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Commenter Tsar Lazar posts:
There are two great examples of the difference between reporting and providing free propaganda currently online from the BBC, an entity which is taking heat from its viewers for doing exactly what ABC has been justly kicked out of Russia for doing.
On its Newswatch website for Aug. 3, there is an attempt to defend the BBC’s policy of granting airtime to extremists. Basically, the essence of their self-defense seems to be, “We think they should be heard, and that’s that.” Although they claim that through their interviews they are “challenging” the extremist views, a viewing of such segments usually shows that the challenges are about as strong as those that challenge Jessica Simpson about whether or no she should get her hair cut. Needless to say, the average British subject is not fooled by such obfuscations, and are increasingly vocal about what they rightly see as a liberal MSM attempt to undermine the war on terror and to soften Western perceptions of Islam and jihad.
The second article shows that the British media are learning all too well from the MSM in the United States. It reports on angry reactions from the British public to a BBC “Special Report” on terrorism in which a studio audience served as a “town hall” from which reactions and concerns were elicited. Unfortunately, the BBC chose to stack the audience with an unrepresentative amount of Muslims---3 to 4 times the percentage of Muslims in the British population. This, of course, served to skew the reactions in a predictable fashion, underlining again the MSM’s dedication to softening/obscuring the perception of Islam and its intrinsically harsh elements. Again, however, “John Bull” is too wise to fall for this, and the BBC is facing criticism. All of this makes me wonder whether Dan Rather has moved to the U.K. to continue his career…
