Merrick
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'god bless the bbc'?
Jul 31, 2004, 19:11
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On the locked 'outfoxed' thread, lordsitar says 'we are so lucky we have bbc news 24... god bless the bbc'
Personally, I've always found them to be among the worst for bias, and unquestionably the worst in times of war.
Recently George Monbiot did an artciel citing some studies that examined it and found it to be the case;
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The BBC emerges very badly from these studies. The Cardiff report shows that it used US and British government sources more often than the other broadcasting networks, and used independent sources, such as the Red Cross, less often than the others.
It gave the least coverage to Iraqi casualties, and was the least likely to report Iraqi unhappiness about the invasion.
A separate study by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of news networks in five different countries showed that the BBC offered the least airtime of any broadcaster to opponents of the war: just 2% of its coverage. (Even ABC news in the United States gave them 7%).
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http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2004/07/13/greasing-up-to-power/
That said, I do love the World Service.
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: 'god bless the bbc'?
Jul 31, 2004, 19:22
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Read that with interest when it was published. Mainly because I had lots of arguements at the time (with an online acquaintence that I rarely agree with) about the lilly-livered BBC's stinking left wing anti-war stance. He wouldn't even read the article because it was written by Monbiot.
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Lawrence
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Re: 'god bless the bbc'?
Aug 01, 2004, 00:05
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You haven't seen Fox news!
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cancer boy
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Re: 'god bless the bbc'?
Aug 05, 2004, 22:58
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I can't imagine many other broadcasters showing "Mission Accomplished - Langan In Iraq" - anyone watch this? Paints a pretty grim picture as you'd expect...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/langan-in-iraq.shtml
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Lord Lucan
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Re: 'god bless the bbc'?
Aug 23, 2004, 12:31
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Agreed, Merrick. Just because the BBC is a 'public service' broadcaster doesn't mean it doesn't exhibit horrible bias at times. Thinking way back to the poll tax riots, the BBC reported the Tories' assertion that the rioting was only caused by a handful of SWP zealots as if it was fact. No one in the country believed that for a minute.
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morfe
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Re: 'god bless the bbc'?
Aug 23, 2004, 13:01
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And to add to that irony, many people (well, think Capitalists) think that the BBC is a purveyor of universal 'liberal' bias.
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/archives/000275.php
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ron
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Re: 'god bless the bbc'?
Aug 25, 2004, 01:06
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"That said, I do love the World Service."
glad u said that cuz to me the "beeb" has awlwayz been the monty python episodes that were carried on the pbs stations here in the states in the '70's... wot was it... the offfice/ministry of silly walks? classic cleese... my question is why the rest of you fuckers don't have that sense of wit? xcluding jon of cors... ; )
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