HUGH!
The Kate Adie presented “From our own correspondent” is a treasure trove for mining BBC bias. I caught Hugh Sykes on this programme today giving us the usual “It’s a quagmire” narrative about Afghanistan. Hugh argued that after all these years and despite all the aid poured into Afghanistan, children are still begging in the streets. (Being the generous soul, he handed over thw equivalant of a US dollar to one such child). In essence the purpose of his report was to suggest that things are little better now with the Taliban gone. Hugh couldn’t find anyone who supported the government. This is the sort of undermining of any political progress associated with what the BBC calls the “so-called” war on terror is what the BBC seems to excel at.
Is this Bias though?
Or is it the BBEB bubble where no one ever investigates anything else because every one else is also saying it’s a disaster?
It’s bias in that it thoroughly conforms to the well established ‘BBC narrative’. Iraq has calmed down, things are going relatively well there – and above all, the Surge has proved a vast success. All of which things the BBC has remained virtually silent on (especially in comparison to their vociferous reporting of all the early setbacks). So it’s therefore time to switch over to Afghanistan in search of crumbs of comfort for their “the west must always fail” meme. And, of course, they’re following thru on this in spades.
One thing you can bet: if/when things improve in Afghanistan in the same way they have in Iraq, that will be the time for the BBC and its loathsome ‘foreign correspondents’ to come over all quite all of a sudden…
In similar vein, BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen writes in today’s Guardian that
“Israel would like to topple Hamas from power in Gaza. The government hopes the people of Gaza will stop blaming Israel for what is happening to their families and start blaming Hamas. The people I speak to here say that is not happening, and will not.”
Bowen does not make it clear which “people” these are, and does not say whether they speak freely or under the threat of being killed by Hamas if they don’t stick to the party line. As in Iraq, as in Afghanistan, the defeatist BBC line is that the terrorists have public support and so cannot be beaten.
Unbelievable. Israel enters Gaza and Sky News has live on the spot coverage and talks to the IDF.
The beeboids? Fucking sports news. 3.5 billion a year and you can’t get a major breaking news story on the air?
Where is Lyse Ducet and the other hags?
Brilliant!!! IDF spokeswoman just said “fuck it were’ not standing for it”! on Sky News.
Fucking brilliant!!!!
Go Israel go.
Unrelated to any propaganda, Israeli photographer Ziv Koren took the new Canon EOS5d mk2 out on night patrol with the Israeli army, to demonstrate the low-light capability of this new camera.The photographs are truly remarkable and give a real taste of “being there” – nothing posed.
http://tinyurl.com/68sp6m
Brave lads – unlike the disgusting Hamas fanatics, and their poptastic fellow travellers here. Throwing shoes at 10 Downing Street. Wow man, that’ll show them. Arsewipes.
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As sure as day follows night….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7809371.stm
Abandon Ship!: Who cares? One dead Pali is just like any other.
Fuck the BBC. A bunch of cheap rent boy whores.
Is it the effect of BBC bias or indoctrination that has David V writing in a foreign language in the title of this particular blog item? I have no idea what it means.
Give us woefully ignorant ones a translation the next time the urge for foreign language overwhelms, eh?
Millie Tant,
My apologies – I’ll cut back on the foreign words! It means thank you in Afghan!!
An expression you won’t hear often on the BBC eh?
Goodness how we laffed when those dumbass Russians invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
Everyone knows that no-one has ever invaded afghanistan and tasted victory.
The Pakistanis have a saying which goes something like:
You can never conquer Afghanistan, but you can buy the place.
Talking of foreign words, Lyse Doucet just used the phrase ‘a troika of European leaders’… I wonder if she even understands what how significant that word is?
Me bad, it appears the meaning of Troika in reference to the EU has been changed to cover three foreign ministers – the current president does not have to be present in an EU Troika! Aint Google great.
A troika of Foreign Ministers. Another collective noun to add to my collection!
Though I still prefer some others ideas:
A Perversion of Foreign Ministers
A Muddle of Foreign Ministers
A Miasma of Foreign Ministers
I don’t believe there is such a language as ‘Afghan’.