READ AND WEEP
>> MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2011
A guest post by Hippiepooter.
This is overdue but I think you’ll agree very worthwile covering. H/T to ‘Buggy’ for bringing this up in the Open Thread a couple of weeks ago.
Here is a BBC Online report 7th April that they headline thus:-
When you compare it to the Blackpool Gazette story below, you may agree with me that it touches levels of Orwellian depravity that belong in a surreal horror movie.
This is the Blackpool Gazette headline for the story:-
‘We hid nothing’ say sex case cops Both stories stem from a paywalled report in The Times.
Below is how both reports address the The Times as the source of the story. BBC A report in The Times said more than 60 girls in the resort were groomed for sex by a group of men.
The Times reported that an unpublished report by Blackpool Council recorded that more than 60 girls in the resort had been groomed for sex by a group of men connected with a cluster of town centre takeway restaurants.
Blackpool Gazette Lancashire Police came under fire in a report by The Times which accused the force of ‘hiding a sex grooming scandal’ in Blackpool and ‘inhibiting’ further research by political correctness.
The Times article also connects to another missing Blackpool girl, Paige Chivers. […] Paige was just 15 when she disappeared in 2007.
The report claims the teenager was also a “victim of sexual exploitation” but police say her disappearance remains a missing person inquiry and they are “keeping an open mind”.
You will be wearily unsurprised that the BBC report mentions nothing about Paige Chivers, nor the comments below by a retired senior detective featured in the Blackpool Gazette:-
Former Lancashire Det Supt Mick Gradwell, said police should, however, have a “more open debate”.
He said: “There is a lot of work going on with these operations (such as Awaken) but there is a reluctance to talk openly about the full facts.
I would suggest that all the BBC report was interested in was whitewashing how Lancashire Police had been whipped into submission by 25 odd years of BBC thought policing and the disaster that their ‘nationcidal’ promotion of multiculturalism has wrought upon us.
The mailonline also published a report on this the same day as the BBC, although they didn’t mention it had been prompted by what The Times ran.
It carries more extensive comment from former Det Supt Mick Bradwell and draws yet more stark and chilling contrast to the take of the BBC.
While trying to find the Times report I found there’s plenty on this on BNP and EDL sites, but the views of racist neanderthals don’t interest me.
The Gramscian BBC and the BNP are twin sides of evil.
They couldn’t live without each other.
From one of the areas of the BBC untainted by its Gramscian subversives, here is information on how to assist the Police with their inquiries over the missing Paige Chivers.
COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Mail Online, which has just overtaken The Huffington Post to become the second most popular newspaper website in the world, reports on a story that the BBC is also running near the top of its news agenda today - but their take on the story could hardly be more different to the BBC's:
Top-secret files detailing the interrogations of more than 700 terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp have been obtained by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.
They include claims that Al Qaeda terrorists threatened to unleash a 'nuclear hellstorm' if Osama Bin Laden is caught or killed - and that the interrogations uncovered plots to attack Britain.
Thousands of pages of sensitive documents relate to a decade of interviews in which extremists also admit to plotting attacks against America and across the world.
They go on: The documents detail the background to the capture of each of the 780 people who have passed through the Cuban facility, along with their medical condition and the information they have provided during interrogations.
Around 220 of those detained are assessed to be dangerous international terrorists, while around 380 are judged to be lower-level foot-soldiers.
At least a further 150 people, including innocent Afghans and Pakistanis, were held and assessed at the U.S. camp, but later released due to lack of evidence, according to the files.
The BBC's take, on its radio news bulletins and online, has a very different focus: Wikileaks: Many at Guantanamo 'not dangerous'
Files obtained by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks have revealed that the US believed many of those held at Guantanamo Bay were innocent or only low-level operatives.
The files, published in US and European newspapers, are assessments of all 780 people ever held at the facility.
They show that about 220 were classed as dangerous terrorists, but 150 were innocent Afghans and Pakistanis.
The bulk of the article then concentrates in considerable detail on the innocent rather than on the dangerous ones.
Both the Mail Online and the BBC Online articles are biased in their own way.
One, however, is a private newspaper, privately funded.
The other is a public corporation funded by a compulsory licence fee and legally bound to be impartial.
An incident bias, which David Preiser has highlighted in the past, is that the BBC was very enthusiastic about Wikileaks when the Guardian were publishing them around the turn of the year.
Since 'Wikileaks' moved to theTelegraph, however, the BBC has shown a lot less enthusiasm for reporting the leaks.
Taking that into account, isn't it revealing that The Mail report says of the source of its story, "The documents seen by the Washington Post and Daily Telegraph confirm that the Americans have seized more than 100 Al Qaeda terrorists..." while the BBC Online article says "The latest documents have been published on Wikileaks,the Guardian, the New York Times and in other newspapers..."? Hmm.
The Telegraph itself takes a more even-handed approach that either the BBC or the Mail: WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed
Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West – while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose.
The Guardian, however, unsurprisingly takes the same line as the BBC: Guantánamo leaks lift lid on world's most controversial prison • Innocent people interrogated for years on slimmest pretexts • Children, elderly and mentally ill among those wrongfully held • 172 prisoners remain, some with no prospect of trial or release By their friends shall ye know them!
Double Standards
>> SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2011
When something bad happens to Jews or Israelis the BBC reacts with indifference or worse. The reporting of two recent incidents (or non-reporting of one of them) contrast sharply with the BBC’s treatment of similar incidents, which, when they concern Palestinians or Muslims, cause cataclysmic BBC eruptions.
Incident 1,
the burning of the Torah in Corfu, was mentioned on the Open Thread with a link to Ray Cook’s blog, but ignored by the BBC.
Burning Korans make quite a splash, don’t they? (H/T Demon 1001)
The second incident is described sensitively by blogger Oy Va Goy.
It concerns the shooting of some religious Jews, killing one and seriously injuring others, and was at least reported by the BBC, though they dwelled on certain things which almost seemed as though they intended to justify the actions of the Palestinian police perpetrators.
When I switched on the radio this morning I caught the end of a news bulletin.
They seemed to be saying that the dead and injured Jews were in a Palestinian controlled area without permission.
That’s all.
Did anyone else hear that news bulletin?
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