Bookworm on Mar 21 2011 | Filed under: BBC
Tweet Sadie gave me the heads-up about a new State Department initiative (on your taxpayer dime, of course): The BBC World Service is to receive a “significant” sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking of TV and internet services in countries including Iran and China. In what the BBC said [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2009 | Filed under: BBC
Tweet Right now, Church of England officials are upset that the BBC’s religious programming department (which is, apparently, a very important department) is going to be headed up by a practicing Muslim. It is unclear whether he got the position as a result of political correctness or employment mandates, but there he is. Of course, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 30 2008 | Filed under: BBC
Tweet You all remember how, at the MTV awards, Russell Brand, a British comedian who was completely unknown to Americans went on a wild anti-Bush rant, with a few jabs at religious people, as well. If you don’t recall, let me refresh your recollection: If his aim was to be noticed by America, Russell Brand [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2008 | Filed under: BBC, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet The director of the BBC has finally admitted that, yes, of course the BBC treats Islam with unusual deference. Mark Thompson offers a 98 word defense of the BBC’s un-evenhanded approach: ‘My view is that there is a difference between the position of Christianity, which I believe should be central to the BBC’s religion [...]
Bookworm on Jul 02 2008 | Filed under: BBC, Britain, Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
Tweet Honest Reporting captured the first spin that the BBC put on the terrible story of the latest massacre in Israel (a Palestinian versus Israelis, of course) — and, as always, it was Israel who was spun as the brutal aggressor. Orwell clearly understood something in the British psyche when he wrote 1984 — or, [...]
Bookworm on Mar 18 2008 | Filed under: BBC, Britain, Bush Derangement Syndrome, England
Tweet I watched a pretty good movie last night, that was very pro-military; that showed the Iraqi military as being inefficient; and that showed Iraqis as being unbelievably brutal, both in terms of mob violence and in terms of the military’s and the secret police’s capacity for sadistic torture. Surprisingly, it was made by the [...]
Bookworm on Feb 08 2008 | Filed under: BBC
Tweet The BBC presenter who was charged with rape was acquitted, when the judge concluded that there was no evidence of anything other than rough consensual sex (aided by admitted illegal drug use). The whole thing is sordid, sordid, sordid, and still stands for the principle I advanced when I first mentioned the trial, which [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2007 | Filed under: BBC, Islam
Tweet I got intrigued by the BBC children’s website when I read at Power Line how that website described 9/11: The way America has got involved in conflicts in regions like the Middle East has made some people very angry, including a group called al-Qaeda – who are widely thought to have been behind the [...]
Bookworm on Aug 29 2007 | Filed under: BBC, Hamas, Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
Tweet Israel, which has been the victim of endless and destructive rocket attacks originating in Gaza, successfully stopped one before it happened. Taking facts directly from the BBC, this is how I would have reported the Israeli Army’s successful action: Israel destroys several rocket launchers in Gaza The Israeli Army reports that it surveillance into [...]
Bookworm on Jul 18 2007 | Filed under: BBC, Britain, England, Free speech, Media matters
Tweet I used to admire the BBC. It’s role during WWII was stellar. In the 1960s, it brought us Monty Python and other cutting edge, very silly comedies. In the 1970s, it began making a series of marvelous historic dramas, many of which still represent the finest viewing TV has offered. But it’s been downhill [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2007 | Filed under: BBC, Media matters, Palestinians
Tweet The BBC is worried because one of its reporters has gone missing in Gaza, and some groups have already stepped forward to claim that he’s been kidnapping. This bad news all around. First, I sincerely hope that the reporter is safe and has not been forced to convert. Second, this is one more reminder [...]
Bookworm on Nov 17 2006 | Filed under: BBC
Tweet I hate, loathe, despite, and deeply, deeply disrespect the BBC. So does Peter Glover, but he brings much more depth to his disdain for that institution: he’s British, he knows the facts and, while I am only forced to pay a little bit for the insignificant BBC wannabe in American known as the Corporation [...]
Bookworm on Nov 15 2006 | Filed under: BBC, Britain, Islam, Muslim violence, Sex
Tweet My husband and I started watching Prime Suspect when it first appeared on American television and liked it enough to keep watching it every time episodes showed up. It’s a very gritty crime drama (the producers love showing partially decomposed women’s corpses) that follows the unlovable but effective DCI Jane Tennison. The first episode, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2006 | Filed under: BBC, England, Muslim violence, Religion
Tweet Britain’s Anglican Church seems to be waking up, not just to the terrorists within England’s borders, but to the fifth column as well. Thus, the second most senior Anglican in England has launched a full frontal, no holds barred attack against the BBC for being (a) anti-Christian and (b) afraid of radical Islam. While [...]
Bookworm on Oct 27 2006 | Filed under: BBC, Iran
Tweet In at least 10% of the old Loony Toons cartoons, one of the characters will say to another, “Oh, you naughty, naughty boy.” As far as I can tell, that’s pretty much been the appeasers’ approach to Iran, with the UN, at Europe’s behest, periodically writing “this time we’re really mad” letters. Nevertheless, our [...]
Bookworm on Aug 14 2006 | Filed under: BBC, Media matters
Tweet I’m a word person. I’m very, very, very verbal and I prefer to get my information through reading. Maybe that’s why I’m so sensitive to, and really obsess about, the nuances news coverage about events in the Middle East. For example, there’s a BBC story boldly headlined “Palestinians killed in Gaza strip.” At this [...]
Bookworm on Aug 11 2006 | Filed under: BBC, England, Hezbollah, Media matters
Tweet The foiled bomb plot in England is again bringing into stark relief how the BBC manipulates the news to hide the Islamist component behind all the terror attacks worldwide and to focus blame on Israel. The most recent indictment is a Wall Street Journal commentary from William Shawcross, a British writer. As far as [...]
Bookworm on Jul 27 2006 | Filed under: BBC, Hezbollah, Israel
Tweet What’s the big deal, many ask? Hezbollah and Hamas kidnapped some Israeli soldiers, turning them into prisoners, and they’ll readily release these prisoners if Israel, in turn, will release some prisoners it holds. It all sounds so beautifully symmetrical. Except it’s not. The kidnapped Israeli soldiers had done absolutely nothing beyond being soldiers, which [...]
Bookworm on Jul 24 2006 | Filed under: BBC, Hezbollah, Media matters, Uncategorized
Tweet Even the propaganda organs can only be taken so far before the reporters realize they’re being played for total fools. How else to explain the fact that the BBC has acknowledged that some of the bodies in Lebanon belong to terrorists, not “innocent” civilians: The British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) has admitted that many of [...]
Bookworm on Mar 18 2006 | Filed under: BBC, Palestinians
Tweet It would seem to me that, if you’re colluding with bad guys, you’d prefer that this collusion be low key — and the bad guys would prefer it to, so that it wouldn’t look as if you’re in their camp for PR purposes. Somehow this basic fact about allegiances and publicity seems to have [...]
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