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2004-04-09 International-UN-NGOs

BBC World viewers: Globalisation and US are bigger threats than terror

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Posted by Bulldog 2004-04-09 3:43:40 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What crap! They ask one badly phrased question that demonstrates extreme bias in the first place - US and large corporations as the biggest worry and then blow it up into a scare headline. I am sure that many people interpeted this question as 'Large multinational corporations as the biggest worry' Some of the rest would have interpretted as 'the USA as the biggest worry'. No link to the questions and result. Shoddy journalism as well as shoddy polling. I can't wait for the Brits to shutdown the BBC.

Posted by Phil B 2004-04-09 4:00:36 AM|| 2004-04-09 4:00:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Phil B, the headline actually simply read:

'US is bigger threat than terror'

I did the BBC a favour by clarifying it when posting. You think they're biased?! The BBC doesn't give A Fucking Shit.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-04-09 4:14:09 AM|| 2004-04-09 4:14:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "You think they're biased?! The BBC doesn't give A Fucking Shit."

>True enough Bulldog, which is the same reason I don't give a fucking shit about the BBC.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-09 8:23:01 AM|| 2004-04-09 8:23:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Yawn.

Reverend BBC asks the choir for an 'Amen.'

Posted by badanov 2004-04-09 8:28:31 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-04-09 8:28:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Bulldog

I think British should start a movement of civil disobedience on the BBC tax.

Posted by JFM 2004-04-09 9:13:46 AM|| 2004-04-09 9:13:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Well said, Badnov.

I for one hope they keep it up. Give them a shovel and let them keep digging. Comments like these marginalize and give them the same credibility that people like Tammy Faye Baker have to Christianity - eventually, only fools pay them heed.

Posted by B 2004-04-09 10:10:52 AM|| 2004-04-09 10:10:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 If I was paying for just myself at the moment, I would seriously consider refusing. A recent poll suggests a majority of Britons are fed up with the situation, too, prefering a voluntary subscription service, or for the BBC to pay its bills through advertising revenue. That sentiment is bound to get stronger, IMO, as more and more people wake up to the injustice of the present situation, watch more alternative channels' TV, and whilst the BBC quality gets worse and worse, and panders to an ever diminishing audience.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-04-09 10:13:47 AM|| 2004-04-09 10:13:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Bulldog

If you refuse to pay by your own initiative then they will fine or jail you and you will lose. It has to be a _national_ movement of citizens refusing their taxes being diverted for supporting the opinions of BBC's nomenklatura. If a few hundred thousand people sign for not paying the BBC racket, if you have people demonstrating
on this, if you make it an electoral problem then you can get rid of the BBC tax. If the BBC people want to air their opinion then let's have them create a private broadcasting service. Those who have used BBC for promoting their opinions should refund the tax payer for every single penny involved in producing and broadcasting their emissions. Including their salaries of course.

Btw at www.eursoc.com you will find a quote from a BBC guy who tells BBC's duty is to fight euroscepticism. To fight it with the taxes stolen to people who don't want the UK being sucked in the EU.

Posted by JFM 2004-04-09 10:44:37 AM|| 2004-04-09 10:44:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Many people over here in the UK hate the Beeb for the way it constantly LIES or does not give the whole picture to suit their leftwing views. They lost the argument years ago which is why many of us either ignore them or are actively demanding the Beeb becomes commercial and not funded by the taxpayer. Unpatriotic b@@@@@ds - the lot of them.

Posted by Anonymous4104 2004-04-09 11:21:59 AM|| 2004-04-09 11:21:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Man, sometimes I wish we were the horrid imperialist agressors we're painted. Then we could go stomp little pricks like this into oblivion.

Posted by mojo 2004-04-09 11:32:30 AM|| 2004-04-09 11:32:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Jarhead --
Unfortunately, we SHOULD give an f-ing sh*t about the BBC because they have a worldwide reach. Their propaganda is spread EVERYWHERE and it has a disproportionate influence in shaping world opinion. They are regarded as "objective". I don't know if they ever were (only started listening last year) but now they are anything but.

Posted by docob 2004-04-09 3:49:13 PM|| 2004-04-09 3:49:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm suprised only 52% thought US biggest threat.The poll was from viewers of BBC and it's nonstop anti-US,anti-capitalist broadcasts,and they could barely convince 1/2 their audience.

Posted by Stephen 2004-04-09 7:51:46 PM|| 2004-04-09 7:51:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 The BBC is pitching big time for the Arab and Indian subcontinent market. I flew on Emirates a couple of months back and they were showing BBC news live on the cabin screen.

Posted by Phil B 2004-04-09 7:55:32 PM|| 2004-04-09 7:55:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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