A British computer consultant and his four bodyguards have been kidnapped in Iraq today. The response of UK’s Channel 4 has included an interview with someone described an insurgent who said that the bodyguards were only in Iraq for large salaries and to aid the ‘American and Jewish Pigs’ (sic).
The insurgent – or, as I prefer, bigotted terrorist – wasn’t challenged by the Channel 4 reporter. His remarks were presented as just another opinion.
During World War II the Germans used William Joyce to broadcast Nazi propaganda, in English, into the UK. After the war he was hanged.
The BBC, of course, didn’t bother to interview Joyce, or his fascist employers, for their views on the progress of the war.