22-08-2010, 10:06 AM
The long-time BBC mouthpiece for various nefarious state terror organizations, Paranormal, last week produced a spectacularly bad white-wash of the IDF assault on the Turkish "gun-boats" attempting to run a lot of war-making materiel - wheelchairs, that sort of deadly implement - to the open-air prison known as Gaza.
Death in the Med was fronted by Jane Corblimey, a veteran secret police mouthpiece, and Paranormal's very own answer to the Sky weather girls. The programme, which I was obliged to watch by virtue of being cut-off from civilization in the wilds of Norfolk, inevitably attracted a little criticism for being so transparently wretched. Here is an example of the ill-informed, and doubtless paranoid, objections raised to it by the tin-foil hat-wearing unwashed:
http://johnhilley.blogspot.com/2010/08/p...-over.html
http://kenokeefe.wordpress.com/2010/08/2...ne-corbin/
One of the problems the BBC has is that it's permanently just behind the US curve: While sections of the US establishment plot reconciliation - so that they can get on to attacking Iran - the stolid old Beeb propagandists, still working from the previous propaganda model, make arses of themselves.
Which is great.
Death in the Med was fronted by Jane Corblimey, a veteran secret police mouthpiece, and Paranormal's very own answer to the Sky weather girls. The programme, which I was obliged to watch by virtue of being cut-off from civilization in the wilds of Norfolk, inevitably attracted a little criticism for being so transparently wretched. Here is an example of the ill-informed, and doubtless paranoid, objections raised to it by the tin-foil hat-wearing unwashed:
Quote:This relentless posture is also addressed by John Haylett in an illuminating article on BBC - and other media - coverage of the Middle East:
"That is part of the problem. The BBC, taking its lead from Whitehall, refuses to base its position on international law and United Nations security council resolutions.
Rather than accept the obvious truth that Israel is an expansionist racist state that is illegally colonising its neighbours' land with a view to annexation and site its news coverage within those political parameters, the BBC affects a "balanced" view between dispossessed and dispossesser."
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign site has collated a helpful set of points and advice to be used in pursuing the matter through the BBC's extended complaints procedure.
http://johnhilley.blogspot.com/2010/08/p...-over.html
Quote:So, instead of your team honouring its commitment to me, you instead aired a farcical report with multitudes of half-truths, lies, omissions and importantly, Israeli commandos who escaped rather than being set free. Let us be frank Jane, the reason for that is because it is impossible to square the whole angle that we are “terrorists” and extremists” and killers, if we let them go. It just doesn’t fit. So for BBC in this case, when the facts do not work, you lie. In an attempt to justify this, the BBC has written an insulting letter in defence of your fallacious fairytale; this is due to the torrent of complaints that have resulted from Death in the Med.
http://kenokeefe.wordpress.com/2010/08/2...ne-corbin/
One of the problems the BBC has is that it's permanently just behind the US curve: While sections of the US establishment plot reconciliation - so that they can get on to attacking Iran - the stolid old Beeb propagandists, still working from the previous propaganda model, make arses of themselves.
Which is great.
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