tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post2865371115553882570..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Far right extremism and the backlashCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-85878226398765613022014-09-21T00:56:10.488+01:002014-09-21T00:56:10.488+01:00The BBC has been reading from this same script for...The BBC has been reading from this same script for years. We've been hearing this same agenda pushed for a very long time. Not coincidentally, ever since Labour put their multicultural scheme into action.<br /><br />I'm not sure there's anything wrong with letting a little sunlight disinfect the extreme right from time to time. My objection is that the BBC presents people like Nick Griffin as being representative of everyone who does not hold the approved thoughts. Completely the opposite of how they discuss Islamic extremism.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-63081274699005934722014-09-20T15:53:11.401+01:002014-09-20T15:53:11.401+01:00I think you are bit out of date on British Politic... I think you are bit out of date on British Politics. Jack Straw and David Blunkett have been in a rest home since 2010 (I think their key's lost). The BBC is more than capable of writing its own agenda. <br /><br />I'd agree that the news items on a right wing backlash seemed a bit over the top and pointless. On the other hand I'm not pushing a pram in London wearing a hijab and encountering loudmouths. People become ultra-sensitive to criticism in these times. <br /><br />On the same lines a handful of louts draped in Union Jacks in Glasgow garnered far too much publicity last night as they did their best to tarnish the No vote victory. I suspect last night was probably quiet for Glasgow in reality but the camera crews were stalking it hoping for violence and some knuckleheads duly delivered.<br /><br />Far too much publicity is given to the far right, a tiny bunch of thugs and psychos who are generally easily rounded up and dealt with. But then why are we constantly shown videos of the UK half wits in Syria who far from fighting appear to be doing the dishes as ISIS don't trust them either! <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-20649802086731817082014-09-20T02:31:43.411+01:002014-09-20T02:31:43.411+01:00The BBC is already working hard to promote the Tin...The BBC is already working hard to promote the Tiny Minority™ narrative about how the ISIS cavemen don't represent British Muslims.<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29284570<br /><br />"Dozens of mosques" around the UK heard from "Muslim leaders" that the barbarians over there are wrong, un-Islamic, etc. How many mosques? "Dozens". Which could be anything from 24 to maybe 96. If it was more than that, the BBC would say, "more than a hundred," or "hundreds". There are at least 1500 official mosques in the UK. 6, 7% at most? And we aren't told the size of the mosques, so the number of them involved has no real meaning. The one featured in the video was barely mid-sized. Is the BBC perhaps fudging it and including the larger "prayer rooms", just to pad it out? It's not like they don't still fake stuff. If one of the major mosques had participated, that's what the BBC would show, because it's a better image. How many Mohammedans hearing the message? 10,000. How many Mohammedans in the UK? 2.75 million, at the very least, not counting the illegal, uncounted multitudes. A fraction of a fraction of a percent. Talk about your tiny minority. Yet the BBC promotes this as a slam dunk argument.<br /><br />They really do think everyone is stupid. BBC editorial policy on this matter must have been written by Jack Straw and David Blunkett. Instead of peddling this crap, the BBC should be working to get hundreds of thousands of Mohammedans together on this. If there really were that many who weren't down with the ultra-violence, the BBC would be shouting it from the rooftops.<br />David Preisernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-67058596416422554072014-09-20T00:45:21.307+01:002014-09-20T00:45:21.307+01:00Again? The broadcasting corporation that cried wol...Again? The broadcasting corporation that cried wolf. Agenda? What agenda?David Preisernoreply@blogger.com