraqi information minister would try to justify this report.”

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[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Mr Blair was furious at a War Cabinet meeting on Friday.

He gave his official spokesman his blessing to say: “Try telling that to people whose relatives have been dropped head-first into shredders.

“I doubt if the Iraqi information minister would try to justify this report.”

Yow!

Hey all you Brits out there, what are the chances of an end to the license fee? I'm an American, but I would love to see that gaggle of self-righeous leftie twerps have to sink or swim on their own.

[Tomalak]

As a Brit who is so sick of the BBC, I hope and believe that the chances are good. When the license fee was first introduced, it made a sort of sense with only a few channels on TV. Now, with hundreds available, it is anachronistic in the extreme to have to pay £116 a year to the producers of a handful of them to watch TV at all.

Imagine if you had to pay $175 a year to watch your TV, and all to fund a TV company that took the same line on all the major issues as the New York Times. That's roughly what Brits face.

I think as the funding system becomes more and more out of date, things will change, so it's a question of if rather than when. I wouldn't be surprised if the license fee still existed in ten years. But I would definitely be surprised if it still existed in twenty-five years.

[bourbon]

Well, I suppose since the BBC is state-run, Blair could actually do something about the reporting at the BBC.

Now I'm sure that if he tried to use his power as PM to influence their views, he'd be called a tyrant. So I suggest that Blair do the gentlemanly (and clever) thing and just scrap the BBC altogether.

I'm sure it could be sold off at an auction to some private media company.

In the meantime, I suppose Brits can make do with the much less-biased SkyNews Channel.

[Teetop]

That's what I heard, Tomalak. That HAS to suck badly! Hopefully, things will change after the Iraqi war is over. I believe many "media" outlets will falter, due to out-right lies being told.

I laugh at the BBC when I get up earlier & watch them on C-Span. It's like watching Baghdad Bob again!

[bourbon]

Imagine if you had to pay $175 a year to watch your TV, and all to fund a TV company that took the same line on all the major issues as the New York Times. That's roughly what Brits face.

Yikes! What a nightmare! I didn't realize it was this bad.

Thanks, now I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight!

[dougherty]

I wonder which is worse, CNN or the BBC? Whichever, they are both pure garbage.

[laz17]

I wonder which is worse, CNN or the BBC? Whichever, they are both pure garbage.

Both are pathological liars, and they are destroying their credibility. Less and less people will watch them each day. Both networks have gone so far out on a limb in their delusional coverage of this war that they'll never recover.

[rimmont]

The Bolshevik Bias Service.

[rimmont]

Make that Bolshevik Bias Commune!

[Timesink]

bump for bump lists

[Drammach]

I pay approx. $80.00 a MONTH for cable access.
Most of those "news" stations are anywhere from moderate left to extreme left...
Same for those "free broadcast stations" that are available in the local market.
They are actually the most leftist of them all. (ABC, NBC, CBS broadcast networks.)
They don't cost anything, but your access to unbiased news is quite limited.. (generally left wing, 4 channels max.)

If it weren't for FOX cable News I would probably be listening to conservative talk radio..
Quite honestly, $175.00 a year license fee doesn't sound that bad.
I'd save $65.00 a month on cable.
Hell, I could afford broadband at that rate!

[goody2shooz]

I think as the funding system becomes more and more out of date, things will change...I wouldn't be surprised if the license fee still existed in ten years...

Gee, Tom! We know how you Brits are so very fond of tradition and all that, but it couldn't really be that difficult to get rid of an unpopular license fee, could it? I mean, ten years!!

[Byron_the_Aussie]

FYI!

[goldstategop]

BBC = Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation.

[skr]

Or Bolshevik Bias Commune-ications--either way, it's a good match to the Communist News Network.

[ijcr]

Do it the American way get a satellite dish...$39.95 pm for 150 channels.

[Alas Babylon!]

$175 is just to HAVE a working television. If you actually want to watch anything (such as Sky News--Fox's British cousin), you'd pay more than what we pay for cable. So you wouldn't really save anything.