BBC Babbling Biased Bullshite

The left liberal media is at it gain. Justifying their Jew hating ,terror enabling screeds Great post on the BBC from Adloyada(hat tip Judith);

Oops! BBC News' ideological slip is showing...

Absolutely priceless. The BBC Newsblog, an offshoot of the BBC News website is running a self-righteous piece of self-justification by its World News editor Jon Williams, of its current selective vocabulary in reporting the stand-off between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and government over the kidnapping of Cpl Gilad Shalit:

As ever in reporting the Middle East, language - and the choice of words - is incredibly important. Was the soldier kidnapped or captured, were the Hamas politicians arrested or detained?

Our credibility is undermined by the careless use of words which carry value judgements. Our job is to remain objective. By doing so, I hope we allow our audiences on radio and television to make their own assessment of the story. So we try to stick to the facts - civilians are "kidnapped", Cpl Shalit was "captured"; since troops don't usually make "arrests", the politicians were "detained". Doubtless some will disagree. But that's, in essence, the heart of the story - two competing narratives.

Yes, but some smart commenters have spotted the glaring discrepancies in the BBC's practice...

Read it all, it's enough to make you vomit.

More cluelessness here.

Absolutely priceless. The BBC Newsblog, an offshoot of the BBC News website is running a self-righteous piece of self-justification by its World News editor Jon Williams, of its current selective vocabulary in reporting the stand-off between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and government over the kidnapping of Cpl Gilad Shalit:

As ever in reporting the Middle East, language - and the choice of words - is incredibly important. Was the soldier kidnapped or captured, were the Hamas politicians arrested or detained?

Our credibility is undermined by the careless use of words which carry value judgements. Our job is to remain objective. By doing so, I hope we allow our audiences on radio and television to make their own assessment of the story. So we try to stick to the facts - civilians are "kidnapped", Cpl Shalit was "captured"; since troops don't usually make "arrests", the politicians were "detained". Doubtless some will disagree. But that's, in essence, the heart of the story - two competing narratives.

Yes, but some smart commenters have spotted the glaring discrepancies in the BBC's practice...

Read it all, it's enough to make you vomit.

More cluelessness here.

Comments

[Yisrael Medad]

As I commented there, CNN did the same thing and I called up their Jerusalem office to complain. It's okay blogmurmuring (my word) but real complaining needs one to leave the keyboard and screen and actually do something. Good luck to us all.