THE TALIBAN COME FIRST...

THE TALIBAN COME FIRST...

>> FRIDAY, JULY 09, 2010

A Biased BBC reader observes...

I was listening to the BBC World Service (in Singapore) shortly after the news that British troops were to be redeployed from Sangin to other parts of Helmand province. I was astonished when the news reader went to the BBC's correspondent in Afganistan for reaction to hear that the ONLY reaction sought and reported on was from the Taliban; who predictably described it as a British defeat etc. To say that (quite apart from the offense to the relatives of those killed in Helmand), this lacked journalistic integrity is a massive understatement of the BBC's disgraceful standards of reporting.

LOVING THE TALIBAN..

I note that Conservative MP David Tredinnick shares some of our concerns regarding the State Broadcaster..

"Tory MP David Tredinnick used the statement to raise concerns about the BBC's report on the issue. "Many years ago during the Gulf War, I accused the BBC of being the Baghdad broadcasting corporation," he told MPs. "I am very concerned that there is now a similar situation with the Taliban, in that they are getting far too high a profile."

He told politics.co.uk shortly after his appearance in the chamber that he thought it was unfair to present the Taliban as a coherent, organised group. "Instead of giving them this grand title we should describe them as a bunch of terrorists," he said. "Why we are we building these people up? They're a bunch of scruffs out there with RPGs who are using kids with wheelbarrows to blow up our troops. "We need a much blunter, more realistic assessment. Churchill would never have put up with this kind of propaganda in a wartime situation."

The BBC denied that its coverage had given the Taliban's views excessive prominence. I bet it did.

As ever, our nations enemies realise the BBC is their greatest asset. The license-payer funded enemy within.

THAT ANGLICAN WHIPPING BOY...

The BBC loves the ongoing conflict with the Anglican Church. On the one had, it presents the forces of liberal enlightenment who seek to have Gay Bishops and Woman Priests, and on the other there are those dreadful stick-in-the-mud "traditionalists." You can always tell which side the BBC is on and it keeps nibbling at this issue, always portraying those who would seek to maintain Anglican scriptural traditions as the problem.