The Year's Finest Dishonest Reportage

Facing stiff competition, the BBC nevertheless takes the prize.

Of course there's the ban on the use of the word "terrorism," even to describe the 7/7 Tube Bombings. (Now the word is merely "discouraged," rather than banned.)

But the best quote comes from a former BBC Mideast correspondent, who worries that the BBC hasn't been biased enough against the American-led liberation of Iraq:

[BBC] are adopting what they see as an even handed attitude. To me this is a cowardly attitude, it is an attitude which confuses occupier with occupied....

When the BBC bans the use of the word "terror," they typically say that that is a disputed, charged word and not fit for a straight-reportage story. And yet you have guys like this simultaneously agitating for the BBC to be even more supportive of terrorism.

It seems that only some political slants in stories are objectionable.

Again: Allah.

posted by Ace at 03:58 PM

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