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100 years war?
Anti-terror experts grapple with fight against militancy
Militancy? I’d have thought that anti-terror experts grappled with the fight against terrorism
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The Elephant in the room
“Israel, like most of its Western allies, regards Hamas as an unreconstructed terrorist organisation bent on the destruction of the Jewish state.”
That’s absolutely right Jeremy. Just as we regard a large, grey, four-legged mammal with a long trunk and big ears as an elephant.
From Biased BBC
BBC Climbdown
After the BBC’s Newsround 9/11 Guide for Children to the events of 9/11 came under fire and despite the pathetic defence made by Sinead Rocks Newsround’s editor, the guide has been changed. So, for example, where it used to read:
On 11 September 2001 armed people took control of four planes that were flying above the US.
it now reads:
On 11 September 2001 Islamic fanatics hijacked four planes that were flying above the US.
Of course, the original story, the lie about its origin and the circumstances of it’s appearing on the BBC’s website, and defence of it by the Newsround Editor all just bear out Andrew Marr’s observation:
The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It’s a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias
but what a shame a large part of the liberal left’s response to 9/11 has been to shack up with Islamic theocratic fascists. Apparently operating under the slogan that my enemy’s enemy is my friend - and with the US firmly identified as the enemy - in the BBC terrorists are called militants and fanatical hijackers are called armed people.
The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil
Jeremy Paxman, James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, 2007
al BBC
al-Qaeda, a militant Islamic group thought to have been behind a number of other attacks on US targets
The BBC, leaving open the possibility that al Qaeda hasn’t been behind other attacks
It is classed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government
The BBC, refusing to call a spade a spade.
Andrew Sullivan’s called them on it:
Beyond parody: an almost Jihadist account of the 9/11 attacks to educate children by the BBC. No mention of al Qaeda’s goals; no mention of its preceding the first Persian Gulf war; describing al Qaeda almost entirely as a response to US foreign policy.
Andrew Sullivan, the BBC and 9/11
and the BBC has lied in response to criticism.
Mote and Beam
This weekend Sir Terry Wogan, who presents the morning programme on Radio 2, described BBC3 and BBC4 as “superfluous” digital channels that ought to be scrapped to save money
The Times, BBC uncovers fakery in five more phone-ins
Terry Wogan who is said to be earning £800,000 per year
The Telegraph, Wogan is number one in BBC radio rich list
And strangley, the BBC seems to believe that a probe into salary disclosures was needed, as if those who are obliged to pay a regressive tax to fund the organisation shouldn’t know how our money is spent.
Atonement
A report on BBC Radio 4’s flagship news programme, Today, covered the film of Ian McEwan’s well-regarded novel, Atonement. It wasn’t really news and when the BBC’s main evening news bulletin also carried an item about the film I wondered what was going on.
Well, Atonement is produced by Working Title Films and guess who owns shares in Working Title? BBC Films, the feature film-making arm of the BBC.
Could I stop paying for this please?
BBC staff - idle hands and Wikipedia
Wikiscanner is making a splash as Wikipedia’s past edits are trawled. Here’s one I found: someone at the BBC (IP address 132.185.240.120) changed George Bush’s name from George Walker Bush to George Wanker Bush. Evidence here.
Could I stop paying for them please?
Execution and murder
He was the second of the group of twenty-three kidnapped Koreans to be executed by the Taliban…
Robin Denselow, BBC Newsnight
Execute means to put to death after a legal process. Terrorists or criminals do not execute people, they murder them.
In my country it is illegal for me to refuse to pay for this.
Resign and let me stop paying
The managing director of GMTV is to resign after it was discovered competitions on its ITV1 breakfast show were not being conducted fairly.
The BBC, GMTV boss resigns over quiz row
Meanwhile, at the State-owned BBC,
The BBC has suspended all competitions after an inquiry unearthed a fresh batch of faked phone-ins.
BBC One’s Sports Relief in July 2006, Comic Relief in March 2007, Children In Need on BBC Scotland in November 2005, The Liz Kershaw Show on BBC 6 Music and CBBC programme TMi were all found to have breached editorial standards.
Mr Thompson said: “It is right that we are open with the public when we have fallen short and that we demonstrate that we take this very seriously indeed,” he added.
But no resignation to follow. The compulsory tax to fund the corrupt organisation is still in place, nonbody’s been sacked, nobody’s resigned.
BBC - gathering intelligence for Al-Qaeda
“Politicians reacted in disbelief to the revelation that for over two hours yesterday, the BBC News website carried a request for people in Iraq to report on troop movements. The request was removed from the website after it sparked furious protests that the corporation was endangering the lives of British servicemen and women. But according to accounts last night, a story on a major operation by US and Iraqi troops against al-Qa’eda somewhere north of Baghdad contained an extraordinary request for information about the movement of troops. Last night the BBC confirmed the wording of the request was: “Are you in Iraq? Have you seen any troop movements? If you have any information you would like to share with the BBC, you can do so using the form below.” The BBC confirmed last night that this form of words had appeared on the website from “late morning” until early afternoon.”
Telegraph, BBC ‘risked safety of troops’
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said,
We would take this incredibly seriously if it’s true. We are checking this with our guys out in Iraq.
The BBC’s response is ridiculous:
However, yesterday we used the phrase “have you seen any troop movements” in this request for information. The Telegraph and some others wrongly interpreted this as an attempt on our part to seek out military detail.
The BBC, Bad Phrase
How could asking for details of troop movements - Are you in Iraq? Have you seen any troop movements? not be seeking out military detail?