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2007-03-26 Britain

BBC pays £200,000 to 'cover up report on anti-Israel bias'

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-26 13:29|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 BBC is anti-Israel, no brainer. And all one has to do is read the Middle East section on their web-site on any day to find anti-America spew also, especially since the start of Iraqi freedom and the WOT.

Channel 4, al-Gardian etc.

Posted by RD 2007-03-26 13:48|| 2007-03-26 13:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Good. Can I go home now?

Posted by Alan Johnston 2007-03-26 13:50|| 2007-03-26 13:50|| Front Page Top

#3 The fact that Beeb is "anti-Zionist" is not noteworthy. The fact that it has to go to court, and may even lose---though I'm not holding my breath, to prevent British public from finding out the extent of its bias; is noteworthy.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-26 14:11|| 2007-03-26 14:11|| Front Page Top

#4 The Balen Report

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-03-26 15:30|| 2007-03-26 15:30|| Front Page Top

#5 It has been my belief for quite some time that the BBC and it's employees be treated as we treat terrorists. The BBC is in common cause with them in their anti-americanism and pro islamo-fascism.

Wet work is justified against them as they sell their anti-americanism the globe.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-03-26 17:09|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2007-03-26 17:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Even a gold-plated $200,000 fig leaf can't disguise the BBC's anti-Semitism.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-26 19:17|| 2007-03-26 19:17|| Front Page Top

#7 The BBC's action over the case have provoked inevitable charges of hypocrisy as the BBC itself makes frequent used of freedom of information requests to get stories.

The BBC's own website boasts of 69 stories that it says it has broken with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.

If the BBC loses the High Court case next week it could appeal again and again until the case reaches the European Court in Strasbourg.

Any bets that the EU high court will rule against the interests of anti-Semitism?

[crickets]

This would soak further thousands from BBC coffers, which should be spent on making TV programmes.

Conservative MP David Davies said: "An organisation which is funded partly to scrutinise governments and other institutions in Britain appears to be using tax-payers money to prevent its customers from finding out how it is operating. That is absolutely indefensible."

Including some £300,000 in legal costs plus the original £200,000 (not $200,000 as in my preceding post), makes for over $1,000,000USD. This is misappropriation of public funding, malfeasance and CYA on a monumental scale. The BBC should be dismembered and privatized at the earliest possible opportunity. Long ago they disqualified themselves as competent journalists.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-26 19:29|| 2007-03-26 19:29|| Front Page Top

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