Proof that the BBC is not a legitimate news organization

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
What's the actions of a lightweight documentary team got to do with BBC news?

I suspect Dissident doesn't realize that there is a difference between BBC network and BBC news.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I suppose Diss thinks that people shouting "Michael Howard is a liar!" would be considered newsworthy enough to get reported on actual BBC news. That's quite funny.

[Spiffor]

Amazing. This has to be the first time I see a Telegraph article that is not a blatant lie

[MarkG]

what on earth is a "heckler"?

[Spiffor]

Someone who disturbs the political meeting of an opponent, I guess

[Dauphin]

Someone who continuously jeers, sneers, or otherwise attempts to embarrass a person such as a stand up comic or politician, but I repeat myself..

[Snotty]

The Mail has the story as well, unsurprisingly enough, although they havent felt the need to make it their frontpage headline.

Apparently one problem is because the documentary makers are in breach of the BBCs charter wrt impartiality at election time. If only they had managed to film hecklers at a Blair speech as well then we wouldnt even have a story

[Dauphin]

Snotty, is the Fourth Protocol in the Mail today?

[Snotty]

er...I dont know mate.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by MarkG
what on earth is a "heckler"?

Most of the people who post regularly in Poly OT would be guilty.

[alva]

B O R I N G !!!!

[VetLegion]

U N I M P O R T A N T!!!!

[Dracon II]

This is not as bad as when Australia's A Current Affair program (or was it Today Tonight or Sixty Minutes? They're pretty similar anyway) decided to invite a Japanese cannibal (was extradited from a western country, forget which one, for eating a man) to a nightclub in a Japanese city, and then introduced him to a group of Australian girls working there (without telling them who he was... one of them even ended up giving him her mobile number). And the story was then designed to warn Australian women of the dangers of working in Japan's nightclub district. Of course it's dangerous for them if a TV show introduces them to a bloody cannibal without telling them!!

[Pekka]

"Is it too much to ask for a news organization to remain impartial and neutral?"

No. But it can't be a business or private entity. Sorry. There can't be any business driven agendas or anything behind it. In here, fortunately we have it. You guys? Tough luck.

[BeBMan]

B O R I N G !!!!

U N I M P O R T A N T !!!!

to people not realizing the threat to world peace and stability coming from Teh Great BBC-led conspiracy of "Hecklers United Against Conservatives"