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| 2003-09-03 |
| BBC South Asia run by Jihadis Of course, according to the BBC press release, we find out about http://bbc.net.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/08_august/29/ws_abbas_nasir.shtml... "Pakistani-born Abbas Nasir, a former Head of the BBC’s Urdu Service, has been appointed Executive Editor for the Asia and the Pacific Region at BBC World Service. Abbas Nasir (43) was born in Karachi and started his career in journalism in Pakistan with the daily Dawn in the early 1980s." Abbas Nazir is the same person, whom M.Shiraz Paracha had complained thus, to Greg Dyke (DG of BBC) "I was humiliated and victimized not because of my professional incompetence but because I refused to accept an implicitly biased and narrow political and journalistic discourse practiced under the tutelage of Abbas Nasir, the editor of the Urdu section (currently acting managing editorSouth Asia). BBC reporters Ordered not to offend Muslims EFL Mr Liddle, who stepped down from the Radio 4 news programme last year after a row about political remarks he made in a newspaper article, also attacked "PC" in television news. He recounted how, before the Iraq war, BBC journalists were summoned to a meeting to discuss how they could cover the conflict without offending Muslims. Later, he heard a BBC report about a British suicide bomber in Israel. The report concluded — "apropos of nothing at all" — that the vast majority of British Muslims were "utterly opposed" to suicide attacks against Israel. "When we are forced into making these blithe and comfortable platitudinous asides we do everybody a disservice," he said. In a desire to avoid inflaming religious antagonism, "we massage the truth in order to kid ourselves, and the audience, that that’s really the case". He gave warning that such "small incremental changes" to dramas or news may be well-intentioned, but "before you know it, we’re living in a sort of ghastly Sesame Street", bearing no relation to reality. "The BBC producer guidelines make it perfectly clear that programme makers should not be beholden to the claims and demands of single-issue pressure groups. But increasingly that’s not the way the business is conducted. " |
| Posted by:rg117 |
| #3 "Look, there's the cliff, now jump" |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-9-3 10:52:10 PM |
| #2 But will anything happen? Will the Brits stop handing these jihadi-romantics a boatload of money to shit on the UK living room carpet 10 times a day? It's all there - and they've been fisked so thoroughly that, if I was a UK MP and not terminally insane, I'd be calling for their heads and daring them to make me a media star by coming after me. The amount of material with which one ballsy MP could achieve this is astonishing - and if you've kept up with some of the many sites doing it, you know there is a mountain of ammo. C'mon boys, kick some Beeb ass! |
| Posted by: .com 2003-9-3 3:33:06 PM |
| #1 This just in... Jewish deiety JHVH claims that (quote) "I kicked the extestential ass of that upstart Allah!" (endquote) |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-9-3 1:36:06 PM |