BBC? Biased? No Way!

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Ned
To the extent we see the programming here (and we get it on cable) it is the most boring, putrid programming one could have the misfortune of finding.

Snap!

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov

And the fact that the brits are oh-so-clever and cynical to put the word "terrorism" to laughter does not say good things about them.

Excellent. So we've moved on from criticising media channels to taking pot-shots at nations in general, have we?

But through watching the BBC alot of your nation's public find it very easy to identify with Hamas "militants" and legitimize / condone their actions.

HELLO SIROTNIKOV! ARE YOU STILL IN CONTACT WITH PLANET EARTH! Anti-Arab feeling is rife in Britain right now. This is starting to look like paranoid ranting.

[mrmitchell]

The BBC writes many thousands of articles a year. If someone wants to waste their time and find a small portion of Israel articles that explicitly mention Israel and a small portion of Iraq articles that don't mention Iraq, then they can go ahead and do that, but it doesn't prove more than that they're hacks.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
Er... The BBC is a paragon of goose-step pro-Israel reporting compared to most Swedish media. Here the idea is to show the true picture, namely that Israel is a fascist oppressor of the palestinian people, which is the only version of events that has any verisimilitude.

Keep telling yourself that.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
I assume in the Nedaverse there are private, ad-financed channels that produce quality programming.

I suppose in your universe, there are not.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ned
Why don't you Brits simply sell the BBC to the highest bidder?

Probably because they like having the best media in the world.

[Immortal Wombat]

I'd rather pay £121/yr than have adverts on BBC1/2/3/4/N24 and Radios 1/2/3/4/5 (+digital ones). Programming everywhere is 80% bollocks at the moment, maybe the BBC isn't any different. So what? I'd still rather have a media source that wasn't funded by corporate and government interests.

[Ned]

Immortal Wombat, we too have publicly financed TV called PBS. It produces the same sort of unwatchable high-brow crap as does the BBC. Guess where its ratings are compared to everything else on TV?

[mrmitchell]

It produces the same sort of unwatchable high-brow crap

Ned, the People's Advocate!

May Lenin Himself aid you in your effort to strike down unwatchable high-brow crap spewed by the borguoisie. All programming should be made for 3 year olds if it is to be run in these glorious Soviet States of America. May the counterrevolutionary "intellectuals" rot in hell for their crimes of thought.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Ned
It produces the same sort of unwatchable high-brow crap as does the BBC.

"high brow"

Either you've never actually seen any BBC programming or you're a total moron. BBC programming is just as low-brow as everything else. It's endless reality documentaries, game shows, soap operas, celebrity chefs and makeover shows with a tiny bit of news and mediocre comedy thrown in.

[Agathon]

Er... The BBC is a paragon of goose-step pro-Israel reporting compared to most Swedish media. Here the idea is to show the true picture, namely that Israel is a fascist oppressor of the palestinian people, which is the only version of events that has any verisimilitude.

I'll add that to my list of reasons to move to Sweden.

Of course, #1 is Swedish women.

[germanos]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
quote:

The coalition forces, although claiming to be defending the security of their own countries, singularly failed to convince popular opinion that Iraq posed a real threat. By contrast popular opinion clearly accepts that the Israeli army is defending its civilian population from a very real threat which does constantly claim Israeli lives[1]. This difference between the two conflicts, if it affected an impartial news provider at all, would logically tend to result in Israel receiving a more sympathetic coverage than did the coalition forces. The opposite is in fact the case.




This is one of the opening paragraphs. Does it improve from that, or is it bull**** all the way?

ditto

[Ramo]

I've tried to find a Beeb article referring to the IRA as terrorists, and I can't find one. I guess they hate the English/Prots.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Agathon

I'll add that to my list of reasons to move to Sweden.

Of course, #1 is Swedish women.

That smart statement of yours exposes you as a biggot

Obviously hatred towards Israel is high on the list of criterias when you look for a place to call home.

[FrustratedPoet]

At least it's below "Gorgeous tall blondes" on his list of criterias, so it's not like he's totally inhuman.