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2006-06-29 Britain

BBC refuses panel recommendation to label attackers "terrorists"

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Posted by lotp 2006-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The BBC doesn't intend to be impartial. They actively side with the enemy.... and the British public pays for it with their taxes.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-06-29 00:28|| 2006-06-29 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Wel whoop de do - the BBC is afraid of making "very value judgements". This sort of stuff incenses me - yes I pay for the bloody 'licence fee', but mainly watch cable!

The BBC conceded that more could be done to "explain the complexities of the conflict" and tackle its viewers' "high level of incomprehension." To help give perspective and context to the conflict the BBC news Web site will launch a podcast series entitled "Undercurrent Affairs" focusing on the region.

Yes, I have a 'high level of incomprehension' when I hear of a pregnant woman kiled and then shot in the stomach...

And great, a podcast, with one of those utterly annoying BBC nobodies, chosen for the 'diversity' rather than any semblence of talent or intelligence.

The good news is that there's an increasing chance that the conservatives will win the next election, and they are *not* happy about the very obvious left-wing bias in the BBC.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-06-29 02:05|| 2006-06-29 02:05|| Front Page Top

#3 We had a similar problem with The ABC in Oz. The Howard government threatened to cut their funding if they didn't rein in their biased reporting.

It worked but only for Oz domestic issues. They are still wildly biased on international issues. I hardly ever listen to or watch the ABC.

Probably thelast time I watched an ABC current affairs show. There was wildly biased piece of President Bush bashing. They then had an American on, suposedly to give balance and he continued in the same vein. Out of curiosity I googled his name and the institute he worked for, turns out he was a full time employee of the Democrat party.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-06-29 02:32|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-06-29 02:32|| Front Page Top

#4 If someone were to target BBC staff in the same way, you can bet your ass these fuckers would call them terrorists faster than you could say "fucking leftie scum"

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-06-29 04:38|| 2006-06-29 04:38|| Front Page Top

#5 I DON't pay the TV-tax.

I encourage everyone who tires of the BBC to stop paying as well.

Just ignore the letters. The BBC/TVLA have no powers.

Starve the enemy, defund the BBC.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-06-29 04:39|| 2006-06-29 04:39|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't remember the Beeb having a problem using the 't' word when it was white people committing terrorist acts or white people being shot in anti-terrorism raids. Paddy and Seamus would have loved the Beeb's current attitude.

Posted by Howard UK 2006-06-29 08:38|| 2006-06-29 08:38|| Front Page Top

#7 'tis true Howard, 'tis true. After much committee we and the lads have decided we like the BBC to refer us as Irish Insurgents or Catholic extremists, that whole "terrorist" label was just too biased like. Begora, clearly anyone who puts a bomb in a crowded mall amongst innocent people is just an insurgent.

Posted by Paddy and Seamus 2006-06-29 08:56|| 2006-06-29 08:56|| Front Page Top

#8 It's so amazing that these dim-wits don't understand that if they help them succeed, they will be the first to be thrown into the dungeons.

Posted by 2b 2006-06-29 09:23|| 2006-06-29 09:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I prefer uncivil offender, or even naughty.
Yeah, naughty is better.

Posted by wxjames 2006-06-29 09:36|| 2006-06-29 09:36|| Front Page Top

#10 If the terrs, by some inexplicable accident, should ever set-off a carBOOM too close to BBC H.Q. with the subsequent deaths of several BEEB employees, would the outlet change it's tune?

Nope.

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-06-29 11:23|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-06-29 11:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Terrorism is a tactics of attacking civilians to achieve political ends. Terrorists are those that use that tactic.

There really is no bias to either term (as opposed to goat-screwing psycho murders), the term terrorist is very descriptive and the BBC really shows their true colors with this nonsense.

When will someone invent a javascript/cookie that allows an automatic find and replace on certain websites so the BBC can be read without mindnumbing pain? Even the dullest stories could become funny with the proper replace.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-06-29 12:07|| 2006-06-29 12:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Paddy and Seamus, nah....how about "Celtic militant"? ;)

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-06-29 17:26|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-06-29 17:26|| Front Page Top

#13 Or even "Lions of Eire"?

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-06-29 17:31|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-06-29 17:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Sorry Brits, you have your own NYTs.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-06-29 18:07|| 2006-06-29 18:07|| Front Page Top

#15 Ah Blondie, ya wee lass, the lads and us have decided after much deliberation and a few pints of Guinness mind yee, on the "Almighty Super Secret Hibernian Order and Liberators of Erin" (ASSHOLE). That would be our official title, our nickname to the Brit bastards who will come to fear us will be the Almighty Shillelagh's of Death(tm)! In the arsenal we've already put together three shotguns, two pair of brass knuckles, an old luger great-uncle Declan had from the war and an ultra-light for air reconoitering!

Posted by Paddy and Seamus 2006-06-29 19:32|| 2006-06-29 19:32|| Front Page Top

#16 The Court Jesters of Londonistan supplicating in fear.

Posted by SamAdamsky 2006-06-29 23:19|| 2006-06-29 23:19|| Front Page Top

#17 Not the Shillaleghs of Death ^TM! ;)

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-06-29 23:56|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-06-29 23:56|| Front Page Top

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